The Doctor Who theme has of course been done in every possible style. Today we have disco versions from Space Disco and Mankind. But
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The Doctor Who theme has of course been done in every possible style. Today we have disco versions from Space Disco and Mankind. But
Read MoreAmanda Petrusich at the New Yorker writes a ramble on the reissue market. It’s not clear, but she seems upset these previously-unavailable classics are available again, because they’re available again for the wrong reasons.
Read MoreRetrospectively obvious, but this is what Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like at 16rpm: normal vocals with GRIND CORE DEATH SLUDGE DRONE music. That being how they were actually recorded. I think we’ve uncovered Sunn O)))’s secret past.
Read MoreJohn Herrman at The Awl laments the difficulties of the media in a world where they are no longer the gatekeepers of social knowledge.
Read MoreA Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women
Read MoreJust in case you forgot all this stuff, here it is doing everything the words say as they say it. By David Swenson. The
Read MoreFrom ’80s German TV show Alfredissimo. The other dude is Alfred Biolek. You can tell how old it is by them quoting prices in
Read MoreThe big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.
Read MoreRyan Richardson has put up lots of old archival material before, and his latest is Circulation Zero, on which he plans to make available the complete runs (or, at worst, the complete interesting runs) of ancient punk rock history.
Read MoreThe Atlantic is perturbed and depressed that pop music is created by an industrial process and wants you to be too.
Read MoreYahoo posted their writeup on Rihanna’s Anti just a little early.
Read MoreTorpor is squarely an attempt to recapture early ’70s English folky progressive rock. With vaguely sci-fi lyrics.
Read MoreDAF were a Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) band, covering the time from when NDW meant hideous post-punk noise to when it meant cheesy pop. Funnily enough covering a similar arc themselves.
Read MoreYes, really. Also, psychedelic glasses. And caffeine.
Read MoreAfter the amazingly terrible Berklee white paper on how to make all musicians rich using magic beans, today we have a breathless piece of content marketing in Billboard hyping the notion, devoid of useful detail and promising the moon on a stick fueled by very complicated computer wizard magick.
Read MoreiTunes and streaming in general. Not one, but two cases. The problem is that (a) ID3 is crappy (b) particularly for classical (c) and
Read MoreHow to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.
Read More“Will I buy something? Pretty much not. If I see what I really want, I’ll buy the CD, or if I feel guilty, but physical records or even the CD things are just a nuisance. More and more things and piles of things, and guilt versus things, not having the things wins.”
Read MoreEarly 1990s grunge, reproduced with 100% authenticity. Really, I felt like I was a 26-year-old student/bum again, smoking Lucky Strikes on a front porch in Perth, wondering if I too would ever find some way to hit it big with Generation X.
Read MoreI am doing the musical thing at last, despite literally being unable to sing or play (‘cos that observably never stopped anyone else). Two
Read MoreBloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.
Read MoreOf course, the first zines were science fiction zines, and they sprung up in the 1930s just about as soon as mimeographs were physically
Read MoreAs usual, a well-set up blind A/B test of supposedly stupendous audio equipment. And as usual, the actual answer (from ridiculously famous sound engineer
Read MoreOf course the new distribution channels are going to act like the old distribution channels. Apple wants to relaunch Beats as a new and
Read MoreWith the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,
Read MoreA kung fu cop film from the television ’80s. Here is the trailer. And here is the Wikipedia article. And here is the theme
Read MoreAn item alluded to in epic-nerd-level Cramps coverage, but so rare nobody was even known to have a full copy. Here in the astounding
Read MoreThis is light jazz funk rock with brilliant musicianship, and Fagen’s voice is still lovely after all these years. I could not remember a
Read MoreMetroland is a Belgian electronic duo. Their publicity says “Kraftwerk” a whole lot, though my first thought was “the Kraftwerky end of Severed Heads”.
Read MoreChord progressions of 25,000 songs analysed, using the database of Hooktheory’s Theorytab. Which itself is ridiculously fun to play with. Audacity is the computer-based
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