Metroland is a Belgian electronic duo. Their publicity says “Kraftwerk” a whole lot, though my first thought was “the Kraftwerky end of Severed Heads”.
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Musician links.
Chord 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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Industry links.
So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How
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Petition to reform TISM to represent Australia at Eurovision.
So Australia won the wildcard for Eurovision 2015. And there’s a petition for TISM to reform and play it. Go sign now. Because you
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Links.
Google puts the hard word on artists using YouTube. Sign up for five years or you’re off YouTube. What the “vinyl comeback” actually looks
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Why every mainstream record sounds the same, step by step.
Tom Whitwell has just reposted his 2008 Word article on the recording process for mainstream radio-targeted music: how to record music literally targeted at
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Steve Albini: How The Internet Solved The Problem with Music.
Steve Albini’s 1993 classic “The Problem with Music”, written at the height of the grunge era, when post-hardcore punk bands were getting gobbled up
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Work for Oprah’s $999-ticket tour for free. “No budget” for perfomers – but “exposure”!
Pity the poor cash-strapped billionaires! Oprah Winfrey’s Live The Life You Want tour, with tickets priced from $99 to $999, has “no budget” to
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How comprehensively fucked Hollywood is, in detail.
The Sony hack revealed that even the execs are sick of the latest Adam Sandler vehicle. Mark Harris at Grantland sets out the next
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A new year of links!
There’s a new Rowland S. Howard career collection, Six Strings That Drew Blood. Here’s an excellent review and history from the Quietus. I didn’t
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Danny Says: a documentary about Danny Fields.
Danny Fields was there before the birth of punk rock in the US: he’s the guy who signed the Stooges and the MC5 to
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LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.
THE LOUDEST SOUND SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (It’s used for rocket science, of course.) Why you can’t get 4K Netflix on a Mac or
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Sony Pictures hack: how to save a bundle of cash through wilful negligence.
Sony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for
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I bet you thought the record industry actually wanted people to buy their records.
The estimable PopBitch details how UK labels refuse to actually make songs with massive demand available for purchase — deliberately missing the Christmas binge
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Forget “Paul is dead”: the Beatles NEVER EXISTED. Apparently.
Sure, there were these four character names, but they were played by different people over the course of the band’s existence. (Look at the
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AcousticBrainz: An open database of song fingerprints from MusicBrainz.
MusicBrainz, the database of everything music-related, has launched AcousticBrainz, a database of song characteristics in the manner of Soundhound or Shazam, but with the
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Punk rock links.
The legendary ABC After-School Special: Punk Syndrome: How Parents Can Avoid It. How to introduce Nirvana to your two-year-old. Will you make it big?
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Yes, but which day was that good day?
Donovan Strain went to great effort a couple of years ago to find out precisely what day was Ice Cube’s good day. Two years
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Links links links.
My daughter just started learning viola. She could, of course, be the next Jimi Hendrix. There’s a whole genre of 9/11 Truther songs, and
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Today’s links.
The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on
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Links, links, tra la la.
The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”
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Links for your delectation.
How we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:
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Links for your delectation.
You don’t play the ANS synthesizer (Russia, 1938) with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed
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How to deep-clean your vinyl records: wood glue.
Really. Pretty laborious, but this seems to actually work. Anyone tried it?
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Today’s unbelievably terrible sounds for your delight: neo-Nazi rap.
Hey, it worked for Christians,[citation needed] perhaps co-opting rap music will work for neo-Nazis! Multiculturalist site Imagine 2050 writes of White Power rap used
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What it feels like to lose the ability to perceive music.
Quite possibly the scariest thing you will read this year.
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The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi?
Some kind person has been collecting this stuff. Enjoy. HT Paul Makepeace.
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The stupidest audiophile argument against double-blind testing to date.
Paul Wilson writes, in Audiophile Review, possibly the stupidest argument against double-blind tests I’ve read in some time. He doesn’t just argue the case
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Punk rock is alive and well in Myanmar.
A great photo essay by Olaf Shuelke in Roads and Kingdoms of punk rockers and their kids, in full mohawked peacockery, putting on unlicensed
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Helvete, an open-access peer-reviewed journal of black metal theory.
“Helvete is a new open-access electronic and print journal of black metal theory.” Conceived after Melancology, the second Black Metal Theory Symposium, in 2011,
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