David Gerard

Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.

18 July, 200820 May, 2017 Esoterica 2

A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that’s Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic. Proper

The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.

17 July, 200824 August, 2016 Industry 0

It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the

Jamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.

16 July, 200830 August, 2016 mp3 0

As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent. In the bleepy

That’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.

13 July, 200813 July, 2008 mp3 4

There’s cultural preservation, and then there’s the K-Tel blog. “A place for those K-Tel style classics.”

Join us now and free the samples.

12 July, 200812 July, 2008 Musician 0

Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t

You can’t hide your lose forever.

8 July, 200826 August, 2016 Film, Industry 2

You can fool much of the press quite a bit of the time, but the markets don’t care if you run baby-mulching machines —

That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.

4 July, 200820 May, 2017 Media, Television 0

The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over 50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65. If

Your premier domain monetization value.

2 July, 20082 July, 2008 Rocknerd 0

The old rocknerd.org domain is now in the hands of a domain squatter. Looks like you’re now reading the real remaining Rocknerd. Hi, Ben!

Phoenix hairpins.

1 July, 2008 Goth 0

For those who enjoyed The Thing On The Doorstep, I give to you: Phoenix Hairpins, Capa Nostra Syndicate, Ghosts In The House, Habit Of

zZz is playing: Grip.

30 June, 200830 April, 2017 Film 0

A brilliant single-take music video, for “Grip” by Dutch band zZz. High-quality MPEG4 also available.

86 year old great-grandmother hoists the Jolly Roger.

29 June, 200830 April, 2017 Your rights 0

“In short, I turned a 86 year old Marlboro-smoking, Chrysler Sebring Convertable-driving, Pinochle-playing, Maroon-Five listening Great Grandmother into a music pirate. An enthusiastic one

Recording industry decries humming tunes to yourself as ‘a form of piracy.’

26 June, 200820 May, 2017 Industry 0

With income from physical discs dropping through the floor and the iTunes takings not being enough to sustain the fruit and flowers budget, the

If it’s too tinny, you’re too old.

25 June, 20084 September, 2016 Games 2

I must have grown up in an era of instruments. When did music from ’80s home computers become a genre? With its own wikis

EMI innovates in legal actions.

22 June, 20081 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Specifically, not just going after companies, but trying to personally bankrupt their CEOs — specifically Michael Robertson of MP3Tunes, an MP3 locker service that

Marked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

20 June, 2008 Audio 3

A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check

Brucie Teardrop.

16 June, 200824 August, 2016 Punk, Rock 0

Back in my day, Bruce Springsteen was a ridiculously mainstream live rocker made pop star with “Born In The USA” and its ilk. I’d

There’s no fool like an audiophool.

15 June, 20086 September, 2016 Audio 0

And to think Denon used to be respectable. Dig this US$500 1.5 metre ethernet cable for audio use. ‘Cos the professional quality ethernet cables

The thing on the doorstep.

14 June, 200814 June, 2008 Industrial 0

Old-school industrial MP3s — obscure tapes and tiny pressings you’ve only ever heard of. Before drum machines ruined everything. I particularly recommend Rising From

Promos are freebies in the US.

12 June, 20081 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Troy Agusto goes to second-hand shops, buys rare promos and sells them on eBay. Universal decided this was a copyright violation. Judge says: Wrong!

Rocknerd v3.0.

28 May, 200830 April, 2017 Rocknerd 0

Ben has been eaten by voles. He still has the old domain name, for what that’s worth. This is Rocknerd v3. I hope to

Rocknerd editor beats Bon Scott to award; ego crushes London.

3 June, 200412 April, 2017 Rocknerd 4

Your humble editor has been inducted into the WA Music Industry Association‘s Hall of Fame, owing to an unfortunate incident thirteen years ago involving

Meredith

18 December, 20022 January, 2017 Live 10

The best festival this country has to offer. Meredith Music Festival lived up to the hype yet again with its fine selection of music, beautiful weather, ice cold beer, good food and fun times had by all.

RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem.”

18 December, 20026 May, 2018 Industry 0

From boingboing.net: A new research report suggests that the convicted price-fixers at the RIAA cooked the books to create a nonexistent “piracy problem.” “So

Vivendi raided; deep cost cuts coming at Universal

14 December, 20023 May, 2017 Industry 0

Following the earlier SEC probe into financial irregularities, the French authorities have raided Vivendi’s Paris office, the office of its subsidiary Cegetel and the

How the mighty tumble: Universal in SEC probe

20 November, 200224 September, 2016 Industry 1

posted by Oh Yeah Vivendi Universal, the ultimate parent company of Universal Music, is under US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over their accounting

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine/Jim’s Super Stereoworld/Abdoujaparov – Mean Fiddler, London, Fri 15 Nov 2002

17 November, 20024 November, 2021 Indie, Live 0

review by Teqkiller Met up with Vicky and Nick (rhyming potential is overwhelming here) in the Wetherspoons that’s where the Marquee used to be

Breaking new barriers in marketing.

29 October, 200225 August, 2016 Rocknerd 0

Rocknerd.org gets all sorts of things submitted through the ‘post article’ web form – lots of press releases, lots of faintly-disguised press releases, illiterate