The recording industry is yet again offering a downloadable music service consumers can’t use – no MP3s, songs not transferable to portable music players
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Author: David Gerard
Rocket Science Single Launch – Corner Hotel, Fri 30 Nov 2001
Review by Daniel So, the question is, did they or didn’t they? Having seen this and having been scared and confused, would the smocks
Read MoreSlayer live in Dublin
review by Anna Several weeks ago I found myself at one of Dublin’s largest venues, surrounded by thousands of long-greasey-haired, skinny, sickly-looking, hopelessly drunk
Read MoreSunglasses After Dark 21st Birthday (The Tote, Sun 21 Oct 2001).
It’s too loud and I’m too old. But a good cause, a good show (The Redresser, Mustang, Casanovas, Speed Demons, Fez Perez and Six
Read MoreCrippled CD Database
Charles Heffner of Fat Chuck’s has started a corrupt CD database, so that you, the consumer, are adequately warned of defective product. The page
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Breathtaking audacity: the RIAA tries to get the right to hack your computer
In the wake of September 11, the RIAA is trying to score the right to hack your PC in search of MP3s without legal consequence for damage.
Read MoreIt’s no rock shock – Hamish honks
review by rox-teddy So bad it’s coming soon to JJJ. Due to the astonishing lack of advertisements shown before Friday night’s 6.40pm screening of
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Another nail in the coffin for live music in Melbourne: Punter’s Club sold
The Continental, The Espy … now The Punters Club. It’s official, The Punters Club has been sold. Here’s the press release.
Read MoreCD Copy Protection: Tripping The Rippers.
An excellent article on CNet, updating on the issue in depth. Also: an interview with SunnComm, who did the copy protection on the Charley
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Classic power ballads.
When the adolescent males have slammed, stagedived and pogoed their little hearts out to your fast ones, going up to four (or even five) chords (on acoustic, of course) with that big, slow “thump … tha-THUMP … thump … tha-THUMP” drum line will cement your cred as a truly great writer of truly moving songs and not just another spandex-clad, fretwanking attention-seeker searching the front row for male adulation and female lust dumb enough to lead to a night with you.
Read MoreCopy-protected CD sighted: new Michael Jackson single.
The first major release of a copy-protected CD appears to be “Rock Your World” by Michael Jackson, according to Need To Know – the
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Clear Channel will protect your tender sensibilities.
Clear Channel, the company working to ensure as absolute a playlist monoculture in the US as possible – and which is sniffing around radio
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Review: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Lowenstein did it better with Dogs in Space.
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‘Factsheet 5’ to return.
Factsheet 5, the magazine of fanzine reviews, is to recommence publication after a three-year hiatus. The new publisher is Dwayne-Michael Alborn, a 22-year-old marketing
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Household MP3 servers: the only civilised way to live
We have just set up a household MP3 server and it has changed our lives. Like a thousand-disc CD changer without the delays and
Read MoreWhat gigs are you off to this weekend?
It’s your turn to write something. I’d like you all to list what gigs you’re thinking of attending in the coming week (the rock
Read MoreWatch ‘Long Way To The Top’ on Wednesday evening.
or I’ll come around and rip your ears off personally. (Or you could watch a tape as I probably actually will ;-) “Long Way
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Final Fantasy – a load of crap
review by Jon This evening I had the misfortune to pay $11.00 for the privilege of seeing Final Fantasy. For a totally computer generated
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‘Inner City Sound’ by Clinton Walker (sort of) in print again.
Clinton Walker’s classic book on Australian post-punk indie rock, Inner City Sound, came out in 1982 and has been unavailable on the face of
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The ultimate record nerd toy.
You, like me, have a four-figure count of vinyl records that you have spent five figures on, and a two dollar turntable that’s needed
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Conti to return as a live venue?
According to Whammo, the Continental is to return as a live venue. “The good news is that while the Continental Cafe will change names
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Jodi Phillis, Fibrotown – Cornish Arms (Brunswick, Melbourne)
Jodi Phillis: What you’d expect, well worth not missing. Fibrotown: Country indie rock, surprisingly good. Cornish Arms: Good venue. Rating: Damn fine night out.
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Tales from the Conti: blues promoter, journalist, flight of stairs
The Conti may be gone, but the legend lives on. And, of course, there’s a darker side. This is a story about big men with short tempers and the small women they pick on…
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Roll Up For the Conti! or The Grass is Greener in Prahran
Melbourne’s Continental Cafe has been eulogised and tributes continue to flow in about this fine Melbourne venue as it moves towards closure. Yet Melbourne’s media is loathe to point out the Conti’s true culture. In today’s rarified, amphetamine-anger business atmosphere, there are few live venues around where the musicians not only get asked what they want to drink when they arrive, they’re either plied with joints before the show or offered one of the classic ten paper didgeridoos to finish the night. Soulman Rushdie offers this personal insight into a grand old gonzo institution…
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The Blair Witch Project.
Finally saw the damned thing at Moonlight Cinema Saturday night. This was outdoors at the Botanical Gardens. The atmosphere was not helped by the
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