David Gerard

White Cross: Take heart. You’re not alone.

5 April, 201813 May, 2018 Indie, Record 8

Australian indie guitar favourites from the late 1980s, their complete catalogue available once more.

Links: Dragon Ball Super mass piracy, origin of the gated reverb snare, the return of illegal raves.

25 March, 2018 Dance, Film, Links, Musician 0

Plus Salman Rushdie’s disco turn, and “Ace Of Spades” played on an actual spade.

Links: NME goes out of print, write about music anyway, Qwant music search, how to write a hit in 2018.

18 March, 2018 Links, Media, Pop, Writing 0

Choreography about architecture.

Reviews: Cloud, LisaWars (2017, 2018).

11 March, 201811 March, 2018 Indie, Post-Punk, Record 0

Cinematic indie pop and some NDW revival.

Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.

4 March, 20187 September, 2021 Dance, Indie, Links, Pop 1

There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.

Links: Peter Saville, pirates buy streaming, Bandcamp users buy music, vinyl demand, Mark E. Smith, Kam Franklin.

25 February, 2018 Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Record 0

Medical journal Lancet Psychiatry ran a Mark E. Smith obituary.

King Trigger: The River (1982).

19 February, 201819 February, 2018 Pop, Record, Writing 7

Today’s one-hit wonder.

Links: The grunge gold rush, the Lester Bangs play, headphone jacks, Chandra, the first Velvets gig.

17 February, 2018 Audio, Links, Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

A pile of writing.

Perfume: Cosmic Explorer (2016).

10 February, 201810 February, 2018 Pop, Record 0

Hear some pop trash you haven’t heard played to death!

Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.

9 February, 2018 Audio, Games, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Television 0

Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.

Reviews: Dboy, Distant Stars, Cherry Heaven (2017, 2018).

4 February, 2018 Indie, Industrial, Record, Rock 0

Doing it yourself with trashy rock’n’roll, minimal synth and shoegazy indie.

Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.

30 January, 201831 January, 2018 Dance, Links, Pop, R'n'B, Rock 0

Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.

Last week after “Dynasty” I had crows feet under my eyes. Paid two days for getting high. Mark E. Smith is dead.

25 January, 201825 January, 2018 Opinion, Post-Punk 2

Sounds like MiG 20 crack, huh? Over! Over!

Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).

21 January, 201821 January, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.

Reviews: Phase Fatale, Christian Fitness (2017).

15 January, 201815 January, 2018 Dance, Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Industrial and 2017 punk.

Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.

7 January, 20188 January, 2018 Musician, Pop, Post-Punk, Writing 0

Into the hot.

Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.

31 December, 2017 Links, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk 0

Happy new year, probably!

Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.

28 December, 2017 Esoterica, Industrial, Links, Record, Your rights 0

And headphones up your nose.

Links: Chapter Music, Damned Industrial top 20, ZynAddSubFx terms, iTunes shutdown, vinyl clog.

24 December, 2017 Indie, Industrial, Industry, Links, mp3, Musician 2

Yes, I’m still here. More exciting things from the big world!

Reviews: The Glass Eyes, Elektrostaub, Stolen Apple (2016, 2017).

16 December, 201718 December, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.

Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.

12 December, 20179 September, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Writing 4

Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!

Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.

6 December, 2017 Dance, Indie, mp3, Pop, Rocknerd 0

Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.

Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.

2 December, 2017 Goth, Industry, Jazz, Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More fun in the big world.

Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.

25 November, 2017 Industrial, Links, Musician, Pop, Post-Punk 0

These are places that are gone.

Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.

18 November, 2017 Links, mp3, Punk 0

Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.

Richard M. Stallman: The Free Software Song (1991, 2011).

14 November, 201717 January, 2018 Esoterica 0

Music nerds mostly won’t have suffered the sort of thing software nerds hear as part of their culture. Includes the techno remix and a version of the actually really good original.

Links: Reviews and auteurs in the streaming age, Grant Hart’s last interview.

13 November, 201713 November, 2017 Links, Musician, Punk, Writing 0

It’s all about the hook.

Björkcoin: Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version).

12 November, 201725 November, 2017 Indie, Industry, Opinion 6

My restrained and professional assessment of the incompetence and stupidity all through the Björk cryptocurrency project was reasonably popular and widely read. This expanded version adds what I was actually thinking when writing up this collapse board cascade of slapstick coded-by-dildo incompetence.