Industry – Rocknerd

Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

28 September, 202329 September, 2023 Games, Industry 4

At least Songtradr, unlike Epic, is in the same business.

Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.

14 January, 202314 January, 2023 Industry, Pop 3

You’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.

Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.

19 September, 202025 September, 2020 Industry, Pop 0

The black hit of space.

Links: Virtual Reality still useless, why vinyl was bad, the Problem with Music gets tha roni, Nile Rodgers.

15 May, 202015 May, 2020 Audio, Industrial, Industry, Links, R'n'B 0

Here in the plague, I’m bored enough to write about music again, for my beloved audience of about a hundred. How are you all?

2019 in music: your comprehensive and reliable global guide.

13 January, 202014 January, 2020 Industry, Live, Opinion, Record, Theatre 2

The punishment of luxury is in the air for all to see. And it’s ugly now, and it’s getting worse every day. Hey! Hey! Hey!

Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?

26 April, 2019 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk 0

Suspended in gaffer.

Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.

13 November, 201813 November, 2018 Industry, Links, Metal, mp3 0

The Threatin story is this week’s winner.

Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy

16 October, 201816 October, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk 0

I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …

Links: eMusic can’t pay its bills, nobody buys CDs, catalogue prices, majors upset Spotify not rolling out the red carpet.

27 July, 201827 July, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3 0

Welcome to the music industry! Here’s your accordion.

eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good.

24 July, 201827 July, 2018 Indie, Industry, mp3 0

eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans.

Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.

9 July, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Prog 0

I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.

Links: Albini on In Utero (again), the inbox flood, Level Music, blockchains (again).

13 May, 201814 May, 2018 Industry, Links, Punk, Writing 0

“We’ll save music on the blockchain!” Ethereum can’t scale up to cat pictures.

HARKII Of Sound Mind podcast Episode 1: “Why I don’t think blockchain will change the music industry.”

30 April, 201830 April, 2018 Industry, Rocknerd 0

In which I go on a podcast and talk about why blockchains are still trash, particularly for music. Don’t fall for resentment-based marketing!

Links: High-Definition Vinyl, Brian Hooper RIP, Eventbrite’s we-take-all ticketing contract.

21 April, 201821 April, 2018 Audio, Indie, Industry, Links, Rock 0

At least Twitter reaps a bountiful harvest these days.

Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.

14 April, 201815 April, 2018 Industry, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk, Your rights 0

The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.

Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment.

6 April, 201817 July, 2018 Industry, mp3, Opinion 3

It looks like eMusic’s attempt at a comeback last year didn’t work out so well. Behold: the eMusic Blockchain Platform! … a Kodak moment indeed.

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!

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: 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.

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.

Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.

3 November, 20173 November, 2017 Film, Industry, Writing, Your rights 2

The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.

Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain: EGO by RAC.

1 November, 201712 November, 2017 Industry, Writing 0

Today’s post, over on the blockchain blog, is about Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that yet again they fall down the stairs, hitting their head on every step on the way down.