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And it’s-a-one for the money, two for the money.

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.

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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?

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Links: Simon Draper, music industry sexism, US piracy site bans, punk rock presidential daughter.

18 October, 201718 October, 2017 Industry, Punk, Your rights 0

and thank you Twitter

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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.

15 October, 201715 October, 2017 Industrial, Industry, Links, mp3, Writing, Your rights 0

You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.

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Links: Rap as poetry; labels as services; where are all the pirates?

11 October, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Writing 0

And Dave Graney on video, just because.

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YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.

12 September, 201719 September, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 3

I feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.

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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.

31 August, 201731 August, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3 0

And PlayMobil Joy Division.

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Entertainment on the blockchain with ICOs: Opus, Viberate’s convicted felon adviser, Kim Dotcom.

29 August, 201725 April, 2018 Industry 6

1. Steal underpants. 2. ICO. 3. Profit!

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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.

22 August, 20179 May, 2018 Industry, mp3, Opinion 0

You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!

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Links: Warner copyright fraud, RightsCorp bleeding red ink, BBC audio woo.

21 August, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links 1

And a rousing topical singalong.

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Links: Musical blockchains again.

17 August, 201717 August, 2017 Industry, Links, Rocknerd 0

Not all about me, for once!

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Soundcloud saved for now! … keep downloading.

11 August, 201712 August, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

SoundCloud is saved! … for as yet unknown values of “saved.”

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