I’ve had these long enough, now you can have them too and I can close some tabs.
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Category: Links
No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Links: Virtual Reality still useless, why vinyl was bad, the Problem with Music gets tha roni, Nile Rodgers.
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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Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?
Suspended in gaffer.
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Christmas links: 500 Songs bonus podcast, Lindy Vision.
Give yourself what you deserve today — both of these.
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Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.
What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.
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Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.
The Threatin story is this week’s winner.
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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy
I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …
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Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.
The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”
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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.
Welcome to the music industry! Here’s your accordion.
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Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.
I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.
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Streaming links: 24,000 new tracks a day, Spotify as label, streaming pays better than radio.
And foreshadowing of Monday’s long-form post.
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Links: World In Motion, pirates, kids listen to Swans, Irmin Schmidt.
“If there’s one group who can capture the spirit of bitter infighting that typifies being in a World Cup squad …”
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Links: Albini on In Utero (again), the inbox flood, Level Music, blockchains (again).
“We’ll save music on the blockchain!” Ethereum can’t scale up to cat pictures.
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Links: High-Definition Vinyl, Brian Hooper RIP, Eventbrite’s we-take-all ticketing contract.
At least Twitter reaps a bountiful harvest these days.
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Links: Dragon Ball Super mass piracy, origin of the gated reverb snare, the return of illegal raves.
Plus Salman Rushdie’s disco turn, and “Ace Of Spades” played on an actual spade.
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Links: NME goes out of print, write about music anyway, Qwant music search, how to write a hit in 2018.
Choreography about architecture.
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Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.
There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.
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Links: Peter Saville, pirates buy streaming, Bandcamp users buy music, vinyl demand, Mark E. Smith, Kam Franklin.
Medical journal Lancet Psychiatry ran a Mark E. Smith obituary.
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Links: The grunge gold rush, the Lester Bangs play, headphone jacks, Chandra, the first Velvets gig.
A pile of writing.
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Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.
Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.
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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.
Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.
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Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.
Happy new year, probably!
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Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.
And headphones up your nose.
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Links: Chapter Music, Damned Industrial top 20, ZynAddSubFx terms, iTunes shutdown, vinyl clog.
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.
Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!
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Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.
More fun in the big world.
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Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.
These are places that are gone.
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Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.
Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.
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Links: Reviews and auteurs in the streaming age, Grant Hart’s last interview.
It’s all about the hook.
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Links: The KLF at the Shard, the fake grunge lexicon, how to swear on radio.
23 November.
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