The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Category: Links
No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Links: Women’s pop canon, YouTube extortions, photographers win, Put Blood In The Music.
t h e r e s a m a y p o r w a v e
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Links: TR-808 in Wikipedia, the Nick Cave graphic novel, punk podcast, Big Muff.
And Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards.
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Links: Denuvo still trash, copyright works, Margaret Thatcher on punk, Sun Ra.
And Tracey Thorn on the lyrical process.
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Music blogger links: just do it, how to do it, how not to make a bad review go away.
Join the exciting and lucrative[citation needed] world of music blogging!
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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.
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?
And Dave Graney on video, just because.
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DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.
No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.
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Links: Piracy doesn’t affect sales, DC hardcore, Bowie and Cale, early proto-blues.
Und Sisters gegen Nazis.
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Links: Devo “Satisfaction”, failed electronic instruments, subgenres of electronic music.
It’s all about the bleep, even with guitar, bass and drums.
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Links: Constance Demby, UK copyright trolls’ multiple extortions, The Return of the Giant Slits.
Seriously, check out the space bass.
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Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.
And Spray, compressed and convenient.
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Links: Pat Mills/2000AD, fund The Quietus, shoegaze in Asia, MRI rockin’ beats.
And me on BBC Newsnight! (Not about music.)
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Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.
And some stadium chiptune.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.
You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.
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Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.
And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.
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Links: Warner copyright fraud, RightsCorp bleeding red ink, BBC audio woo.
And a rousing topical singalong.
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Pop links: The missing V chord, why pop comes from Los Angeles, how earworms work.
Pop music is a virus, and I still get the shingles outbreaks.
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Links: Musical blockchains again.
Not all about me, for once!
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Punk rock links: Dennis and Lois documentary, Nazi Punks, old Native American bands.
More punk rock ‘cos Dennis and Lois have a Kickstarter for a documentary.
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Punk rock links: Lester Bangs, Dennis and Lois, Montréal, Russia.
This is your future if you live your life right.
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Producers: Max Martin literally farts a top ten hit; Butch Vig; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
“Always give yourself credit for having more than personality.” parp parp parp
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High seas links: trolling the trolls who troll.
Not even copyright trolls like copyright trolls.
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Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.
Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!
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Links: SoundCloud saved, ASCAP and BMI start on Global Repertoire Database, Daily Mail sued for piracy.
And my book is doing surprisingly well.
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Links: The failed hi-res audio of the 1990s, the risks of piracy, Simon Reynolds’ glam faves.
And the Blockchain Robot!
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Followups: Spotify “fake artist” speaks, SoundCloud, more audiophile networking.
And I have two or three days to get the book absolutely finished OH GOD
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Links: Women in jazz, the power of arts funding, Chrome will kill torrent sites.
And some fake copyright VHS warnings.
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Links: Declining guitar sales, I Feel Love, tinnitus.
And The Damn Book.
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