Links – Page 3 – Rocknerd

Links: Closed Circuits compilation, Devo vs William S. Burroughs, Go-Betweens documentary.

22 June, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More artistic pursuits today.

Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.

20 June, 2017 Links, mp3, Writing, Your rights 0

It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.

Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.

17 June, 201717 June, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?

Links: Music journalism still buggered, Alan Vega final album, Denuvo LOL.

14 June, 201714 June, 2017 Games, Links, Punk, Writing 0

More news during the tinnitus hiatus.

Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.

12 June, 201712 June, 2017 Links, Punk, Rocknerd, Your rights 1

Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!

Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.

9 June, 20179 June, 2017 Audio, Links, Punk 0

And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).

Links: AIR Studios Montserrat, Carl Bernstein the pop critic, net neutrality for musicians.

7 June, 2017 Links, Musician, Writing, Your rights 0

The net neutrality article is particularly important.

Links: Denuvo suck and are thieves, Andrew Hickey’s Beach Boys books, Jimmy Webb.

5 June, 20175 June, 2017 Games, Links, Pop, Rock, Your rights 1

DRM bad, classic rock vastly better.

Copyright trolls: Malibu media, Prenda, time-travellers, the MAFIAA and how to defend yourself.

2 June, 2017 Links, Your rights 0

Making mass legal extortion a less viable business.

Links: Frank Zappa 1967, audiobook recording, Jim Jarmusch’s Sqürl.

31 May, 201731 May, 2017 Links, Punk, Rock 0

Today is all about the listening, now that I can listen to things again.

Links: iTunes still sucks, Spotify not compressing as much, the Great Cultural Fragmentation.

27 May, 201727 May, 2017 Audio, Links, mp3 0

“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”

Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.

25 May, 201725 May, 2017 Audio, Film, Links, Post-Punk, Rocknerd 0

♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫

Links: Music industry sexism, vinyl video game music, why do we want sound recording anyway?

23 May, 201723 May, 2017 Audio, Games, Industry, Links 0

As usual, the comments on an article on why feminism is needed in the music industry demonstrate why feminism is needed in the music industry.

Links: Wikipedia supports fair use, film archiving, the joys of the B-side.

22 May, 201722 May, 2017 Film, Links, Record, Your rights 0

If I can’t hear music, you can’t either. But that 7″ is amazingly pretty.

Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.

21 May, 201722 May, 2017 Film, Games, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

More ongoing thrills.

Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.

18 May, 201719 May, 2017 Film, Links, mp3, Radio 0

Why buy when you can trust other people’s computers? I’m sure services will never suddenly disappear or block paying customers.

Links: a critic turned artist, the soothing power of noise, Kim Dotcom outdone, Herman’s Hermits.

15 May, 201715 May, 2017 Links, Metal, mp3, Rock, Writing 0

A pretty chill selection on the joy of art. And some schadenfreude for Kim Dotcom.

Copyright troll links: Norway, Rightscorp, Perfect 10, police investigating BPI anti-piracy chief.

12 May, 201712 May, 2017 Links, mp3, Your rights 0

There’s a lot of money in trying for a few hundred quid out of home Internet users. Well, sometimes.

Links: Blockchain BitTorrent, Kim Dotcom movie, my Blockchain book interview.

9 May, 20177 June, 2017 Film, Links, mp3, Rocknerd, Your rights 1

Bram Cohen, Kim Dotcom and David Gerard. Only blockchains bind them.

Links: How to rig the charts, musicians’ vending machine, a malware music player, Internet Archive.

7 May, 201718 May, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Musician 0

I’m sure Harry Styles will categorically deny that anyone from any of his teams paid anyone to do anything whatsoever toward this chart rigging effort. Any moment now.

Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.

2 May, 20172 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, Television 1

And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.

Links: Audible now DRM-free, the Great Vinyl Scam, no pirate website blocks in Mexico.

29 April, 201711 November, 2018 Links, Writing, Your rights 0

It’s not like people want the (literal) tons of old editions of these records on vinyl.

Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.

25 April, 201728 April, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.

Musical user interfaces, copyright companies being themselves, the worst of Rolling Stone.

16 April, 201716 April, 2017 Links, Musician, Writing, Your rights 0

You need to see the ideas for music software interfaces.

Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.

11 April, 201711 April, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.

Links: A dumped Steinway, Kim Dotcom’s terrible album, early TR-808 hits, the history of disco.

6 April, 201718 May, 2017 Dance, Links, Musician 0

“There was lots and lots of good music that was actually made but it never saw the light of day because it wasn’t Kim’s taste. His taste is what you can hear on that fucking atrocious album that actually got released.”

Links: Roland founder dies, workplace entrance themes, BitTorrent repivot.

2 April, 20172 April, 2017 Links, mp3, Musician, Rocknerd 0

And some notes on The Book.

Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.

27 March, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Your rights 0

“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”