Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
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Category: Links
No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Followups: laser-burnt records, that Beatles live album, Depeche Mode vs the Nazis.
Further on previous stories. Reach out and punch face.
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Links: Spotify hackers, voiceover woes, Cabaret Voltaire in 2017.
“When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker.” Pictured: some micro-phonies.
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Legal links: copyright trolls’ comeuppance, the iTunes Terms and Conditions Graphic Novel.
Copyright troll lawyers getting hung out to dry certainly counts as a happy ending.
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Links: VPN survey, a generated music startup, Metal Machine Music for Lou’s 75th.
“My week beats your year.” — Lou Reed
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Links: 100 years of recorded jazz, Spotify lossless streaming, Dark Side of the Moon desk.
And a picture that’s definitely a trap.
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Links: The public domain in comic form, Max Martin, Raspberry Pi tube sound.
And why you shouldn’t flush sodium metal down the toilet.
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Musician links: The bass master race, the history of guitar distortion, the Funky Drummer dies.
Loo-oks like it’s all over now.
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Links: Bono and Pence, Richard Spencer and Depeche Mode. And dealing with musicians.
♪ So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And Nazi Dick Spencer
Obviously can’t read ♫
Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”
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Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.
Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.
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Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.
The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.
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Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.
Not every nun needs a Synthi.
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Links: Buy from Bandcamp on Friday, why Hollywood is(n’t) doomed, US pirate warning scheme fails.
GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY
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Links: Facebook goes music industry, Denuvo DRM cracked in record time, a BitTorrent YouTube, women and jazz.
assorted bile and horror
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Links: Robin and Zappa, streaming piracy and the musical taste of dogs.
How the Boy Wonder’s singing coach fired him.
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Links: AirPod woes, MegaUpload 2.0 delayed by dodginess, classic anti-piracy ads.
“Sorry but there has been an expected hiccup. Will tell you all about it later today. Let this play out and give me some time to update you.”
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Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.
GIRLS LEAD PUNK ARMY ON RAMPAGE
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Movie links: Netflix kills DVDs, more copyright trolls, 32% of US adults watch pirated films.
Bad! Bad troll! Bad!
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Links: What.CD successors, the 1939 Voder, anaemic chart sales, the bagpipe AI.
Roko’s Basilisk, right, but on the bagpipes.
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Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.
Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.
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Links: Slowdive return, GRIDI, Tetris on a Launchpad, BitTorrent Inc.
But Lauren won’t budge; she likes what she likes, and Spotify understands that.
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Links: Ticketmaster, digital property, not liking music, the biggest UK debut album of 2016.
Every nun needs a Synthi.
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Links: AdNauseam blocked, Facebook video takedowns, hi-res Tidal, a wrist vibrator subwoofer.
Seriously, $199 for a vibrator for your wrist.
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Streaming links: Google and SoundCloud, hi-res audio, codec snobbery.
From the world of your music on other people’s computers.
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High seas: ISP warnings don’t work, Facebook content ID, more suits against copyright trolls.
News for freelance consumers of the preservation of culture.
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Links: Smart TVs, mining the Internet Archive, new Popcorn Time.
Why Smart TVs are as terrible an idea as they sound, automatic categorisation of the Internet Archive and a new version of Popcorn Time.
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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.
How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.
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Digital distribution: Streaming takes over, Apple goes label, go to your listeners, Bandcamp 2016.
The fine art of getting your music to paying listeners as of late 2016.
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Links: Side-Line goes full Nazi, CDDB bought by Nielsen, 23 random Naked Lunch quotes.
Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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