Essays on aesthetics.
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Category: Links
No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Links: Prenda Law copyright scam too far, Internet advertising is trash, SoundButt.
Prenda Law are finally arrested, Internet advertising is a scam at all levels (and you can help!) and careful when posting.
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Links: Bandcamp for New Zealand charts, EFF versus the music industry, the productivity of silence.
The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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Your day’s video selection: goats, bats, Mel Brooks and Hitler.
A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.
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DRM links: Denuvo removed, Super Mario locked, 4K Netflix for almost nobody, GOG, EFF.
News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Links: Independent music earnings, Pakistan’s music industry, answering recruiters, Spray.
How much money one musician actually makes striking out as an independent, the Pakistani music industry, responding to recruiters and Ricardo Autobahn and Spray.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Links: CBGB awning for sale; Ableton Live; the cucumber organ.
The not-quite original awning from CBGB for auction; the story of Ableton Live; really, a cucumber organ.
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Links: World industrial, the economics of EDM, the eyes have rhythm, fretless bass an octave up.
Have some more links, this time with a video.
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Links: Jon Langford and the Sisters of Mercy, J. G. Ballard’s house, your headphones are listening.
Jon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.
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Instrument links: acid house for web, make your own, use light, shut up’n keep playing yer guitar.
A web-based acid house creator, some Web Audio sound fonts, a light-based Arduino project and a plea to keep up your guitar playing.
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Links: High-resolution consumer audio, London for music sales, the worst Beach Boys album.
Audio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.
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Links: China’s top music site, 808 The Documentary, Shazam is listening.
Douban.com, a movie about a drum machine, software that grabs your microphone.
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Links: Floor-sweepings editions, Paul is Still Dead, Imogen Heap’s $133.20, a good industry report.
Fifty year old records, fifty year old conspiracy theories, one hundred and thirty-three twenty and an actually non-stupid music industry report.
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Links: Burroughs on the presidency, American Pie, Blood on the Tracks.
A beautiful and apposite William S. Burroughs reading, and some classic rock faff.
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Industry links: Consumers may only rip CDs to properly copyright-levied 80 minute MP3s of silence.
It was 35 years ago today, Sergeant Adorno taught the band that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC.
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Links: Indonesian and Mexican record markets, the Mekons, jazz saxophone relationship advice.
Music goes with chicken, retrospective on a scrappy punk band and how to be so foolish as to go out with a musician.
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Links: Psychoacoustics for recording, blockchain band names, Dépèche Mode demos.
Scurvy recording trickery, scurvier buzzword-compliant scams and Dépèche Mode so too has the accents in.
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Links: Negativland, Diamond Rio MP3, Dylan, writing.
The ultimate in merchandising, reviving an old gadget, Dylan as writer, me as writer.
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Links: bad lyrical subjects, worse record companies, Psychic TV and Polka Floyd.
Don’t whinge or povertysplain, worse music industry players, Psychic TV’s film Kickstarter and a reworking that works too well.
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Links: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.
It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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Links: September, Ziggy Stardust, Alan Turing, rap as social news system, even cheaper streaming.
Today at work I’ve been busy discussing the horror of Blockchain. So have some interesting webpages that are completely not about that in any manner.
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Links: The record industry is still suicidally stupid, torrented MKV at 11.
Shazam makes a profit but not from records, the record industry goes back to trying to sue the Internet out of existence, the record industry thinks a YouTube employee is really working for them for free, Spotify and Soundcloud will prove that 2+2=1.
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Witch house is the new coldwave: totally not goth video links.
The nicest Nivek Ogre interview ever, 1984 goth clubbing and Joy Division’s influence on rap.
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Post-punk links: More secret histories.
Michel Duval and various Crépuscule bands, Mark Reeder, Dominatrix, the non-white and non-male nature of punk and post-punk, the Fall and what to do with ex-punk survivor’s guilt.
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Hey, ho! Let’s go! Punk rock links.
Pavarotti’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”, Kill Your Pet Puppy retrospective, a contemporary punk novel, Manchester punk history, Czechoslovak punk history, Scottish post-punk history and a children’s picture book on punk. The secret histories.
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Links: floor-sweepings editions, musician forums, Piracy: The Better Choice.
A site for multi-disc reissues, a new musicians’ forum, DRM still doesn’t work, exclusive deals don’t work.
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Links: Beatles, Prince Buster, Freddie Mercury age 12, Freddie Nietzsche.
The Beatles’ Live At The Hollywood Bowl recovered, Prince Buster obituary, Freddie Mercury aged 12, Nietzsche the composer.
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Links: how Deerful and J. G. Ballard work, how Warner Bros doesn’t, what to do in Norwich afterwards.
Secrets of the stars!
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