Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.
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Category: Links
No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Links: Dr Dre and Apple, Alan Vega, Dangerous Minds.
Dr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.
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Movie links: The death of the VCR; new ways for 3D to suck; why men aren’t funny.
The last video recorder, 3D again, why men just aren’t funny.
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Links: cultural markets in late capitalism, Patricia Morrison, the 1938 synthesizer.
Consumer markets, a nice Patricia Morrison interview and the 1938 Novachord.
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Industry links: YouTube, RIAA mathematics, Jay-Z’s Tidal.
YouTube, record company accounting, Tidal.
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Links: Opinionated record nerds on Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa and Record Store Day.
Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa and Record Store Day evaluated.
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Links: The lows and highs of the history of disco.
The Beach Boys’ worst record, the disco record that beats it, and when disco got good again with Jimmy Cauty and the KLF.
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Links.
“If you think it’s about the music, you’ve already failed.” The pop culture legacy business, and why Kurt Cobain is still a huge star.
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Links.
Music industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.
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Today’s links.
“Happy Birthday” is finally acknowledged as being public domain. Probably. The history of the hidden track. Format-shifting music you’ve bought in the UK is
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Links.
A Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women
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Links: Rod Stewart took cocaine up his arse to protect his nose.
Yes, really. Also, psychedelic glasses. And caffeine.
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Classical links: In which classical is hampered by iTunes.
iTunes and streaming in general. Not one, but two cases. The problem is that (a) ID3 is crappy (b) particularly for classical (c) and
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Film links. KUNG FURY!
How to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.
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Industrial estate.
I am doing the musical thing at last, despite literally being unable to sing or play (‘cos that observably never stopped anyone else). Two
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Musician links.
Chord progressions of 25,000 songs analysed, using the database of Hooktheory’s Theorytab. Which itself is ridiculously fun to play with. Audacity is the computer-based
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Industry links.
So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How
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Links.
Google puts the hard word on artists using YouTube. Sign up for five years or you’re off YouTube. What the “vinyl comeback” actually looks
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A new year of links!
There’s a new Rowland S. Howard career collection, Six Strings That Drew Blood. Here’s an excellent review and history from the Quietus. I didn’t
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LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.
THE LOUDEST SOUND SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (It’s used for rocket science, of course.) Why you can’t get 4K Netflix on a Mac or
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Forget “Paul is dead”: the Beatles NEVER EXISTED. Apparently.
Sure, there were these four character names, but they were played by different people over the course of the band’s existence. (Look at the
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Punk rock links.
The legendary ABC After-School Special: Punk Syndrome: How Parents Can Avoid It. How to introduce Nirvana to your two-year-old. Will you make it big?
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Links links links.
My daughter just started learning viola. She could, of course, be the next Jimi Hendrix. There’s a whole genre of 9/11 Truther songs, and
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Today’s links.
The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on
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Links, links, tra la la.
The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”
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Links for your delectation.
How we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:
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Links for your delectation.
You don’t play the ANS synthesizer (Russia, 1938) with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed
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