Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.
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No, Fluffy. Out there is the whole world.
Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.
Read MoreDr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.
Read MoreThe last video recorder, 3D again, why men just aren’t funny.
Read MoreConsumer markets, a nice Patricia Morrison interview and the 1938 Novachord.
Read MoreYouTube, record company accounting, Tidal.
Read MoreRingo Starr, Frank Zappa and Record Store Day evaluated.
Read MoreThe Beach Boys’ worst record, the disco record that beats it, and when disco got good again with Jimmy Cauty and the KLF.
Read More“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.
Read MoreMusic industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.
Read More“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
Read MoreA Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women
Read MoreYes, really. Also, psychedelic glasses. And caffeine.
Read MoreiTunes and streaming in general. Not one, but two cases. The problem is that (a) ID3 is crappy (b) particularly for classical (c) and
Read MoreHow to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.
Read MoreI am doing the musical thing at last, despite literally being unable to sing or play (‘cos that observably never stopped anyone else). Two
Read MoreChord 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
Read MoreSo how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How
Read MoreGoogle puts the hard word on artists using YouTube. Sign up for five years or you’re off YouTube. What the “vinyl comeback” actually looks
Read MoreThere’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
Read MoreTHE 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
Read MoreSure, there were these four character names, but they were played by different people over the course of the band’s existence. (Look at the
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreMy 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
Read MoreThe inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on
Read MoreThe Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”
Read MoreHow we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:
Read MoreYou 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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