Media – Rocknerd

Links: NME goes out of print, write about music anyway, Qwant music search, how to write a hit in 2018.

18 March, 2018 Links, Media, Pop, Writing 0

Choreography about architecture.

When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?

2 August, 201719 January, 2018 Industry, Media, Opinion, Writing 0

Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.

Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.

1 August, 2017 Links, Media, mp3, Post-Punk, Record 0

Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!

Followups: Spotify “fake artist” speaks, SoundCloud, more audiophile networking.

17 July, 201717 July, 2017 Audio, Links, Media, mp3 2

And I have two or three days to get the book absolutely finished OH GOD

Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.

12 July, 201717 July, 2017 Industry, Media, mp3, Opinion, Pop 1

Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.

Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.

6 December, 20167 December, 2016 Esoterica, Industrial, Links, Media, Metal, Punk 0

Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.

Radio and television finally admit, in 2016, that they’re competing with the whole vast Internet.

29 September, 201620 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Radio, Television 3

The mass media have suffered the effects of the Internet much in the manner of the record industry, as consumers, conclusively sick of their shit, withdraw their attention. Their worry has gone from piracy to … being ignored.

How to slum as a rock critic, like generations of rock critics before you.

1 August, 20163 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Writing 0

Sometimes you see a piece of modern music journalism and you wonder why these people are allowed fingers.

Access denied: The media in a world where they aren’t the gatekeepers.

6 December, 20153 January, 2017 Media, Opinion 0

John Herrman at The Awl laments the difficulties of the media in a world where they are no longer the gatekeepers of social knowledge.

Dammit Yahoo, stop giving the game away.

28 November, 20153 November, 2016 Media, Writing 0

Yahoo posted their writeup on Rihanna’s Anti just a little early.

LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.

14 December, 201428 August, 2016 Links, Media, mp3 0

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

Go read Equalizer.

21 June, 20136 May, 2017 Media 0

I have no snappy phrase here, you should just go read shiny new music site Equalizer. Hat-tip to Andrew Bulhak, who brought it to

Memetic archaeology and Nickelback.

16 February, 20131 December, 2016 Media 0

Where did hating Nickelback as a meme come from?

A Converse in a humanoid face, forever.

28 April, 201218 February, 2017 Media 2

My high-school English teacher really wanted me to do journalism at Curtin because I did well on the school magazine. I did chemistry at

Internet killed the video star.

8 March, 20092 October, 2016 Film, Media 0

Dot.com winner Paul Graham writes on why TV lost — computers + television = computers.

My memory has just been sold.

18 August, 200818 August, 2008 Media 0

The zombie technology of the magazine suffers the final insult: Mygazines.com, a magazine-sharing site. The hard part in nailing them for this blatant copyright

Join us now and free the photos.

16 August, 200816 August, 2008 Media 2

One of my other pastimes is Wikipedia. We’re all about the free-as-in-freedom content — not just no-cost with-permission, but wide-open to reuse, including commercially.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away.

5 August, 20085 August, 2008 Media 0

Magazines and newspapers are a zombie technology. But Esquire is trying to work past that. I give it three hours after hitting the stands

That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.

4 July, 200820 May, 2017 Media, Television 0

The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over 50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65. If

Radio: the future?

3 June, 200220 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Radio 3

Imagine a post apocalyptic radio world, where there are multiple stations all sounding the same, acting the same – there is no choice, no variety, no difference anywhere across the country. Everything and everyone has been blended down to core stereotypes, and the people seem happy with this… and of course the advertisements, who can forget the advertisements.

Brave refusal to censor semi alternative single by Clear Channel station

28 October, 200120 May, 2017 Media, Radio 2

Accidentally heard on Mix 101.1 this afternoon, the Ben Folds single ‘Rockin’ the Suburbs’… but not the radio edit. When you hear RtS on

Clear Channel will protect your tender sensibilities.

19 September, 200120 May, 2017 Media, Radio 8

Clear Channel, the company working to ensure as absolute a playlist monoculture in the US as possible – and which is sniffing around radio

‘Factsheet 5’ to return.

30 August, 20018 August, 2017 Media 1

Factsheet 5, the magazine of fanzine reviews, is to recommence publication after a three-year hiatus. The new publisher is Dwayne-Michael Alborn, a 22-year-old marketing