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Shut up ‘n’ play yer guitar.

Links: Bono and Pence, Richard Spencer and Depeche Mode. And dealing with musicians.

24 February, 201715 March, 2017 Links, Musician, Pop 0

♪ So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And Nazi Dick Spencer
Obviously can’t read ♫

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Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.

20 February, 201720 February, 2017 Drugs, Links, Musician, Writing, Your rights 0

“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.

18 February, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Your rights 0

Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.

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Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.

8 February, 20178 February, 2017 Audio, Esoterica, Links, Musician, Punk 2

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.

2 February, 20173 February, 2017 Film, Links, Musician, Your rights 0

GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY

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Links: What.CD successors, the 1939 Voder, anaemic chart sales, the bagpipe AI.

18 January, 201720 November, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician 0

Roko’s Basilisk, right, but on the bagpipes.

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Links: Slowdive return, GRIDI, Tetris on a Launchpad, BitTorrent Inc.

13 January, 201713 January, 2017 Indie, Links, mp3, Musician 0

But Lauren won’t budge; she likes what she likes, and Spotify understands that.

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Links: Selling yourself as a streaming artist, vacuum tubes, indie conspiracy theories.

11 January, 201711 January, 2017 Indie, Industry, Live, Musician 0

BOTTOM VIEW: Basing diagram, JEDEC 9A.

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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.

30 December, 20161 January, 2017 Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Television 0

How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.

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Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.

22 December, 201622 December, 2016 Audio, Industry, Musician 0

Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.

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New instruments: The Mitt, PushPull and a 3D-printed wind instrument designer.

19 December, 201619 December, 2016 Musician 1

A new controller, a new squeezebox and something to design a wind instrument in any shape you can think of.

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Links: CBGB awning for sale; Ableton Live; the cucumber organ.

3 December, 201616 December, 2016 Links, Musician, Punk 0

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.

29 November, 2016 Dance, Industrial, Industry, Links, Musician 0

Have some more links, this time with a video.

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Instrument links: acid house for web, make your own, use light, shut up’n keep playing yer guitar.

22 November, 201622 November, 2016 Links, Musician 0

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: Indonesian and Mexican record markets, the Mekons, jazz saxophone relationship advice.

27 October, 201628 October, 2016 Industry, Links, Musician, Punk, Sex 0

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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Culture is not about aesthetics redux: scented candles in a human face, forever.

20 October, 201620 October, 2016 Industry, Musician, Opinion 0

A retrospective on Rocknerd’s 2013 one-hit wonder “Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.” What musicians are now faced with.

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Links: bad lyrical subjects, worse record companies, Psychic TV and Polka Floyd.

17 October, 2016 Esoterica, Industrial, Industry, Links, Musician 0

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.

12 October, 201623 October, 2016 Drugs, Links, mp3, Musician 0

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.

5 October, 20165 October, 2016 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, R'n'B 0

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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Apple’s shiny new headphone adapter turns out to suck. Gosh, etc.

30 September, 201630 September, 2016 Audio, Musician 0

The shiny new iPhone headphone adapter for Lightning isn’t actually powerful enough to drive headphones properly, and Bluetooth linking inexplicably doesn’t work so well for non-Apple headphones.

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Brian Eno knows the score.

21 September, 201621 September, 2016 Musician 0

It’s been a busy day, have an illustrious musician tweet.

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The Blackbird Violin: CARVED FROM HIS GRANDFATHER’S TOMBSTONE. AND MAMMOTH TUSKS.

17 September, 201618 September, 2016 Classical, Musician 0

Violinists and violists can stop complaining about the weight of their half-kilo instrument. Ladeez gemmun, we present: the Blackbird. Carved from the sculptor’s grandfather’s tombstone. A shade over two kilograms.

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Links: floor-sweepings editions, musician forums, Piracy: The Better Choice.

12 September, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Record 0

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: how Deerful and J. G. Ballard work, how Warner Bros doesn’t, what to do in Norwich afterwards.

6 September, 20166 September, 2016 Links, mp3, Musician, Sex, Writing 0

Secrets of the stars!

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Links: Records and machinery.

26 August, 201626 August, 2016 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Record, Writing 0

Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.

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Witch house: I’d make myself a majickal sandwich.

25 August, 201626 August, 2016 Dance, Goth, Industrial, Musician, Opinion 0

Witch House is a made-up genre that became real. It was invented as an in-joke and now goth DJs claim they play “witch house”. Perhaps the secret ingredient is the gr▲†u‡†Øu§ Un‡cØd3.

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DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED.

13 August, 201619 August, 2016 Industrial, Metal, Musician 0

DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED -DRUM MACHINE IS KILLING BLACK METAL- DRUM MACHINE IS NEXT KEYBOARD/CRUTCH AND IS DAGGER IN THE BACK OF BLACK METAL-

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Watch Linsey Pollak making a carrot clarinet in five minutes.

31 July, 201624 August, 2016 Musician 0

You just need a thick carrot, a mouthpiece, an electric drill, a potato peeler and a funnel. Then, in five minutes, you can do this …

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Links: cultural markets in late capitalism, Patricia Morrison, the 1938 synthesizer.

24 July, 201621 August, 2016 Goth, Links, Musician, Opinion, Writing 0

Consumer markets, a nice Patricia Morrison interview and the 1938 Novachord.

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A random riff generator, on the Web.

1 July, 20164 September, 2016 Musician 0

Quite a lot of music software comes with a random riff generator. This stuff isn’t hard. But now it’s convenient as well.

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