Pop – Rocknerd

Mark Rye: Inside Looking Out: More Rock’n’Roll tales from inside the British music business (2017).

6 May, 20186 May, 2018 Pop, Rock, Writing 0

First-hand tales from the people down in the engine room.

Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.

14 April, 201815 April, 2018 Industry, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk, Your rights 0

The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.

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.

The Frozen Autumn: The Fellow Traveler (2017).

14 March, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Are you into synthpop? Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?

Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.

4 March, 2018 Dance, Indie, Links, Pop 1

There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.

King Trigger: The River (1982).

19 February, 201819 February, 2018 Pop, Record, Writing 4

Today’s one-hit wonder.

Perfume: Cosmic Explorer (2016).

10 February, 201810 February, 2018 Pop, Record 0

Hear some pop trash you haven’t heard played to death!

Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.

30 January, 201831 January, 2018 Dance, Links, Pop, R'n'B, Rock 0

Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.

Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).

21 January, 201821 January, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.

Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.

7 January, 20188 January, 2018 Musician, Pop, Post-Punk, Writing 0

Into the hot.

Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.

31 December, 2017 Links, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk 0

Happy new year, probably!

Reviews: The Glass Eyes, Elektrostaub, Stolen Apple (2016, 2017).

16 December, 201718 December, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.

Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.

6 December, 2017 Dance, Indie, mp3, Pop, Rocknerd 0

Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.

Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.

25 November, 2017 Industrial, Links, Musician, Pop, Post-Punk 0

These are places that are gone.

Reviews: The Big Sun (2016), Autumn (2017), Snog (1992, 2017).

9 November, 20179 November, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Suppose I’d better cut the pile down a bit again.

Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.

8 November, 20178 November, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing, Your rights 0

The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.

Reviews: Zürich ’81, In The Nursery (2017).

24 October, 201725 October, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Two marvellous bands you need to pay attention to.

Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.

16 September, 201717 September, 2017 Links, mp3, Pop, Record, Your rights 0

And Spray, compressed and convenient.

Reviews: Little Love and The Friendly Vibes, Alvvays (2017).

9 September, 2017 Indie, Pop, Punk, Record 1

A couple of indie pop guitar pieces.

Links: Holger Czukay RIP, John Foxx, naked skydiving.

6 September, 2017 Classical, Pop, Prog, Writing 0

That’s three links, not two.

Reviews: Magana, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Nina (2016, 2017).

3 September, 201722 September, 2017 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Some indie pop and synthpop, and yes the new OMD album’s a good one.

Reviews: Gaddafi Gals, It’s The Lipstick On Your Teeth, Ankathie Koi (2017).

26 August, 201726 August, 2017 Industrial, Pop, R'n'B, Record 0

In which I trip over Seayou from Vienna, a good label I hadn’t heard of before.

Reviews: Marsy, HYTS, Dreams Are Like Water (2017).

20 August, 201720 August, 2017 Dance, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Time to go out looking for interesting new things.

Pop links: The missing V chord, why pop comes from Los Angeles, how earworms work.

19 August, 201720 August, 2017 Links, Musician, Pop 0

Pop music is a virus, and I still get the shingles outbreaks.

Producers: Max Martin literally farts a top ten hit; Butch Vig; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.

14 August, 201715 August, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Musician, Pop, Punk 0

“Always give yourself credit for having more than personality.” parp parp parp

Reviews: Desert M, Loewenhertz, Elektrostaub (2016, 2017).

28 July, 201728 July, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Prog, Record 0

Instead of books, let’s talk about industrial, in ambient prog and synthpop flavours.

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.

Loewenhertz: Echtzeit; Unsichtbar; Irgendwann (2016, 2017).

10 June, 201714 June, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record 0

’90s-style angsty German synthpop that fits right into industrial, of a genre with Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton and Silke Bischoff. Especially Wolfsheim.

Links: Denuvo suck and are thieves, Andrew Hickey’s Beach Boys books, Jimmy Webb.

5 June, 20175 June, 2017 Games, Links, Pop, Rock, Your rights 1

DRM bad, classic rock vastly better.

Ringo Starr is a dick.

1 June, 2017 Pop, Rock, Writing 14

“But thanks julian lennon for stopping me from becoming a supervillain hellbent on destroying the entire nation of britain for good.”