This is your future if you live your life right.
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Category: Punk
I want to be anarchy.
Producers: Max Martin literally farts a top ten hit; Butch Vig; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
“Always give yourself credit for having more than personality.” parp parp parp
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Synth links: Detroit techno, old gadgets, TR-08, Alan Vega, making your synthesizer fart.
The one thing anyone wants from a new synth.
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Links: FACT publicity for Kodi; more bogus DMCAs; Pere Ubu.
More copyright bogosity and some esoteric new wave.
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Links: Music journalism still buggered, Alan Vega final album, Denuvo LOL.
More news during the tinnitus hiatus.
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.
And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).
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Links: Frank Zappa 1967, audiobook recording, Jim Jarmusch’s Sqürl.
Today is all about the listening, now that I can listen to things again.
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Reviews: Dr. Woman, Ovter God, Fightmilk (2016, 2017).
Back in the MP3 mines, tunnelling through the tottering heaps of virtual promos.
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Reviews: Mr. Kitty, Stars Crusaders, Missiles of October (2016, 2017).
Vaporish synthpop, sci-fi concept EBM and punk rock heavy on the rock.
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Patti Smith’s last Australian gig, Festival Hall, Melbourne, 20 April 2017.
Patti Smith is giving up long haul touring on medical advice. But at Festival Hall last night, which she called a “shitty little club” for all the right reasons, Smith looked anything but frail.
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Links: Spotify to reduce convenience, the Velvets’ banana, Cosey Fanni Tutti goes establishment.
Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
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Reviews: Amyl and the Sniffers, Bestial Mouths (2016, 2017).
St Kilda cowpunk and electro goth rock.
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Reviews: 5TimesZero, Post War Glamour Girls, Vassals (2017).
Record reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.
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Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).
Guitar post-punk in black and grey.
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Reviews: Venus + Mars, Carla dal Forno, The Black Veils (2016, 2017).
Vaporwave, ethereal post-punk pop and jangly punk-pop.
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Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.
Not every nun needs a Synthi.
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Essays by Post(Graduate)Punk: Crass, Sisters of Mercy, Psychic TV.
Essays, pointers and rambling opinionation on UK punk and post-punk.
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Martin Rev: Clouds of Glory (1985).
Unambiguously rock’n’roll for every practical purpose, without involving any of guitars, basses or drums.
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Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.
GIRLS LEAD PUNK ARMY ON RAMPAGE
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Reviews: The Pineapple Thief, Trance To The Sun, Scandinavia (2016).
Let’s get the guitars out again.
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Links: Stoner metal, Stevie Wonder, Bill Drummond on punk.
Essays on aesthetics.
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Songs for “oh God can I hit Amazon in time” week.
BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
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Wire: On The Box: Live on Rockpalast (1979, 2004); KEXP, 2013.
Two Wire live performances, because they’re good for you.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Links: CBGB awning for sale; Ableton Live; the cucumber organ.
The not-quite original awning from CBGB for auction; the story of Ableton Live; really, a cucumber organ.
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Links: The Pop Group, the Birthday Party, Plastic Bertrand, Düsseldorf.
A new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.
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Links: Indonesian and Mexican record markets, the Mekons, jazz saxophone relationship advice.
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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J. G. Ballard and music. How to write the entire New Wave into being.
Post-punk’s favourite writer, who didn’t listen to music himself. It’s all about the imagery.
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Reviews: The Royal They, Unity One, Graveyard Love (2016).
Pre-grunge-style indie rock, EBM synthpop and disorienting synthesizer-guitar landscapes.
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