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Category: Rocknerd
News about the site itself.
Problemem muzyki nie jest piractwo, a sama ekonomia zycia kulturalnego.
The hit ramble Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law is now available in Polish, translated by Kuba Danecki,
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Slashdot, ha! Reddit, however.
So Rocknerd’s latest article is a hit. Slashdot got it a few thousand hits, which my small but clever setup based on WP-Super-Cache coped
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Nostalgia’s another word for brain rot.
I dug through archive.org again and dredged up some more prime Rocknerd. TISM, the crippled CD database (remember when music came on CDs? Hah!),
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Party Fears #18¾ and #19 published at last.
The text from the unpublished Party Fears #18¾ (late 1993) and #19 (1994) is up and online at last. The world can end now.
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Party Fears #17 scanned and online.
Courtesy Adrian Butcher, we now have all the PF there ever was scanned and online. Interviews: Severed Heads, Scarecrow Tiggy. Live: Hunkpapas, Wash, Yummy
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Party Fears #4 and #18 scanned and online.
At the usual place. These are the last two I have copies of to hand; if anyone has a copy of #17 to hand
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Party Fears #1, 2 and 3 scanned and online.
I figured out the scanner at work, so expect this page to fill out nicely. The early pop-kid days of Party Fears, with the
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Party Fears #6 scanned and online.
Description and scans, only twenty-five years after the fact. Psychotic Turnbuckles, David Nichols, Deadly Hume, Die Monster Die, Headonist, Jackals, Kryptonics, And An A,
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What on earth is up with rocknerd.org?
There is, er, something there. It appears to have a new story or two mixed in with old ones from 2006, all dated September
Read MoreRocknerd.org sorta viewable for the moment.
Rocknerd v2 is still in the hands of a domain squatter, but the front page as of 2007 is up from archive.org. Would you
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Party Fears index updates and #11 up.
The archive of my Perth ’80s–’90s Perth indie rock zine Party Fears has been updated, with the addition of a PDF of #11 and
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*cough* And then there’s the other sort.
Read MoreI love MySQL with a love only Hans Reiser could understand.
I got sick enough of this with Squishdot. MySQL just ate itself all by itself and had to be restored from backups. Fortunately, I
Read MoreThere’s a ghost in my house.
I stopped by the Wayback Machine yesterday and found a pile of classic Rocknerd. This is slowly being hand-restored. (Mostly my own stuff first.)
Read MoreThe alcohol loves you whilst turning you blue.
Lots more old Party Fears scans up, courtesy Nick Potter, who decided I was being a slackarse and so got on with it himself.
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If you’re on LiveJournal, there’s now a Rocknerd syndicated feed. I’m also making regular summary posts to aus.music. I’m also trying out the Subscribe2
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The old rocknerd.org domain is now in the hands of a domain squatter. Looks like you’re now reading the real remaining Rocknerd. Hi, Ben!
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Rocknerd v3.0.
Ben has been eaten by voles. He still has the old domain name, for what that’s worth. This is Rocknerd v3. I hope to
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Rocknerd editor beats Bon Scott to award; ego crushes London.
Your humble editor has been inducted into the WA Music Industry Association‘s Hall of Fame, owing to an unfortunate incident thirteen years ago involving
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Breaking new barriers in marketing.
Rocknerd.org gets all sorts of things submitted through the ‘post article’ web form – lots of press releases, lots of faintly-disguised press releases, illiterate
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Tori Amos fans say Rocknerd blows goats
Way back in July contributor Miss Alex posted a preview of the then-upcoming Tori Amos covers record, Strange Little Girls. Just a few days
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