Writing – Rocknerd

No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

13 November, 2025 Industry, Writing 0

I’ve been reluctant to even mention the really obviously fake chart performances of fake AI music lately. I have no wish to accidentally give these fucks even that much publicity.

Five slabs of listening from 2021.

20 December, 202114 November, 2022 Classical, Dance, Record, Rock, Writing 0

Two are actually from this year!

B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.

12 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

This is the last of the B-Side for the moment. I have a few scraps of other stuff to put up …

B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat

7 October, 20217 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

And a four-page cartoon in the middle.

Robert Brokenmouth: Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures (1996).

16 September, 202114 December, 2021 Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

In fairness, as the big bloke with the long hair and the leather jacket, if I were the police I’d have stopped me.

B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.

10 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

More procrastination on other things!

B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.

5 September, 20216 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

I basically commend all of this coverage.

B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.

1 September, 20211 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

Remember when you could get this sort of goodness for a dollar?

B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing

31 August, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

B-Side was the Australian indie rock fanzine of the time. Just slabs of text about good bands and records. I straight-up lifted its format for Party Fears.

Vortex #6, Dec 1987–Jan 1988: Kryptonics, Kim Salmon, Stems, Stolen Picassos, Errol H. Tout, Bacen Asagai, Cremator, Scarlets, Die Monster Die, And An A, 10,000 Maniacs, White Cross, The Cult

8 August, 20218 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

And that about wraps it up for Vortex!

Vortex #5, August 1987: Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Go-Betweens, Stolen Picassos, Gay Marvins, Martha’s Vineyard, Weddings Parties Anything, Chad’s Tree, Concrete Blonde

6 August, 20216 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

I’m on a roll here, or I’m procrastinating like hell on other things.

Vortex #4, May–June 1987: Palisades, Scientists, The Cult, Sparklers, Reels, New Order, Matt Johnson/The The, Errol H. Tout, The Clash.

5 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 3

I said previously I’d have the rest of Vortex up by the end of 2020, no worries. This proved incorrect.

The War of the Worlds: The Book, The Drama, The Musical, the Film

14 August, 202014 August, 2020 Film, Record, Writing 1

Is it not the most appropriate time to consider the great disaster story The War of the Worlds, as a pandemic continues to sweep the globe, with no end in sight?

Mark Burgess: View From A Hill (2007).

23 April, 20202 May, 2020 Writing 0

Sitting on my “to do” list since 2011, and already at that stage four years old, View from a Hill provides the autobiography of Mark Burgess, frontman of The Chameleons and associated acts.

Get the 500 Songs bonus podcasts, they’re great.

8 June, 20198 June, 2019 Radio, Writing 2

“Fuck, suck and fight/ Till the beginning of broad daylight …”

Christmas links: 500 Songs bonus podcast, Lindy Vision.

25 December, 201825 December, 2018 Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

Give yourself what you deserve today — both of these.

Andrew Hickey: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. Subscribe to this podcast now.

10 November, 201811 November, 2018 Radio, Writing 11

I want you to go right now to 500songs.com and download every episode. And if you follow podcasts, you need to subscribe to this one. Every record nerd needs this.