This is your future if you live your life right.
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Category: Writing
The way it’s done in books.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!
And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.
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When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?
Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is out!
IT IS OUT! PEOPLE QUITE LIKE IT!
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content and Deathmøle.
Jeph Jacques, author of Questionable Content, has a fictional instrumental metal band. And they’re really good.
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The Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front succeeds, as well as seceding.
Rocknerd is not a reliable path to artistic effect, but when it works, it’s not bad.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24, pre-orders open!
My book is scheduled! Sign up to give me your money!
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Links: Closed Circuits compilation, Devo vs William S. Burroughs, Go-Betweens documentary.
More artistic pursuits today.
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Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.
It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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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: AIR Studios Montserrat, Carl Bernstein the pop critic, net neutrality for musicians.
The net neutrality article is particularly important.
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Ringo Starr is a dick.
“But thanks julian lennon for stopping me from becoming a supervillain hellbent on destroying the entire nation of britain for good.”
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Links: a critic turned artist, the soothing power of noise, Kim Dotcom outdone, Herman’s Hermits.
A pretty chill selection on the joy of art. And some schadenfreude for Kim Dotcom.
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The music industry’s sense of entitlement. How to get the money rolling again.
Eamonn Forde opines at The Quietus that the reports of the record industry’s rebirth are greatly exaggerated.
You’d almost think there’d been some sort of horrifying plummet in people’s financial circumstances.
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On “data-driven” discovered genres, artistic conversations and faces in clouds.
I am sceptical of the “data-driven approach” to cultural discovery. It reifies statistical artifacts, filter bubbles and faces seen in clouds.
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Links: Audible now DRM-free, the Great Vinyl Scam, no pirate website blocks in Mexico.
It’s not like people want the (literal) tons of old editions of these records on vinyl.
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Musical user interfaces, copyright companies being themselves, the worst of Rolling Stone.
You need to see the ideas for music software interfaces.
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Vortex zine #2 is up.
From the bowels of time, Vortex, Perth, December 1986.
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Music journalism: still dead, thank goodness.
“Can music journalism exist at all?” “Do Music Journalists Matter Anymore?” I mean, if you have to ask …
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All these streams will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
There is no “cloud”, there’s just someone else’s computer. Will we find a listener who cares?
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1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.
From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.
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Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“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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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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The political event of the day: the Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front issues Articles of Secession.
We secede from irony. Sincerity will pervade even our lies, and especially our lies.
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Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.
Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.
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I urge you to back “Monkee Music”, 2nd Edition, by Andrew Hickey. Hurry, hurry!
You should definitely put some money into this Kickstarter.
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Links: Side-Line goes full Nazi, CDDB bought by Nielsen, 23 random Naked Lunch quotes.
Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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Links: Stoner metal, Stevie Wonder, Bill Drummond on punk.
Essays on aesthetics.
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Links: Bandcamp for New Zealand charts, EFF versus the music industry, the productivity of silence.
The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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