Writing – Rocknerd

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 0

“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 0

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.

Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.

17 September, 2018 Indie, mp3, Musician, Pop, Rocknerd, Writing 0

I can kazoo this on my own.

Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.

20 August, 2018 Audio, mp3, Musician, Pop, Writing, Your rights 0

Twenty deadly diseases.

Vortex #3, March 1987: Triffids, Ed Kuepper, Greg Dear, Kno Matter, White Cross, OMD, Paul Weller.

30 July, 201830 July, 2018 Indie, Writing 0

Yes, I finally got Vortex #3 cleaned up and online.

Links: Albini on In Utero (again), the inbox flood, Level Music, blockchains (again).

13 May, 201814 May, 2018 Industry, Links, Punk, Writing 0

“We’ll save music on the blockchain!” Ethereum can’t scale up to cat pictures.

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.

Gary Miller: Anarcho-Punk Albums: The Band’s Story behind Anarchist Punk Music (2018).

29 April, 20186 May, 2018 Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

A document of anarchopunk of the late 1970s and early 1980. It’s short, but it’s cheap and a great read.

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.

King Trigger: The River (1982).

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

Today’s one-hit wonder.

Links: The grunge gold rush, the Lester Bangs play, headphone jacks, Chandra, the first Velvets gig.

17 February, 2018 Audio, Links, Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

A pile of writing.

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.

Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.

12 December, 20179 September, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Writing 4

Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!

Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.

2 December, 2017 Goth, Industry, Jazz, Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More fun in the big world.

Links: Reviews and auteurs in the streaming age, Grant Hart’s last interview.

13 November, 201713 November, 2017 Links, Musician, Punk, Writing 0

It’s all about the hook.

Links: The KLF at the Shard, the fake grunge lexicon, how to swear on radio.

10 November, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Punk, Radio, Writing 0

23 November.

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.

Links: The Face, streaming liner notes, vinyl, cassettes.

6 November, 201713 November, 2017 Audio, mp3, Writing 0

That coulda been me up there! Possibly.

Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.

3 November, 20173 November, 2017 Film, Industry, Writing, Your rights 2

The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.

Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain: EGO by RAC.

1 November, 201712 November, 2017 Industry, Writing 0

Today’s post, over on the blockchain blog, is about Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that yet again they fall down the stairs, hitting their head on every step on the way down.