Writing – Rocknerd

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.

Links: Women’s pop canon, YouTube extortions, photographers win, Put Blood In The Music.

29 October, 201729 October, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing, Your rights 0

t h e r e s a m a y p o r w a v e

Music blogger links: just do it, how to do it, how not to make a bad review go away.

20 October, 20177 November, 2017 Links, Writing, Your rights 0

Join the exciting and lucrative^{[citation needed]} world of music blogging!

Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.

15 October, 201715 October, 2017 Industrial, Industry, Links, mp3, Writing, Your rights 0

You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.

Links: Rap as poetry; labels as services; where are all the pirates?

11 October, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Writing 0

And Dave Graney on video, just because.

Links: Devo “Satisfaction”, failed electronic instruments, subgenres of electronic music.

26 September, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Writing 0

It’s all about the bleep, even with guitar, bass and drums.

Links: Pat Mills/2000AD, fund The Quietus, shoegaze in Asia, MRI rockin’ beats.

14 September, 2017 Esoterica, Indie, Links, Writing 0

And me on BBC Newsnight! (Not about music.)

Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.

8 September, 20178 September, 2017 Film, Links, Writing, Your rights 0

And some stadium chiptune.

Links: Holger Czukay RIP, John Foxx, naked skydiving.

6 September, 2017 Classical, Pop, Prog, Writing 0

That’s three links, not two.

Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.

23 August, 2017 Dance, Drugs, Film, Links, Writing 0

And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.

Punk rock links: Lester Bangs, Dennis and Lois, Montréal, Russia.

15 August, 201717 August, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Theatre, Writing 0

This is your future if you live your life right.

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!

7 August, 20179 May, 2018 Rocknerd, Writing 0

And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.

When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?

2 August, 201719 January, 2018 Industry, Media, Opinion, Writing 0

Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.