The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Category: Writing
The way it’s done in books.
Links: The Face, streaming liner notes, vinyl, cassettes.
That coulda been me up there! Possibly.
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Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.
The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.
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Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain: EGO by RAC.
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.
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Links: Women’s pop canon, YouTube extortions, photographers win, Put Blood In The Music.
t h e r e s a m a y p o r w a v e
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Music blogger links: just do it, how to do it, how not to make a bad review go away.
Join the exciting and lucrative[citation needed] world of music blogging!
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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.
You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.
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Links: Rap as poetry; labels as services; where are all the pirates?
And Dave Graney on video, just because.
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Links: Devo “Satisfaction”, failed electronic instruments, subgenres of electronic music.
It’s all about the bleep, even with guitar, bass and drums.
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Links: Pat Mills/2000AD, fund The Quietus, shoegaze in Asia, MRI rockin’ beats.
And me on BBC Newsnight! (Not about music.)
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Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.
And some stadium chiptune.
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Links: Holger Czukay RIP, John Foxx, naked skydiving.
That’s three links, not two.
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Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.
And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.
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Punk rock links: Lester Bangs, Dennis and Lois, Montréal, Russia.
This is your future if you live your life right.
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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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