It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.
Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?
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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: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Loewenhertz: Echtzeit; Unsichtbar; Irgendwann (2016, 2017).
’90s-style angsty German synthpop that fits right into industrial, of a genre with Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton and Silke Bischoff. Especially Wolfsheim.
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Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.
And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).
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Reviews: Metal Disco, Barabbus (2017).
One that isn’t quite EBM and one that isn’t quite metal.
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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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Links: Denuvo suck and are thieves, Andrew Hickey’s Beach Boys books, Jimmy Webb.
DRM bad, classic rock vastly better.
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Purple Fog Side: The Discord (2017).
A Russian band who call themselves goth and play trancy techno pop on an industrial label.
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Copyright trolls: Malibu media, Prenda, time-travellers, the MAFIAA and how to defend yourself.
Making mass legal extortion a less viable business.
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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: Frank Zappa 1967, audiobook recording, Jim Jarmusch’s Sqürl.
Today is all about the listening, now that I can listen to things again.
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Reviews: Dr. Woman, Ovter God, Fightmilk (2016, 2017).
Back in the MP3 mines, tunnelling through the tottering heaps of virtual promos.
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Links: iTunes still sucks, Spotify not compressing as much, the Great Cultural Fragmentation.
“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”
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Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.
♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫
Links: Music industry sexism, vinyl video game music, why do we want sound recording anyway?
As usual, the comments on an article on why feminism is needed in the music industry demonstrate why feminism is needed in the music industry.
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Links: Wikipedia supports fair use, film archiving, the joys of the B-side.
If I can’t hear music, you can’t either. But that 7″ is amazingly pretty.
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Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.
More ongoing thrills.
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Your cyberpunk present: DRMed pets in Second Life starve after corporate battle.
“For the rabbits!” Lennie shouted.
“For the rabbits,” George repeated.
It’s the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear.
Obviously I’m just jealous of the audiophiles.
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Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.
Why buy when you can trust other people’s computers? I’m sure services will never suddenly disappear or block paying customers.
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Master Quality Authenticated — “high-resolution” audio with … lossy compression.
An audacious innovation in the “high-resolution audio” field: hi-res audio that does lossy compression. And the record companies love it.
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Lester Bangs on Brian Eno.
“It’s not a hard instrument, actually. People think synthesizers are difficult and mysterious, but in about a day you can understand how to use it. In about five years you can understand how not to as well.”
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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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Soundtracks replaced with extruded substitute music product. If you’re lucky.
Licensing is hard. Why not use some bulk filler instead.
(sex, uh, sex uh, crime, cry cry cry cry crime, crime)
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Video: Go-Betweens, techno in six steps, a pop hit in four minutes.
Some telly to finish your day.
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Copyright troll links: Norway, Rightscorp, Perfect 10, police investigating BPI anti-piracy chief.
There’s a lot of money in trying for a few hundred quid out of home Internet users. Well, sometimes.
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eMusic returns! Or something of that name.
Remember eMusic? I was a happy customer back in the day.
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Industrial reviews: Lorelei Dreaming, Eli Van Pike (2017).
Most of what hits the Rocknerd inbox is industrial, prog, metal or industrial prog metal. I have no idea why.
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