Rocknerd

Links: Spotify hackers, voiceover woes, Cabaret Voltaire in 2017.

12 March, 201712 March, 2017 Industrial, Links, mp3, Musician 0

“When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker.” Pictured: some micro-phonies.

1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.

11 March, 201712 March, 2017 Indie, Writing 4

From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.

Synthpop reviews: The Past Made Us One, Endanger, Pomigato (2017).

10 March, 201710 March, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Minimal synth, EBM and Korean indie synth.

Legal links: copyright trolls’ comeuppance, the iTunes Terms and Conditions Graphic Novel.

9 March, 2017 Links, Your rights 0

Copyright troll lawyers getting hung out to dry certainly counts as a happy ending.

Reviews: 5TimesZero, Post War Glamour Girls, Vassals (2017).

8 March, 201730 April, 2017 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Record reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.

Ocean Mind: Underwater (2016).

7 March, 201729 March, 2017 Prog, Record 0

Organic prog from Ocean Mind’s 2016 album Underwater.

Links: VPN survey, a generated music startup, Metal Machine Music for Lou’s 75th.

5 March, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Musician, Your rights 0

“My week beats your year.” — Lou Reed

Links: 100 years of recorded jazz, Spotify lossless streaming, Dark Side of the Moon desk.

3 March, 201729 March, 2017 Audio, Jazz, Links, mp3, Prog 0

And a picture that’s definitely a trap.

Links: The public domain in comic form, Max Martin, Raspberry Pi tube sound.

1 March, 201725 April, 2017 Audio, Links, Pop, Your rights 0

And why you shouldn’t flush sodium metal down the toilet.

Musician links: The bass master race, the history of guitar distortion, the Funky Drummer dies.

26 February, 201727 February, 2017 Links, Musician 0

Loo-oks like it’s all over now.

Links: Bono and Pence, Richard Spencer and Depeche Mode. And dealing with musicians.

24 February, 201715 March, 2017 Links, Musician, Pop 0

♪ So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And Nazi Dick Spencer
Obviously can’t read ♫

Reviews: Traitrs, Vanguard (2016, 2017).

21 February, 201722 February, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Angsty guitar post-punk and angsty EBM half way to Hi-NRG.

Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.

20 February, 201720 February, 2017 Drugs, Links, Musician, Writing, Your rights 0

“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.”

Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.

18 February, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Your rights 0

Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.

Synths out: Marcelo Andrea Expreso Maniquí, Maine, Syntheads (2016, 2017).

17 February, 201718 March, 2018 Industrial, Pop, Prog, Record 0

Bleep your life brighter.

Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.

16 February, 2017 Industry, Links, Your rights 0

The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.

Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).

15 February, 201715 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Guitar post-punk in black and grey.

Quando Quango: Pigs and Battleships (1985).

14 February, 20171 May, 2017 Dance, Post-Punk, Record 0

A vastly underappreciated post-punk album of the female and funky variety, by a band substantially responsible for what became acid house as we know it.

Metal reviews: Blutzukker, Pulvis et Umbra (2015, 2016, 2017).

13 February, 201713 February, 2017 Industrial, Metal, Record 0

Metal reviewed by Alli K. In particular, watch the Lego video.

Internet backbone Cogent blocks Pirate Bay; network admins concerned by fallout.

12 February, 201716 February, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

Cogent has blocked the Pirate Bay, in a particularly hamfisted manner prone to collateral damage.

The SF Disco Preservation Society: taped San Francisco club mixes from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.

10 February, 201711 February, 2017 Dance 4

This, this is awesomeness. Jim Hopkins is doing God’s work here.

Reviews: Venus + Mars, Carla dal Forno, The Black Veils (2016, 2017).

9 February, 20179 February, 2017 Esoterica, Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Vaporwave, ethereal post-punk pop and jangly punk-pop.

Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.

8 February, 20178 February, 2017 Audio, Esoterica, Links, Musician, Punk 2

Not every nun needs a Synthi.

Reviews: Quimper, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl (2016, 2017).

7 February, 201712 February, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Yes, that David Lynch. He does music too.

Links: pop star tech gurus, Denuvo hacks itself, don’t play DRMed content in a Tor browser.

6 February, 20177 February, 2017 Games, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

And some notes on yesterday’s ridiculously popular post.

Whatever happened to Winamp? (which you can still download, by the way)

5 February, 20173 May, 2017 Audio, mp3, Opinion 28

Fifteen to twenty years ago, Winamp was the MP3 player that everyone used. It was the first MP3 player not to suck: playlists, shuffle, convenience. And you can still download the last version.