Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. How to hip-sing!
“Yup, all $9.24 from monetization is going towards the wedding. There will be ice sculptures.”
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The Celibate Rifles: Merry Xmas Blues (1983).
Then give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.
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Video game music Christmas, by Seth Everman.
WATER LEVEL (that everyone hates)
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Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.
Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.
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Links: Stoner metal, Stevie Wonder, Bill Drummond on punk.
Essays on aesthetics.
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Links: Prenda Law copyright scam too far, Internet advertising is trash, SoundButt.
Prenda Law are finally arrested, Internet advertising is a scam at all levels (and you can help!) and careful when posting.
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New instruments: The Mitt, PushPull and a 3D-printed wind instrument designer.
A new controller, a new squeezebox and something to design a wind instrument in any shape you can think of.
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Songs for “oh God can I hit Amazon in time” week.
BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
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Electronic reviews: Epileptics, VvvV, Shiny Darkness (2016).
Electroclash witch house, electric prog and industrial synthpop.
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Links: Bandcamp for New Zealand charts, EFF versus the music industry, the productivity of silence.
The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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Virtual Reality: it’s the new 3D! Expensive, consumers don’t want it and it makes you throw up.
3D technology has been the next big thing for only the last sixty years. It offers amazing improvements over ordinary moving images: darkness, muddier colours, blurriness, headaches from watching for more than twenty minutes and slower action sequences so the viewer doesn’t bring up their last meal.
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Your day’s video selection: goats, bats, Mel Brooks and Hitler.
A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.
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DRM links: Denuvo removed, Super Mario locked, 4K Netflix for almost nobody, GOG, EFF.
News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“
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Reviews: Soviet Soviet, Fossey, Nórdika (2016).
Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Wire: On The Box: Live on Rockpalast (1979, 2004); KEXP, 2013.
Two Wire live performances, because they’re good for you.
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Links: Independent music earnings, Pakistan’s music industry, answering recruiters, Spray.
How much money one musician actually makes striking out as an independent, the Pakistani music industry, responding to recruiters and Ricardo Autobahn and Spray.
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Reviews: Pass-Ages, Embrace The Crisis, Tombaugh Regio (2016).
Synth-based indie pop, with some stomping jangle too.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Ganser: relentlessness by guitar.
Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
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Rocknerd is now fully SSL-enabled! How to do this yourself.
Rocknerd is now served over SSL. Please try https://rocknerd.co.uk/ on all your gadgets and let me know of any problems. Here’s the technical detail of how I applied this to WordPress.
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Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).
sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.
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Links: CBGB awning for sale; Ableton Live; the cucumber organ.
The not-quite original awning from CBGB for auction; the story of Ableton Live; really, a cucumber organ.
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Synthpop: Aidan Casserly, Kriistal Ann, Dress Your Headphones (2015, 2016).
A start on the accumulated backlog. Today is synthpop day!
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The Pop Group: Y (1979), For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980).
The Pop Group are a singularity of post-punk awesomeness. Here, have their first two albums.
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Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music (1975).
“It’s all folk music, anyway.” — Lester Bangs
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Links: World industrial, the economics of EDM, the eyes have rhythm, fretless bass an octave up.
Have some more links, this time with a video.
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Links: Jon Langford and the Sisters of Mercy, J. G. Ballard’s house, your headphones are listening.
Jon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.
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The Danse Society: goth rock roads not quite taken.
There’s still the sound of roads not taken since; something tantalisingly not quite right about it. (Your mileage may vary.)
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