Well, this is a useful thing. Somewhat useful, anyway — the actual database is long lost, so porting the articles to WordPress involves cut’n’paste and fix the dates by hand. Yes, including the comments. So don’t expect anything like the lot. Any particular favourites you think should be ported, let me know.
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Industrial-tangential trance, cinematic pop and vocal synthpop from Russian label SkyQode.
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82-year-old retired lawyer Takeo Morita buys his own utility pole, with transformer, for cleaner electricity and perfect sound forever.
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Fine American, German and French post-punk sounds. With video!
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SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.
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No time for a proper post this evening, so have an amusing video.
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Futurepop, impassioned grunge and some new wave power pop. All with good tunes and a beat.
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Dr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.
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Why Starfish and Gold Afternoon Fix were amazing, and Priest = Aura … wasn’t. Hint: same reason the second Jack Frost album was not so gret akshuly.
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Political indie pop, goth rock with tunes and perfect synthpop.
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DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED -DRUM MACHINE IS KILLING BLACK METAL- DRUM MACHINE IS NEXT KEYBOARD/CRUTCH AND IS DAGGER IN THE BACK OF BLACK METAL-
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Why you can’t buy De La Soul’s albums: the sample rights are so complicated, Warner refuse to sell them to anyone.
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Art collective synthpop, ’90s-style indie rock and a remarkable instrumental album.
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Kim Dotcom is a crook and a scammer. I feel this claim is sufficiently backed for me to make such a bold statement in England. The amazing thing was that the MPAA ever made a colourful racing identity like Dotcom look like the good guy.
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Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.
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David J. Haskins is not just the other guy from Bauhaus, he’s also an old mate and collaborator of comics genius Alan Moore. Here he’s interviewed about Moore and occultist magical workings, with occasional sp00ky stories, by Elizabeth Sandifer.
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While I’m busy faffing with the new theme …
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test.rocknerd.co.uk is a temporary copy of Rocknerd as of about 9pm yesterday, currently featuring the Matata theme, as suggested by Lev. I’ve recategorised, tagged and excerpted the front page of posts and it took me all evening, so don’t expect anything before then to be done.
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EBM, goth-aspiring new wave and dreampop.
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Paul Morley interviews Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 in 2010 on the joys of having been a pop band for over thirty years, and how to appreciate pop now we’re all old. It’s thirteen minutes that’s well worth watching.
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It’s shilling time! The loved one is an artist and sells quite a lot of the designs. Full catalogue on Redbubble and Spreadshirt. In particular the music selection.
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Three stone winners today. A pleasing selection.
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Sometimes you see a piece of modern music journalism and you wonder why these people are allowed fingers.
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You just need a thick carrot, a mouthpiece, an electric drill, a potato peeler and a funnel. Then, in five minutes, you can do this …
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Spray are a couple of old goths doing semi-novelty synthpop straight out of The Manual. They do a brilliant job of it and you should listen to everything they have ever recorded.
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’90s-style sample-ridden indie dance rock, catchy amateur punkish indie pop, melodic pop songs in an indie band with synths, American Britpop.
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The above being a quote from Graham Clark, one of the literary assessors in question. He told me the story years ago (and I keep retelling it), but I finally found a decent writeup of this, from a 1994 interview with Iain (M.) Banks …
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It’s the happening thing. Doesn’t appear to be everything they’ve ever released, but it’s a pretty fair chunk of it for you to try before you buy and give them your money.
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A couple from the poppier end, on Dependent.
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The last video recorder, 3D again, why men just aren’t funny.
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