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Film links. KUNG FURY!

28 July, 201528 August, 2016 Film, Links 0

How to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.

The silver age of music: the Midas plague. How do you keep up?

26 July, 20153 May, 2017 mp3, Opinion 1

“Will I buy something? Pretty much not. If I see what I really want, I’ll buy the CD, or if I feel guilty, but physical records or even the CD things are just a nuisance. More and more things and piles of things, and guilt versus things, not having the things wins.”

Blacklisters: Adult (2015).

25 July, 201514 October, 2016 Punk, Record 0

Early 1990s grunge, reproduced with 100% authenticity. Really, I felt like I was a 26-year-old student/bum again, smoking Lucky Strikes on a front porch in Perth, wondering if I too would ever find some way to hit it big with Generation X.

Industrial estate.

24 July, 201528 August, 2016 Industrial, Links 0

I am doing the musical thing at last, despite literally being unable to sing or play (‘cos that observably never stopped anyone else). Two

Imogen Heap failing to catch all the money raining from the skies, on The Blockchain.

Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work.

23 July, 20155 September, 2016 Industry 1

Bloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.

The James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection of fanzines (the SF sort).

2 July, 20156 May, 2017 Writing 0

Of course, the first zines were science fiction zines, and they sprung up in the 1930s just about as soon as mimeographs were physically

Matrix HiFi: Blind-testing high-end audio equipment.

11 May, 20156 August, 2020 Audio 0

As usual, a well-set up blind A/B test of supposedly stupendous audio equipment. And as usual, the actual answer (from ridiculously famous sound engineer

Apple wants free streaming and videos on YouTube shut down.

4 May, 201528 April, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

Of course the new distribution channels are going to act like the old distribution channels. Apple wants to relaunch Beats as a new and

Help the suffering stars of Tidal.

28 April, 201528 August, 2016 Industry, mp3 0

With the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,

Based on the trailer, it is blindingly obvious that everyone must watch the hell out of Kung Fury.

25 April, 201528 August, 2016 Film 0

A kung fu cop film from the television ’80s. Here is the trailer. And here is the Wikipedia article. And here is the theme

The Cramps’ long-lost video for “Human Fly” found.

24 April, 201528 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

An item alluded to in epic-nerd-level Cramps coverage, but so rare nobody was even known to have a full copy. Here in the astounding

Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos (2012).

23 April, 201528 August, 2016 Jazz, Record 0

This is light jazz funk rock with brilliant musicianship, and Fagen’s voice is still lovely after all these years. I could not remember a

Metroland: Triadic Ballet (2015).

20 April, 201528 August, 2016 Industrial, Pop, Record 1

Metroland is a Belgian electronic duo. Their publicity says “Kraftwerk” a whole lot, though my first thought was “the Kraftwerky end of Severed Heads”.

Musician links.

19 April, 20156 May, 2017 Links, Musician 0

Chord progressions of 25,000 songs analysed, using the database of Hooktheory’s Theorytab. Which itself is ridiculously fun to play with. Audacity is the computer-based

Industry links.

18 April, 20156 May, 2017 Industry, Links 0

So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How

Petition to reform TISM to represent Australia at Eurovision.

11 February, 201528 August, 2016 Pop, Theatre 0

So Australia won the wildcard for Eurovision 2015. And there’s a petition for TISM to reform and play it. Go sign now. Because you

Links.

23 January, 20156 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links 0

Google puts the hard word on artists using YouTube. Sign up for five years or you’re off YouTube. What the “vinyl comeback” actually looks

Why every mainstream record sounds the same, step by step.

12 January, 20154 January, 2017 Country, Pop 0

Tom Whitwell has just reposted his 2008 Word article on the recording process for mainstream radio-targeted music: how to record music literally targeted at

Steve Albini: How The Internet Solved The Problem with Music.

11 January, 201521 August, 2016 Industry, Writing 1

Steve Albini’s 1993 classic “The Problem with Music”, written at the height of the grunge era, when post-hardcore punk bands were getting gobbled up

Work for Oprah’s $999-ticket tour for free. “No budget” for perfomers – but “exposure”!

4 January, 201528 August, 2016 Industry 0

Pity the poor cash-strapped billionaires! Oprah Winfrey’s Live The Life You Want tour, with tickets priced from $99 to $999, has “no budget” to

How comprehensively fucked Hollywood is, in detail.

3 January, 201528 August, 2016 Film 0

The Sony hack revealed that even the execs are sick of the latest Adam Sandler vehicle. Mark Harris at Grantland sets out the next

A new year of links!

1 January, 201520 May, 2017 Dance, Industrial, Links, Radio, Record 0

There’s a new Rowland S. Howard career collection, Six Strings That Drew Blood. Here’s an excellent review and history from the Quietus. I didn’t

Danny Says: a documentary about Danny Fields.

29 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

Danny Fields was there before the birth of punk rock in the US: he’s the guy who signed the Stooges and the MC5 to

Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth and Q&A session

19 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Post-Punk 0

At a special screening at The Astor, the Nick Cave documentary 20 000 Days on Earth was screened, with Nick present for a Q&A

LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.

14 December, 201428 August, 2016 Links, Media, mp3 0

THE LOUDEST SOUND SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (It’s used for rocket science, of course.) Why you can’t get 4K Netflix on a Mac or

Sony Pictures hack: how to save a bundle of cash through wilful negligence.

13 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Industry 2

Sony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for

Notes On The Accounting of Musical Taste

13 December, 20143 May, 2017 Opinion 3

Recently I gave a presentation on The Philosophy of Music. Putting aside the definitional and ontological questions for a moment, perhaps the most troubling from a reviewer’s point of view was an epistemological one; what sort of knowledge does musical and lyrical content give us?

I bet you thought the record industry actually wanted people to buy their records.

12 December, 201428 August, 2016 Industry, Pop 2

The estimable PopBitch details how UK labels refuse to actually make songs with massive demand available for purchase — deliberately missing the Christmas binge

Skinny Puppy: Weapon (2013).

10 December, 201428 August, 2016 Industrial, Record 0

As perhaps the most important industrial band of the 1980s, Skinny Puppy developed a loyal following with their harsh instrumentation, samples, and politically blunt

Forget “Paul is dead”: the Beatles NEVER EXISTED. Apparently.

7 December, 201424 August, 2016 Links, Pop 1

Sure, there were these four character names, but they were played by different people over the course of the band’s existence. (Look at the