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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

AcousticBrainz: An open database of song fingerprints from MusicBrainz.

22 November, 201428 August, 2016 Audio 0

MusicBrainz, the database of everything music-related, has launched AcousticBrainz, a database of song characteristics in the manner of Soundhound or Shazam, but with the

Yours Is No Disgrace: A Small Selection Of ‘Yes’ Trivia

22 November, 201429 March, 2017 Prog 2

A small selection of oddities as a potted history in the “Yes” story, some of which are well known to aficionados, but nevertheless will give all a taste of the flights of these starship troopers.

Punk rock links.

18 November, 201428 August, 2016 Links, Punk 0

The legendary ABC After-School Special: Punk Syndrome: How Parents Can Avoid It. How to introduce Nirvana to your two-year-old. Will you make it big?

Yes, but which day was that good day?

12 November, 201428 August, 2016 R'n'B 1

Donovan Strain went to great effort a couple of years ago to find out precisely what day was Ice Cube’s good day. Two years

65daysofstatic: Wild Light (2013)

6 November, 201429 March, 2017 Prog, Record 0

It’s a cute fashion for the originators of subcultures to declare its ‘death’ just as it is starting; thus the hippies of Haight-Ashbury declared

Radio Birdman Boxed Set (2014)

4 November, 201428 August, 2016 Indie, Record, Rock 0

Courtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put

Links links links.

3 November, 201428 August, 2016 Classical, Esoterica, Links, Pop 0

My daughter just started learning viola. She could, of course, be the next Jimi Hendrix. There’s a whole genre of 9/11 Truther songs, and

Today’s links.

17 September, 201428 August, 2016 Industry, Links, Pop 0

The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on

Links, links, tra la la.

14 September, 201428 August, 2016 Links, mp3, Pop 0

The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”

Pop Will Eat Itself, Hi-Fi Bar (Melbourne Australia), September 07, 2014

8 September, 201415 December, 2016 Indie, Live 0

(PWEI at Fortitude Valley, image by Jeff Ram Photographer) After three years of a band having a ‘new’ lineup one would think that they’re

Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (2011)

5 September, 201414 October, 2016 Indie, Record 0

With their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for

Links for your delectation.

31 August, 20143 January, 2017 Industry, Links, Rock 0

How we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:

Links for your delectation.

28 August, 201420 October, 2016 Esoterica, Links, Metal, Musician 1

You don’t play the ANS synthesizer (Russia, 1938) with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed

Archive: Axiom (2014)

20 August, 201429 March, 2017 Film, Industrial, Prog, Record 0

Archive are a pretty superb combination of electronica, trip-hop, with progressive elements, something like a fusion of 65daysofstatic and Portishead. To say that they’ve

How to deep-clean your vinyl records: wood glue.

1 August, 20148 January, 2017 Audio 0

Really. Pretty laborious, but this seems to actually work. Anyone tried it?

Today’s unbelievably terrible sounds for your delight: neo-Nazi rap.

28 July, 20146 May, 2017 Esoterica, R'n'B 0

Hey, it worked for Christians,[citation needed] perhaps co-opting rap music will work for neo-Nazis! Multiculturalist site Imagine 2050 writes of White Power rap used