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
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Danny Says: a documentary about Danny Fields.
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
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Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth and Q&A session
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
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LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.
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
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Sony Pictures hack: how to save a bundle of cash through wilful negligence.
Sony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for
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Notes On The Accounting of Musical Taste
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?
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I bet you thought the record industry actually wanted people to buy their records.
The estimable PopBitch details how UK labels refuse to actually make songs with massive demand available for purchase — deliberately missing the Christmas binge
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Skinny Puppy: Weapon (2013).
As perhaps the most important industrial band of the 1980s, Skinny Puppy developed a loyal following with their harsh instrumentation, samples, and politically blunt
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Forget “Paul is dead”: the Beatles NEVER EXISTED. Apparently.
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
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AcousticBrainz: An open database of song fingerprints from MusicBrainz.
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
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Yours Is No Disgrace: A Small Selection Of ‘Yes’ Trivia
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.
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Punk rock links.
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?
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Yes, but which day was that good day?
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
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65daysofstatic: Wild Light (2013)
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
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Radio Birdman Boxed Set (2014)
Courtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put
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Links links links.
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
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Today’s links.
The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on
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Links, links, tra la la.
The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”
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Pop Will Eat Itself, Hi-Fi Bar (Melbourne Australia), September 07, 2014
(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
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Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (2011)
With their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for
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Links for your delectation.
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:
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Links for your delectation.
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
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Archive: Axiom (2014)
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
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How to deep-clean your vinyl records: wood glue.
Really. Pretty laborious, but this seems to actually work. Anyone tried it?
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Today’s unbelievably terrible sounds for your delight: neo-Nazi rap.
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
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What it feels like to lose the ability to perceive music.
Quite possibly the scariest thing you will read this year.
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The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi?
Some kind person has been collecting this stuff. Enjoy. HT Paul Makepeace.
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The stupidest audiophile argument against double-blind testing to date.
Paul Wilson writes, in Audiophile Review, possibly the stupidest argument against double-blind tests I’ve read in some time. He doesn’t just argue the case
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Punk rock is alive and well in Myanmar.
A great photo essay by Olaf Shuelke in Roads and Kingdoms of punk rockers and their kids, in full mohawked peacockery, putting on unlicensed
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Helvete, an open-access peer-reviewed journal of black metal theory.
“Helvete is a new open-access electronic and print journal of black metal theory.” Conceived after Melancology, the second Black Metal Theory Symposium, in 2011,
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