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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

What it feels like to lose the ability to perceive music.

3 July, 20146 May, 2017 Writing 0

Quite possibly the scariest thing you will read this year.

The audiophile woo motherlode: Wat Hifi?

31 May, 20145 September, 2016 Audio 0

Some kind person has been collecting this stuff. Enjoy. HT Paul Makepeace.

The stupidest audiophile argument against double-blind testing to date.

23 May, 20144 September, 2016 Audio 0

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

Punk rock is alive and well in Myanmar.

12 May, 20144 September, 2016 Punk 0

A great photo essay by Olaf Shuelke in Roads and Kingdoms of punk rockers and their kids, in full mohawked peacockery, putting on unlicensed

Helvete, an open-access peer-reviewed journal of black metal theory.

6 May, 20144 September, 2016 Metal, Writing 0

“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,