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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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
Read MoreDanny Fields was there before the birth of punk rock in the US: he’s the guy who signed the Stooges and the MC5 to
Read MoreAt a special screening at The Astor, the Nick Cave documentary 20 000 Days on Earth was screened, with Nick present for a Q&A
Read MoreTHE 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
Read MoreSony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for
Read MoreRecently 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?
Read MoreThe estimable PopBitch details how UK labels refuse to actually make songs with massive demand available for purchase — deliberately missing the Christmas binge
Read MoreAs perhaps the most important industrial band of the 1980s, Skinny Puppy developed a loyal following with their harsh instrumentation, samples, and politically blunt
Read MoreSure, there were these four character names, but they were played by different people over the course of the band’s existence. (Look at the
Read MoreMusicBrainz, the database of everything music-related, has launched AcousticBrainz, a database of song characteristics in the manner of Soundhound or Shazam, but with the
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreDonovan Strain went to great effort a couple of years ago to find out precisely what day was Ice Cube’s good day. Two years
Read MoreIt’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
Read MoreCourtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put
Read MoreMy 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
Read MoreThe inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on
Read MoreThe Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”
Read More(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
Read MoreWith their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for
Read MoreHow we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:
Read MoreYou don’t play the ANS synthesizer (Russia, 1938) with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed
Read MoreArchive 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
Read MoreReally. Pretty laborious, but this seems to actually work. Anyone tried it?
Read MoreHey, 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
Read MoreQuite possibly the scariest thing you will read this year.
Read MoreSome kind person has been collecting this stuff. Enjoy. HT Paul Makepeace.
Read MorePaul 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
Read MoreA great photo essay by Olaf Shuelke in Roads and Kingdoms of punk rockers and their kids, in full mohawked peacockery, putting on unlicensed
Read More“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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