Last week I took The Wolfgang Press in Wikipedia from two paragraphs to a proper article. Yesterday it was on the front page Did
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Gary Numan and Severed Heads, Forum, Melbourne, May 14, 2011
The Forum is one of Melbourne’s many stylish venues. Built in the 1920s it has a baroque level of art nouveau features with a
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Pink Floyd sell actual bottom of barrel with scrapings.
TIME, Dark side of the moan, Wednesday (N! News) — Both remaining members of Pink Floyd have announced the launch of the “Why Pink
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UbuWeb is your finest cultural value.
UbuWeb is an archive of avant-garde text, music and film operating on the basis of putting up unavailable stuff and taking it down as
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Melbourne’s Arthouse to go out with a bang!
Melbourne’s famous alternative music venue ‘The Arthouse’ is closing its doors forever on May 1st due to issues caused by the same liquor licensing
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40 Sad Portraits Of Closed Record Stores.
Saturday the 16th of April is International Record Store Day, but this photo essay documents the ones that are no longer with us.
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Make my day.
Music services that aren’t iTunes need to be better to compete. Google is politely negotiating streaming. Amazon, on the other hand, has decided to
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Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011
The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of
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Hawkwind, Billboard, Melbourne March 12, 2011
As they announced, these are the warriors on the edge of space and time. Now in their forty-second year of performance and correlating with
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One soul less on your fiery list.
Paul Harding emails to tell of his blog Perthmusic (and earlier version), a pile of unavailable CDs, records and tapes from no-longer-gigging bands of
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A requiem for the Luminaire.
I just returned from the last of many gigs I saw at the Luminaire, and indeed, the last ever gig there. The bands playing
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Quite possibly the most horrible record of 2011.
George Michael doing a laid back MOR version of “True Faith” by New Order. Through a vocoder. While wrapped around a lamp post.
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Why movies right now suck more than music.
The Internet has set off a desperately-needed nuclear viral cancer bomb under the music industry. The majors are going down the tubes, the distribution
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The hope of Audacity.
People seem insufficiently aware of Audacity, the open-source sound recording and editing program. This is the four-track everyone desperately wanted twenty years ago. If
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When you stream, you’re streaming with piracy!
My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy
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Perfect sound until next time.
Apple is in talks with the majors to finally outdo CD, with 24-bit audio downloads. Current iPods can’t play it, and lossless stereo 24/96
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Even in the futurepop, nothing works.
In the early 1990s, I tried very hard to become a serious Anthony Burgess fan. A Clockwork Orange is absolutely first-class and probably my favourite novel of all time.
However, all his other novels suck. All of them.
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You can’t handle the truth.
For my birthday, my darling girlfriend just gave me some shitty, shitty eight quid laptop speakers from Curry’s, to serve as cruel and vicious
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Sign up or go underground in the summer of ’81.
You’re young? Never got into the Australian mainstream in the ’80s when it was happening? Annoyed that most of Mushroom’s output is not available
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The Campaign for Real Rock versus plastic instruments.
Cry moar, n00b. Activision has cancelled the whole Guitar Hero franchise. Harmonix, creator of its main competitor Rock Band, was sold off, and MTV
Read MoreIf we bolt the barn door well enough, a horse is bound to show up.
Android phones are hugely popular, and now the most popular smartphone in the world. Google would love a music store for Android to compete
Read MoreThe source of the disease.
Here we see punk rocker John Robb declare it necessary to reshape the Internet to save the music industry as it was in the
Read MoreHow to lose four hundred kilograms.
It’s been a wonderful month of house-culling. We’ve thrown out a veritable mountain of shite and regularly overfill our bins with just culls of
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Headcleaner.
This is the complete 103MB pile of stuff the industrial hideous noise band Whitehouse (founded in 1980 and, amazingly, still extant) put up on
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Laura MacFarlane, Hong Kong In The Sixties, Hissing At Swans – Betsey Trotswood, Tue 7 Dec 2010
The Betsey Trotswood is a tiny little pub in Farringdon that sells actual beer instead of the fizzy piss found most places basement indie
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One down, three to go.
Surprised I didn’t notice this earlier. It’s not looking good for EMI. Terra Firma has discovered they paid way too much for the hulk
Read More79 Revisited with Mindroom and Embrace The Ashes @ the Noise Bar, 2010-11-26
A tribute to the bands from the period 1979-1984 known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), this was 79 Revisited‘s first
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* Delete, non-notable terrorist. May recreate if terrorism successful.
You know how no-one you know cares about your shitty band? No-one on Wikipedia cares either.
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John Peel’s Festive Sixty-Four.
Now here’s a remarkable work of cultural preservation: 64 gigabytes of Peel Sessions and shows as BitTorrent. That’s about twenty days’ music solid. You
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Metallica @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2010-11-21
The final night of a tour is special. When the band has been touring two years and the last night is in your home
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