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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

Metallica @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2010-11-21

23 November, 201015 November, 2016 Live 0

The final night of a tour is special. When the band has been touring two years and the last night is in your home

Pop psychology.

9 October, 2010 Writing 0

May I commend to you this fine blog, by London media casualty Jamie Willcocks. The four-word single reviews are particularly brilliant.

Andrew Crossley is a reprehensible individual.

25 September, 201015 November, 2016 mp3 7

The evidence for that statement is not merely his legal extortion scam as ACS:Law, where he sends spurious legal threats just large enough to

Telegrams from the record library.

11 September, 201015 November, 2016 Writing 0

The Fall: 1-3 foundation; 4-7 elevation; 8-12 Brix-ification; 13-16 rhythmnation; 17-21,24-26,28 recapitulation; 22-23,27 late revelations.

The Campaign for Real Rock.

1 August, 2010 Theatre 0

Computers make amazingly good and cheap synthesizers these days. After much faff, I got Rosegarden working on my netbook. The test files play Bach

My Album Cover Lifestyle

27 July, 2010 Record 0

With thanks to the fabulous Kallisti of blastmilk.com for the heads up, album covers as Ikea catalogue pages on Flickr.

Rock video.

10 July, 201021 May, 2017 Games 0

From Cracked: The 5 Most Absurd Video Games Starring Rock Stars. It starts with the Frankie Goes To Hollywood game and actually gets worse.

It don’t mean a thing.

27 May, 201019 March, 2021 Jazz 0

Tristan Jehan is obviously a stylish gentleman with a grasp of what makes culture. He wrote something to work out the beat of a

“Who Killed Bambi?” original screenplay.

27 April, 2010 Film 0

Roger Ebert is a renowned film critic and an excellent and amusing writer. He also wrote a couple of screenplays with Russ Meyer: Beyond

Tears for Fears, Spandau Ballet: Melbourne, 21 April 2010

24 April, 20105 May, 2017 Live, Pop 0

I originally picked up a Rocknerd account so I could review international acts from non-crap bands that made it to the great southern lands.

PF#19: Mardi Picasso, 1994.

27 March, 2010 Indie 6

And this one’s with Martin Gambie when he was doing Mardi Picasso. So whatever happened to Martin?

Music critic oppressed by The Man.

27 March, 201027 March, 2010 Pop 0

Bulgarian Alexander Alexandrov has been most unfairly sentenced to 16 years’ prison merely for killing his neighbour, who played “Angels” by Robbie Williams two

PF#19: Dave Graney, 1992.

25 March, 201021 September, 2016 Rock 0

I’ve been digging up the lost unpublished fragments of Party Fears. Here’s an interview with Dave Graney in late 1992, when nobody cared and

My heart bleeds. You can hear it, it’s that guffawing noise.

12 March, 201015 November, 2016 Industry 0

Will the six five four majors shrink to five four three? “Oh dear what a pity never mind,” as Windsor Davies lamented.

Cover versions.

29 January, 2010 Record 0

“Today is not much skilled craftsmen capable of creating a truly awful cover for a vinyl disc. This art, alas, almost lost. When we

Last song at the Tote.

20 January, 2010 Live 1

The last song of the last night, “My Pal” by the Drones with Joel Silbersher, on video. And, of course, the 7:30 Report. Now,

Seven Ages of Rock.

10 January, 20103 January, 2017 Rock, Television 0

The ABC in its infinite wisdom has started broadcasting its first run of the BBC’s Seven Ages Of Rock in the Silly Season, with

If bands were dates.

10 January, 201013 July, 2017 Sex 1

From Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content: If bands were dates. Isis would be that girl who was amazing in bed until she started insisting

Royal Mail issues Classic Album Covers stamp set.

8 January, 201021 April, 2017 Rock 0

Royal Mail has issued a stamp set that commemorates ten classic rock album covers ranging from The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed to Coldplay’s

James Blunt tops decade charts, pop declared dead.

3 January, 2010 Pop 0

PUBLIC ENEMA, The Hit Parade, Thursday (N! News) — James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam was the UK’s biggest-selling album of the 2000s, objectively establishing

The occult symbolism of the Video Music Awards.

27 December, 200927 December, 2009 Pop 0

From unexpected drama to shocking performances, MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards managed once again to raise eyebrows and get people talking. What most people

So how was your haul?

25 December, 200910 December, 2016 Audio 3

I got a new MP3 player for Christmas from Arkady. It’s a cheap shitty ChiPod — S1 chipset-based. I actually asked specifically for a

Hell Freezes Over.

16 December, 200916 December, 2009 Metal 0

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are confirmed to share the stage at the Sonisphere festivals in Poland and the Czech Republic next Northern Summer.