May I commend to you this fine blog, by London media casualty Jamie Willcocks. The four-word single reviews are particularly brilliant.
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Andrew Crossley is a reprehensible individual.
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
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Telegrams from the record library.
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.
Read MoreThe Campaign for Real Rock.
Computers make amazingly good and cheap synthesizers these days. After much faff, I got Rosegarden working on my netbook. The test files play Bach
Read MoreMy Album Cover Lifestyle
With thanks to the fabulous Kallisti of blastmilk.com for the heads up, album covers as Ikea catalogue pages on Flickr.
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Rock video.
From Cracked: The 5 Most Absurd Video Games Starring Rock Stars. It starts with the Frankie Goes To Hollywood game and actually gets worse.
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It don’t mean a thing.
Tristan Jehan is obviously a stylish gentleman with a grasp of what makes culture. He wrote something to work out the beat of a
Read More“Who Killed Bambi?” original screenplay.
Roger Ebert is a renowned film critic and an excellent and amusing writer. He also wrote a couple of screenplays with Russ Meyer: Beyond
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Tears for Fears, Spandau Ballet: Melbourne, 21 April 2010
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.
Read MorePF#19: Mardi Picasso, 1994.
And this one’s with Martin Gambie when he was doing Mardi Picasso. So whatever happened to Martin?
Read MoreMusic critic oppressed by The Man.
Bulgarian Alexander Alexandrov has been most unfairly sentenced to 16 years’ prison merely for killing his neighbour, who played “Angels” by Robbie Williams two
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PF#19: Dave Graney, 1992.
I’ve been digging up the lost unpublished fragments of Party Fears.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
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My heart bleeds. You can hear it, it’s that guffawing noise.
Will the six five four majors shrink to five four three? “Oh dear what a pity never mind,” as Windsor Davies lamented.
Read MoreCover versions.
“Today is not much skilled craftsmen capable of creating a truly awful cover for a vinyl disc. This art, alas, almost lost. When we
Read MoreLast song at the Tote.
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,
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Seven Ages of Rock.
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
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If bands were dates.
From Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content: If bands were dates. Isis would be that girl who was amazing in bed until she started insisting
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Royal Mail issues Classic Album Covers stamp set.
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
Read MoreJames Blunt tops decade charts, pop declared dead.
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
Read MoreThe occult symbolism of the Video Music Awards.
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
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So how was your haul?
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
Read MoreHell Freezes Over.
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are confirmed to share the stage at the Sonisphere festivals in Poland and the Czech Republic next Northern Summer.
Read MoreLucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ legacy to benefit lupus.
Julian Lennon and co-songwriter James Scott Cook will donate a percentage of profits from a song on Lennon’s new EP to the Lupus Foundation
Read MoreHave yourself a merry little Christmas.
Spotted by Redcountess, Martin Newell’s 1992 rock’n’roll Christmas lyrics. I particularly liked “Hip King Wenceslas.”
Read MoreAll praise the Hammond B-3.
Andy Updegrove is a computer standards lawyer. This is about as far from rocknerdery as you get. But I deeply appreciated his piece from
Read MoreGet Well Soon Ronnie James Dio!
We’ve all poked fun at him over the years, but one of Rock’n’Roll’s veterans with a big heart, Ronnie James Dio is battling the
Read MoreRage Against The Machine For Christmas No. 1
There is a social networking campaign to stop Simon Cowell achieving another Christmas no. 1 spot this year with one of his overblown ersatz
Read MorePet musical peeves.
“What kind of music do you like?” Fuck. Who can answer a question like that? I HAVE FUCKING THOUSANDS OF ALBUMS, MOTHERFUCKER. IF YOU
Read MoreThe opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
You can’t figure that chord out, can you? Turns out there wasn’t just guitars in the studio, but a piano as well — as
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20 years on, woman finally deciphers meaning of mix tape.
From NewsBiscuit: “Two decades after being given a C60 cassette of specially selected songs, Rachel Hannigan, a 38-year-old consultant from Knutsford, finally realised the
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