Rocknerd

Dancing about architecture! What is it good for?

25 April, 200920 May, 2017 Opinion, Writing 0

Back in my day, we had to search the dial for radio that didn’t suck and search the city for the one record shop that didn’t suck. And pay money for music! On pieces of plastic!

Iron Maiden: Flight 666

22 April, 20099 August, 2016 Film, Metal 0

Iron Maiden has a global fanbase, they even played Poland while it was still in the Soviet Bloc, but there is no better illustration

Oh dear.

22 April, 20095 September, 2016 Games 1

Today’s Penny Arcade.

The Boat That Rocked

10 April, 200925 November, 2016 Film 0

I was hoping The Boat That Rocked would at least be fictionalised reality about British pirate radio in the sixties, in the manner of

PRS demands middle-aged kicks all through the nap.

9 April, 20098 March, 2011 Industry 0

MIDEM, Cash from Chaos, 1977 (NNN) — The Performing Right Society and UK Music have come out strongly against YouTube and Google for not

Internet killed the video star.

8 March, 20092 October, 2016 Film, Media 0

Dot.com winner Paul Graham writes on why TV lost — computers + television = computers.

Albatross.

7 March, 20097 March, 2009 Record 0

Saw a girl on the tube with a Get Hip Records bag. I told her I approved. I’m contemplating my own half a ton

Oh dear what a pity never mind.

28 February, 200926 December, 2016 Industry 5

The RIAA is on the skids. The record companies are pulling support at a fantastic rate; what will be left will be a smaller

And yet different.

8 February, 20097 February, 2009 Rocknerd 0

*cough* And then there’s the other sort.

Danny Ben Israel: Bullshit 3¼ (1970).

7 February, 200929 March, 2017 Esoterica, Prog, Record 0

Today’s music is Bullshit 3¼, a 1970 psychedelic prog album in Hebrew (with titles in English) by Danny ben Israel. The music is deeply

Rock stars were not formed whole from the brow of Zeus.

23 January, 20098 September, 2016 Rock 0

From The Guardian: 1970s rock stars with their parents. “Life photographer John Olson’s extraordinary pictures of the biggest rock stars of the 1970s at

Microsoft employees give up all hope.

22 January, 200926 December, 2016 mp3 0

It’s not just Microsoft’s DRMed music at twice the price, which will be as popular as a Zune running Vista. It’s the PR guy’s

Now I’m gonna be twenty-two.

6 January, 200923 May, 2014 Punk 0

Ron Asheton has died aged 60, apparently of “natural causes” with no suspicious circumstances. LOOK, PUNK ROCKERS, THIS JUST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE

Most tasteful. Souvenir. Ever.

6 January, 2009 Rock 0

Almost fifty years ago, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash with some guys called Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. His

Kids think Guitar Hero controllers make music.

1 January, 200931 December, 2008 Musician 3

From Jed: Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips has a double-necked guitar where one neck is a Guitar Hero controller. “He went with the

Whatever happened to Festival Records.

31 December, 200831 December, 2008 Record 0

Festival had a truly spectacular decline and fall. When it finally died, it seems it was bought by Warner, who, being helmed by the

Annoying people without excessive weight.

4 December, 20084 December, 2008 Audio 0

What we used to call “ghetto blasters” in the 1980s are too heavy and annoying and expensive in D-cells. In the modern age, you

Ten thousand statistically grammar-average band names.

9 November, 200830 June, 2024 Musician 6

When building MusicSeer (now inactive) in 2002, Brian Whitman needed a way to ferret out bad user information. So he wrote something to generate

And now for some words on music. The Gold Afternoon Fix demos.

7 November, 200815 January, 2017 Rock 0

Any Church album recorded after 1990 is complete shite — tedious stoner hippy noodling with no songs at all and far too much pot.

Wow, games really are the new rock’n’roll.

6 November, 20084 September, 2016 Games 0

It must be INTARWEB PIRATES, not games being set to outsell CDs and DVDs put together by next year. Not that I plan to

Support slot of the year.

15 October, 200815 October, 2008 Live 0

The epic tale of how Deathboy supported Tricky. Includes handy hints on getting a free hotel stay.

Looked beyond the day in hand, there’s nothing there at all.

7 October, 200815 August, 2011 Post-Punk 0

Why not cheer up your readers with a string of album giveaways? The Times gives you music for global financial crises: Closer by Joy

“DRM-free” as blatant lie.

26 September, 20082 June, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia

One more such victory will utterly undo us.

25 September, 200814 May, 2017 Film 0

*ahem* I told you so.

DRMed, limited “DRM-free unlimited” music services on mobile phones.

24 September, 200814 May, 2017 mp3 0

DAS BUNKER, British Phonographic Industry, Wednesday (NNGadget) — Sony-Ericsson has announced PlayNow Plus, a new plan for unlimited “DRM-free” music downloads on phones. “Pay,