With income from physical discs dropping through the floor and the iTunes takings not being enough to sustain the fruit and flowers budget, the
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If it’s too tinny, you’re too old.
I must have grown up in an era of instruments. When did music from ’80s home computers become a genre? With its own wikis
Read MoreEMI innovates in legal actions.
Specifically, not just going after companies, but trying to personally bankrupt their CEOs — specifically Michael Robertson of MP3Tunes, an MP3 locker service that
Read MoreMarked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check
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Brucie Teardrop.
Back in my day, Bruce Springsteen was a ridiculously mainstream live rocker made pop star with “Born In The USA” and its ilk. I’d
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There’s no fool like an audiophool.
And to think Denon used to be respectable. Dig this US$500 1.5 metre ethernet cable for audio use. ‘Cos the professional quality ethernet cables
Read MoreThe thing on the doorstep.
Old-school industrial MP3s — obscure tapes and tiny pressings you’ve only ever heard of. Before drum machines ruined everything. I particularly recommend Rising From
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The dream world of Dion McGregor.
Dion McGregor was the most prolific somniloquist in recorded history. A somniloquist, or voluble dreamer, is a person that talks during their sleep. Dion
Read MorePatti Smith, St Giles In The Fields, London, Fri 18 May 2007.
Patti Smith entered St Giles In The Fields, a small but beautiful working church built in the 18th Century in the heart of London
Read MorePromos are freebies in the US.
Troy Agusto goes to second-hand shops, buys rare promos and sells them on eBay. Universal decided this was a copyright violation. Judge says: Wrong!
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Rocknerd v3.0.
Ben has been eaten by voles. He still has the old domain name, for what that’s worth. This is Rocknerd v3. I hope to
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Rocknerd editor beats Bon Scott to award; ego crushes London.
Your humble editor has been inducted into the WA Music Industry Association‘s Hall of Fame, owing to an unfortunate incident thirteen years ago involving
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Interview: the KLF’s James Cauty.
How much money did the KLF make? Where did it all go? Is Bill Drummond really as crazy as Julian Cope says? Ex KLF-er James Cauty — the man behind the now pulled from gallery walls Stamps of Mass Destruction and a mass of top 10 pop hits about icecream vans — answers all these questions (except the last one) and more …
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Swirl call it a day
After 12 years in music, three albums and countless EPs, Sydney indie-rock band Swirl have called it a day and gone their separate ways.
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Meredith
The best festival this country has to offer. Meredith Music Festival lived up to the hype yet again with its fine selection of music, beautiful weather, ice cold beer, good food and fun times had by all.
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RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem.”
From boingboing.net: A new research report suggests that the convicted price-fixers at the RIAA cooked the books to create a nonexistent “piracy problem.” “So
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Vivendi raided; deep cost cuts coming at Universal
Following the earlier SEC probe into financial irregularities, the French authorities have raided Vivendi’s Paris office, the office of its subsidiary Cegetel and the
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Slightly saner online music sales?
As reported in a few places (including The Register), Universal are making 43,000 tracks available for online purchase – US$0.99 a track, around US$10
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How the mighty tumble: Universal in SEC probe
posted by Oh Yeah Vivendi Universal, the ultimate parent company of Universal Music, is under US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over their accounting
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Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine/Jim’s Super Stereoworld/Abdoujaparov – Mean Fiddler, London, Fri 15 Nov 2002
review by Teqkiller Met up with Vicky and Nick (rhyming potential is overwhelming here) in the Wetherspoons that’s where the Marquee used to be
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EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”
Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about
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Emperor Norton in shock music giveaway
This may not be the newest news around, but… For those who haven’t noticed, Emperor Norton Records have started putting some new albums, in
Read MoreTankt – Heresy, Melbourne, Sat 26 Oct 2002
Now, it’s no secret that I’m neither an expert on nor a great fan of electronic music. In fact, I have been known to bitch long and hard about the dominance of electro music in the goth scene and the lack of opportunity for those of us that aren’t especially fond of it to have a night out without a playlist disproportionately dominated by doof.
Basically, as Homer Simpson would put it, I don’t understand it because I don’t like it. So, anything I have to say about Tankt should be taken with that in mind.
Because, quite frankly, Tankt fucking rocked!
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Breaking new barriers in marketing.
Rocknerd.org gets all sorts of things submitted through the ‘post article’ web form – lots of press releases, lots of faintly-disguised press releases, illiterate
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Mogwai – Prince of Wales, St Kilda, Thursday Oct 17th 2002
review by Trayce Seeing Mogwai live was a rollercoaster of a night in emotional terms. And it is on these terms I find myself
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Road To Perdition
review by Andrew Tijs Looks like Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Sam Mendes are prematurely dusting their Oscar shelves for the release of the
Read MoreReview: No Idea, Mutiny, Homewreckers – Empress, Fri 13th Sept 2002
Garlic pills and codrals kept my cold from turning into the flu it was trying all week to become, so I could go catch the fun at the Empress on Friday.
Friday 13th made it a mini-Halloween for the night, with an appropriately themed night. The Empress didn’t need much of a makeover, with the usual red velvet and candleabra giving it a gothic feel to begin with. Various bits of cobweb, and a huge spider web (complete with spider) stretched across the back of the stage was enough to set the mood. Early on very few seemed to have dressed up for the occasion, but as the place filled up more zombies, devils and ghouls began to appear in the crowd.
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DVD region encoding is dead
Not that Hollywood is necessarily smart enough to pick up on it. NTK reports on DVDSynth, a Windows program that sits between your DVD
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Review: Kim Salmon, E(a)rnest
Long term fans of Mr Salmon’s heavier works may have been in the main disappointed by the musical detours of recent years (a subject he actually canvases on this album), but nevertheless respect was always due for the fact he had decided to go his own way rather than merely retread the past.
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Ogg Vorbis 1.0 hardware decoder released free
As it’s run its short commercial life, Xiph.org have freely released the integer decoder for Ogg Vorbis – that is, the version that will
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