The cassette: not quite dead!
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Slave to the Economist.
“I love The Economist. It’s like a really rational guy on crack.” They finally read The Pirate’s Dilemma (think of pirates as researching new
Read MoreThis is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
If you’re on LiveJournal, there’s now a Rocknerd syndicated feed. I’m also making regular summary posts to aus.music. I’m also trying out the Subscribe2
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Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.
A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that’s Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic. Proper
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The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the
Read MoreJamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.
As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent. In the bleepy
Read MoreThat’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.
There’s cultural preservation, and then there’s the K-Tel blog. “A place for those K-Tel style classics.”
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Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t
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You can’t hide your lose forever.
You can fool much of the press quite a bit of the time, but the markets don’t care if you run baby-mulching machines —
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That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.
The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over 50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65. If
Read MoreYour premier domain monetization value.
The old rocknerd.org domain is now in the hands of a domain squatter. Looks like you’re now reading the real remaining Rocknerd. Hi, Ben!
Read MorePhoenix hairpins.
For those who enjoyed The Thing On The Doorstep, I give to you: Phoenix Hairpins, Capa Nostra Syndicate, Ghosts In The House, Habit Of
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zZz is playing: Grip.
A brilliant single-take music video, for “Grip” by Dutch band zZz. High-quality MPEG4 also available.
Read More86 year old great-grandmother hoists the Jolly Roger.
“In short, I turned a 86 year old Marlboro-smoking, Chrysler Sebring Convertable-driving, Pinochle-playing, Maroon-Five listening Great Grandmother into a music pirate. An enthusiastic one
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Recording industry decries humming tunes to yourself as ‘a form of piracy.’
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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