After the third in a series of website hacks, the RIAA has fixed its website … except for this page. The page is presently
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The MP3 shakedown begins: US$2000 to put your songs up
It’s been long forecast, and is on at last: Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia have new rates for the use of MP3. Non-commercial decoders were
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Lobby Loyde: godfather of Australian hard rock
A fascinating interview with Lobby Loyde, the guitarist cited by Cobain, Rollins and Bored! (who covered two of his songs), in today’s EG in
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TrouserPress.com Relaunched
Ira Robbins, editor of Trouser Press‘ seminal guides to alternative rock music in the ’80s and ’90s, has relaunched their online companion – with
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Janis Ian Redux
posted by Anthony Horan Janis Ian has posted a follow-up to her much-read Internet Debacle feature, with a new reaction piece called Fallout. Is
Read MoreMp3 servers: missing in action?
posted by Kevin Mp3 servers…where are you? So, here’s the deal, I’ve spent the past year or two collecting records, ripping, downloading, and otherwise
Read MoreEncore season of ABC’s Long Way to the Top
ABC-TV is repeating Long Way to the Top on Saturday nights at 9:30 pm. And don’t forget the Long Way To The Top concert
Read MoreTISM Best.off launch, fortyfivedownstairs gallery
The unfortunately-timed TISM greatest hits compilation, tism.bestoff, (which is being released less than a year after their last studio album DeRigueurmortis, which was delayed by two years anyway) was launched at Melbourne art gallery fortyfivedownstairs on Tuesday night. If you’ve ever harboured a desire to have Ron Hitler Barassi serving you sushi, you shoulda been there.
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The Universal Music award for excellence in customer relations.
Los Angeles Times Calendar Live posits that the real enemy of the CD market is not the Internet – it’s the DVD market. For
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Vivendi Universal meltdown
Vivendi Universal’s weird transition from a French water company to a media conglomerate is — astoundingly enough — failing to hold together. Chairman Jean-Marie
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Review: Severed Heads – Dendy Cinema, Sydney, Wed 19th June 2002
I’ve seen a lot of the stuff before over the years but It’s All Good, and Tom Ellard (and I presume Stephen Jones) did a sterling effort transcribing it all to VCD for the big cinema screen. I think the coarse resolution of the old stuff just makes it look more organic and gritty, and suits the nature of the thing. Others disagreed, but some geeks just won’t be told.
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RIAA and NMPA nail Audiogalaxy.
After bringing suit in late May, the RIAA and NMPA have just obtained their dream settlement against Audiogalaxy: a strict opt-in system, where only
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Why the music industry has had it.
In its present form, in any case. The party’s well and truly over, guys. As laid out step by step in a New York
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Latest dispatches from the war against the consumer
As forecast in Suck two years ago, Interscope appear to have been using flooding p2p networks with 30-second loops of the new Eminem album
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Sony tweaks Key2Audio
According to CD Freaks (highly recommended to those following the copy-prevention wars), Sony has reportedly patched Key2Audio to get around the marker hack. Meanwhile,
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The Finest Computer Audio Known To Mankind
So your PC is a dual two-gigahertz beast machine with a gig of RAM and a soundcard with 5.1 Dolby output. You even claim
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Radio: the future?
Imagine a post apocalyptic radio world, where there are multiple stations all sounding the same, acting the same – there is no choice, no variety, no difference anywhere across the country. Everything and everyone has been blended down to core stereotypes, and the people seem happy with this… and of course the advertisements, who can forget the advertisements.
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Original KaZaA BV crushed, Morpheus to follow, KaZaA network continues
The KaZaA network is alive and well, but the original KaZaA BV in Holland has collapsed under the financial pressure of the lawsuits being
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More Sony discs to wreck your Mac: boycott urged
Congratulations, Sony: your customers are now actually afraid to buy the legal product rather than download a free pirate copy. A report from the
Read MoreReview: Rock Wars, Duke of Windsor, Prahran, Friday 26th April 2002
Friday was night two of the ‘Rock Wars’ at the Duke of Windsor, and I was looking forward to a night of good old fashioned grungy punk rock: KTV, the Spazzys, Porcelain, Moler and Mach Pelican.
I hadn’t seen bands at the Duke before, though they’ve been having some good lineups lately. The band room looked a bit like a suburban RSL (or at least what I imagine a suburban RSL would look like, minus the pokies), but the layout was good for being able to see. I did like the camouflage nettting behind the stage, though I don’t know if that was just for the ‘wars’ this week.
Read MoreThis week, filesharing increases CD sales.
Jupiter MMXI, the media survey organisation that two weeks ago released a report claiming that “the European record industry must act now to curb
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Review: Baise-Moi
Baise-Moi is a MUFF special. A film that’s little more than an amateurish, adolescent exercise in prurience whose stream of apparently-subversive images masks an utterly uncreative, conventional, conservative nature.
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NSW Parliamentary tribute to The Ramones: “I named my dog Joey Ramone in his honour.”
No, really – late on the evening of Wednesday April 10th. You can read the original text on the NSW Parliament site, or from
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KaZaA adware defeated
KaZaAlite, a version of KaZaA minus the Brilliant Digital Altnet ad trojan, has been put together by a Russian programmer and made available at www.kazaalite.com.
Nicola Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks, has claimed that Sharman will “take action against parties engaged in misrepresenting our software,” despite KaZaAlite’s author being … in another country with differing laws.
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24 Hour Party People.
(2002, dir. Michael Winterbottom) Factory Records and its bands occupied thirty to forty percent of my brain between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.
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New Darkwave/EBM/Synthpop quickies
It seems that maybe the muse has been getting around in EBM and Darkwave circles of late, or maybe just the right drugs are being taken … whatever it is, there is some fantastic new music on its way, and here are some short reviews of some of the current and future releases …
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Icon Of Coil ‘The Soul Is In The Software’
Scandinavian act Icon of Coil have been plying their brand of boppy EBM for a number of years now, wowing European audiences with their reputedly spirited live shows and dancefloors everywhere (including Australia) with club-friendly tracks like “Shallow Nation”, “Former Self”, “Floorkiller” and “Situations Like These.” Ironically, it’s often been their less dancefloor-oriented tracks that have stuck out more, and, thankfully, new album The Soul is in the Software (due out later this month) has quite a few of these, as well as toying with new vocal styles and rhythms more often employed by other stalwarts of the EBM scene, Covenant and VNV Nation.
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Queen Of The Damned: The extras speak.
First, let’s get into character. Go find a mirror. Look into it. Go “grrrrrrrrrrruff!” Now hold that look. Hold it … hold it …
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Review: Queen Of The Damned
As part of a culture, any culture you care to name on the planet, the concept of ‘respect’ is seen to have inherent value. In fact, people throughout history have been acculturated to believe that people must seek the approval and approbation of others. Earning other people’s respect is seen to be inherently worthwhile and worthy of pursuing.
Allow me to destroy what little goodwill and respect I have garnered with the good people of this site, both wonderful posters and vile, mailbomb sending lurkers, with the following review.
Read MoreMore Clear Channel bashin’ fun
“Mr. Alan also used phone calls he had recorded during his live show in San Diego, editing out local references to make them usable in Boise.”
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