It’s one thing to read the horrifying tale and shake your head in dismay at the unspeakable traumas our modern pop youth are forced to work through.
It’s quite another to have actual pictures of the incident.
Read MoreLawsuit over crippled Charley Pride CD settled.
The suit brought by California woman Karen DeLisle against
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Pressplay to pay 0.23 cents per download.
The recording industry, that fine and upstanding community institution of unimpeachable repute, has put its usual sort of deal on the Pressplay and MusicNet
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TISM, Punters Club, 31 Jan 2002
One week’s notice, twelve bucks, no pre-sales, venue of only 300 capacity. Yessss. The Punters is having a month long fling of special gigs
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Jock Cheese: The Jock Cheese Platter
Disclaimer: I host a site called TISM Self Storage, and Jock Cheese is the bass player of TISM, and I could therefore be considered
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Promoter sues Clear Channel for monopolistic behaviour
Reidy’s latest column for The Hooligan deals in part with the fact that Clear Channel not only own entirely too many radio stations, but
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Review: The Item
The Item (1999; dir. Dan Clark), from Trillion Entertainment, may possibly be the most fucked-up film of all time. I heartily recommend it.
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Spill News: Hi God People, Undecisive God, Mash 2
Thrills and chills from Spill-associated bands, weekend after next. Fortify yourself against Christmas: The Hi God People will play with Five Fold Galactic Bells
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Review: Vodka Party, The Tigers – Pony, Melbourne, Thu 06 Dec 2001
Go see both bands any chance you get. Nice venue, too. If bloody tiny.
Read MoreRide – CUB Malthouse, Wed 05 Dec 2001
Writer and director: Jane Bodie. Two people wake up next to each other with no memory of the night before. Hey, we’ve all been
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Record companies push unusable download service again.
The recording industry is yet again offering a downloadable music service consumers can’t use – no MP3s, songs not transferable to portable music players
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Bird Blobs, Vodka Party – Empress, North Fitzroy, Sat 01 Dec 2001.
Bird Blobs: Ian Wadley is the greatest guitarist in rock. Vodka Party: have a tuba. A good night surrounded by unfamiliar attractive people.
Read MoreRocket Science Single Launch – Corner Hotel, Fri 30 Nov 2001
Review by Daniel So, the question is, did they or didn’t they? Having seen this and having been scared and confused, would the smocks
Read MoreSlayer live in Dublin
review by Anna Several weeks ago I found myself at one of Dublin’s largest venues, surrounded by thousands of long-greasey-haired, skinny, sickly-looking, hopelessly drunk
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Brave refusal to censor semi alternative single by Clear Channel station
Accidentally heard on Mix 101.1 this afternoon, the Ben Folds single ‘Rockin’ the Suburbs’… but not the radio edit. When you hear RtS on
Read MoreSunglasses After Dark 21st Birthday (The Tote, Sun 21 Oct 2001).
It’s too loud and I’m too old. But a good cause, a good show (The Redresser, Mustang, Casanovas, Speed Demons, Fez Perez and Six
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Review: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars
I’d give a spoiler warning, but that would require a plot to spoil.
I had in reality already seen this movie. I seem to recall my ex hiring out
“John Carpenter’s Vampires” a couple of years ago. This film was almost
identical and still just as bad the second time around. However, not only did
Mr Carpenter take on directing and executive producing roles, he also composed
the music (which I will not even begin to attempt to describe).
As I attended a preview of this godawful shite someone had the gall to call a
film, it is my civic duty to make sure that no-one else suffers the same agony.
This is a community service announcement.
Crippled CD Database
Charles Heffner of Fat Chuck’s has started a corrupt CD database, so that you, the consumer, are adequately warned of defective product. The page
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Breathtaking audacity: the RIAA tries to get the right to hack your computer
In the wake of September 11, the RIAA is trying to score the right to hack your PC in search of MP3s without legal consequence for damage.
Read MoreIt’s no rock shock – Hamish honks
review by rox-teddy So bad it’s coming soon to JJJ. Due to the astonishing lack of advertisements shown before Friday night’s 6.40pm screening of
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Another nail in the coffin for live music in Melbourne: Punter’s Club sold
The Continental, The Espy … now The Punters Club. It’s official, The Punters Club has been sold. Here’s the press release.
Read MoreCD Copy Protection: Tripping The Rippers.
An excellent article on CNet, updating on the issue in depth. Also: an interview with SunnComm, who did the copy protection on the Charley
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Classic power ballads.
When the adolescent males have slammed, stagedived and pogoed their little hearts out to your fast ones, going up to four (or even five) chords (on acoustic, of course) with that big, slow “thump … tha-THUMP … thump … tha-THUMP” drum line will cement your cred as a truly great writer of truly moving songs and not just another spandex-clad, fretwanking attention-seeker searching the front row for male adulation and female lust dumb enough to lead to a night with you.
Read MoreCopy-protected CD sighted: new Michael Jackson single.
The first major release of a copy-protected CD appears to be “Rock Your World” by Michael Jackson, according to Need To Know – the
Read MoreNever Mind Lash, Here’s This Is Serious Mum (Evelyn, Fri 21 Sep 2001)
2nd TISM show at the Evil Lyn – next verse, same as the first. (Apparently.)
A loose roomful of people paid six bucks to see TISM tonight (Friday 22nd Sept.), except for the quarter of the audience who were immediate family members. Personally, I’m left thinking “But now I’ve paid twenty fucking dollars to see what will probably be an identical show???” Well, I’m clearly a …
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Burt Fucking Whoopee
After a few glasses of water to clear the slightly hung over feeling, I realised something that had been bothering me from last night. This is stupid, but I feel I have to respond to certain assertions made in the TISM song “BFW”. It has primarily to do with the idea of the artist vs producer divide which has emerged in the last twenty years. (Hey, the URL says Rock Nerd – you can’t have the rock without the nerd.)
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Rock Widow.
In light of recent attempts of mine to pick up, it’s probably good to remind myself of why screwing musicians sucks. This article was written a few years ago and is a little bit dated – I’m not sure if Michael Gudinski has any actual influence in The Biz these days – so if anyone has any ideas to update it I’m not too proud to steal them.
Dedicated to the forgotten buttress of the rock industry, the non-musician wife or girlfriend.
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Clear Channel will protect your tender sensibilities.
Clear Channel, the company working to ensure as absolute a playlist monoculture in the US as possible – and which is sniffing around radio
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Blow your brains on to the ceiling
OK, those of you who had TISM’s ‘Kill Americans’ on high rotation for the past week – you do understand that it’s you being taken the piss out of, don’t you?
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Tori Amos fans say Rocknerd blows goats
Way back in July contributor Miss Alex posted a preview of the then-upcoming Tori Amos covers record, Strange Little Girls. Just a few days
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