Doing it yourself with trashy rock’n’roll, minimal synth and shoegazy indie.
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The Chameleons, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 2018-01-12
It was a good-sized crowd on the night with a surprising and pleasingly diverse audience, ranging from young post-punk revivalists who were born around the start of this century to those elder folk who had been there from the original days, now more than thirty-five years in the past.
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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.
Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.
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Last week after “Dynasty” I had crows feet under my eyes. Paid two days for getting high. Mark E. Smith is dead.
Sounds like MiG 20 crack, huh? Over! Over!
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Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).
Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.
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Proto Idiot: Leisure Opportunity (2017).
A bright and delirious combination of garage punk, psychedelic rock, and addictive joy.
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Snog and Severed Heads — Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 5 November 2017
Severed Heads, Snog, frogs and Ikea rats.
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Reviews: Phase Fatale, Christian Fitness (2017).
Industrial and 2017 punk.
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Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.
Into the hot.
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Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.
Happy new year, probably!
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Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.
And headphones up your nose.
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Links: Chapter Music, Damned Industrial top 20, ZynAddSubFx terms, iTunes shutdown, vinyl clog.
Yes, I’m still here. More exciting things from the big world!
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Reviews: The Glass Eyes, Elektrostaub, Stolen Apple (2016, 2017).
Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.
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Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.
Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.
More fun in the big world.
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Paragon Collapse: The Dawning (2017).
Atmospheric progressive doom metal from Romania.
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Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.
These are places that are gone.
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Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.
Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.
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Richard M. Stallman: The Free Software Song (1991, 2011).
Music nerds mostly won’t have suffered the sort of thing software nerds hear as part of their culture. Includes the techno remix and a version of the actually really good original.
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Links: Reviews and auteurs in the streaming age, Grant Hart’s last interview.
It’s all about the hook.
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Björkcoin: Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version).
My restrained and professional assessment of the incompetence and stupidity all through the Björk cryptocurrency project was reasonably popular and widely read. This expanded version adds what I was actually thinking when writing up this collapse board cascade of slapstick coded-by-dildo incompetence.
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Grendel: Age of the Disposable Body (2017).
Classic power balladry with synths instead of guitars. The air-punching choruses remain. Every side an A-side.
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Links: The KLF at the Shard, the fake grunge lexicon, how to swear on radio.
23 November.
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Reviews: The Big Sun (2016), Autumn (2017), Snog (1992, 2017).
Suppose I’d better cut the pile down a bit again.
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Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.
The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Hans Zimmer, Benajmin Wallfisch: Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack (2017).
The soundtrack is deserving of a short review in its own right, not the least for its own curious development.
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Links: The Face, streaming liner notes, vinyl, cassettes.
That coulda been me up there! Possibly.
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Those Crazy Socialist Juggalos
On the most unexpected political alliance of the year: the Juggalo youth subculture and organised socialism.
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Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.
The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.
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