Rocknerd
His Spine Was the Bassline: Remembering Dave Allen
Buddhadatta and Friends: Two Melbourne Shows
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus and KAGAMI in Melbourne
New Order, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 2025
Slipknot, Babymetal et al. Knotfest 2025 Melbourne.
Records: ANS Electronic Music (1969), Attrition (2024, 2025).
Jennifer’s Favorite Songs of 2024
The Garbage and The Flowers: In Valhalla (2023), live at the Tramway Hotel (2024).
Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust.
Duolingo Music.
Carbon Based Lifeforms: Seeker (2023).
Stu Spasm documentary: I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago — playing in London on Friday 8 November.
Kunlun’s Melodio and Mureka AI slop music — with audio samples.
Sacred Cowboys: Cowboy Logic (2024).
Placebo, Bristol Amphitheatre, 28th June 2024.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (1984).
That fucking band.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: World Record (2022).
Robert Görl and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Nur Noch Einer (2021).
House Of All: House Of All (2023).
The next frontier in IP parasites: codec royalties on content.
Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?
Snake oil never sleeps: MQA bought out by Lenbrook.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Flaunt It. The most mid album of 1986.
Battlefield Earth (2000). A saga of the year two thousand.
Bedless Bones: Sublime Malaise; After Malaise (2019, 2020, 2023).
Notes and Reflections: Lana Del Rey
Spray: The Big Idea will rock and change the world. Ricardo Autobahn interviewed.
Stu Spasm’s Wikipedia article now has an old photo of him.
Oh no! Snake oil “hi-res” audio company MQA is going broke.
It’s gonna play all the records in the hit parade, and they’re all Morgan Wallen.
The complete Fall Peel Sessions playlist.
Massenhysterie: Hausfrauengelüste (2019).
Braddock Station Garrison: American Radio (2019).
Schkeuditzer Kreuz: Isolated and Alone (2021).
Justine Ó Gadhra-Sharp: Sídhe (2022).
Delerium: Signs (2023).
Imaad Wasif: So Long Mr. Fear (2022).
FreeDB is gone — but the CD data lives on.
Flower Face: The Shark in Your Water (2022).
B.E.F.: Music For Stowaways (1981).
Capsule: Metro Pulse (2022).
Farewell: Panic! at the Disco, 2004-2023
Sometimes I just want to listen to R.E.M.
Video: Fall Out Boy: Love from the Other Side (2022).
Missed Connections: Happy Mondays.
Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.
Shelf-reading at Bandcamp: Industrial — Leæther Strip, Metal Heart, Master Boot Record, Pertubator (2022, 2023).
Collected thoughts: The War on Drugs
Late Night Listening: Status/Non-Status: Surely Travel (2022).
Mixtape: Songs for 2022
RM: Indigo (2022).
Riffusion: we’ve replaced these musicians with an AI model.
Ride, The Forum, Melbourne, November 30
Pop Will Eat Itself, Sept 10 Corner Hotel
Father John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century (2022).
Deep thoughts about Snow Patrol.
An opera singer shattering a glass, redux.
Maybeshewill: No Feeling is Final (2021).
Valedictions, Vangelis
An image carefully constructed to make musicians cry.
Valedictions, Klaus Schulze
Records: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).
Five slabs of listening from 2021.
Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).
Arkady Rose: Nocturne (2021).
B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.
B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat
Ministry: Moral Hygiene (2021).
Twitter roundup.
Robert Brokenmouth: Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures (1996).
B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.
B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.
21 Faces: Red Hearts (1985).
B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.
B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing
S:Bahn: Queen of Diamonds (2021).
Vortex #6, Dec 1987–Jan 1988: Kryptonics, Kim Salmon, Stems, Stolen Picassos, Errol H. Tout, Bacen Asagai, Cremator, Scarlets, Die Monster Die, And An A, 10,000 Maniacs, White Cross, The Cult
Vortex #5, August 1987: Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Go-Betweens, Stolen Picassos, Gay Marvins, Martha’s Vineyard, Weddings Parties Anything, Chad’s Tree, Concrete Blonde
Vortex #4, May–June 1987: Palisades, Scientists, The Cult, Sparklers, Reels, New Order, Matt Johnson/The The, Errol H. Tout, The Clash.
Snog: Lullabies for the Lithium Age (2020).
Various Artists: From the River to the Sea (2021).
Records: Slow Down Molasses (2021), Shriekback (1989).
Severed Heads: get the late-period albums while you can.
Daniel Sloss, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, May 4th, 2021
The Hummingbirds: loveBUZZ (1989).
Solar Fake: Enjoy Dystopia; Masked (2021).
Records: Throat (2018, 2020); Microlaxx (2021).
Records: Statiqbloom, AC/DC (2020).
Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.
The War of the Worlds: The Book, The Drama, The Musical, the Film
Art Damage through Self-Referentialty
Links: Virtual Reality still useless, why vinyl was bad, the Problem with Music gets tha roni, Nile Rodgers.
And One totally aren’t into QAnon and Trump, you guys. A hacker done it and run away.
Mark Burgess: View From A Hill (2007).
Protodome: 4000AD (2020). A chiptune jazz-funk EP played entirely on a 1-bit square wave.
65daysofstatic: replicr (2019).
Records: This Frilly Ape (2019), Amelia Arsenic (2020).
Maximum Joy: Spotify, new album “Peace” out shortly.
Grum: Deep State (2019).