Rocknerd
Cut Copy, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
Leftfield, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
Basement Jaxx, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
Rüfüs Du Sol, Inhale / Exhale (2025)
Backrooms (2026).
Crocodile Promises, The March Violets (2024)
Iron Lung (2026). No, the ocean of blood is never explained, why would it be.
No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular
Scissorgun: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (2025).
Guy Blackman “Out Of Sight” Album Launch
John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew: “The Redgum Years”
Bleak Squad, Queenscliff Town Hall
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).