Post 33:08 A long incoherent ramble about Rock and Roll

April 6, 2008 in Age, Music, kids and media, staycooldad

Warning: This post is long, illogical, self-indulgent and lacks narrative.
I cannot remember where I heard this piece of dialog, but it haunts me. It went a little something like this:
(Sounds of ‘Hotel California’ in the background)
Dad: I grew up with The Eagles.
Son: So I grew up with The Eagles too.

Dad: So when The Eagles came [...]

Post 31:08 Feeling apprehensive about my first ever greatest hits show

March 31, 2008 in Age, Music, staycooldad

For ages I have resisted the idea of going to concerts at which (often reformed) bands I grew up with play their greatest hits on their Superannuation Tours, to audiences comprised largely of forty-somethings trying to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I generally try to look forward, so have shunned this [...]

Post 14:08 Web 2.0’s (unrecognised?) debt to punk

February 5, 2008 in Freelance life, Globalism, Music, Web 2.0

The effects of Punk have never gone away. Punk acts like the Sex Pistols now considered important artists, in their own way.
And the punk ideology has never gone away. In fact even a band like The Go-Betweens, whose sweet pop music could never be described as having any punk aesthetic, openly admitted that they owe [...]

Post 08:08 Another reason to despise the music industry

January 22, 2008 in Music, Web 2.0

In this Wired interview with David Byrne, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says something startling:
“EMI wasn’t giving us any money for digital sales. All the contracts signed in a certain era have none of that stuff.”
I’m pretty sure that what he is saying is that because Radiohead signed to EMI before any of this digital craziness started, [...]

Post 80a: Cross-post of possible interest to geeks

September 3, 2007 in Globalism, Music, Worst practise

Devo have a new single out. They made it for a Dell commercial.
Full (sad) details and link to the video on my other blog.
Social Devo link below
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Now playing: Devo – Watch Us Work It
via FoxyTunes

Post Forty Seven: Dumb and dumberer when bits meet atoms

July 8, 2007 in Globalism, Music

The saga of imported music is getting dumber and dumberer. Dumbererererererer even, if such a thing is possible.
In the USA, They Might Be Giants released their album, The Else, about two months back on iTunes only.
On July 10th (Tuesday, my time) it gets a CD release.
The online music store I bought it from here (Australia) [...]