Hard News: Friday Music: Criminal Life
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there is no information on how Spotify has gone since Apple Music’s launch.
It was the fifth most downloaded app on the US iTunes store the week of apple music's launch - which suggests they benefitted from all the added publicity (good and bad) they received courtesy of Apple
Digital Music News suggests spotify is set to dramatically change the free use terms to severely limit what people can do, all but rendering it useless to those who use it a lot... I wonder if this is due to rights holders demands? Sorry, can't find the link to the story, it seems to have vanished from the site, still shows in google search.
I guess 11 million checking out apple music is a big number, but given the tens of millions more who have a device and iTunes account its seems like an abject failure - much like using the damn thing, like yourself I am buggered if I can get it to work in a manner that makes it the joy I know it could be... which si frustrating cause like you when you find some part of it that works and is good its great
Streaming is now... and damn the streaming companies (except youtube & soundcloud for now) make it hard for a music fan, spotify is increasingly a horrendous user experience (keep it simple , not) and apple music is a well documented pain to use
for todays beats I recommend this http://crackmagazine.net/audio/mixprofile/045-stimming/
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I've seen The Clash, The Buzzcocks, the Pistols, Iggy Pop ... and Chris Knox performing post-stroke is hands down the most fuckin punk rock thing I have ever seen in my life.
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I had a play with Apple Music, but it just seemed too much, too complicated. And all the recommended playlists were really off the mark. "Introduction to Katy Perry". Er, I am well familiar with Katy Perry's oeuvre, thank you.
Meanwhile, Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist has the uncanny ability to always deliver music that I like. And I've heard similar from friends. Maybe their lists are full of '90s indie rock and modern alt rock, but it's exactly the kind of stuff they're into.
My other fave is Spotify's Fresh Finds playlist, which is compiled from new tracks that are played by "tastemakers". That is, it figures out what the cool kids are listening to a lot.
Yay, technology!
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Chris Knox with Rackets at the Basement as part of "The Experiment" this week
Hey thank you. As someone who found The Nothing just a teensy bit comfy, that's the real Knox deal.
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+1 for Spotify's Discover Weekly Playlist...
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Whoops! Forgot this ...
Neil Finn does his first ever remix, for The Phoenix Foundation's 'Give Up Your Dreams'. And it's ace.
Free download too!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
It was the fifth most downloaded app on the US iTunes store the week of apple music’s launch – which suggests they benefitted from all the added publicity (good and bad) they received courtesy of Apple
Yeah, that's my guess too.
Digital Music News suggests spotify is set to dramatically change the free use terms to severely limit what people can do, all but rendering it useless to those who use it a lot… I wonder if this is due to rights holders demands? Sorry, can’t find the link to the story, it seems to have vanished from the site, still shows in google search.
Apple leaned on the music companies to force that on Spotify, so it could be true. But Digital Music News posts a lot of crazy, unverified stuff, which could be why the story has gone.
I guess 11 million checking out apple music is a big number, but given the tens of millions more who have a device and iTunes account its seems like an abject failure – much like using the damn thing, like yourself I am buggered if I can get it to work in a manner that makes it the joy I know it could be… which si frustrating cause like you when you find some part of it that works and is good its great
It just seems like an utter lack of focus on the real user experience. Releasing a service that actually materially harms the most intensive users of your existing music software ...
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Alfie, in reply to
that's the real Knox deal.
Hey!!! I had the impression Chris was a bit buggered after his stroke so it's great to see him performing again. A small group of us 'borrowed' TVNZ film gear back in the day to make the first Enemy clips which played on Radio with Pix. Damn we were proud of those!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Hey!!! I had the impression Chris was a bit buggered after his stroke so it's great to see him performing again.
He's constrained by seizures (and the medication that curbs them) but is as creative as ever. Did you see Jess McAllen's gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?
A small group of us 'borrowed' TVNZ film gear back in the day to make the first Enemy clips which played on Radio with Pix. Damn we were proud of those!
Nice! I love our readers.
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Westside: I've been reading Maurice Gee's biography (thanks Craig for the inadvertent recommendation), and wondering whether his work based in West Auckland has had any sort of influence on the development of the world around the West family. I can't think of any obvious examples because I haven't read many of his Auckland books (just Under the Mountain and In My Father's Den), but it would be weird if it hadn't, being right down the road in both time and place.
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Loud and clear!
...this visceral performance from Chris Knox with Rackets
The man is in grand form!
Words are so overrated.
His body language is as clear as ever.
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Further to the Kimbra... noting this here from the twitters:
via
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jono-brandel
Wouldn't have picked they'd pick that as the new single, but is a personal fave.
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Incoming!
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Alfie, in reply to
Did you see Jess McAllen's gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?
I didn't and thanks for the link. That's a good piece!
My abiding memory of Chris is from a fancy dress party in Dunedin in the late 70s. He came dressed as a hunchback and his one-liner for the night was, "I backed a hunch and it didn't come off."
Chris was always a good bastard and I wish him well.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Chris Knox performing post-stroke is hands down the most fuckin punk rock thing I have ever seen in my life.
+1
Frogs for a new century...
;-)the hip (replacement) priests...
Yet still the 'most punk' challengers come - I see the Mancunian curmudgeon is coming back to have a tilt for it, with The Fall in October ... -
That Chris Knox vid...frigging goosebumps and flashbacks to 91 Massey Uni Orientation.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Jess McAllen’s gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?
I so want to put that picture of Chris in the kitchen through that Deep Dream filter ... but that'd be copyright infringement, right?
- and seeing the kitchen brings it all flooding back. With horror (knowing what I know now of asbestos-laden post-quake Chchch) - How Chris and I scraped all the stippled wall plaster off the walls and ceiling by hand, with cheese graters being the most effective tool, and the occasional wet hanky over the nose and mouth!!!
There have been several Flying Nun music clips filmed in that kitchen.
...throughout (and under) the house really.Corben Simpson lived in the house before Chris and Barbara bought it.
NZ is an awfully small country at times...
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Corben Simpson lived in the house before Chris and Barbara bought it.
I remember the discovery of a lot of empty medicine bottles in the garden.
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My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.
Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be bought on CD from Relics in Dunedin and online.
Fantastic gig, and very cool backdrop as well.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...a lot of empty medicine bottles in the garden
Unfair speculation.
There may be a casual, but not necessarily causal, connection...
It was an old urban midden - what had been assumed to be a flat area was terraced and had been infilled with whiteware, well rustware really, when uncovered... -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
A small group of us ‘borrowed’ TVNZ film gear back in the day to make the first Enemy clips which played on Radio with Pix. Damn we were proud of those!
Nice! I love our readers.
Werner Herzog got his start by ‘borrowing’ film equipment from the Munich Film School. And Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols apparently played with a stolen guitar.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols apparently played with a stolen guitar.
He basically stole all their gear. Which meant they had good gear!
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re the Lost Scroll award, all the top 5 nominated should get it
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I remember sitting with a group in the old Gardens Tavern (no idea why might have been the only time I ever went in) mid to late 70s listening to some terrible hair metal band and Chris pipes up with "hell even I can do better than that" ... turns out he could
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
- and seeing the kitchen brings it all flooding back. With horror (knowing what I know now of asbestos-laden post-quake Chchch) - How Chris and I scraped all the stippled wall plaster off the walls and ceiling by hand, with cheese graters being the most effective tool, and the occasional wet hanky over the nose and mouth!!!
So that's how it was done. Someone had gone to a certain amount of trouble with sweeping strokes of a trowel and plaster to create the ambience of a tacky pizza parlour. Never mind, said Chris, they'd be bringing it up to aesthetic scratch by "electronic means", which turned out to be one of these fitted to a godawful great corded drill. Having managed to nearly flog a hole in a nice old kauri door with a similar gadget I could only wish him luck.
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