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Music in the year 2111

I was let out after three hours and charged 3,500 #apple-downloads.

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stealing music

by Edward Guglielmino The great Master was asked a question: “Master is it wrong to steal music?”

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Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste

Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste

Walking home from the gig I started to think about the solid future of indie rock as a genre and how interesting and different bands are.

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Torrents 2

Lao Tzu was once asked by a Chinese king to become the court magistrate on account of his wisdom. LaoTzu refused, but ultimately had to yield to the emperor’s wish. The first case came up. A man was accused of robbing a rich man. Lao Tzu on hearing the case, pronounced an imprisonment for six […]

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Torrents

Torrents are preventing artists from making any income! If torrents continue then the consumer will be able to rip off the artist directly, instead of businessmen and corporations. We must shut down the business that is ripping off musicians so the established businesses can. Otherwise there will be no more HMVs or Video Hits. Imagine […]

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Edward Guglielmino home demo

It’s what it says on the can.

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The lyrics from the Number One song, halfway though each decade

I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump

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I is an interviewer.

What are your influences? Really boring questions and dull interviewers who do no research before an interview. So why did you get into music? So why did you get into interviewing? When is the next album out? Read the press release. What school did you go to? The school of intelligent questions. What inspires you? […]

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Quoted from Media Text Analysis Vol 27 Issue 2

One of the classic criticisms of the popular music industry is that it trivializes and debases what is otherwise a potentially radical form of affect. Criticisms of this kind are associated in particular with Theodore Adorno, who argued that popular music ‘was bad, bound to be bad, without exception’ (1976: 225). His criticism was fuelled […]

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Is the method of the marginalised musician the future of the whole industry?

To qualify my wanker status I am currently working on a research masters at QUT. The exact nature of the project is still in flux, but having just been enrolled I spent the weekend at the library reading about “The Saints’, “The Triffids”, “The-Go Betweens” and “Nick Cave” circa “Bad Seeds”, “Birthday Party” and “The […]