Rocknerd stories, week ending 20 July 2008.

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Comments on Rocknerd itself please.

• This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
  19/07/08 18:50

  If you're on LiveJournal, there's now a Rocknerd syndicated feed. I'm also making regular summary posts to aus.music.

• Ich habe der fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn blues.
  18/07/08 17:38

  A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that's Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic.

• The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
  17/07/08 15:00

  It's hard to convince someone they're being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it.

• Jamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.
  16/07/08 17:01

  As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent.