http://www.tonedeaf.com.au The Home Of Australian Music Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/308072/did-digital-mark-the-death-of-album-artwork.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/308072/did-digital-mark-the-death-of-album-artwork.htm#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 03:22:43 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=308072 Tell me your top five favourite pieces of modern art. Now, tell me your top five favourite album covers. Let me guess, you struggled with the first one, but could easily rattle off the latter? It’s no surprise, given how widely recognised album art has become in the last 70 years. Since the inception of [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/308072/did-digital-mark-the-death-of-album-artwork.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 02:30:47 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305849 Ask any IT wiz to give you a definition of what RAM is and does and you’ll likely get a technical description about a storage system that allows the reading of data to happen much faster, allowing quicker access and minimal lag than it would from a hard drive. Comparable to a short-term memory that [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 23:42:56 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304862 The details of the Federal Budget are being announced tomorrow, and with it, the future of community radio’s survival. The Commit To Community Radio campaign, which has been running intensely ever since the Federal Government and the Federal Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy revealed a budgeting shortfall for community radio digital services, has been spotlighting the [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/288093/how-justin-timberlake-made-a-fortune-giving-his-album-away.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/288093/how-justin-timberlake-made-a-fortune-giving-his-album-away.htm#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 04:00:52 +0000 Izzy Tolhurst http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=288093 It’s been seven years since Justin Timberlake brought sexy back, or more accurately, since he released FutureSex/LoveSounds in 2006. It was four years between this second production and his solo debut, Justified, and between this milestone and saying “Bye Bye Bye” to teenage boy-band N*SYNC, a very modest few months. As a result, Timberlake’s comeback album The 20/20 [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/288093/how-justin-timberlake-made-a-fortune-giving-his-album-away.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/269558/auto-tune-ruined-music-industry.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/269558/auto-tune-ruined-music-industry.htm#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:00:51 +0000 Chloe Strahan http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=269558 It’s a familiar question and an issue that’s destined to circulate in debate for some time yet – ‘Has Auto Tune Ruined The Music Industry?’ Sure, it has mauled modern music, torn into those with talent (or lack there of), and regurgitated many a robotic hint of what technically skilled voices used to sound like. [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/269558/auto-tune-ruined-music-industry.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/290366/why-the-logies-are-a-musical-disgrace.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/290366/why-the-logies-are-a-musical-disgrace.htm#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:59:59 +0000 Nicholas Jones http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=290366 Did you catch Australia’s annual television awards event The Logies last night? You’re not the only one. Apparently a little over 1 million other Australians tuned in to watch the television industry pat itself on the back and celebrate great Australian content. That is if you’re talking about the television industry. But when it comes to [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/290366/why-the-logies-are-a-musical-disgrace.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/263746/real-present-danger-time-slam-rally-late.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/263746/real-present-danger-time-slam-rally-late.htm#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:00:44 +0000 Nicholas Jones http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=263746 It’s been a long time since the iconic SLAM Rally which saw 20,000 people march through Melbourne in protest of restrictive laws which linked music with violence and financially penalised live music venues. The unprecedented backlash forced the then Labor Government to capitulate on the issue resulting in a range of changes to existing laws and a new funding for [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/263746/real-present-danger-time-slam-rally-late.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/253191/sniffer-dogs.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/253191/sniffer-dogs.htm#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:10:34 +0000 Nicholas Jones http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=253191 Festival season is well and truly in full swing, bringing hundreds of thousands of Australians out into the sun to see some of the best musicians from around Australia and the world. But festival season also brings with the annual stand off between Police and sniffer dogs, and patrons looking to take drugs. That’s what [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/253191/sniffer-dogs.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/242591/open-letter-bourke-st-resident-offended-music-venues.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/242591/open-letter-bourke-st-resident-offended-music-venues.htm#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:31 +0000 Nicholas Jones http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=242591 Dear Mr. Edmonds, This morning I read an article in The Age newspaper about the incessant problems you are having with noise from music venues in the Melbourne CBD with great interest. I too get aggravated when the noisy few have to ruin it for the rest of us. It must have come as a [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/242591/open-letter-bourke-st-resident-offended-music-venues.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/240199/case-underage-events-victoria.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/240199/case-underage-events-victoria.htm#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:51:50 +0000 Nicholas Jones http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=240199 The city of Melbourne often fancies itself as Australia’s “cultural capital,” thanks in no small part to its thriving and diverse live music scene. It’s a title the city wears with pride – but judging by the spate of crippling state legislation over the past few years, it isn’t a title that’s guaranteed  to stick [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/240199/case-underage-events-victoria.htm/feed 0