incredible quote lol

Over the past week Metallica, Tool, Doja Cat, Kokoroko and more have played in NZ, the country international acts never come to anymore according to certain pundits

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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Geese - ‘Husbands’ cranking at Wellington airport

Incredibly fucking windy in otherwise gorgeous te whanganui-a-tara

this album went platinum

Kingsland swollen with black t-shirts ahead of the big metal show

Govt: Time to allow businesses to fuck over the public again. Govt lackey: How are we gonna sell this? Won't the media point out the negative affects to health & climate, and the fact we were the ones who killed the EV subsidy leading to their decline? Govt minister: Oh my poor sweet summer child.

May every day be another wonderful secret

I have now had 2 conversations with David Byrne in my life.

Seeing the new predator movie at 1pm on Monday like a damn adult

A fun chat with Whanganui’s finest! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

initiating linen pants protocol

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

Still pondering the Mystery Smell at this year’s illustrious Silver Scroll Awards

Akl's exact equilibrium point between too cold / grey and brain meltingly hot - cherishing this brief moment

You can now watch black comedy Kiwi gem Millie Lies Low for free on Whakaata Māori. And I implore you do. It's so damn good and we, as a nation, should be talking about it more. www.flicks.co.nz/movie/millie...

Who is heading to the showbiz bonanza in beautiful Ōtautahi Christchurch tomorrow?

This month I’ve had intense conversations with music people, art people, and publishing people, and the consensus across media is: things are fucked

Love to be horrified by spooky things and also nazis

This is most of my YT feed now - perfect

They seriously ran this -today-

Guy walking into his house carrying a dozen beers, already popped one open and taking a swig at 11am, at this point who am I to judge

Kind of crazy someone decided to name their record label “virgin”

sorry what

Eddington (2025)

Hungover for the first time in ages… not great!

One of the greatest songs of all time

Begging commercial radio jocks to use an expression other than ‘fake surprise’ for their promo images

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

^ "If you search for 'AI is here to stay' on Twitter, you’ll see the guys who still have Bored Ape NFT icons."

Stop obsessing over Spotify streams or box office numbers. Stop turning your pop culture favourites into an endless competition and numbers show. I wrote about the irritating gameification of pop culture and fandom.

Do you want to live in an authoritarian country where healthcare is free or where it’s prohibitively expensive. That’s it. That’s the brain drain driving reality now.

I'm rewatching season 7 of the simpsons and have never been happier

A billionaire releasing a diss track about a millionaire and the general public lapping it up … I dunno, something quite depressing about it all imo

U.S. comedy, music, and culture is absolutely begging for a massive infusion of anti-authority punk sentiment to offset all this dim, hackish, opportunistic clownishness

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

“The time of…Benjamin Netanyahu coming to this city and then making military decisions from this city to kill civilians…has to come to an end.” I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

I spoke with @tonylstamp.bsky.social on RNZ's mixtape. Some of the chat was about my book - Songs From The Shaky Isles - but mostly we spoke about NZ music history & how my life has intersected with it at various stages. Plus played some laidback tunes! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

#NoMusicForGenocide is a cultural boycott of Israel. Over 400 initial artists and labels have geo-blocked and removed their music from that territory - Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Amyl and The Sniffers etc etc Expect to see some Aotearoa artists on the list today nomusicforgenocide.net

Thanks to Ben Howe for wading in on this. A race to the bottom in stadium show subsidies isn't great news for our local industry, but there are opportunities to mitigate the damage by: (a) ensuring local support acts & (b) building alternative revenue streams to support our grassroots community.

The Democrat who adopts this platform wholeheartedly will rise up like a great wave and wash the fascists into the sea