Today this was installed at Sandymount, Otago Peninsula. Love you, dearest bro. #TheChills

Happy 91st birthday to the incomparable Terry Riley, one of our greatest American seekers.

excited to see how much they're asking for Tom Verlaine's copy of The Great Kat's 'Beethoven On Speed' www.brooklynvegan.com/tom-verlaine...

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Look at this spectacular Adam Higton poster for The Bats with Lande Hekt in Leeds! 🤩

This one just lives on my desktop at this point, ready to go

Starmer goneburger. A decade since Brexit and UK politics continues to eat itself.

I'm part of the very specific fragment of the population for whom this image is the best joke of the week.

Jim Kerr in the NME, 1981

I want you to take a moment to imagine if James Shaw flew to a climate tech conference in business class for $41,000 and spent $3200/night on accommodation and $6,000 on a limo Just imagine the seething heaving outrage from every right winger you know. Where's that outrage now? #nzpol

SIOILIIICITIOIRIS

I feel seen 😳

Two immaculately attired goth girls have just gone walking past my window and sooner or later it is going to have to be acknowledged that somehow the goth look doesn't date like other youth cult looks date. They are now a permafixture of the landscape like charity shops and bus shelters.

Very good, if rather bleak, novel about life in Glasgow when you're in a mundane job and things in general are pretty tough going. Kelman is brilliant at writing about uneventful, unexciting lives and routines in a compelling, evocative manner. #Glasgow #nowreading #JamesKelman #Scottishliterature

BBC Guest: “I think Gianni Infantino and FIFA are a bunch of greedy fucks.” BBC: “Apologies for the language.”

If you are still on Twitter, GET OUT OF THERE.

Friday night listening: Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio (Warp, 2012). #Broadcast #NowPlaying #WarpRecords #Berberian #vinyl

a few hours ago, a judge in wisconsin ruled that everlee wihongi's 2014 marijuana charge has been vacated. this means ICE now have *zero* legal grounds to keep her detained. please RT, and thanks for carting about this story: www.webworm.co/hugewin/

1979, London, Nico📸Antoine Giacomoni

Damn, this is everyone from Sgt Pepper cover still alive

a June 3, 1969 Royalties statement from MGM Records to Nico, refering to the Velvets contract signed in 1966 (check out all of their signatures) + two sales accountings; first VU album and Chelsea Girl

each year I ask new students what they expect in a political leader. This year the expectations were startlingly modest: ‘To be honest’ To act for ‘people not donors’ Understand the Treaty/Te Tiriti -themes repeated over & over That corruption/constitution is a growing concern troubles me a lot

Mark and Una in 1974 #FallFriday

PSA: Mutiny In Heaven, the extraordinary documentary about the Birthday Party, is now free to watch on Beamafilm, if you have a NZ or Aust library card. Have just watched it. It's superb. #NickCave #BirthdayParty

The Chills Live at Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI on 1990-04-28 https://archive.org/details/ajc03576_thechills_1990-04-28

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin... I spoke to Robin Gauld of the Skeptics about the Budget.

Just read this informative, enlightening book on the pernicious effects of big tech / IT on music and listening, by @dadadrummer.bsky.social It clearly and simply explains the issues without being overly technical or using too much jargon. Really worth reading if you're an avid music fan.

Uh... Should trucks be doing that while they're at work?

thank you sonny rollins 🎷

Horse Range Hills, Otago, from the air, showing trees planted in the shapes of a cross, circle, flag, balloon, and diamond, and the words 'Kia Ora'; 1920s-1930s. Photo: Frank Mills; kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...

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Friday night listening: Laughing Clowns - History Of Rock 'N' Roll Volume One (Hot, 1984). #NowPlaying #VinylSky #vinyl

You've really gotta watch the slowmo replay to appreciate the 😅look on Luxo's face as even he realises that's the dumbest fucking shit he's ever heard

I set the questions for this week's AudioCulture quiz. Give it a go !

My review in today's ODT of a history of fanzines in NZ.

the new Pink Floyd album sucks

The Daily Record: listening to Solomans Ball takes about as long as writing this post but, in those eight minutes, Bill Direen weaves four unique sound worlds with atmosphere so thick you could chew it! Mindbending brilliance of the highest order 🔥 #Bilders #SolomansBall 🤴 #NZMusicMonth #Aotearoa 🥝

Her finest moment. A stark, truly singular, beautiful, spellbinding album.

1976, Paris, Nico & Patti📸Lizzy Mercier Descloux

The surviving members of Fountains of Wayne should bludgeon this man with their guitars

PSA: 24hr James Brown special has just started on @kfjc.org #funk #JamesBrown #soul

Nico with Tangerine Dream (1974, Reims Cathédrale)

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck