There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it. Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...

Notes from a city past: David Herkt's new @audioculturenz.bsky.social piece on the era of transgender shows at Mojo's on Queen. The most enjoyable piece of writing I've read all week. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...

@babyzionov.bsky.social's 2025 has been full of sold out shows, festival appearances and charting releases. Today she has made it around the final lap to release her new album Raceways Of My Heart 💕 🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn 🎨 @simonmward.bsky.social 📷 Frances Carter

The strongest National supporter I know told me last week how worried he was that his grandson had applied for so many jobs and was still unemployed. I think this comment will infuriate even him cause he believes in work & knows people aren't sitting on the couch. www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...

How do you get to be a ‘business leader’ and think jobs are created by increased demand for jobs.

New music video for @amamelia.bsky.social 's smashing new song 'The Floating Opera' out on @sunreturn.bsky.social 🎶 Went to town on this one a bit but very pleased with the results 🎭 Huge thanks to @browntown.bsky.social for the incredible band logo. Watch the whole vid here -> youtu.be/AgaKhwIKp9I

@sunreturn.bsky.social's next Primer. event at Tāmaki Makaurau's 605 Morningside is a doozy — co-starring Alphabethead, Living Perfection and Finn Johansson! Get tickets NOW via UTR.

...Land of The Good Groove.⁠ ⁠ As Murray Cammick himself says, "bFM was hard to tune in to. You had to take a ghetto blaster up a volcanic cone to hear it in South Auckland."⁠

Che Fu's album 'Navigator' went to No. 1 on the Aotearoa Album Chart this week in 2000, staying there for 3 weeks. Fun fact: 'Misty Frequencies' is a reference to the days when he’d tune his radio to 95bFM to catch Murray Cammick’s... audioculture.co.nz/profile/che-fu

on tomorrow (sat 20th), The Other Crate record fair returns to Allpress gallery, drake st, 9am to 130pm. Sellers include Cian, Stinky Jim, Sirvere, Miss Dom, Dustin, Apera, and me, plus more. If you like soul, funk, etc, get along!

Since they are in the mood, flinging some money at www.imva.co.nz would actually make all kinds of difference as hospo takes a repeated & prolonged kicking from this Government's economic bed shittery. Overseas corporates on the beg seems to be all they can process.

Tell you what tho, the 70,000 plus people who left for australia are definitely not going to concerts in NZ. Nor are all the people out of a job. Or the people barely making ends meet whose housing/food costs are taking up all their income. Or the people who are sick all the time.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The first Auckland Jazz Jam at Cupid yesterday afternoon was lovely. It's an open stage where anyone can get up and join the band. The kid on guitar had such a great energy – when he left later, he literally skipped down the road.

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Look I don't know how I missed this but here's another one to add to my list of reasons to hate this guy: he truly DOES use blue Comic Sans in his official prime ministerial emails #nzpol

I have a friend with a PhD in Art History and most of her doctorate was in the chemistry labs and working with lasers (her topic was conservation focused). But importantly she started with loving art and art history at high school.

New single out this Friday from Hallelujah Picassos, here's the video.... take a look! www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Y9...

This took me about ten minutes off the top of my head: 30 Reasons to Hate Christopher Luxon #nzpol

A list of other things from 2021 that Christopher Luxon could reannounce

Marbecks is shutting their remaining store end of oct, and shifting solely online, cutting most staff.... dubdotdash.blogspot.com/2025/09/marb...

Test pressing! Alt text for deets

Tuesday night in AKL with the great @lizpelly.bsky.social Come along and learn more about Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/97331/Li...

Anyone who’s tried to get their head around the energy market knows it’s absolutely mind-bending. Here’s a summary of the millions things I’ve read and people I’ve talked to that probably won’t make you feel better but might explain your existential dread open.substack.com/pub/kirstyjo...

This week NZ First pulled its support for Marama Davidson’s Consumer Guarantees (Right To Repair) Amendment Bill. Maybe repairing stuff is a bit too woke for NZ First. My Stuff #NZpol #cartoon #RightToRepair #ConsumerGuarantees

GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol

watch the Pacific music awards over here! www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/w...

You will know me better than I know myself, when you read this @audioculturenz.bsky.social profile feature by the amazing @garethshute.bsky.social - Power Nap, Golden Axe, Futuresports, Miami Beach, UTR, AF + more 🎵 READ HERE: www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/chri...

New Zealand lost its AA+ rating under Key, and regained it under Ardern. If political journalists were willing to include that sort of context it would be much harder for Nicky No-boats to lecture the left on fiscal responsibility. #nzpol

Welcome viewers! Oops sorry, wrong audience. But this week's AudioCulture Quiz is all about music and TV, with questions by @garethshute.bsky.social How did you get on? www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...

He is lost luggage He is the unexplained item in the bagging area He is the butter chicken of NZ PMs Feel free to add 😎

If this Prime Ministership was an Air NZ route he would have already scrapped it

Luxon bet on tight budgets & rate cuts to grow GDP. But it’s not working like it did in 1992 because households that own their homes feel poorer & renters are poorer. Our housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy can’t handle the truth of house prices mired 10-20% below peak. #nzpol

Subject of director Margaret Gordon's new documentary Life in One Chord, the legendary Shayne P. Carter (Dimmer, Straitjacket Fits) is playing a solo headline gig at Ōtepoti's The Crown on 19th September. Get tickets while you can via UTR.

This is more than a bit precious by Brownlee. I can think of far worse things MPs have been allowed to say about their opponents. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Check out your costs here. I’ll be spending an extra $800 a year for my PHEV but if I switch to a Bentley I’ll save $650! It’s democracy at its finest.

And not by accident. This is depraved.

I’ve done a CRL tour and it was clearly explained that everyone wears a hi-vis - without exception. Not one person in the group pulled the “don’t you know who I am” card - everyone got it. This behaviour says it all - and is yet another metaphor for this government’s disdain for other people.

Hobson's Pledge really are scum. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Found this on FB -

people are gonna be so mad when it opens and it's great and they have no-one left to be mad at and no more goats to scape

...her Cook Island-inspired love song between the sea and moon. With the help of te reo consultant Pānia Papa, she released this 2021 version for Waiata Anthems. ⁠ ⁠ The song uses both te reo Māori and her mother tongue, Cook Islands Māori. ⁠

Today marks the beginning of ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Airani – Cook Islands Māori Language Week.⁠ Annie Crummer's mother was Tahitian, and her father – renowned musician Will Crummer – is from the Cook Islands. In 2010 Crummer released 'Ocean Moon'... audioculture.co.nz/profile/anni...

Mental Notes/Split Enz I promise this is the last one, but a few people prompted me to expand on the earlier Mental Notes post by talking about the record itself and the times. Last Enz post, I swear. It's a bit long. Back to obscure jazz and soul after this :-) open.substack.com/pub/opdiner/...

We chatted with Montana NZ Book Award winner @garethshute.bsky.social about his new book Songs From The Shaky Isles — A Short History of Popular Music in New Zealand, out today! Hosting launch events this Fri at Time Out Bookstore (w/ Rodney Fisher) & Sat at Flying Out (w/ Thee Golden Geese) 📖 🎵

Personally I love it when the government works very hard to keep massive law changes a secret and then retrospectively releases all the information about it at 8.34pm on a Thursday www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Pre-order POLLYHILL, SAMARA ALOFA AQUARIES: AGE OF URANUS on Vinyl LP! 1. HOME (MOKOTRON REMIX) 2. ACID RAIN (DJ SNAKELEGS REMIX) 3. QUEERBAIT (CARU REMIX) 4. PAIN (EDGING QUEEN OF THE HILL REMIX) 5. WOBBLE (AMAMELIA LOUNGE SUITE REMIX) 6. RUN IT HOME (LEAPING TIGER REMIX)

Brand new: In the mid-2000s, Philippa McIntyre, aka DJ Philippa, was one of the most acclaimed house music DJs in Aotearoa New Zealand. A decade later, she was toiling away in obscurity on the other side of the world... From audioculture.co.nz www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/phil...

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol