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So exciting to receive copies of my forthcoming @3313books.bsky.social book on Woody Guthrie's 'Dust Bowl Ballads'! I think this 1940 album on ecological collapse; police brutality; mistreatment of migrants; & making art despite it all is as timely as ever www.bloomsbury.com/us/woody-gut...

Emeritus Professor Erik Olssen ONZM, PhD (Duke), FRSNZ, FNZAH 1941 – 2026 A fellow traveller from Cavvy, King’s High and @tuhura.bsky.social but most of all a fine historian, mentor and friend. Just a wonderful human who will be deeply missed. Vale Erik

His mixtapes High Fashion Mood Music and LARP of Luxury were among the first vaporwave mixtapes I’ve downloaded some 13 years ago, so I was really happy to be able to speak to Luke Rowell alias @disasteradio.bsky.social.

Vapor Talks #38: EyelinerThe Kiwi vaporwave legend, MIDI enthuasiast and digital fantasist in conversationopen.substack.com

Jean-Michel Jarre has written a book, Machines: A History of Electronic Music, which explores the history of electronic music via the machines that artists use to make the music @thamesandhudson.bsky.social buff.ly/4Ix87vb

📢 A crew of up to 90 workers are training in a giant fridge to redevelop New Zealand's Antarctic station during a short summer construction window each year.

'No Mitre 10 down the road': Inside the $498m Scott Base rebuildwww.1news.co.nz

It's kind of hard to believe, but Martin Phillipps passed away 2 years ago today. In June, the Pink Frost Walk plaque was laid at Sandymount by Martin's family, thanks to the Dept of Conservation/Te Papa Atawhai. Here are some memories of Martin: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/mar...

wow, immediately added to the @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy feed: legendary nyc taper jeff lazar's stash is getting digitized by some of the @ajc-project.bsky.social gang! now up, a bunch of tom verlaine, tall dwarfs, butthole surfers, thinking fellers, & more. archive.org/details/LazA...

The Jeff Lazar Audio CollectionThe Jeff Lazar Audio Collectionarchive.org

This is a big one, for me at least. Jordan Bortner alias 식료품groceries in conversation. Yes! We’re open

Vapor Talks #36: 식료품groceriesYes! We're Open – An in-depth conversation with Jordan Bortneropen.substack.com

This week! Free talk in Wellington on Thursday.

Dungeon synth is a rich tapestry of a genre. In the latest episode of @nightclerkradio.bsky.social we discuss 50 microgenres of dungeon synth, from antique synth to zombie synth. Listen now www.nightclerkradio.com/episodes/wha... or on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSq...

SAMUEL BECKETT and the first production of ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Paris in 1953.

CK Stead on Sleeping Dogs and his book Smith’s Dream is dry as fuck, and actually pretty funny. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/15/s... Check out the Newsroom comments though - from Don Brash!!

The Sleeping Dogs that launched Sam Neill, by CK SteadCK Stead on his novel Smith's Dream being filmed as Sleeping Dogs, which launched the career of the great Sam Neill.newsroom.co.nz

Join us at the National Library on Thursday evening for the latest BWB Talk. Asher Emanuel, author of The Valley, will be in conversation with Morgan Godfery about the book.

Part 2 of Nick Bollinger's 'International Influencers' series is up now. In 1976 Lowell George & Little Feat toured NZ – a place where the Hollywood-born musician and his band enjoyed a respect bordering on worship. So who did they influence? Find out here: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...

The Influencers: inspirational visitors, part 2 - Article | AudioCultureContinued from The Influencers: inspirational visitors, part 1 Brian Eno famously said that while the first Velvet Underground record allegedly only sold 10,000 copies in its first five years, every p...www.audioculture.co.nz