Michael Brown
@jingajik.bsky.social
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://notunlikeatrumpet.wordpress.com/33-1-3/
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Michael Brown
@jingajik.bsky.social
· Apr 30
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For the 33 1/3 Oceania series, a study of Eyeliner’s BUY NOW @disasteradio.bsky.social. The story of a classic NZ #vaporwave LP and creative journey thru changing times and technologies @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
To order: www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners...
For the 33 1/3 Oceania series, a study of Eyeliner’s BUY NOW @disasteradio.bsky.social. The story of a classic NZ #vaporwave LP and creative journey thru changing times and technologies @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
To order: www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners...
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Four-Song Peel Session of New Zealand band The Chills from April 5, 1987. Length: 11:09. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_c...
The Chills - Peel Session 1987
YouTube video by Vibracobra23
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Four-Song Peel Session of New Zealand band The Chills from April 5, 1987. Length: 11:09. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_c...
Richard O’Brien looks back at the Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon. A “strange” but also fascinating and heartfelt journey… and it all started in Hamilton, NZ. A cool documentary this.
www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/strang...
www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/strang...
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Richard O’Brien looks back at the Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon. A “strange” but also fascinating and heartfelt journey… and it all started in Hamilton, NZ. A cool documentary this.
www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/strang...
www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/strang...
Last week I had the opportunity to talk about vaporwave and Eyeliner's BUY NOW with Bradley Morgan at New Books Network. The podcast is now available via the link below. Thanks to @bradleymorgan.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @disasteradio.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Last week I had the opportunity to talk about vaporwave and Eyeliner's BUY NOW with Bradley Morgan at New Books Network. The podcast is now available via the link below. Thanks to @bradleymorgan.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @disasteradio.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
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Director Costa Botes has very sadly passed away, after a decade-long battle with cancer.
(At the end of David Herkt's article is a link to Botes' overview of the Civic from NZ On Screen).
Possibly best-known for Forgotten Silver, which he co-directed...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
(At the end of David Herkt's article is a link to Botes' overview of the Civic from NZ On Screen).
Possibly best-known for Forgotten Silver, which he co-directed...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
The Civic - Article | AudioCulture
The Sunrise of the New Show World was the fitting title for the very first show at the newly opened Civic Theatre in Auckland in late December 1929. It had the tinselly optimism of the 1920s and the s...
www.audioculture.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Director Costa Botes has very sadly passed away, after a decade-long battle with cancer.
(At the end of David Herkt's article is a link to Botes' overview of the Civic from NZ On Screen).
Possibly best-known for Forgotten Silver, which he co-directed...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
(At the end of David Herkt's article is a link to Botes' overview of the Civic from NZ On Screen).
Possibly best-known for Forgotten Silver, which he co-directed...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
Don McGlashan's 2025 Lilburn Lecture is now available to listen to and view. It was an epic and frequently funny journey through McGlashan's life and impressive music career. Check it out 👇👇
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
Lilburn Lecture 2025: Bodies of Water - Don McGlashan
In his 2025 Lilburn Lecture, New Zealand music icon Don McGlashan talks about how bodies of water have shaped him as an artist and person.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don McGlashan's 2025 Lilburn Lecture is now available to listen to and view. It was an epic and frequently funny journey through McGlashan's life and impressive music career. Check it out 👇👇
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
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My newest interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Spoke with @jingajik.bsky.social about his book "Eyeliner's Buy Now" (@3313books.bsky.social, 2025) which the history and influence of vaporwave and the genre pioneer's most revered album. Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My newest interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Spoke with @jingajik.bsky.social about his book "Eyeliner's Buy Now" (@3313books.bsky.social, 2025) which the history and influence of vaporwave and the genre pioneer's most revered album. Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/eyeliners-bu...
Cycling in the Urewera country in 1916, on a homemade penny-farthing.
Photo: Auckland Weekly News; kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
Photo: Auckland Weekly News; kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Cycling in the Urewera country in 1916, on a homemade penny-farthing.
Photo: Auckland Weekly News; kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
Photo: Auckland Weekly News; kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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A mystery tour of Auckland Central’s empty(ish) buildings
A mystery tour of Auckland Central’s empty(ish) buildings
Welcome to the boulevards of broken dreams and ‘festering holes’. Follow me!...
thespinoff.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A mystery tour of Auckland Central’s empty(ish) buildings
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
New arrivals at the library
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New arrivals at the library
A Winning Score: George Henderson Q&As with Shayne Carter about his new orchestral LP with the NZSO
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/a-winning-...
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/a-winning-...
A Winning Score
Q&A with Shayne Carter
georgedhenderson.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A Winning Score: George Henderson Q&As with Shayne Carter about his new orchestral LP with the NZSO
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/a-winning-...
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/a-winning-...
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Few people are aware that the Library has not yet recovered from the cyberattack and the impact this has had on the research community. This has been disastrous for university teaching, research and publication in many humanities disciplines.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Few people are aware that the Library has not yet recovered from the cyberattack and the impact this has had on the research community. This has been disastrous for university teaching, research and publication in many humanities disciplines.
Greeting card that can be played on a turntable, 1958
Photo: Evening Post newspaper; api.digitalnz.org/records/2325...
Photo: Evening Post newspaper; api.digitalnz.org/records/2325...
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Greeting card that can be played on a turntable, 1958
Photo: Evening Post newspaper; api.digitalnz.org/records/2325...
Photo: Evening Post newspaper; api.digitalnz.org/records/2325...
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For the 40th anniversary of @themarychain.bsky.social’s debut album, PSYCHOCANDY, we spoke with Jim Reid and William Reid about how it was made. Brothers changed by punk, discovering recording, a magical fuzz pedal and pop meets noise in the 1980s.
Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/the-jesus-a...
Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/the-jesus-a...
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For the 40th anniversary of @themarychain.bsky.social’s debut album, PSYCHOCANDY, we spoke with Jim Reid and William Reid about how it was made. Brothers changed by punk, discovering recording, a magical fuzz pedal and pop meets noise in the 1980s.
Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/the-jesus-a...
Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/the-jesus-a...
Silk-screening wiring boards for television sets at the Philips Electronic Centre, Naenae, Lower Hutt, 1970.
Photo: W. Neill, National Publicity Studios; digitalnz.org/records/4840...
Photo: W. Neill, National Publicity Studios; digitalnz.org/records/4840...
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Silk-screening wiring boards for television sets at the Philips Electronic Centre, Naenae, Lower Hutt, 1970.
Photo: W. Neill, National Publicity Studios; digitalnz.org/records/4840...
Photo: W. Neill, National Publicity Studios; digitalnz.org/records/4840...
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My fabulous Dad, Roger Horrocks, has a brand new book out, with launch events in Auckland (this Sunday 23 November) and Wellington (Sunday 30 November). If you're into music, sound, listening, thinking, or reading, this book is for you! 🎶 atuanuipress.co.nz/product/musi...
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My fabulous Dad, Roger Horrocks, has a brand new book out, with launch events in Auckland (this Sunday 23 November) and Wellington (Sunday 30 November). If you're into music, sound, listening, thinking, or reading, this book is for you! 🎶 atuanuipress.co.nz/product/musi...
The four Hoke Moseley novels as part of their crime writing volumes
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The four Hoke Moseley novels as part of their crime writing volumes
TV picture tube quality control at Philips Electronic Centre, Lower Hutt, July 1974.
Photo: J Waddington, National Publicity Studios; collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/se...
Photo: J Waddington, National Publicity Studios; collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/se...
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
TV picture tube quality control at Philips Electronic Centre, Lower Hutt, July 1974.
Photo: J Waddington, National Publicity Studios; collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/se...
Photo: J Waddington, National Publicity Studios; collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/se...
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Happy 20th anniversary to the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal, in which the company secretly installed software to hide DRM technology on CD buyers’ PCs. XCP was a security risk that led to public outcry, class action lawsuits, and, 20 years ago today, a recall of dozens of album titles.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy 20th anniversary to the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal, in which the company secretly installed software to hide DRM technology on CD buyers’ PCs. XCP was a security risk that led to public outcry, class action lawsuits, and, 20 years ago today, a recall of dozens of album titles.
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Good to see that Shayne Carter remains his irrepressible self… www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...
Music innovator Shayne Carter refuses to be a ‘fading Xerox’ of himself
Four decades after Straitjacket Fits, he is still chasing new sounds.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Good to see that Shayne Carter remains his irrepressible self… www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...
Brancepeth (est. 1856, Wainuioru)
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Brancepeth (est. 1856, Wainuioru)
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
Septarian concretion
Kaihoata River, Wairarapa, NZ
Kaihoata River, Wairarapa, NZ
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Septarian concretion
Kaihoata River, Wairarapa, NZ
Kaihoata River, Wairarapa, NZ
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Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier