B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker
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If you’ve seen the documentary High Fidelity (John Cussak etc), I’m almost certain they renamed me Dick. I really think one should be consulted about this shit too, even if they swapped Real Groovy Auckland for Championship Vinyl Chicago everybody knew.
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I’m still so angry that the K’Rd Flying Nun Store files artists under their first name… so Bob Dylan is under B, and Neil Young is under N. Well if Flying Nun want to annoy me, I’ll annoy them! So join me in demanding they get celebrated… not just FOR TODAY, but for all time!
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I’m still so angry that the K’Rd Flying Nun Store files artists under their first name… so Bob Dylan is under B, and Neil Young is under N. Well if Flying Nun want to annoy me, I’ll annoy them! So join me in demanding they get celebrated… not just FOR TODAY, but for all time!
c.org/LScXsC4FGr
c.org/LScXsC4FGr
Sign the Petition
Demand Flying Nun Records acknowledge Netherworld Dancing Toys
c.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m still so angry that the K’Rd Flying Nun Store files artists under their first name… so Bob Dylan is under B, and Neil Young is under N. Well if Flying Nun want to annoy me, I’ll annoy them! So join me in demanding they get celebrated… not just FOR TODAY, but for all time!
c.org/LScXsC4FGr
c.org/LScXsC4FGr
I can’t imagine this not being The Beat Mod’n’Rocker zine album of the year… art damage post post punk heavy psych pop. Jadey Gladeyes is a legit genius, Stefan and Liz are damn close to genius, and Beth, I don’t know her, but I dig her back catalogue. stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com/album/out-at...
Out At Sea, The Water Is Deep (2025), by O/PUS
10 track album
stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I can’t imagine this not being The Beat Mod’n’Rocker zine album of the year… art damage post post punk heavy psych pop. Jadey Gladeyes is a legit genius, Stefan and Liz are damn close to genius, and Beth, I don’t know her, but I dig her back catalogue. stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com/album/out-at...
12 years late, and I only got hip to this band via Jay Hinman’s incredible Dynamite Hemorrhage issue 2 (2014). His zine is the 21st century Forced Exposure. Anyway Auckland postpunkers off their lithium scrip Civil Union. Bummer tunes rule. civilunion.bandcamp.com/album/civil-...
Civil Union, by Civil Union
5 track album
civilunion.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
12 years late, and I only got hip to this band via Jay Hinman’s incredible Dynamite Hemorrhage issue 2 (2014). His zine is the 21st century Forced Exposure. Anyway Auckland postpunkers off their lithium scrip Civil Union. Bummer tunes rule. civilunion.bandcamp.com/album/civil-...
Rethinking my whole atheist thing because this is beyond just wonder, well past beautiful… open.spotify.com/track/3qsmRA...
Peace Celestial
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November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Rethinking my whole atheist thing because this is beyond just wonder, well past beautiful… open.spotify.com/track/3qsmRA...
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New Existentialists, Half Sister and wildest door guy you ever saw at 605 Morningside last night.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
New Existentialists, Half Sister and wildest door guy you ever saw at 605 Morningside last night.
The New Eves 'The New Eve Is Rising'
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The New Eves 'The New Eve Is Rising'
The future is female? Well I guess the future is right now then mofo! Get some folk'n'post-punk of the highest order. Welcome to the 'Hagstone Rock' era.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The New Eves 'The New Eve Is Rising'
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open.substack.com/pub/thebeatm...
Peter Jefferies (Nocturnal Projections, TKP, Xpressway) interview on Radio New Zealand, 2014. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Peter Jefferies
Peter Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment, Nocturnal Projections) joins us for a rare solo performance, ahead of his Kings Arms show this Saturday.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Peter Jefferies (Nocturnal Projections, TKP, Xpressway) interview on Radio New Zealand, 2014. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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KEXP just played T-Pain covering War Pigs and I'm obligated to share it with you, here's T-Pain covering War Pigs and it fucking rips
T Pain War Pigs
YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
KEXP just played T-Pain covering War Pigs and I'm obligated to share it with you, here's T-Pain covering War Pigs and it fucking rips
Anyone used a transcriber programme they think is decent? Reasonable cost (aka CHEAP) one I can just dump interviews into and get a reasonable word doco back?
July 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Anyone used a transcriber programme they think is decent? Reasonable cost (aka CHEAP) one I can just dump interviews into and get a reasonable word doco back?
So NATO members are going to 5% of their $ going on military spending. As a socialist I'm pleased actual Communist States must be booming as that was the point of NATO right? Opposition to the commie threat? Maybe food, clothes, housing should be their focus.
June 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So NATO members are going to 5% of their $ going on military spending. As a socialist I'm pleased actual Communist States must be booming as that was the point of NATO right? Opposition to the commie threat? Maybe food, clothes, housing should be their focus.
She got a great write up in Pitchfork (8.4) for this folky slbum. Incedible voice, deep, beatifilly husky. Lovd it. open.spotify.com/album/3SBuk7...
Tether
Annahstasia · Album · 2025 · 11 songs
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June 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
She got a great write up in Pitchfork (8.4) for this folky slbum. Incedible voice, deep, beatifilly husky. Lovd it. open.spotify.com/album/3SBuk7...
The coolest mofo’s ever… facing down a festival crowd. “I love that sign… ‘Die Daphne Die’… okay, I WILL!!” youtube.com/watch?v=_hnx...
Daphne And Celeste Getting Bottled At Reading 2000
YouTube video by duncy21
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June 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The coolest mofo’s ever… facing down a festival crowd. “I love that sign… ‘Die Daphne Die’… okay, I WILL!!” youtube.com/watch?v=_hnx...
An amazing “metal for people who dobt like metal” release, drawibg on shoegaze, slowcore , ambient and drone. Lots of dynamics, distant lyrics that seem trapped in an existential crisis, or dude just got dumped? Great stuff. open.spotify.com/album/4wQZhZ...
It's Closeness, It's Easy
Planning For Burial · Album · 2025 · 9 songs
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June 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
An amazing “metal for people who dobt like metal” release, drawibg on shoegaze, slowcore , ambient and drone. Lots of dynamics, distant lyrics that seem trapped in an existential crisis, or dude just got dumped? Great stuff. open.spotify.com/album/4wQZhZ...
Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.
The Brother missed his chance to be a pop star, ‘The Girl’ (track 1) should have been a 7” single, getting every art school heart a swooning. Check out his back catalogue, Axel Grinders, the rare NZ band that can ROCK AND fucking ROLL. Don’t Worry, Be Sappy
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com/album/rock-a...
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com/album/rock-a...
Rock and Roll Criminal, by Brother Love and the Homebacon Gang
9 track album
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The Brother missed his chance to be a pop star, ‘The Girl’ (track 1) should have been a 7” single, getting every art school heart a swooning. Check out his back catalogue, Axel Grinders, the rare NZ band that can ROCK AND fucking ROLL. Don’t Worry, Be Sappy
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com/album/rock-a...
brotherlove1.bandcamp.com/album/rock-a...
I’ve heard a bunch of groups who have drawn on the Cocteau Twins, making etheral dream pop; Purple Pilgrims have added a David Lynch/Twin Peaks spooky edge to the sound. I feel like I’m going to awaken to some kind of hippy ritual murder, but kinda sensual and fun
open.spotify.com/album/5q0hxQ...
open.spotify.com/album/5q0hxQ...
Perfumed Earth
Purple Pilgrims · Album · 2019 · 9 songs
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June 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I’ve heard a bunch of groups who have drawn on the Cocteau Twins, making etheral dream pop; Purple Pilgrims have added a David Lynch/Twin Peaks spooky edge to the sound. I feel like I’m going to awaken to some kind of hippy ritual murder, but kinda sensual and fun
open.spotify.com/album/5q0hxQ...
open.spotify.com/album/5q0hxQ...
Early 1990s Auckland slowcore band Celine have somehow managed to drop one hell of a beautiful EP vis PowerTools. Get in before they’re gone or expect to pag serious collector scum prices. celine-nz.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...
The Last Days Of Evolution, by Celine
6 track album
celine-nz.bandcamp.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Early 1990s Auckland slowcore band Celine have somehow managed to drop one hell of a beautiful EP vis PowerTools. Get in before they’re gone or expect to pag serious collector scum prices. celine-nz.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...
Free psych blues from Philadelphia… bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
S/T, by Blues Ambush
2 track album
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May 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Free psych blues from Philadelphia… bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
Surface of the Earth playing live 14th June Ponsonby Auckland. I reviewed the reissued album in the Beat Mod'n'Rocker but that's physical media and I drone on for way more words than Bluesky allows... I used to have a myspace? Umm... substack maybe? Anyway, Surface of the Earth... free noise.
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Surface of the Earth playing live 14th June Ponsonby Auckland. I reviewed the reissued album in the Beat Mod'n'Rocker but that's physical media and I drone on for way more words than Bluesky allows... I used to have a myspace? Umm... substack maybe? Anyway, Surface of the Earth... free noise.
Sick Of It All showing the kids how to dance… youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu...
Sick Of It All - "Step Down" EastWest Records
YouTube video by BlankTV
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May 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Sick Of It All showing the kids how to dance… youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu...
Derek might just kill that goddamn junkie Terry if he doesn’t come through with the $20, but he’s got time to school record store guy Kurt on the difference between ‘tripping’ and ‘flipping’, the merits of guitarists Trower, Gilmore, Page and Blackmore, and so much more.
youtu.be/gH5_vZimKrE?...
youtu.be/gH5_vZimKrE?...
The Derek Tape (1992)
YouTube video by talezman88
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May 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Derek might just kill that goddamn junkie Terry if he doesn’t come through with the $20, but he’s got time to school record store guy Kurt on the difference between ‘tripping’ and ‘flipping’, the merits of guitarists Trower, Gilmore, Page and Blackmore, and so much more.
youtu.be/gH5_vZimKrE?...
youtu.be/gH5_vZimKrE?...
Richard Meltzer (who is the worlds greatest rock writer! Lester is a close 2nd… ignore Troy ok!) lending his support to the Angry Samoans in their fight with Rodney Bingenheimer. “Get off the air, get off the air you pathetic male queer” youtu.be/pG9S2kpGOOQ?...
Richard Meltzer on KPFK
YouTube video by talezman88
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May 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Richard Meltzer (who is the worlds greatest rock writer! Lester is a close 2nd… ignore Troy ok!) lending his support to the Angry Samoans in their fight with Rodney Bingenheimer. “Get off the air, get off the air you pathetic male queer” youtu.be/pG9S2kpGOOQ?...
I'm sitiing on a gold mine! Old New Zealand zines are fetchimng some wild prices.
worldofechomusic.com/collections/...
worldofechomusic.com/collections/...
Ha Ha Ha - No. 5
feat. Dead C, Hamilton music, Spud++1990, A4, 18pg, NM
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May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm sitiing on a gold mine! Old New Zealand zines are fetchimng some wild prices.
worldofechomusic.com/collections/...
worldofechomusic.com/collections/...
Lovely review of Peter Jefferies incredible first solo album, first released on Xpressway pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Peter Jefferies: The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World
The 1990 album *Last* *Great Challenge...* is a claustrophobic, private-sounding collection that ranges from homegrown, tinny post-punk to melancholic piano ballads to fucked up tape manipulations. So...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lovely review of Peter Jefferies incredible first solo album, first released on Xpressway pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...