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
O U T N O W
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...
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
Book review as literature
George D Henderson considers the Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
George D Henderson considers the Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
The Man Who Hated Angels
Chris Knox, his life & times
georgedhenderson.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Book review as literature
George D Henderson considers the Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
George D Henderson considers the Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly
georgedhenderson.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
Unity Books, Auckland: The 33 1/3 shelf @3313books.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Unity Books, Auckland: The 33 1/3 shelf @3313books.bsky.social
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'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
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The Variety Artists Club of NZ has awarded its highest honour, the Benny Award for lifetime achievement, to NZ’s top female pop artist of the 1960’s, and Ōtautahi Christchurch’s own Queen of the Mods, Dinah Lee.
Scroll of Honour awards were... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/dina...
Scroll of Honour awards were... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/dina...
Dinah Lee - AudioCulture
Dinah Lee emerged out of the creative maelstrom of the Swinging Sixties. Post-war conservatism had exploded into full-scale cultural revolution, and since the mid-1950s popular music punctuated the ai...
www.audioculture.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Variety Artists Club of NZ has awarded its highest honour, the Benny Award for lifetime achievement, to NZ’s top female pop artist of the 1960’s, and Ōtautahi Christchurch’s own Queen of the Mods, Dinah Lee.
Scroll of Honour awards were... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/dina...
Scroll of Honour awards were... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/dina...
Auckland pilgrimage
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Auckland pilgrimage
Looking forward to the IAML-NZ conference here in Auckland. Two days of music, library and archive matters…
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Looking forward to the IAML-NZ conference here in Auckland. Two days of music, library and archive matters…
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Fellow Flying Nun fanatics: if you can get to Wellington, NZ you can now listen to multitrack tapes from the Flying Nun Records and Chris Knox collections — over 200 have now been digitised and are available at the National Library — including the Dunedin Double!
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fellow Flying Nun fanatics: if you can get to Wellington, NZ you can now listen to multitrack tapes from the Flying Nun Records and Chris Knox collections — over 200 have now been digitised and are available at the National Library — including the Dunedin Double!
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
The art of Avis Acres, illustrator, storyteller, and NZ comic pioneer - a blog by Gwenne Brégeon
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The art of Avis Acres, illustrator, storyteller, and NZ comic pioneer - a blog by Gwenne Brégeon
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...
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Just as the weather warms @amamelia.bsky.social graces us with a new single Summerlong 🌞
“Honestly, when I started writing this song I think I was just feeling really homesick, I was trying to tap into that kinda wistful Tāmaki Makaurau summer feeling."
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
“Honestly, when I started writing this song I think I was just feeling really homesick, I was trying to tap into that kinda wistful Tāmaki Makaurau summer feeling."
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just as the weather warms @amamelia.bsky.social graces us with a new single Summerlong 🌞
“Honestly, when I started writing this song I think I was just feeling really homesick, I was trying to tap into that kinda wistful Tāmaki Makaurau summer feeling."
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
“Honestly, when I started writing this song I think I was just feeling really homesick, I was trying to tap into that kinda wistful Tāmaki Makaurau summer feeling."
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn