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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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Sick Of It All showing the kids how to dance… youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu...

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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?...

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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?...

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I'm sitiing on a gold mine! Old New Zealand zines are fetchimng some wild prices. worldofechomusic.com/collections/...

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Lovely review of Peter Jefferies incredible first solo album, first released on Xpressway pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Jandek ‘Naked In The Afternoon’ His guitar tuning is: E A E(1/4tone flat) A(1/4#) D(slightly#) E youtu.be/a62rFbTK-AU?...

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The penultimate Xpressway release (X/Way 22 cassette), Sandra Bell’s ‘Dreams of Falling’ is a pretty aggressive rocking debut album (In 1986 she released an EP ‘Black Birds’) Peter Jefferies engineers and is behind the kit, providing some driving rhythms sandrabell.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

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Psyching up to record, and ol’ Chris Knox is pretty inspirational when you’re keeping if strictly abalogue on the 4 track. Me and my ukulele vs. the dead c. Taking to cracks at their tune ‘Power’, one for Gaza, one fir Kyiv. chrisknoxflyingnun.bandcamp.com/album/inaccu...

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Sculptures from the 1971 Auckland International Sculpture Symposium. Works by Tom Burrows ‘Gas Works’, Hiroaki Ueda ‘Opened Stone’, Fred Loopstra ‘Homage to Will’ and Helen Escoberdo ‘Signals’. Essay in next issue of the Beat Mod’n’Rocker.

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This is crazy, DO NOT DO THIS EVER! “bluetoothing” – withdrawing blood after a drug hit and injecting it into a second person – have all been implicated in declining health indicators. You’re going to get a shit weak taste for one and all their diseases! theconversation.com/meth-addicti...

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Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.

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Oooh baby, this movie is bonkers. Totally trashy psychotherapy sex thriller… and yeah, the big twist collapses the second you see a certain character. Transphobic as hell, even for a mainstream Hollywood flick from the ‘90s. Like EXTRA regressive. youtu.be/KzfQEZoF8jk?...

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Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin thinks Democrats should stop using the word ‘oligarchy’, her dad didn’t know what it meant. Did Michigan ban dictionaries? Is google blocked? Don’t dumb down, the working class ain’t thick mofo! open.spotify.com/episode/3ZPD...

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Straight out of that Detroit suburb Te Atatu West Auckland, Iggy Pop’s imbecile protégés The Dum Dum Boys. youtu.be/nXIB8UYvThY?...

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Bet they’re off their tits on Earl Grey and brown ale… James Last and his slightlydelic big ol’ band of geezers. Seriously great trousers too. youtu.be/0VLhYv7nhlY?...

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Oh come on Ben… ya don’t even smoke crack! Ya can’t want to be him that badly. I guess you kinda won by releasing great tunes and stuff, but pharmaceutically, I AM WAY MORE EVAN BRO! youtu.be/On928LHGkC8?...

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I do love the lyric where Chris decides he could just disappear, blend into the crowd, as if his genius wouldn’t seep out in ten thousand ways. Like Ian McKaye and Fugazi, Chris Knox shows us a way to move through the industry without being a prick. Lovely old fucker open.spotify.com/track/2AB02P...

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God Brendon is such a desperate little edge boy shit posting this tune on Mother’s Day. Hate him. Peter Gutteridge though… he was the best. open.spotify.com/track/22MzZM...

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Local man of mystery at his most pure pop (which to be truthful ain’t very pop at all, I’m talking relative to the rest of his catalogue… seriously, you could put this on a mix tape and not look like a psychopathic stalker, other tracks? 50/50) open.spotify.com/track/5mMdEL...

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Charlotte Yates has new tunes! Nice interview and performance up at the 13th Floor Compound… Marty Duda making the rest of us look like lazy mofos (except for Russell Brown, check the latest Listener piece!). youtu.be/gJb6UodAty0?...

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@stinkyjim.bsky.social Vonnie wants to know where all this anger comes from so here it is. I’m 1992 I was assured by a man I looked up to that this album was “solid”… all I wanted was guidance away from On-U white boy dub and Stinky screwed me! open.spotify.com/album/6mVgdx...

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Not the right mood for Mothers Day… art to choke hearts. Jim Carroll - 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain. youtu.be/-AREUrNgMhA?...

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I’m sure gonna try… open.spotify.com/track/0Afai8...

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I love my Carl, I live my Brian, my Dennis, and my Al, I could even find it in my heart to love Mike Love. (I mean Kokomo isn’t THAT bad… better than Sloop John B!) open.spotify.com/track/6brmMY...

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