Michael Brown
@jingajik
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library (@NLNZ) | JD Stout Fellow 2023 at Stout Research Centre (@SRCNZ) | Personal account
O U T N O W For the 33 1/3 Oceania series, a study of Eyeliner’s BUY NOW @disasteradio. The story of a classic NZ #vaporwave LP and creative journey thru changing times and technologies @BloomsburyAcad To order: bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-b…
One from the AMDISCS archives... "VIVA§" (2010) by Spinning Beach Ball of Death. Experimental hypnagogia by João Costa Gonçalves, a.k.a. vaporwave pioneer MediaFired™.
Ringbarking at dawn Another NZ tale of trees and local councils thelocalarboretum.blog/2025/07/25/sew…
Lou Reed & John Cale live on "Sunday Night", Feb 26, 1989, including together for two songs youtu.be/b50y3wq0tFU?fe…
Brand new: Wellington Heavy Metal in the 1980s. "The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, which started in the UK in 1979, finally arrived in NZ around the middle of 1980. I formed Tyrant with Paul Martin (Devilskin)... audioculture.co.nz/articles/welli…
Chuck Mangione has passed away at age 84. Music fans mocked him if they didn't like jazz fusion, but he was a 1st‐degree horn player, a great composer, & his hit "Feels So Good" has made millions of people happy for decades, & that is nothing to laugh at. Peace be with you, sir.
Post-Internet art from the now defunct website of NZ musician/artist Daif King. For more, see 🔗👇 web.archive.org/web/2016021721…
Safeguarding national collections during WWII After the Friends of the Turnbull Library AGM 5:30pm Wed 23 July, Helen McCracken will discuss how heritage organisations safeguarded their national collections by evacuating cultural treasures during the SWW. natlib.govt.nz/events/friends…
Wave-worn iceberg, ca.1907-09 Kennedy Collection, Canterbury Museum: collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/361423…
for my new column, here's a deep look into how AI has turned the Japanese genre city pop into a Möbius strip of city slop, with hourslong robo-mixes and imaginary women thumbnails—featuring the prompt secrets of AI producers and the fears of longtime fans pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-b…
Paid tribute to a big man with a big heart on my substack.
Rarity featuring the music of @ChrisCudby Video art from 2012 “PBPR presents BOUNDLESS ENERGY” soundtracked by 'Kiwi Blue' by Power Nap vimeo.com/48350570?ref=t…
It's the end of an era for New Zealand music, with the sad news that singer Daphne Walker has passed away at the age of 94. Best known for the hits ‘When My Wahine Does the Poi’ and ‘Haere Mai... audioculture.co.nz/profile/daphne…
New Zealand singer Daphne Walker has died | RNZ rnz.co.nz/life/music/new…