Alan Holt

Hello, has anyone driven Auckland to New Plymouth or vice versa this week? How were the roads?

PETITION: Choose a clean energy future Sign on now to call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel electricity generation and a new fossil gas import facility.

Please sign this Greenpeace petition.

Photo d’un mur intérieur du musée, il est recouvert d’affiches assez simples, faites à la main et souvent en noir et blanc, célébrant le son de Dunedin. On remarque des noms connus comme The Clean, The Dead C, Verlaines ou The Chills (sortie de l’album Submarine Bells).

@transvinylexp.bsky.social
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📸 : Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin (🇳🇿), janvier 2015

Front cover of Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly by Craig Robertson published by Auckland University Press March 2026

A definitive new biography about Chris Knox is set to be published in North America next month via Auckland University Press. I am stepping up to help with press and promotion in North America. So, if you are a writer, reviewer, podcaster, record/book buyer, whatever, get in touch.

I'm looking to interview some non-American musicians or bands who've decided not to tour in the U.S. this year because of ICE. Please hit my DMs if you are willing to chat about this decision.

100%

I know how much work goes into earning a PHD so yeah that’s pretty offensive…

That’s pretty weird tbh

Did Nicola Willis just appoint Atlas Network connections to her surprise RBNZ Covid Inquiry? Willis launches a surprise Covid inquiry with results to come out 6 weeks before the election. Most NZ publications noted her hiring of "independent" experts. I looked further into it.

My investigative piece today on Nicola Willis's surprise RBNZ Covid Inquiry announcement. She has set it up so that the results are released 6 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION
Please share where you can - between the voter suppression laws, and this, it could be a real killer come Nov 2026. #NZPOL #NZ

make work. make lots of it. make mistakes and then make more work.

YouTube video by NationalLibraryNZ Bananamelia the music archive — Marble run — session breakdown

For a taster of what's in the new @amamelia.bsky.social archive at @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social, check out this Session Breakdown of "Marble Run", the opening track off 'Bananamelia!'

Amelia covers sound fonts, the Akai S950, the "Soul Pride" breakbeat, and more!

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Post a banger that isn't in English

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Post a banger that isn't in English.

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#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

classic album

Tall Dwarfs - Starry Eyed & Wooly Brained [New Zealand, Lo-Fi/Indie Rock] (1994) a nice song from a band who had a sizable influence on Neutral Milk Hotel's Lo-fi Aesthetic

Tall Dwarfs - Starry Eyed & Wooly Brained [New Zealand, Lo-Fi/Indie Rock] (1994) a nice song from a band who had a sizable influence on Neutral Milk Hotel's Lo-fi Aesthetic
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https://youtu.be/kLn4ssc6tiw

some lunchtime reading for you all!

Advice For Coping David Farrier's Webworm features advice for coping in 2026, from trauma & bereavement counselor Ross Palethorpe. Then news on Substack and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

finding it hard to cope at the moment with all the chaos going on around you? i got a trauma & bereavement counselor to write some tips about how to stay sane. please RT if you think others may find it useful, too: www.webworm.co/coping/

NZME & Stuff started heavily syndicating Telegraph stories this term (NZME even did it pre-dating Grenon). The Telegraph are far right, & the stories syndicated are often abject gutter trash. When I say NZ media decision makers are far right extremists, this is the kind of evidence I'm working from

What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 02/05/2026 · 39m

Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here:

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Amazing song. Have you heard the Whispers rnb cover? Also fantastic.

A major win for the ocean ✊✊

An Australian company’s bid to mine the seabed off Aotearoa, New Zealand has been rejected after regulators found it would cause serious harm to marine life, including whales and penguins. 🌊🌊

Doh! It’s bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz

Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros at EMPAC — Duet October 5, 2008 Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros recorded live on October 5, 2008 at the opening of The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Arts Center at Rensselaer…

Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros - live at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY, October 5, 2008

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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

From wildlife protection to license to kill The Luxon Government’s RMA reform and Natural Environment Bill will make it easier for companies kill kiwi and other protected wildlife.

The Luxon Government’s RMA reform and Natural Environment Bill will make it easier for companies kill kiwi and other protected wildlife. Make your submission against this kiwi-killing plan before Friday, 13 February.
#climatecrisis #biodiversity
greenpeace.nz/z4au0v

@georgepenney.bsky.social Can you share this?

Legendary drummer Sly Dunbar dies at 73 - Jamaica Observer Sly Dunbar, the legendary Jamaican drummer who gained fame as a member of the production duo Sly and Robbie, has died. Observer Online understands that Dunbar passed away on Monday morning. He was 73....

Only one of the *the* greatest drummers. Period, end of story. Salut.

It Was a Point Blank Execution David Farrier's Webworm reports from the scene as ICE executes another American

i was at the scene shortly after ICE executed a man they were piled on top of. my report and photos are on webworm: www.webworm.co/icekillsagain/

"There is no justification for letting that many bullets go. That's messed up, That is no regard for life at all" a lifelong resident told me.

fuck ice.

A collage of music released the week of January 23rd taken from the endaural anticipation list

There's much to enjoy in this week's new music, lets listen! For links and names, check www.endaural.com/anticipation...