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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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...

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Out At Sea, The Water Is Deep (2025), by O/PUS

10 track album

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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-...

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Civil Union, by Civil Union

5 track album

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Rethinking my whole atheist thing because this is beyond just wonder, well past beautiful… open.spotify.com/track/3qsmRA...

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Peace Celestial

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New Existentialists, Half Sister and wildest door guy you ever saw at 605 Morningside last night.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/07/2025

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

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T Pain War Pigs

YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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?

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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...

Annahstasia · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

Tether

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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...

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Daphne And Celeste Getting Bottled At Reading 2000

YouTube video by duncy21

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Apparently the Post-WW2 German Airforce jacket I was wearing might be a WW2 jacket… slightly problematic. Oops.

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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...

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Rock and Roll Criminal, by Brother Love and the Homebacon Gang

9 track album

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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...

Purple Pilgrims · Album · 2019 · 9 songs

Perfumed Earth

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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...

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The Last Days Of Evolution, by Celine

6 track album

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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?...

YouTube video by talezman88

The Derek Tape (1992)

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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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Richard Meltzer on KPFK

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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

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Ha Ha Ha - No. 5

feat. Dead C, Hamilton music, Spud++1990, A4, 18pg, NM

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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?...

Jandek - Naked In The Afternoon (1978)

YouTube video by the spine

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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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Dreams Of Falling (Album), by Sandra Bell

12 track album

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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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Inaccuracies & Omissions, by Friend

9 track album

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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Meth addiction, HIV and a struggling health system are causing a perfect storm in Fiji

Drug cartels selling drugs in NZ and Australia are using Fiji as a waypoint – where kids as young as nine are being treated for meth addiction, while crime and HIV rates are climbing. What can be done...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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

Black and white photo of a young light skinned black woman in a dark beret and turtleneck sweater, sitting outside of the brick steps of a wooden house porch. Next to her is a shorthaired white cat looking very curiously into the distance, but the cat is restrained by the woman’s hand and also a harness if it should decide to run off and investigate.

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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?...

Color of Night (1994) - re:Visit

YouTube video by RedLetterMedia

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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...

Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”

The Political Scene | The New Yorker · Episode

B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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

Dum dum boys - Idiot boy NZ punk 1981

YouTube video by Villelowlife

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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?...

JAMES LAST - Medley: Silver Machine/Children Of Revolution/School's Out (From The ZDF "Starparade")

YouTube video by New Last

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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?...

Ben Lee / I Wish I Was Him

YouTube video by 파워볼 영심이 212

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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...

Tall Dwarfs · Weeville · Song · 1990

Sign the Dotted Line

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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...

Peter Gutteridge · Pure · Song · 2023

Fuck Your Mother to Hell

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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...

Alastair Galbraith · Tard & Further'd · Song · 2007

As In A Blender

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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?...

Charlotte Yates Performs Winter Eye at The 13th Floor (Singles Session)

YouTube video by 13th Floor Video

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B… the Beat Mod’n’Rocker @beatmodnrocker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

@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...