Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett was a rock icon who lived hard and burned bright - but the woman underneath was far more vulnerable.

Bob McKee became a guru of back-to-the-land architecture in 1960s California. His part-Art Nouveau, part-Gingerbread redwood houses spoke to arriving hippies

Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" has topped the Billbaord Hot 100 for 24 weeks, making history and causing backlash. Here's why all of it is happening.

This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center i...

Niels Brügger, Professor in Media Studies, Aarhus UniversityThis presentation debates some of the challenges when writing our recent history of digital media, in this case the World Wide Web. Focus is...

Police will not say what they have done about a North Korean IT worker who duped a local company - or about the New Zealand citizen who helped them.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging New Zealand business and organisational leaders to prepare for a cyber threat environment that is being transformed by artificial intelligence and i...

YouTube video by Paul Lea

Vaporwave’s original YouTube librarian tells the story of the genre’s most important digital archive

For much of the 20th Century, the recorded music sold to New Zealanders was dominated by a single company in a way we can’t imagine today. For the first five decades of the century, that company had a...

30 track album

Welcome to the world of Larence Shustak—a rule-breaker and image-maker who came of age in the creative cauldron that was New York City in the 1950s. He used a camera as a paintbrush, documenting as we...

Musicians from bands, choirs and orchestras are worried a fresh round of public service cuts will mean the disappearance of a much-loved sheet music hire service.

DOA, or just AWOL?

Exploring the social history of Aotearoa New Zealand through music

Exploring the social history of Aotearoa New Zealand through music

Listen to Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene from Acid Horizon wherever you get your podcasts!

In New Zealand, Civil is mostly known for her work in Marie and the Atom, an early 80s art-music performance group who released two EPs on Flying Nun and a live cassette EP on Industrial Tapes. Civil’...

Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge. Can he help us fix it?

Podcast Episode · You Must Remember This · S21 E249 · 1h 13m

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

Join us for a talk on writing about the lives of musicians and composers.