Martyn Pepperell
@martynpepperell.bsky.social
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🌐🌐 It's the one we've been waiting for 🌐🌐 The three albums of Baltimore luminaries Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals are finally back on wax. But don't sleep. They'll go quickly. Especially the special editions (exclusive to Bandcamp)! Head here to purchase: www.submithub.com/link/phantom...
A conversation with Ché Fu for Rolling Stone AU/NZ. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Ché Fu Discusses 'Navigator', New Zealand Tour and More
This October, Ché Fu is celebrating 25 years of 'Navigator' with a 10-date national theatre tour.
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I'll be in conversation with Hun Lynch at Auckland Library from 2-3 pm today. She'll be playing songs as well. Come along. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2026/one-mor...
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without telling me your year of birth, what is your favourite three digit number from the back of your credit card?
Last week, I interviewed @delibeat for @Mixmag's The Mix series. The story and her mix are live on the site now. mixmag.net/feature/the-...
The Mix 113: Debit
Debit shares an energetic mix she's titling 'Handling Polyrhythms Without a Jog Wheel: Time Doesn’t Exist' and speaks to Martyn Pepperell about how much the creative landscape has shifted through her...
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As @martynpepperell.bsky.social notes, if things have been ramping up in the modern NZ jazz scene over the last decade, jazz had an especially big moment in 2025. A bevy of established groups and newer names turned out world-class albums; here are 10 of them: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/jaz...
Jazz in the Year 2025: take ten - Article | AudioCulture
Crystal Chen with Ruby Fainaa on congas/percussion, Michael Howell on bass, Joe Kaptein on keyboards. There are always two ways you can look at a situation: from the inside and from the outside. Both...
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Hello there. I wrote an effusive essay about synth-pop genius Mioko Yamaguchi, who made three perfect albums in the 1980s, disappeared from the spotlight, then made a stunning comeback as if she'd never left. www.shy.center/p/mioko-yama...
Mioko Yamaguchi, the princess that never dropped her crown
Unraveling the work of a synth-pop genius before and after a 35 year hiatus.
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Lōemis is still running in Wellington — and the lineup is wild! Troy Kingi, Shayne Carter with the NZSO, Acid Mothers Temple, Kavari, plus a Midwinter Solstice Ball on the eve of the solstice itself. Genuinely one of the more interesting festival programmes on the calendar this winter.
Writers will write a deeply moving exploration of the fragility of the human mind, and then not be able to recognise signs of depression in someone else during deadline week.
A quick Q&A with Rudy from A.R. Kane / inrain for Test Pressing. www.testpressing.org/magazine/che...
Q1 2026 www.dazeddigital.com/music/articl...
10 great albums you may have missed in the last three months
Featuring Mon Rôvia’s calming Afro-Appalachian folk music, Florence Sinclair’s enigmatic fusion of rap and dream pop, Auckland artist Hasji’s combination of Māori and Nepalese Gorge music, and Scratch...
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Over the last 15 years, Ōtepoti Dunedin dream-pop/post-punk trio Death and the Maiden has released three critically loved albums: Death and the Maiden, Wisteria, and Uneven Ground. And they're not named after The Verlaines song. By @martynpepperell.bsky.social www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/deat...
Death and the Maiden - AudioCulture
In 2011, the synthesiser player, producer, audio engineer and DJ Danny Brady was living in Berlin and playing in the experimental rock band, Thought Creature. After receiving the news that his grandmo...
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Sunday jazz, and relatively recent! In Aotearoa, the roots of jazz go back to the late 1800s; over 100 years later, it remains very popular. @martynpepperell.bsky.social has selected 10 significant NZ jazz records, 1 per year, from the decade just past. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ten...
Ten New Zealand Jazz Records from 2016 to 2025 - Article | AudioCulture
Myele Manzanza drumming at the Jazz Cafe, London. For the longtime players and keepers of the faith, jazz – much like folk, country, rock, and increasingly, hip-hop and electronica – never really goes...
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PSY FI celebrates future-focused artists at Massey University's Great Hall this May — featuring Aotearoa electronic innovator Micronism, a rare The Golden Awesome performance, BIRDPARTY, Dream Chambers, DJ @martynpepperell.bsky.social + more! Early birds on sale NOW via UTR.
PSY FI feat. Micronism, The Golden Awesome, BIRDPARTY & More - Wellington Show Announced
Celebrating future-focused artists at Massey University's Great Hall on 9th May.
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*Walks up to the box office* "Hi, can I get one ticket to the Ryan Reynolds in space film?"
![A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall.
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Gary Larson cartoon incident
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In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128]
She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130]
Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals.
In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdtwslusias4dnfmqydvudsq/bafkreiab4xelozcgki2mm2n3wwq5vdhbvve7v76enl6wbonavz6gjc2p7u)
