Cory Champion

Honestly

My profile of the New Zealand jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist Lucien Johnson is live on @audioculturenz.bsky.social now.

www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/luci...

Remembering Mu A tribute to the late great Chris Faiumu of Fat Freddy's Drop

Remembering Mu.

Rest in peace big man. You made your dreams come true.

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People in glass houses should play jazz, @corychampion.bsky.social

We took it back to the basics and held a pre-release listening party for Clear Path Ensemble's Black Sand album at Vogelmorn Hall last night. The album is out now. @corychampion.bsky.social

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Somewhere in Brooklyn Recorded live March 21, 2025 @ a special place in Brooklyn. This place will remain nameless to respect the privacy of the space. I will say that this is 1 of the best sound systems I've ever heard o

Deon Jamar caught it on this one

Photograph of a Female Misogynist and a gormless slack mouthed bald man wearing hooded coveralls with superfluous hair nets. The men in the background are laughing at their stupidity.

We're meant to take a lecture from a bald man who wears a hairnet on top of a hooded coverall.

#nzpol

Avant garde music, avant garde wages.

'What's going on' Marvin Gaye (1971)

The quintessential 70s album, the perfect antidote to late-60s naivety. 'What's going on' is the definitive soundtrack to tumultuous times; an emotional marriage of soul and wisdom; maybe the best concept album ever recorded. And a serious contender for #5albums70sfinal

#vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky

Treaty Principles Bill: Thousands of submissions to be excluded from Parliamentray record, Labour says Labour's Justice spokesperson Duncan Webb says committee staff do not have enough time to process the unprecedented number of written submissions.

1. Each time Luxo tries to shift blame, remember, not a bottom line. As much his as Seymour’s
2. For all this bollocks talk about democracy, when it comes to makin sure each voice is on record, nup. It was never abt democracy
3. Get f*cked

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This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up

Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark

incredible

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

Yep! $2.9 billion in tax cuts in one political term for landlords, compared to $2.6billion in redress for Māori over 180+years!
Fucking embarrassing actually 🤦‍♀️

There are fewer news items about ACT Party's Tim Jago being convicted of sexually abusing minors, than of ex MP Golriz Gharaman being questioned at a supermarket. 🤬

Shuffle play everyday

A huge portion at the end of red dead redemption 2 is dedicated to role playing getting a mortgage and building a beautiful house on a meager wage. It feels like a weird joke on the aging millennials who are playing the game in their co living pods

Leaving Records' New LA Wildfire Relief Benefit Comp Features Unreleased Tracks From André 3000, Julia Holter, & More Here’s another mammoth effort to raise funds for those impacted by the fires raging in Los Angeles. The LA-based experimental label Leaving Records has released a compilation today called Staying: Lea...

'Staying,' the new 98-track LA wildfire relief benefit comp from @leavingrecords.bsky.social, has unreleased music from André 3000, Julia Holter, and more

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Jazz Off the Record In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve n...

1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In @thenation.com, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The @beehype.bsky.social global Best of 2024 list is live now.

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Taking the Pulse of the Wellington Music Scene in 2024 Wellington is facing economic and infrastructural challenges that underscore how much the city has changed over the last two decades

Great work by @martynpepperell.bsky.social

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Mōrena.

Poop emoji - Wikipedia

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