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We are deeply saddened by the death yesterday of Lorraine Barry, after a short illness. She brought a unique professionalism and care to managing New Zealand artists. She worked with Sir Dave Dobbyn for 20 years, and also managed... audioculture.co.nz/articles/Five-…

Kia ora, it's Rāhina Monday afternoon, which brings with it the AudioCulture Quiz. This week's questions are set by music writer Gareth Shute – how did you get on? audioculture.co.nz/articles/audio…

Busy day? take some time out with the AudioCulture Quiz :)

Do you have a passion for audio art & want to be part of a small but powerful audio-focused creative community? Do you have or want to develop experience in governance? Then please consider extending your expression of interest to join us on the AF board tinyurl.com/bdeenthx

The Polynesian Panthers were officially founded on June 16 1971. Musician Tigilau Ness (Che Fu's dad) joined them at 17, and was their Minister of Culture and Minister of Fine Arts. The Panthers worked to help new arrivals from the Pacific Islands... audioculture.co.nz/profile/tigila…

Here's a question from Marc Petty: "During #NZMusicMonth it occurred to me that there is quite a collection of song titles by Flying Nun bands dedicated to famous people. Can you add any others to the list Michael Brown AudioCulture?"

AudioCulture Marc Petty Michael Brown David Bowie by The Bats, bside of "fear of god" single Andy Warhol by Tall Dwarfs, from EP "That's the short and long of it"

Prize time! Go in the draw to win a CD of the latest album in the series A Day In My Mind's Mind, and a 7" single of Ray Woolf and The Avengers' psych song 'Little Things That Happen'. Enter here by midday tomorrow: mailchi.mp/audioculture/n…

You might want to book this for some long weekend listening: Andrew Schmidt talks to Bex on 🎵 RDU98.5FM 📻 Breakfast about 10 of his favourite Aotearoa garage rock tracks. rdu.org.nz/podcast/aa-19/

Brand new: Even before her first release in 2009, Chaii has had her own sound and visual style. ⁠Coming up in Auckland’s underground hip hop scene, she raps fluidly in Farsi and English, and shot her first music video in Oman.⁠ By Gareth Shute audioculture.co.nz/profile/chaii ⁠

Definitely one of the most interesting backstories in NZ hip hop...