This para is a salutary lesson for all of us:

"This is not a New Zealand quirk. It is the local edge of a global collapse. Pitchfork, the most influential music publication in the world, was folded into GQ in 2024 and its editor-in-chief was laid off. Local music press has been gutted in the US, the UK and Australia. New Zealand just got there first and hardest, because we were small to begin with."

Aotearoa (NZ) has fired up the four way flashers. We ignore it at our peril.