AI slop article about an extremely niche industry in an irrelevant country? I’ll pass.

What part of this is ostensibly intellectually stimulating because it seems like transparent marketing to me, and poor marketing at that. We don’t need posts for every GoFundMe currently in existence. NZ doesn’t have the population to support something so nice, it’s really that simple lol.

“Put those two facts together and you get the real story. The scene is alive and economically significant, but it has lost its mirror. There is no one left whose job is to tell you what happened at the show last night, which local producer just signed to an overseas label, or why a 34-year-old venue went under owing $692,000.”

As they say, ‘and nothing of value was lost.’