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- Timothy Blackman: I've Never Lived (Home Alone)
- Dylan LeBlanc: Paupers Field (Rough Trade)
- Leonard Cohen: The Essential Leonard Cohen (Sony)
- THE BARGAIN BUY -- Miles Davis: Tutu (Warners)
- Melissa Etheridge: Fearless Love (Island)
- Various Artists: The Great New Zealand Songbook Vol 2 (Thom/Universal)
- Juliagrace: Beautiful Survivor (Parachute)
- Tom Jones: Praise and Blame (Island)
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- Simon Lynge: The Future (Lo-Max)
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- Various Artists: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle (EMI)
- Hawklords: 25 Years On (Esoteric/Southbound)
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- LOU REED'S BETWEEN THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION: Boxed for you in '92
- R.E.M.; THE EARLY YEARS: Mumbling into the future
- BURT BACHARACH IN 1995: The slow rehabilitation
- MEAT PUPPETS 1982-88: Acid rock baked by desert grunge
- MICHAEL JACKSON; LIVE IN '96: The man who fell to Earth
- PAUL JONES PROFILED: Can sing, can act . . . can do
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AT 60: Still running through America
- BLAIR JOLLANDS INTERVIEWED (2004): Kiwi expat under a watchful eye
- DEAN HAPETA'S 2002 UPPER HUTT POSSE REMIXES: Say The Word, and you'll be freed
- THE GRATEFUL DEAD: The Dead rise again
- POI E AND PATEA MAORI (1988): Dalvanius, man of passion
- WAI INTERVIEWED (2000): One hundred percent te reo to the future
- ROGER GUINN, BACK FROM RIO (1991): The return flyte
- QUINCY JONES INTERVIEWED (1990): The boss back on the block
- FIFTIES ROCK'N'ROLL; LOUD, FAST AND OUT OF CONTROL: Rock 101, The Originators
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- Sheryl Crow: I'm With the Band
- Sammy Price: Nice'n'nasty
- McCartney, Michael Jackson and me: Oh, get a room!
- Rod Stewart: Singer, believe it or not
- Bon Jovi: Having a bar of it
- Quincy Jones: The professional in the pissoir.
- Mick Jones of the Clash: Career Opportunities
- The Quireboys: White trash rhythm'n'booze
- Gladys Knight: Talent with talons
- Kurt Cobain: Gun, head and Smithereens.
- Ocean Colour Scene: Here in my Heart
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- Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown and Billy Joel: Bad cop, good guy
- Nikki Sixx: A very dim light (1991)
- The Cranberries: Even the faithful departed
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- Essential Elsewhere
- Mantovani: A Lifetime of Music 1905-1980 (1980 compilation)
- U2: Achtung Baby (1991); Zooropa (1993)
- Elvis Presley, The Memphis Record (1969)
- Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch (1964)
- Fripp and Eno: No Pussyfooting (1973) and Evening Star (1975)
- NEU!: NEU! (1971) NEU!2 (1973) NEU! ‘75 (1975)
- Dr Feelgood, Stupidity (1976)
- Paul and Linda McCartney, Ram (1971)
- Dr John: Gris Gris (1968)
- David Sylvian: Gone to Earth (1986)
- Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
- Vanessa Daou: Zipless (1994)
- Downliners Sect: The Sect (1964)
- The Dwight Twilley Band; Twilley Don't Mind (1975)
- The Ramones: Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones Anthology (1999)
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- From the Vaults
- Johnny Guitar Watson: Funk Beyond the Call of Duty (1977)
- Willie Nelson: Healing Hands of Time (1961)
- Romeo Void: Never Say Never (1982)
- Brave Combo: My Girl Lollipop (1982)
- Letter to a Buddie: Joe Medwick (1963)
- Roy Buchanan: The Messiah Will Come Again (1976)
- Various People: A crowd at the futbol in Buenos Aires
- Brix E. Smith and Nigel Kennedy: Hurdy Gurdy Man (1991)
- Allen Ginsberg: Dope Fiend Blues (1972)
- Eddie Hinton: I Want a Woman (1986)
- Johnny Cash: Understand Your Man (1964)
- Peter Cape: She'll Be Right (1959)
- Hasil Adkins: She Said (1966?)
- Elvis Presley: Always on My Mind (1972)
- Joel Grey: White Room (1969)
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- Jazz in Elsewhere
- CHARLES MINGUS: Genius captured in the late Fifties
- CHARLES MINGUS, PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS IN 1956: Man standing up tall
- PHILIP LARKIN ON JAZZ: The poet laureate of swing
- ALBERT AYLER: Opening the door to the future
- Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga (Light in the Attic)
- Various Artists: Message from the Tribe (Universal Sound/Southbound)
- Roger Manins: Trio (Rattle)
- MARCUS ROBERTS INTERVIEWED (1990): Keys and thought in black'n'white
- CECIL TAYLOR IN 1990: Florescent flights
- Andy Atwill: 3 Sides of the Same Coin (Ode)
- Zirkus: Sirius Music (iiii)
- ROY HARGROVE INTERVIEWED (1990): Young man with a horn
- ORNETTE COLEMAN AND THE NAKED LUNCH SOUNDTRACK (1991): Something else, again
- Marilyn Crispell and David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM/Ode)
- Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence (HideInside/Southbound)
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- Blues in Elsewhere
- CHESS BLUES: Taking it from the street
- B.B. KING; KING OF BLUES: It's good to be King
- ERIC CLAPTON; THE FIRST 25 YEARS CONSIDERED: The living link between hippie and yuppie
- ELMORE JAMES: Sliding with the king
- JOHN MAYALL AND ERIC CLAPTON: Blues breaking alive in '65
- JOHN LEE HOOKER INTERVIEWED (1990): What's in his name?
- Oli Brown: Heads I Win Tails You Lose (Ruf/Yellow Eye)
- Big Daddy Wilson: Love is the Key (Ruf/Yellow Eye)
- Otis Taylor: Clovis People Vol 3 (Telarc)
- Jeff Healey: Last Call (Stony Plain/Southbound)
- JEFF HEALEY INTERVIEWED (1989): Keeping the future open
- Guitar Shorty: Bare Knuckle (Alligator)
- JOHN MAYALL INTERVIEWED, AND REVIEWED (2010): On the blues highways
- John Mayall: Tough (Eagle)
- JANIS JOPLIN: Singing out the painful sparks within
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- World Music
- Various Artists: A New Day; The Laya Project Remixed (EarthSync)
- Luisa Maita: Lero-Lero (Cumbancha)
- CARLOS GARDEL: The voice of Argentina
- IMAGINING AFRICA IN THE SIXTIES: The Soul of Africa album considered
- Afrobeast: Yaaba Funk (Sterns/Southbound)
- PROFESSOR BYUNGKI HWANG INTERVIEWED (2008): The Korean master musician at home
- Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto Vol 2 (Strut)
- ITALIAN POP AND ROCK: Searching for the young soul rebels
- TEN SONGS WHICH CONJURE UP A MYTHICAL PACIFIC: From Blue Hawaii to the mean streets of urban Auckland
- Various Artists: Afro-Rock Volume One (Strut)
- Etoile De Dakar: Once Upon a Time in Senegal (Sterns/Southbound)
- BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB in concert, review: Music, myth and marketing in Melbourne (2001)
- The Ipanemas: Que Beleza (Far Out/Southbound)
- Sarazino: Ya Foy! (Cumbancha)
- ANOUSHKA SHANKAR INTERVIEWED: Never in the shadow (2008)
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- Reggae
- BURNING SPEAR INTERVIEWED (2000): Still tending his crop
- ERNEST RANGLIN INTERVIEWED (1999): Ska pioneer
- LEE SCRATCH PERRY IN THE 90s: Getting dub'n'reggae through time tuff
- JUDY MOWATT INTERVIEWED (1990): The black queen arises
- Dub Spencer and Trance Hill: Riding Strange Horses (Echo Beach/Yellow)
- BOB MARLEY; RASTAMAN VIBRATION RECONSIDERED (2003): The legacy is music and the message
- Youssou N'Dour: Dakar-Kingston (Universal)
- Katchafire: Say What You're Thinking (EMI CD/DVD Edition)
- The Skatalites: Anthology (Primo/Southbound)
- DubXanne: The Police in Dub (Echo Beach/Yellow Eye)
- BOB MARLEY; TALKIN' BLUES: The Rastaman chanting down Babylon in 1973
- HERBS, NEW ZEALAND'S POLITICISED REGGAE REVOLUTION: Hard tings an' times
- DAMIAN MARLEY INTERVIEWED (2006): Maintaining the family standard
- TOUGHER THAN TOUGH: The 1994 box set of Jamaican music considered
- BOB MARLEY REMEMBERED IN NEW ZEALAND: The symmetry of commemorations
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- Film in Elsewhere
- CORNER GAS; SEASON THREE (Madman DVD)
- FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN, a film by OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL (Madman DVD)
- PRIVILEGE, a film by PETER WATKINS, 1967 (Universal DVD)
- HUE AND CRY, a film by CHARLES CRICHTON, 1947 (Madman DVD)
- LONDON ROCK AND ROLL SHOW 1972 (Rajon DVD)
- GRAND DESIGNS: SERIES SIX with KEVIN McCLOUD (Roadshow DVD)
- HERB AND DOROTHY, a documentary by MEGUMI SASAKI (Madman DVD)
- COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, a documentary by RON MANN (DV1/Southbound)
- EDGEPLAY; A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS by Victory Tischler-Blue (Shock DVD, 2004)
- THE NEW STATESMAN written by LAURENCE MARKS AND MAURICE GRAN (Shock DVD)
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STEET BAND: LONDON CALLING; LIVE IN HYDE PARK (Sony DVD)
- JOAN BAEZ; HOW SWEET THE SOUND a documentary by MARY WHARTON (2009)
- CRAZY HEART, a film by SCOTT COOPER (Roadshow DVD)
- OF TIME AND THE CITY, a film by TERENCE DAVIES (Madman DVD)
- NO DIRECTION HOME a film about Bob Dylan by MARTIN SCORSESE (2005)
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- Writing in Elsewhere
- JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON;THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE by MICHEAL STREISSGUTH
- CAN'T BE SATISFIED, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MUDDY WATERS by ROBERT GORDON
- VINYL HAYRIDE; COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUM COVERS 1947-89 by PAUL KINGSBURY
- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE by JIM DeROGATE: When the whip comes down
- DOWN AT THE END OF LONELY STREET by PETER BROWN and PAT BROESKE: The rise and fall of the King
- MIND OVER MATTER: THE IMAGES OF PINK FLOYD by STORM THORGERSON AND PETER CURZON: Memorable lapses of reason
- SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS by DON MCcCULLIN: War -- and something approaching peace
- 20TH CENTURY DREAMS by NIK COHN AND GUY PEELAERT: A life less ordinary
- BIGGLES SHOT DOWN: But not by the Boche this time
- CLEOPATRA; HISTORIES, DREAMS AND DISTORTIONS by LUCY HALLETT-HUGHES
- AN EXPANDING SUBTERRA by WAYNE BARRAR: Going underground
- LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI INTERVIEWED (2000): The angry old man
- THE GREAT WALL by JULIA LOVELL: Built it and they'll believe it
- VENICE: PURE CITY by PETER ACKROYD (2010)
- MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS by TONY BRAMWELL:Not only a northern song
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- Cultural Elsewhere
- QUEEN CITY ROCK: Auckland Nightlife, Look Back in Wonder (2010)
- THE DIFFICULT ARTS UNDER NAZISM: The uncomfortable past -- and present
- ANTOINE WIERTZ: Rape, damnation and the art of darkness
- LA MONTE YOUNG: The master of minimalism, and more
- TODAY IN HISTORY: AUGUST 16 1977: The king is gone . . .
- RHONA HASZARD: Portrait of the artist as a young woman (2004)
- THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CRITIC (Essay, 2007)
- BRIAN ENO AND THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE: Obscure but not oblique
- SALVADOR DALI, HIS MUSEUM IN FIGUERES: The Disneyland of the disturbed
- MARCEL MARCEAU INTERVIEWED 2001: It's all talk, talk, talk . . .
- BARRY HUMPHRIES ON THE RECORD: The early life of an agent provocateur
- STEVE REICH INTERVIEWED (1990): The maximal minimalist
- SIR STANLEY SPENCER ESSAYED (2003): Of angels and dirt
- COMPOSER JOHN TAVENER INTERVIEWED (1993): Lifting the Veil
- ANDY WARHOL'S LOOK: Glamour, Style, Fashion and Moron
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- Travel Stories
- Kayenta, Arizona: Into the valley
- Oregon, USA: Night of the Hunters
- Hotel Headhunter in Sarawak: Up-river in remote Borneo Malaysia
- Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: Headlong into the future
- EUR, Italy: The facades of fascism
- Cameron, Louisiana: The stink of shrimp and petroleum
- Breaux Bridge, Louisiana: In Cajun country
- Bushmills, Northern Ireland: The sweet smell of morning
- San Francisco, California: Feeding the inner man
- Grimes, California: Tales of the riverbank
- Rome, Italy: When in Rome
- Nga Trang, Vietnam: He wears my ring
- New York, USA: Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning
- Central Park, New York: Pride of the south
- Gold Coast, Australia: The singer not the song
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- Something Elsewhere
- Who do you think you are?: In search of my name in Scotland
- Scratching the surface: In praise of old time music
- Trade . . .Me? A story of failed entrepreneurialism
- The Power of Speech: a short story
- And The Horse You Rode Into Town On
- The musician, a fairly true story
- The Nightmare from Down Under: Paying the price for gluttony
- Out of a Clear Blue Sky
- Looking at Ourselves: the film New Zealand, in cinemas now
- Life in a leaky building: a survivor's tale
- Come, feel the noize: A true story from the suburbs
- Decently and in Order: Necessary surveillance of civilians
- More to life than cars and girls?
- In and Out of Fashion: The Style Council Deliberates
- Stayin' Alive: The fitness phase (2005)
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- Llew's pork & prune medley, from the Republic of SunnyO
- Pollo Adobo (chicken, Filipino style)
- Hot Smoked Salmon Pasta
- Chilli lime Thai fish with coriander, by James
- Scotty's salmon'n'scallop filo gateau with a capsicum dill buerre blanc
- Crispy'n'chilli squid
- Greg's wife's Kotosoupa Avgolemono (chicken soup with egg and lemon sauce)
- Seafood gumbo, Cajun-style
- Louisiana Shrimp Etoufee
- James' "no worries" Curried Alaskan King Crab
- Jan and Mark's easy-as noodles
- David's Spanish lamb and red pepper stew
- Greg's Khabli Palau (Afghani spiced lamb pilaf)
- Angela's Low-fat Moist Cake which serves 12!
- Keith's Christmas Tequila Cookies
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