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• Absolute
  • ETTA JAMES REMEMBERED (2012): A lady not for turning
  • TOY LOVE; A RETURN BOUT? (2012)
  • BLUES MAGOOS 1966-68: Pop's psychedelic pioneers
  • NICK LOWE INTERVIEWED (2011): Looking for that old magic
  • GERRY ROSLIE OF THE SONICS INTERVIEWED (2012): The noise of the Pacific Northwest
  • JAY FARRAR INTERVIEWED (2012): Raising the spirit of Guthrie again
  • PULP REISSUED (2012): Portrait of the Jarvis as a young knobhead
  • BOB SEGER RECONSIDERED (2012): Rock and roll should never forget him
  • ROKY ERICKSON INTERVIEWED (2012): Calling occupants of interplanetary craft . . .
  • DIANA ROSS, COMING OUT IN '80: From soul-pop princess to Chic dancefloor diva
  • DOUG JEREBINE INTERVIEWED (2012): The distant light that shines again
  • NEW ORDER REISSUED AND RECONSIDERED (2012): Dreams never end . . .
  • ROD STEWART, STORYTELLER: The easy case for the defense
  • BADFINGER (1968-73): The shop-soiled Apple band
  • ALABAMA 3 INTERVIEWED (2012): Pills'n'Thrills and country heartaches
  • THE LOUVIN BROTHERS, SATAN IS REAL, 1959: A slow waltz with the devil
  • THE SHARP SARACENO AND THE MYSTERIOUS MARKETTS: Tales from the farce side
  • THE DOORS; LA WOMAN, 1971: Four decades gone, the big beat goes on
  • STEPHEN STILLS INTERVIEWED (2012): He's a real everywhere man
  • JOHN DENSMORE INTERVIEWED (2012): Re-opening the Doors four decades on
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• Favourite Five
  • The Verlaines: Untimely Meditations (Flying Nun)
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  • The Ramblers: It's only rock'n'roll, and I survived it
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  • UB40: Just another labour of love
  • The Cranberries: Even the faithful departed
  • Hawkwind: Spaced out in the suburbs
  • Odetta: A legend ignored
  • Mark Knopfler: Why the long face, son?
  • The Gin Blossoms: Memphis in the meantime
  • Henry Rollins: The power and the passion
  • Nikki Sixx: A very dim light (1991)
  • Krist Novoselic: Fast track to nowhere
  • Neil Young: Out to lunch
  • Howard Devoto of Magazine: The floorboards creak . . .
  • The Quireboys: White trash rhythm'n'booze
  • Joan Osborne: Taking qawwali to the kids
  • Climie Fisher: Here today and gone . . .
  • U2: My unforgettable fire
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  • Sammy Price: Nice'n'nasty
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• Essential
  • Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly (2000)
  • T.Rex: Electric Warrior (1971)
  • This Heat: This Heat (1979)
  • Alexander Spence: Oar (1969)
  • Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost (1975)
  • Steve Earle: Copperhead Road (1988)
  • Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble: Mnemosyne (1999)
  • Nick Lowe: Dig My Mood (1998)
  • Max Romeo: War Ina Babylon (1976)
  • Paul Revere and the Raiders: Greatest Hits (1967)
  • Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
  • Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (1980)
  • Various: Get a Haircut compilation (2007)
  • Magazine: Real Life (1978)
  • Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban: Mambo Sinuendo (2003)
  • Can, Tago Mago (1971)
  • Ken Emerson: Slack and Steel Kaua'i Style (2007)
  • Various Artists: Delta Swamp Rock (2011)
  • Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (2011 reissue)
  • Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene (1977)
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• From the Vaults
  • Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan: Jimmy Berman (1971)
  • The Viscounts: Harlem Nocturne (1959)
  • Norman "Hurricane" Smith: Oh Babe, What Would You Say (1972)
  • Status Quo: When My Mind is Not Live (1968)
  • The Saints: (I'm) Stranded (1976)
  • Sam Gopal: Escalator (1969)
  • Cheryl Lynn: Got To Be Real (1978)
  • Felius Andromeda: Meditations (1967)
  • John Cage: Mushroom Haiku (date unknown)
  • The Music Convention: Bellyboard Beat (1968)
  • The Tigers: Red Dress (1980)
  • The J Geils Band: No Anchovies, Please (1980)
  • The Flying Burrito Brothers: Wild Horses (1970)
  • The Tickle: Subway (1967)
  • Joe Tex: I Gotcha (1972)
  • Bob Dylan:Belle Isle (1970)
  • Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The LS Bumble Bee (1967)
  • Jim Carroll: People Who Died (1980)
  • The Herd: From the Underworld (1967)
  • William Burroughs: What Washington? What orders? (1953)
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• Other Voices, Other Rooms
  • GUEST WRITER CHRIS BOURKE considers the early career of Randy Newman
  • GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER JULIAN REID with a photo essay of characters in London's Brick Lane
  • GUEST WRITER CHRIS CREE BROWN on Tony Palmer's film about the life and music of Benjamin Britten
  • GUEST WRITER ANDREW SCHMIDT considers the New Zealand impact of writer William Burroughs
  • GUEST WRITER NICK SMITH gets blown away by Bach's little big one
  • GUEST WRITER VIKY GARDEN is seduced by the Impressionism, again
  • GUEST WRITER VIKY GARDEN is confronted by the work of painter Otto Dix
  • GUEST WRITER CATHERINE HOWARD looks to the past and future in the stars
  • GUEST WRITER ROB SCOTT on the tug of two homelands
  • GUEST WRITER STEVE GARDEN considers the fine art of the piano tuner
  • GUEST WRITER CHRIS CREE BROWN settles in for an afternoon of unfamiliar piano pieces
  • GUEST WRITER SARAH JANE ROWLAND sees Sinatra at his meanest and best
  • GUEST WRITER ANDREW SCHMIDT reflects on being shaped by the people and culture of South Auckland
  • GUEST WRITER SARAH JANE ROWLAND on a classic British crime movie
  • GUEST WRITER JEFFREY PAPAROA HOLMAN goes bird watching
  • GUEST WRITER NICK SMITH concludes communism is good for something . . .
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• The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire
  • THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Ed Castelow of Dictaphone Blues
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• The Bargain Buy
  • THE BARGAIN BUY: Bootsy's Rubber Band; Original Album Series (Rhino)
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• Jazz
  • Billy Hart: All Our Reasons (ECM/Ode)
  • PATTI AUSTIN INTERVIEWED (2012): Along came Jones . . . and Jacko
  • KURT ELLING INTERVIEWED (2004): Moved by the spirit
  • KEVIN FIELD PROFILED (2012): The vision thing . . .
  • Various artists: Bossa Jazz (Soul Jazz/Southbound)
  • Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)
  • COLIN HEMMINGSEN PROFILED (2012): With his heart in both camps
  • Campbell, Rae, Dyne: Storm in a Teacup (Rattle Jazz)
  • Olivier Holland: Duets (Ode)
  • Tim Hopkins: Seven (Rattle Jazz)
  • Tom Dennison: Zoo (Rattle Jazz)
  • Alan Brown: Between the Spaces (Ode)
  • NEILS-HENNING ORSTED PEDERSEN INTERVIEWED (2001): All basses covered
  • Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)
  • The New Fuse Box: The Wakem/Nielson Project (LGW)
  • MILES DAVIS; TUTU 25 YEARS ON: Hope you like my new direction?
  • Mathias Eick: Skala (ECM/Ode)
  • SONNY ROLLINS INTERVIEWED (2011): The old lion still prowling
  • Various Artists: Chris Barber; Memories from My Trip (Proper)
  • Dave Lisik: The Curse of the Queen's Diamond (Rattle Jazz)
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• Blues
  • BIG DADDY WILSON INTERVIEWED (2012): Blues sprechen here
  • Louisiana Red and Little Victor's Juke Joint: Memphis Mojo (Ruf/Yellow Eye)
  • CHAMPION JACK DUPREE REMEMBERED: Seconds out of the ring . . .
  • Savoy Brown: Voodoo Moon (Ruf/Yellow Eye)
  • Omar and the Howlers: Essential Collection (Ruf/Yellow Eye)
  • HOWLIN' WOLF IN LONDON, 1970: When worlds collide
  • ERIC BIBB INTERVIEWED (2009): Born into this
  • Big Daddy Wilson: Thumb a Ride (Ruf)
  • JOHN MAYALL IN THE SIXTIES: And Another Man Done Gone . . .
  • Duke Robillard: Passport to the Blues (Stony Plain)
  • Rory Block: Shake 'Em on Down (Stony Plain)
  • Joe Louis Walker's Blues Conspiracy: Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (Stony Plain)
  • Tab Benoit: Medicine (Telarc)
  • Watermelon Slim and Super Chicken: Okiesippi Blues (NorthernBlues)
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator (Masterworks)
  • Howlin' Wolf: The Howlin' Wolf Album (Set on Down)
  • TRAVELLING RIVERSIDE BLUES: Robert Johnson, the blues and Clarksdale, Mississippi
  • DEREK TRUCKS INTERVIEWED (2009): Allman and Clapton, but his own man
  • ALLIGATOR RECORDS 1971 - 2011: Four decades of brittle and often brilliant blues
  • GREGG ALLMAN INTERVIEWED (2010): The Road Goes On Forever
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• World Music
  • Cristina Branco: Live in Amsterdam (Arc)
  • Various Artists: The Rough Guide to African Roots Revival (Rough Guide)
  • Various Artists: The Original Sound of Cumbia (Soundway)
  • Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa (Rough Guide)
  • WOMAD TARANAKI (2012): When the world comes calling
  • Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco (Rough Guide)
  • SHIVKUMAR SHARMA INTERVIEWED (2012): Answering the master's call
  • Manu Dibango: Afro-Soul Machine (Metro Select)
  • STAFF BENDA BILILI INTERVIEWED (2012): Takin' it from the street
  • The Lijadu Sisters: Afro-Beat Soul Sisters (Soul Jazz/Southbound)
  • Baloji: Kinshasa Succursale (Crammed Discs/Southbound)
  • Various Artists: Rangarang; Pre-revolutionary Iranian Pop (Vampi Soul/Southbound)
  • Sambasunda Quintet: Java (World Music Network)
  • LO'JO INTERVIEWED (2012): The maison where worlds collude
  • Various Artists: Gilles Peterson presents Havana Cultura, The Search Continues (Brownswood/Southbound)
  • Various Artists; So Frenchy So Chic 2012 (Cartell/Border)
  • La Chiva Gantiva: Pelao (Crammed Discs)
  • El Rego: El Rego (Daptone)
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• Reggae
  • Lee Perry and the Upsetters: High Plains Drifter (Pressure Sounds)
  • Zionhill: Inside of You (Moko)
  • Chris Macro: Macro-Dubplates Vol III; Brooklyn vs Kingston (chrismacro.com)
  • JAMAICA'S STUDIO ONE AND CLEMENT DODD: The focal point of reggae
  • Ziggy Marley: Wild and Free (Tuff Gong)
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live Forever (Universal)
  • House of Shem: Island Vibration (Isaac)
  • SLY DUNBAR INTERVIEWED (2003): Pull up to the drummer, baby
  • TOUGHER THAN TOUGH: The 1994 box set of Jamaican music considered
  • BOB MARLEY; RASTAMAN VIBRATION RECONSIDERED: The legacy is music and the message
  • BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH INTERVIEWED (2000): The people's poet laureate
  • The Heptones: Sweet Talking (Studio One)
  • Easy Star All-Stars: Dubber Side of the Moon (Easy Star/Southbound)
  • Katchafire: On the Road Again (EMI)
  • KATCHAFIRE (2005): Slow burning their way to consciousness
  • BOB MARLEY; TALKIN' BLUES: The Rastaman chanting down Babylon in 1973
  • THE DREAM GOES ON: Bob Marley's enduring influence, in jazz and elsewhere
  • 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
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• Film
  • I NEED THAT RECORD! a doco by BRENDAN TOLLER (Gryphon/Southbound DVD)
  • ELITE SQUAD; THE ENEMY WITHIN by JOSE PADILHA (Madman DVD)
  • GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNE, a doco by MIKE FLEISS and MIKE PISCITELLI (Eagle Rock DVD)
  • WALLANDER, SERIES 1 and 2, the television series based on books by HENNING MANKELL (BBC DVD)
  • MR MOJO RISIN', THE STORY OF LA WOMAN a doco by MARTIN R SMITH (Shock DVD)
  • THE UNDERWATER MELON MAN, a film by FANE FLAWS (Yellow Eye DVD)
  • LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM: SONGS FROM THE SMALL MACHINE (Eagle Vision DVD/CD)
  • PUNK REVOLUTION NYC, a doco by TOM O'DELL (Chrome Dreams DVD)
  • THE LOVE WE MAKE, a doco by ALBERT MAYSLES and BRADLEY KAPLIN (Shock DVD)
  • FOOTROT FLATS, 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, by MURRAY BALL (Roadshow DVD)
  • THE ROLLING STONES; SOME GIRLS, LIVE IN TEXAS '78 a concert film by LYNN LENAU CALMES
  • GEORGE HARRISON; LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD a doco by MARTIN SCORSESE (Roadshow DVD)
  • RUSSIAN SNARK, a film by STEPHEN SINCLAIR (VM DVD)
  • METROPOLIS; RECONSTRUCTED AND RESTORED, a film by FRITZ LANG (Madman DVD)
  • COMANCHE MOON, written by LARRY McMURTRY (Madman DVD)
  • ROGER CORMAN PRESENTS SHARKTOPUS, directed by DECLAN O'BRIEN (Anchor Bay DVD)
  • HARRY SINCLAIR INTERVIEWED (2011): Expat filmmaker talks about his life
  • HAIL BOP! A PORTRAIT OF JOHN ADAMS, a doco by TONY PALMER (Voiceprint DVD)
  • BOB DYLAN; 1990-2006: THE NEVER ENDING NARRATIVE (Chrome Dreams DVD)
  • RUTHIE FOSTER: LIVE AT ANTONE'S (Fuse DVD)
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• Writing
  • PERLMANN'S SILENCE by PASCAL MERCIER
  • THE NEW 1000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE by PATRICIA SCHULTZ
  • IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES by ANTHONY McCARTEN
  • THE WORLD OF TINTIN. The timeless boy
  • AEROSMITH, THE ULTIMATE HISTORY OF THE BOSTON BAD BOYS by RICHARD BIENSTOCK
  • NO REGRETS; A ROCK'N'ROLL MEMOIR by ACE FREHLEY
  • BULLFIGHTING by RODDY DOYLE
  • CLAPTON, THE ULTIMATE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY by CHRIS WELCH
  • SPEAKING FRANKLY: THE FRANK SARGESON MEMORIAL LECTURES 2003-2010 edited by SARAH SHIEFF
  • THE COOKBOOK TOUR, EUROPE by FLIP GRATER
  • THE BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE WRITING, 2011 edited by STEPHEN PINCOCK
  • TREASURES OF THE BEE GEES by BRIAN SOUTHALL (Carlton Books)
  • ARNOLD ZABLE INTERVIEWED (2011): Speaking for those who cannot
  • AMY WINEHOUSE: THE BIOGRAPHY 1983-2011 by CHAS NEWKEY-BURDEN
  • 45 SOUTH IN CONCERT by NEIL McKELVIE (Southland Musicians Club)
  • DARK NIGHT: WALKING WITH McCAHON by MARTIN EDMOND
  • EVERY POSTER TELLS A STORY! 30 YEARS OF THE FRONTIER TOURING COMPANY edited by ELOISE GLANVILLE and SARAH MORGAN
  • THE BEATLES Vs THE ROLLING STONES by JIM DeROGATIS and GREG KOT
  • 1950s RADIO IN COLOUR; THE LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEEJAY TOMMY EDWARDS by CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY
  • TWO WALK IN EDINBURGH, photographs by Mari Mahr, poems by Gregory O'Brien. DEVONPORT: A DIARY by Bill Direen
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• Cultural
  • NZ OPERA'S BUNGA-BUNGA VERDI: Rigoletto in Berlusconi's Rome
  • BALI: Island of art, music and entrancing dance
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