2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (655+ words) Trucks in Bill Richardson Transport Museum, Invercargill, New Zealand Many years ago Megan bought me a CD of songs that were popular in the year of my birth: 1951. I set the disc aside, probably moved it to somewhere else and…...

6+ hour, 22+ min ago  (794+ words) Bondage masks at the Sex Machines Museum, Prague Sometimes you're best to just come clean and admit that some Very Famous Indeed artists just passed you by. As I'm sure I've mentioned somewhere at Elsewhere previously, I've had to endure…...

20+ hour, 20+ min ago  (346+ words) The loneliest tree, in Lake Brunner, New Zealand's South Island A memory from the battleground of fun: when The Black Keys came to New Zealand for the first time and played the King's Arms in Auckland they were barely known…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (561+ words) Reflection of the main mosque in Banda Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei Author Dan Wang " a research fellow at Stanford, essayist for the'New York Times, Atlantic, Financial Times and other worthy outlets " has written an especially readable account looking…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (522+ words) Hotel pillow: Bells at Killcare at Bouddi Peninsula, NSW, Australia Let's first say this about Andrew Spraggon who is Sola Rose and invites in guest artists, he gives good album art. The covers of a few of his many releases…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (668+ words) Remote high country near Lake Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand Before Elvis Costello played in Auckland in 2014 we speculated on what songs he might sing. The previous year he and the Imposters -- two thirds of the original Attractions but which…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (328+ words) Painting by Moroccan artist Ahmed Louardiri (1928-74), detail The provenance of this very dodgy looking album " pulled from the shelves at random for this on-going column " is hard to discern. Some have sessions, such as they were, dated as early 1963 when…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (374+ words) Umbrellas on the beach at Essaouira, Morocco It is possible and perfectly acceptable not to follow the career of artists other (often more hip) folk consider Very Important. If you missed much of the careers of Guided by Voices, J…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (209+ words) Graham Reid "|" Apr 16, 2026 "|" To further acknowledge Richard Langston's quite exceptional biography of the Clean, In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul which we reviewed here (and also extrapolated a personal memory out of here) we cast our mind back…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (14+ words) Various Artists: Desi, The Soul of Punjab (Arc Music/digital outlets)elsewhere. co. nz...