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1 week ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid
Brian Wilson and, left, Sly Stone: Legacies endure long after the sun set on their vision. Photos / Getty ImagesThe late Brian Wilson and Sly Stone embodied the different places in the Golden State’s musical geography and history. As news helicopters swirled overhead, demonstrators and troops faced off and smoke rose over Los Angeles, California became the focus of world attention this month.
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1 week ago | 
gript.ie | Graham Reid
Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Robert Forster
Pulp's Jarvis Cocker: Uncommon person. Photo / Getty ImagesReview by Graham ReidGraham Reid is an NZ journalist, author, broadcaster and arts educator. His website, Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. Learn moreMoreBy PulpThe July issue of the British “dad-rock” magazine Mojo reviews new albums by Sparks (debut album 1971), Doobie Brothers, Van Morrison and, inevitably, yet another Neil Young.
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3 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Jenny Mitchell |Michael Llewellyn
Fly My Pretties: Quality and spirit. Photo / SuppliedReview by Graham ReidGraham Reid is an NZ journalist, author, broadcaster and arts educator. His website, Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. Learn moreElementalBy Fly My PrettiesFive years since their last album, the FMP collective helmed by Laughton Kora and Barnaby Weir manage yet another reinvention, with guests.
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3 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid
Put that in your pipe: The bagpipers of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Photo / Ian Georgeson When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo last marched into New Zealand, it attracted an audience of 82,000 over four nights at Wellington’s Cake Tin. In 2016, the nearly 1300 performers came from seven countries.
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4 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Arjuna Oakes
Take a bough: Arjuna Oakes. Photo / SuppliedReview by Graham ReidGraham Reid is an NZ journalist, author, broadcaster and arts educator. His website, Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. Learn moreWhile I’m Distracted By Arjuna OakesBritain-based expat singer-songwriter and producer Arjuna Oakes brings considerable experience to this 14-song double-vinyl debut.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega has released her first studio album in nine years. Photo / SuppliedFlying With AngelsBy Suzanne VegaAmerican singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega arrived in a flash in the mid-1980s with two albums and memorable singles Marlene on the Wall, Luka, Solitude Standing and her a cappella Tom’s Diner – all delivered in a distinctive, emotionally flat manner.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid
Voom: Showing plenty of drive. Photo / Frances CarterSomething Good is Happening By Voom Buzz Moller and his intermittent project Voom – debut album Now I Am Me in 1998, the follow-up Hello, Are You There? eight years later and given a vinyl pressing in 2021 – have enjoyed great affection for their heartfelt, sometimes raw and always melodic guitar pop which roams freely between ragged rock and slacker anthems (Happy Just Bumming Around on Hello and the power-pop adjacent We Don’t Care here).
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2 months ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Bon Iver
Of mammals and myths: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon – self-doubt close to paranoia. Photo / SuppliedSALBE, fABLEby Bon IverIt’s almost 20 years since Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) released his breakthrough country-folk album For Emma, Forever Ago, a collection of personal songs born of three months’ isolation in a snowbound Wisconsin cabin, where he considered his broken life in his mid-20s. Since then, the landscape of alt-folk, country-folk and other Americana offshoots have changed considerably.
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2 months ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Mark de Clive-Lowe |Julien S Baker
When Mark De Clive-Lowe's father died in 2011, he found photos and letters from his father's time in Japan and came to see a different person, a young man with a zest for life, than the strict and overbearing man he knew.
