22+ hour, 18+ min ago  (256+ words) The local selection in Malmsbury, England Aside from unleashing his own extraordinary music onto an unsuspecting world in '67, Jimi Hendrix also kicked down the door for a thousand other guitarists who studied his technique and tone and then attempted something…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (961+ words) Looming thunderstorm, which didn't eventuate, in Kuala Lumpur Nina Hagen in 2026? Now that's a surprise. We mentioned her in passing recently when writing about Dutch rocker Herman Brood with whom she had a relationship, and they appeared together in a…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (705+ words) Shells in rocks, Southland, New Zealand Respected, nervous, anorexic and almost popular sometimes, he was always his own man. Reilly " in his early Seventies at the time of this writing and suffering the effects of a stroke in 2010 " is an…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (198+ words) Faces of Singapore, Covid-period art project Graham Reid "|" Mar 30, 2026 "|" Something a bit esoteric perhaps? This Bengali-Australian ensemble here bring together Baul poetry, Himalayan folk, a bit of dub, guitar, saxophone, harmonium and more, all recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (282+ words) Jesus and disciples in a church near Goa, India At the very end of the Keith Richards' doco project about Chuck Berry, Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll, we see Chuck sitting quietly with his electric guitar (pianist Johnnie Johnson mostly…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1941+ words) The bar at Ika restaurant, Auckland, New Zealand Although Elsewhere is very broad church, we don't often go into the drum'n'bass territory " although we seem to have always made an exception for Tali, one of this country's most successful musical…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (138+ words) The opera and ballet house, Oslo in Norway One afternoon in Helsinki, the capital of Finland I decided to check out the underground stations, starting with the main station in the centre of the city. It was big, imposing and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (419+ words) Pottery and plates, Northland, New Zealand After more than two decades teaching composition at the University of Auckland, the exceptionally busy de Castro-Robinson has been " among other commitments and interests " a freelance composer since 2020. And she is very free. Her…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (482+ words) Up close and personal at a 72-track mixing desk in Abbey Road studios, London Keyboard player Joe Zawinul had recorded albums under his own name before this one, but the self-titled previous one had been in '71, 15 years back. In the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (507+ words) Petals in a pot at Santi Mandala near Ubud in Bali Not every soundtrack can, or needs to, stand independent of its film. Few would spend much time with Hans Zimmer's Dunkirk music -- hypnotic though it is -- without seeing stoic…...