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Elsewhere » Music
4d ago
When the big voiced blues-rock belter Beth Hart came to this country in 2000 on a promotional tour, we pushed her LA Song to the top of our charts, her first number one anywhere.
To be honest I don't remember the song that much but I certainly remember her.
As I said Source: Beth Hart: You Still Got Me (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
4d ago
Many years ago the British music writer Pete Frame would produce meticulously researched Rock Family Trees tracing the various comings and goings in scenes and bands, creating vast branches for groups like Fleetwood Mac.
If he ever did ...
Source: Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
1w ago
A few weeks ago we wrote about the late Scottish-born Canadian animator and film maker Norman McLaren and our distant relationship with him. We took the opportunity to do because of the Synchromy single/animated footage which appeared.
Source: Norman McLaren: Rythmetic; The Compositions of Norman McLaren (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
1w ago
From time to time we have a Recommended Record, an album which you deserve to have on vinyl because it plays better that way, has an especially interesting cover (gatefold sleeve, lyrics, credits etc) and it just feels right on record.
This ...
Source: A NOT RECOMMENDED RECORD: The Beatles: Live in Stockholm 1964 ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
1w ago
The first three singles released in advance of this new album by Josh Tillman (Father John Misty) were so majestic they seemed to herald something special on his sixth album Mahāśmaśāna, which apparently means “the great cremation ground” in Sanskrit.
There was the heroic, seven minute Screamland (with Low's ...
Source: Father John Misty: Mahāśmaśāna (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
1w ago
There are any number of great Ray Charles albums (notably the two volumes of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music) and numerous compilations, but this seminal album from 1966 has just been remastered and reissued so we bring it to attention.
Source: RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Ray Charles: Crying Time (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
2w ago
We have it on sort-of reliable authority that Arthur Ahbez is this local artist's real name, not a homage to the fascinating proto-hippie Eden Ahbez who wrote, ...
Source: Arthur Ahbez: Arthur Ahbez and the Flaming Ahbez (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
2w ago
No one could accuse Ōtautahi Christchurch's Adam Hattaway of coasting. Since his 2018 debut album All Dat Love with the Haunters, they've released five albums of Hattaway originals and co-writes, Source: Adam Hattaway and the Haunters: High Horse (digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
2w ago
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this double album in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics and track credits and in a classy cover.
Check out Elsewhere's other Source: RECOMMENDED RECORD: Dwight Yoakam: Brighter Days (Via Records/digital outlets ..read more
Elsewhere » Music
2w ago
One of the most deceptively clever and memorable local pop songs of recent years was the Lucky Girl single by Amelia Murray (aka Fazerdaze). It had a gleaming and upbeat sound but a close listen revealed layers of uncertainty within it.
It was on her excellent 2017 debut album Morningside where the ...
Source: Fazerdaze: Soft Power (digital outlets ..read more