Thursday, December 7, 2023

Up Jumped the Devil, The Real Life Of Robert Johnson: Book Review

Up Jumped the Devil, The Real Life Of Robert Johnson Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow, Chicago Review Press 2019 This is the book that many...

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains – V&A Publications

The Exhibition Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains is an immersive journey through the world of Pink Floyd.  As with most shows at the Victoria &Albert...

Good Vibrations – My Life As A Beach Boy – Mike Love (Book Review)

Mike Love tells his own jaundiced version of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys,...

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World – Billy Bragg (Faber)

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World - by Billy Bragg / Faber and Faber $45 Told with joyous vigour, this book tells...

Listen To Nicky Hager & Jon Stephenson’s Press Conference

Under an almost complete cloak of silence investigative reporter Nicky Hager and war correspondent Jon Stephenson launched a new book last night that claims...

Goneville – Nick Bollinger (AWA Press)

  There are plenty of books available for the discerning music fan this time of year including new tomes by Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen and...

Grant & I, Inside And Outside The Go-Betweens: Robert Forster (Penguin)

  Anyone interested in The Go-Betweens was probably uplifted by the wave of interest generated by co-founder Robert Forster’s recent NZ appearances and the publication...

Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (Book Launch)

The 13th Floor's Tim Gruar covered the launch of the book Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Here is his report: Thursday...

Sentinel (Book 1 of the ‘Sentinel’ Trilogy) (Book Review)

Our film critic Sarah McMullan does more than just sitting around watching films...she can read, too! Here she is with a review of Sentinel (Book...