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Album Review: Roy Orbison, The Monument Singles Collection 1960-1964
Roy Orbison didn't show a lot of emotion, but his songs and voice were brimming with them, writes Graham Reid.

Album Review: Noah and the Whale Last Night on Earth
On their third album, Twickenham band Noah and the Whale is slightly evangelistic in its take on life, and the way one can meander through it.

Album Review: PNC Man on Wire
A couple of years ago, PNC's album Bazooka Kid set local hip-hop on a renaissance trip of sorts with its flashy and fun mix of styles, cheeky bravado and rhymes like "Looking for the chicks with Brooke Fraser lips".

Concert Review: Herbie Hancock, ASB Theatre
When Herbie Hancock was last here in 2007 he played a show that spanned his classic work - and really, that's what you want to hear.

Book Review: <i>When God was a Rabbit</i>
A British actress' first novel reveals her comedic talent.

Book Review: <i>Or the Bull Kills You</i>
Nervous readers need not fear, Jason Webster's new Spanish detective, Max Camara of Valencia, hates bullfights.

Book Review: <i>War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict</i>
On May 27, 1942, two Czech parachutists ambushed and wounded SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich near Prague. Heydrich was not seriously wounded but a ricochet bullet had carried cloth, wire and wool into the wound.

Book Review: <i>Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I</i>
Not a picture book, not a graphic novel, not anything easily pigeon-holed, Chris Slane and Matt Elliott's study-cum-evocation of life in World War I is a great resource and a great read.

TV Review: MasterChef, episode 10
One of the fun parts of watching an elimination show like MasterChef is trying to second-guess the producers.

Album Review: Marianne Faithfull, Horses and High Heels
The off-beat British singer is determined to keep at it, and so drags her voice through her 18th studio album, a collection made up mostly of covers.

Album Review: J Mascis, Several Shades of Why
For those expecting the ear-splitting riffs similar to the ones J Mascis lets rip with in Dinosaur Jr. then take a chill pill.

Album Review: Sandra Boynton with B.B. King, One Shoe Blues
Guitar hero B.B. King singing the blues with a chorus of sock puppets? What the ... ?

Hayley Westenra teams up with legendary Italian composer
New Zealand popera star Hayley Westenra has teamed up with a legendary Italian composer for her latest album.

Album Review: The Kills, Blood Pressures
The antagonism is still there and Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince let it ricochet off one another.

Album Review: TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light
These New York art rock oddballs have quite a pedigree to uphold following three of the most twisted, yet captivating, albums of the past decade.