Take Five: Including Spotify and Home Brew Speakeasy Tour

By Guy Somerset In Take Five

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21st July, 2012
1 To begin, two books that haven’t been released in New Zealand, but hey, we’re all adults here, we know how to ask our booksellers to order from overseas. Or – heaven forfend – how to use the internet. Rick Moody is a writer whose interest in music has surfaced in different ways in his fiction; ON CELESTIAL MUSIC AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN LISTENING (Back Bay Books)gathers together his essays on the subject, including the wonderfully titled “Europe, Forsake Your Drum Machines!” (featuring a hilarious account of Kraftwerk’s initial human drummers) and a long ...

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