The problem with The Block Party is while the acts were excellent, everything else was plagued with problems.

A Rihanna mega fan from West Auckland made her way to Salt Lake City to see the pop superstar live, and came home with a job offer.

Four years is too long to wait for another visit from Stephen Hough.

Back in 2004, when he was visiting this country, Steven Isserlis told me categorically that Elgar and Walton had written two of the finest cello concertos of the 20th century.

Kanye West left the audience of the Ellen DeGeneres' show scratching their heads after he went on a full blown, six-minute rant.

Sir Paul McCartney fans cheered on as a 10-year-old girl walked on stage and asked if she could play the bass alongside the former Beatle.

With Cure tickets on Trade Me for $500 and Flume's rising to $800, music fans must rise up as one, writes Karl Puschmann.

Kiwi act Broods have made a splash with their new song overseas.

Two acts have been removed from the bill of Auckland hip-hop festival The Block Party over visa woes.

James Blake's new album is a spellbinding mixture of glorious vocals and spare electronica, which somehow manages to play in the dark side of life while also remaining light and free

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Indie rock duo The Kills and soul collective The Internet are playing Auckland and Wellington shows in the coming months.

Anohni here fully embraces her femininity and leaps straight into brittle and often dazzlingly appropriate electronica.

Frances Moore and Alex Taylor's daringly dished up Dido and Aeneas: Recomposed has come into town from the west with its original gusto intact.

It's an alluring notion: that all music is inspired by what went before; that songs are ever-evolving reboots of earlier versions.

Demi Lovato has no regrets about her feud with Taylor Swift and insists she won't take "s**t from anybody".

Sinead O'Connor is suing her family as she blames them for her disappearance.

A group of school friends want to put Onehunga rap back on the map. Chris Schulz meets six-strong hip-hop crew SWIDT.

A countdown clock called Prophets of Rage has fans speculating about a Rage Against the Machine reunion.

As his band makes plans to return to New Zealand at the end of the year, Chris Martin talks to Lydia Jenkin about life on planet Coldplay.

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The show is called Alchemy - four female vocalists taking a bunch of Kiwi pop songs and reinventing them as jazz.

Coldplay will be returning to New Zealand at the end of the year for one show at Mount Smart Stadium - and they've got some tricks up their sleeves.

Three Kiwis just nailed "the best vocal audition" of the night on The Voice Australia.

Today's flashback was our first independent record to achieve global success.

Demi and Nick join Carpool Karaoke ahead of their tour together to talk love, heart attacks and harmonies.

Alanis Morissette is suing her former manager Jonathan Schwartz for $4.7 million.

The Internet are returning to New Zealand for two shows: one in Auckland, and one in Wellington.

For fans, the annual guilty pleasure that is Eurovision can be read in all sorts of ways: kitsch entertainment and deadly serious international rivalry.

Sinead O'Connor has been found by authorities after going missing on an early morning bike ride in Chicago.