R&B star the Weeknd was the big winner at the Billboard Music Awards, taking home eight awards out of a field-leading 16 nominations. However, following in the proud tradition of music award shows everywhere, no one really cared about the winners.
Australian guitarist Slava Grigoryan is no stranger to Auckland audiences.
It takes all of 10 seconds into an interview with Air Supply's Russell Hitchcock before he mentions the L-word.
The Strokes have premiered their first new song in three years - and fans can barely contain their joy.
Don't call us a ballad band says the veteran Aussie group touring New Zealand next week.
Today's flashback is a Flying Nun great from 1984.
Former Shapeshifter member Devin Abrams is striking out alone. He tells Lydia Jenkin why.
It's nww surprise these albums by Bob Dylan (who turned 75 yesterday) and Eric Clapton (71) don't have much, if anything, to do with rock.
A Colorado prison inmate has filed a paternity claim with a Minnesota court against the estate of Prince.
Emerging in the 1980s, the Blue Man Group is a curious hybrid of neo-Dadaist happenings blended with acid-house video-lighting effects
A Dunedin rapper is about to take huge step in her career, performing at a Hamburg festival that has attracted 75,000 people.
Rapper A$AP Ferg is going places for his next Auckland performance.
A scrapped 2003 solo album from Victoria Beckham has leaked online - and it's marvelously awful.
Rising rap star Chance the Rapper says he'll perform in New Zealand for the very first time during his world tour later this year.
Today's flashback is one of our favourite local love songs.
Midge Marsden is one of many Kiwi music veterans lending their treasures to Auckland Museum.
The Pacific Music Awards is coming up, and today the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award is announced.
The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced five of the music-themed movies in the programme for the July event.
Tonight Auckland Museum has announced an extensive exhibition dedicated to celebrating and commemorating the last 70 years of music in New Zealand.
Plans for Drake's new home in Toronto have been unveiled - and they're exactly what you'd expect from a chart-topping rapper.
Brian Johnson has revealed crystallised fluids "eating away at my ear" accelerated the hearing loss which forced him off the road.
Selena Gomez is coming to New Zealand for her first headlining show.
Today's flashback features guest vocals from Gin Wigmore.
Pink was left flustered when she came face-to-face with her crush Johnny Depp on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Selena Gomez talks fame, finding her identity and Jennifer Lopez.
Two people claiming to be heirs of Prince's estate are objecting to having to take blood and genetic tests to prove their relationship to the musician.
Adele is reportedly due to sign a $US90 million record contract, landing the biggest deal ever handed to a British musician.
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he started drinking heavily and came close to quitting music after The Beatles broke up.
Florence Welch has staged a special bedside concert for a dying fan.
Kanye West is being sued by a prominent Hungarian rock singer who accused the hip-hop star of sampling one of his compositions without permission.
Christina Aguilera, Usher, Ellie Goulding, Joan Jett, Dave Matthews and Steven Tyler are going to lend their voices to nature.
Madonna has defended herself amid growing criticism surrounding her tribute to Prince at the Billboard Music Awards.
Harry Styles is reportedly at the centre of a bidding war between record labels as he is to Simon Cowell's record label.