Welcome to TimeOut's big preview of 2015. Here's how the year in entertainment is shaping up so far ...

iHeartRadio NZ are making Kiwi music lovers very happy with the announcement of a bunch of free shows they're putting on in February.

Joe Cocker, who has died aged 70, was a Sheffield-born singer who came to be considered one of the greatest white blues and soul vocalists...

Singer's on-stage proposal caps a magical night.

Audience drawn into a real-life opera as tenor proposes to his girlfriend on stage.

Mystery surrounds the cancellation of what was shaping up to be one of the local tours of the summer.

They're three of the biggest names performing at Laneway this year, but the Auckland music festival isn't the only place you can see them play.

Reggae festival's move to Auckland provides solid but soggy start to the summer festival season, writes Chris Schulz.

It has housed the world's largest water chute, welcomed the Empire of India exhibition and hosted David Bowie and the most disastrous concert of his career.

2014 has been ... a massive year for House of Shem! We have been nominated for two Tuis and three Maori music awards, and completed a tour throughout mainland US and Hawaii.

The map and line-up for New Zealand's biggest New Year's Eve festival has been released.

Here are TimeOut's picks of the big gigs bringing in 2015.

Start warming up your air guitars - the band responsible for one of the most complicated songs to perform on Guitar Hero is coming to New Zealand.

Sunday morning in Las Vegas, and even the bleary-eyed gamblers crowding the lobby of the MGM Grand hotel-casino-theatre complex wouldn't have bet on the John Legend success story.

The Womad line-up just keeps getting bigger, with the announcement today that the incomparable Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club have been added to the 2015 line-up.

Having spent much of the year touring America, and writing a swag of new tunes, Dunedin-bred Auckland-based artist Anthonie Tonnon announced today he'll release his third album Successor in March next year, and a 14-date national tour to go with it.

Summer in Auckland wouldn't be complete without a crazy outdoor dance party and today Frontier Touring and Future Music Group have announced a new mini-festival.

Keith Richards has drunk, smoked, snorted and injected more than you or I could ever hope to and this lifelong interest in other substances has pushed food down his list, writes Matt Heath.

Kiwi fans of one of the world's most popular stage shows will get a chance to be cast members for one night only " and they won't even have to audition.

Forget smashing guitars on stage, Lorde's televised lipstick smear is being hailed as the Kiwi teen singing sensation's new rockstar signature.

For 30 years, the sheltered daisy-covered banks and fields of an Auckland suburban park have become a cradle of happiness for a summer's day of picnics, music, kids entertainment and pre Christmas shopping.