By the time they make it on stage at Vector Arena next February, it will have taken Roxette only 25 years to get to New Zealand.

An all-star line-up of hip-hop, R&B and soul stars has been announced for a new music festival set to be held in Auckland at the end of Labour Weekend.

Monday's evening of quintets featuring Canadian clarinettist James Campbell with the New Zealand String Quartet could not have featured finer music than Mozart and Brahms.

Graham Reid speaks to jazz guitarist and legendary session player Larry Carlton ahead of his New Zealand shows.

Dionne Christian previews May's big fat helping of music for Auckland's children.

One man, one guitar and one loop peddle is all it took to blow fans away.

Is it just us, or do this year's New Zealand Music Month celebrations feel bigger, bolder and a little better organised than in the past?

There's nothing particularly cool about John Mayer these days.

After the first 20 minutes of this concert you might have concluded that here was one of the most emotionally detached and disengaged shows in many years.

Almost exactly seven years ago I sat in a room in a fancy Auckland hotel with a funny, sweet, roundish little fellow who was so nervous he kept pulling at his ear.

Tomorrow in the Californian desert Coachella continues into it's second weekend of festival fun.

British tenor Paul Potts brought tears to the eyes of 60 patients of Mercy Hospice in Auckland.

The band, fronted by Mick Jagger, will perform at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday, November 22, a press released issued by promoters confirmed.

Auckland Chamber Orchestra always comes up with programming that takes little heed of barriers and borders. So it was with its first Sunday concert for the year, putting concertos by Bach and Philip Glass alongside the best of our songwriters.

Performances and all the action at the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in California.

Karlheinz Company's Composing Now concert opened dramatically.