Reviewer Chris Schulz takes in A$AP Rocky's first New Zealand show.

One in three revellers at music festivals have items lost or stolen resulting in their experience being "completely ruined", according to a survey.

As part of the BIG little City launch of 453 reasons to love your city via Instagram, Online Entertainment Editor Hugh Sundae shares some of his favourite Auckland venues.

It wasn't the confrontational and ritual-like concert Killing Joke were renowned for in their early years.

Please, put your gadget away and enjoy the show in real life rather than through a screen, writes Scott Kara. "Not only do you look like an absolute dork, you're also blocking my view."

Inundated with work, songwriter Eden Mulholland is busy trying to keep all of his customers satisfied, writes Lydia Jenkin.

Another year, another northern summer of music festivals approaches.

Dunedin Venues Management Ltd has extended an olive branch to the promoter of the ill-fated Fleetwood Mac concert scheduled for Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Beyonce looked directly at a fan who slapper her butt during a show in Denmark and said: "I will have you escorted out right now, alright?"

Every two years, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra presents a concert of half-a-dozen workshopped compositions in a specific genre.

Jonathan Fuller's Music Box was a trippy welcome to Karlheinz Company's Sunday concert.

Toots and the Maytals singer Frederick "Toots" Hibbert was injured when a 19-year-old man allegedly threw a bottle during a concert in Richmond.

Two solo artists come together on tour to tell tales of love and loss, writes Lydia Jenkin

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Splendour series has taken a slightly different approach from previous years.

The Seekers singer Judith Durham has suffered a brain haemorrhage midway through the band's Golden Jubilee tour.