The Big Day Out is well stocked with plasters and paracetamol as St John staff prepare for 40,000 revellers.

If 30 years of heavy drug use didn't kill him and his boisterous, often self-harming stage antics didn't cripple him, one would think at the age of 63 the rock icon might at least slow down a notch.

Scott Kara's week of music, television and movies.

Pip Brown's stomach is tying in knots thinking about her upcoming performance at Laneway. It will be her first gig at home since the Big Day Out of 2010, after which she collapsed and took herself to her childhood home to recuperate.

St John staff at this week's Big Day Out will be on alert for a new party drug that has emerged at other summer concerts.

The Hip-Hop artist and occasional actor was scheduled to perform this Wednesday at Auckland's Powerstation, and his Australian dates have also been postponed.

And you thought Matt Berninger, the oddly charismatic mate of President Obama and singer in the National, was an introverted type.

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The Gaia hypothesis - a theory of planet-as-a-whole-organism propounded by James Lovelock in the 1970s - was the underlying theme of the Gaia Galactic New Year's Eve party, Prana.

Photos from Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet show at the Auckland Town Hall, Saturday January 8th.

Frontman Matt Berninger talks to Scott Kara about how his glum New York band The National couldn't be happier after breaking out of indie cult-dom

Photos from the 2010 Rhythm and Vines festival, Gisborne's three-day music festival that attracted 25,000 fans.

When Yannick Denis won tickets to see his favourite band play in Waihi tonight, there was one minor hitch.

Joe Cocker aims for radio hits on his latest album Hard Knocks.