In a week where U2 finally announced a much-rumoured Auckland show there are more big-name acts on the way too, ensuring another busy summer of music.

The U2 360° tour coming to Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium in November is a biggie. Here's numerical proof and other really useful info ...

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra makes beautiful music. But one musician, who fled the Soviet Union, has been forced out on flimsy grounds, while others question the APO's management style. Chris Barton reports..

The world's highest-earning Hip Hop artist will join the world's highest-earning band at their November 25th concert at Mt Smart Stadium.

Joy Division founding member and bass player Peter Hook is coming to New Zealand to play the band's 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures, live.

Tonight's concert by the University of Auckland Chamber Choir will celebrate the music of Estonian composer Arvo Part.

Speculation is rife that U2 will bring their large, state-of-the-art concert here in November.

The 3000 screaming and ecstatic fans are here to see Jared Leto, because while his band might be called 30 Seconds To Mars, it really is his show.

Pictures from her show at the Laneway festival in Auckland. Florence And The Machine perform tonight at The Trusts Stadium, Waitakare. Limited door sales $99.90 from 6pm

Gorillaz will play a New Zealand show off the back of an Australian tour later this year.

Simply Red have announced 4 New Zealand dates as part of a worldwide 'farewell' tour.

The petitions weren't lying - all of Metallica's New Zealand shows have now sold out.

Dave Dobbyn, who celebrated 30 years in music last year, is touring the majestic churches, chapels and cathedrals of New Zealand on the 2010 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour.

Veteran hard rock outfit Bon Jovi is the first big outdoor rock show of the coming summer. Desmond Sampson caught them in London last week on their Circle tour, and talked to the man in charge.

After parting with long-time drummer Nick Jago, Californian band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rediscovered their passion for dark and gritty rock `n' roll. Bass player Robert Levon Been tells JULE SCHERER of NZPA about their new drummer and

Heavy pressure from fans has forced Metallica's hand - and now they're coming to Christchurch.

If able soloists did not always lift Charpentier's characters from the page, Rosser's dramatic conception did not err.