American rapper David Banner is going to get his crunk on at The Trusts Stadium Arena with Smashproof and Savage on July 24.

Debbie Harry joins the Pretenders to perform in New Zealand at the end of the year.

Teamwork was exemplary in this music of friends, especially when clarinet and cello paired in convivial dialogue.

Auckland Choral put the lie to Shaw's smart sideswipe when its singers delivered the work on Saturday evening under the direction of Uwe Grodd.

The Kings Arms will be the perfect place to hide away from wintry weather tonight, with mellow tunes by Auckland indie bunch Nightchoir who are celebrating the release of their new album.

Leonard Cohen and his nine-piece band will return to New Zealand for three shows later this year.

There was a spirit of an end-of-semester concert permeating the town hall during the Wallfisch Band's Venetian Carnival.

Yellow and blue Brazilian football shirts were being waved from the moment Jorge Ben Jor took the stage in his uniform white and John Lennon glasses.

Predictably, the star of last weekend's visit by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was Dame Malvina Major.

Karlheinz Company can always be relied on for the unexpected and its second Autumn Festival concert ran the gamut from avant-Pacifica to a taste of Sunday night horrors.

As she did at her exceptional Town Hall show in 2003, on this return visit Ute Lemper proved persuasively she doesn't merely deliver a concert of songs.

Poets of their Age presented three first-generation Romantic composers coming to terms with the expressive potential of the symphony orchestra.

Top choreographer overcomes pain to return to the stage, writes Owen Scott

Metallica tickets have officially sold out. But they are already appearing on the black market.

Music month continues to take over drinking holes and town halls all the way from Ponsonby to Pukekohe this week.

There's something for everybody with Wanda Jackson, Florence Welch and Common on tour.

At its most pure and best, jazz is a live art where musicians disassemble, explore, then reconstruct melodies and rhythms right before your ears.

Metal heads can rejoice - Metallica have announced they will be playing an extra Auckland show.