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.

You never expect to leave a rock gig feeling embarrassed for the main act...

Eighties' English goth-gone-hard rock band The Cult return to play their defining album in concert. Frontman Ian Astbury talks to Scott Kara about keeping Love alive, 25 years on.

The original five-piece, augmented by some ring-ins, made smart energetic work of their short, shallow back catalogue.

2010 might be known as the year of the off-the-wall Kiwi music tour.

UK sensation Will Martin is giving mothers the power to choose songs for his concert. Paula Yeoman explains.

American metal giants Metallica have confirmed they will play a show at Vector Arena on October 13.

Jacqueline Smith explains why she has a new opinion on John Mayer after last night's concert in Auckland.

At least ten young girls have been treated by paramedics after mass scenes of hysteria in Sydney over pop sensation Justin Bieber.

The ever-ebullient Roy Goodman explained the premise behind Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Thursday concert in a running commentary as the stage was reset after the opening item.

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy talks to Russell Baillie about the American band's latest annual pilgrimage to our shores.

It doesn't seem so long ago that the Stereophonics pleased their ardent followers, and all the Welsh people living in New Zealand, by stopping in for a wee serenade.

A "FULL HOUSE" sign outside the town hall last Friday was hardly surprising, with Hilary Hahn playing Sibelius with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

John Mayall is a rare one. Few artists could pull an audience on the strength of a name and reputation alone.

Gretchen La Roche and Andrew Uren fashioned a graceful weave, in scurrying toccata at times and elsewhere exploring the beat of blurred dissonance.

There was no flounce, no swearing and no fizzing encore, but Clarkson came, and that was all the audience ever wanted.

Ashley Brown and pianist Michael Houstoun have few equals as a team.

For a woman knocking on 70, King lights up damn bright and her voice was denser and richer than its younger counterpart.

Bassoonist Ben Hoadley is a man with a mission - to explore and add to the catalogue of woodwind music written by New Zealand composers.