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.

Woe betide anyone who went to Vampire Weekend without learning every single one of Ezra Koenig's incomprehensible lyrics.

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.

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.

Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears don't shout at each other any more.

Welcome to the weird, charming, and beautifully bizarre world of the Phoenix Foundation where aliens and buffalos roam, and oranges and mangoes hook up together to tango.

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.

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.

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

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

The dream is far from over as Crowded House enthrals loyal fans with old favourites and their latest album tracks.