Brooke Fraser’s new album is as satisfying for the listener as for Fraser herself.

Listening to the NZSO playing Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto under Michael Stern, with soloist Eldar Nebolsin, had the feeling of a privileged preview.

This enjoyable, artful jumble, One Day Moko, starts with a fun stand-up comedy set from a lively homeless guy, Moko, who banters with the audience.

In 2007, while compiling a history of a Chicago neighbourhood, John Maloof bought at auction a box of locally shot photographic negatives.

There may have been some discussion in the boardroom when Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra contemplated pairing Prokofiev with Bruckner in the one programme.

It wasn't too bad, all things considered.

Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's Depression-era drama, based on the book by Ron Rash, is a bleak and rather ponderous exploration of a marriage set in the stunning forests of North Carolina in 1929.

Forget Jewels - Killer Mike and El-P have struck gold. The rap duo know it too - their bold rhymes and aggressive attitude gives their second album together as Run the Jewels a thrillingly kinetic kick.

Even the staunchest Arsenal fan would have to admit that watching new Chelsea signing Diego Costa score a goal in the slick surroundings of the PlayStation 4 is a thing of beauty.

Former Screaming Trees singer Lanegan isn't shy putting himself about.

Skylanders, or Disney Infinity? It's the debate set to cause parents nightmares leading up to Christmas.

IF Adele and Jack White had a child, who was friends with Sam Smith and then joined the Black Keys, Hozier would be the result.

In reimagining Jesus and the Apostles as a rock band, director Oliver Driver delivers a hot mess; it's sometimes excellent, writes Janet McAllister.

If you're a Foo Fighters fan, there are many good reasons to be very, very excited right about now.

NZTrio play their final concert for the year at Q Theatre in Auckland on Sunday, and the opportunity of a Wellington preview proved irresistible.

The Dead Lands might start in a graveyard, and it sure creates quite a body count along the way. But among all that death it also feels more like the birth of something.

You've seen this story before - a curmudgeon reluctantly takes a lost kid under his wing and reveals he's not such a bad guy after all. But with Bill Murray playing the curmudgeon it's a story worth watching again.

A big part of Taylor Swift's enduring appeal is that she seems like a supposedly perfect being, all willowy, blonde, cookie-baking, and stage-dominating, and yet, she knows all about being sad, lonely, jealous, angry, and frustrated.

"If these boring hippies make it past the first week, I'm not watching anymore," I shouted at my husband during the first episode of My Kitchen Rules New Zealand.

Your hands are shaking, your mind is racing and it feels like your body is floating towards the ceiling.

"If these boring hippies make it past the first week, I'm not watching anymore," I wrote.