If a a trip to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival didn't quite make it into your 2016 budget planning, no matter.

Tauranga means "continuous settlement". It is a place my whanau has stayed, long before the arrival of settlers to the area.

The hills of Dairy Flat are alive with the sounds of music whenever James Wong, 7, and music therapist May Clulee get together.

Today's flashback was directed by Tony Holden.

The problem with The Block Party is while the acts were excellent, everything else was plagued with problems.

A Rihanna mega fan from West Auckland made her way to Salt Lake City to see the pop superstar live, and came home with a job offer.

Four years is too long to wait for another visit from Stephen Hough.

Back in 2004, when he was visiting this country, Steven Isserlis told me categorically that Elgar and Walton had written two of the finest cello concertos of the 20th century.

Kanye West left the audience of the Ellen DeGeneres' show scratching their heads after he went on a full blown, six-minute rant.

Kiwi act Broods have made a splash with their new song overseas.

Two acts have been removed from the bill of Auckland hip-hop festival The Block Party over visa woes.

The company have now "restored approval" after gaining "reassurance" there will be no mention of the court battle.

Today's flashback was directed by Lee Tamahori for Pacific reggae heroes Herbs.

James Blake's new album is a spellbinding mixture of glorious vocals and spare electronica, which somehow manages to play in the dark side of life while also remaining light and free

Sir Paul McCartney fans cheered on as a 10-year-old girl walked on stage and asked if she could play the bass alongside the former Beatle. Source: facu1983p

Indie rock duo The Kills and soul collective The Internet are playing Auckland and Wellington shows in the coming months.

Anohni here fully embraces her femininity and leaps straight into brittle and often dazzlingly appropriate electronica.

Frances Moore and Alex Taylor's daringly dished up Dido and Aeneas: Recomposed has come into town from the west with its original gusto intact.

Sinead O'Connor is suing her family as she blames them for her disappearance.

A group of school friends want to put Onehunga rap back on the map. Chris Schulz meets six-strong hip-hop crew SWIDT.

Kesha's being banned from Billboard Music Awards came a week after Dr. Luke's attorneys filed a request in for access to Kesha's medical records.

Today's flashback is the number one song that helped Peking Man to dominate the 1986 Music Awards.

A countdown clock called Prophets of Rage has fans speculating about a Rage Against the Machine reunion.

As his band makes plans to return to New Zealand at the end of the year, Chris Martin talks to Lydia Jenkin about life on planet Coldplay.

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The show is called Alchemy - four female vocalists taking a bunch of Kiwi pop songs and reinventing them as jazz.

Coldplay will be returning to New Zealand at the end of the year for one show at Mount Smart Stadium - and they've got some tricks up their sleeves.

Three Kiwis just nailed "the best vocal audition" of the night on The Voice Australia.

Today's flashback was our first independent record to achieve global success.

Demi and Nick join Carpool Karaoke ahead of their tour together to talk love, heart attacks and harmonies.