WATCH: Lead singer of punk band loses it after fan tries to take a selfie.

US punk band The Story So Far has been banned from a live music venue in Toronto after their lead singer fly-kicked a woman off stage while she tried to take a selfie.

Nine years since their last New Zealand appearance, seminal English post-punk rockers The Cure will return to Auckland for a show at Vector Arena on Thursday, July 21.

British 90S alt-rockers Swervedriver and New Zealand 90s alt-rockers Fur Patrol are teaming up for a three-date tour of New Zealand.

Sheet music signed by the late David Bowie is to be auctioned online to help fund women's projects in Asia.

Led Zeppelin founders Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lost their bid to avoid a trial that may rewrite the history of rock 'n' roll over song-writing credit for the 1971 classic Stairway to Heaven.

After months of estrangement, Madonna has been reunited with her 15-year-old son, Rocco, in London.

Brian May has branded Sacha Baron Cohen an a*** and says he is now looking for a "real actor" to replace the Ali G star in a new film about Freddie Mercury.

The Black Eyed Peas are getting back together and will.i.am says they "shouldn't have ever" disbanded.

Letters home give a revealing insight into Janis Joplin, a complicated woman.

Two attractive new releases feature Valencia, alongside Katherine Austin, mining the repertoire for cello and piano, both substantial and stocking-filler.

I'm tempted to borrow a phrase from French composer Francoise Sagan and greet Nicola Benedetti and Leonard Elschenbroich with a cheery "Aimez-vous Brahms?" as the couple are about to play Sagan's Double Concerto.

Bruce Springsteen has cancelled a North Carolina show in protest of the law banning anti-discrimination ordinances.

He was named Time magazine's most influential teen, with more than four million YouTube subscribers. Now, Australian singer Troye Sivan is set to perform in New Zealand for the first time.

There was plenty of noise in the studio during the recording of the Sacramento rockers' latest album.

After 15 seasons, American Idol is coming to an end. Here are the best and worst contestants from the show.

Jennifer Lopez has unveiled the artwork for her new single Ain't Your Mama online, but it hasn't taken long for fans to pick up on one detail from the stunning single cover.

Sad Ben Affleck has given Simon and Garfunkel new life on the music charts.

Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as Okie From Muskogee and Sing Me Back Home, has died at 79, on his birthday.

Among the stars of a local Bowie tribute show is one who recorded with him and one who had him as a babysitter.

Blues-rock guitar fans will be delighted to hear that prolific New York artist Joe Bonamassa is returning to NZ for one show, at the ASB Theatre in Auckland.

R&B star Tinashe has pulled the plug on her upcoming New Zealand concert, but says fans can ask her why through Facebook.

AC/DC's Phil Rudd has been named one of the top 100 drummers of all time.

Dr Luke has branded Kesha's claims she was offered her "freedom" in exchange for saying she lied about him sexually abusing her a "publicity stunt".

Taylor Swift paid a gushing tribute to boyfriend Calvin Harris at the iHeart Radio Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Lena Dunham felt she was "in the presence of otherworldly greatness" when she attended Rihanna's ANTI tour this week.

Singer-songwriter-mother Anika Moa tells Greg Bruce why she doesn't like happy endings.

Kesha has suggested she would be allowed out of her recording contract - if she admitted she "lied" about being sexually assaulted.

Leonardo DiCaprio was "a great sport" about James Corden's Carpool Karaoke prank.

The former One Direction star's Mind of Mine has hit the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums countdown with sales of 157,000.