Nirvana played just one show in New Zealand during their short tenure at the top. The 3D's guitarist David Saunders had a front row ticket as the iconic grunge act's opening act.

Photos from Alice Cooper's concert at the Trusts Stadium in Waitakere. Photos by Volume's Milana Radojcic.

Are Super Villains New Zealand’s first masked hip-hop group?

Sandy Mill performs Ko Koe by Tyna Keelan, the winner of the Maioha Award for contemporary Maori music at the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.

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The Heavy Metal Ninjas perform Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, by Lyell Cresswell. The composition won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award for Classical Composition.

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Cut Off Your Hands perform Delaney Davidson's Little Heart live at the Auckland Town Hall for the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.

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The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band perform Avalanche City's Love, Love, Love, live at the Auckland Town Hall for the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.

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Orchestra of Spheres perform Bachelorette's Blanket, recorded live at the Auckland Town Hall for the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.

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The Harbour Union perform Ghost Of This Town live at the Auckland Town Hall for the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.

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Like all the best-laid movie plans, the Make My Movie project revolves around a briefcase full of money – a hundred thousand bucks of it.

Magnetic Man is the cream of the post-dubstep generation - and they're coming to New Zealand.

Joe Nunweek's take on the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, the country's premiere songwriting awards ceremony.

Nigel Regan first got his kit off onstage when Head Like A Hole played The Powerstation on Friday 13 December 1991.

Nirvana visited New Zealand in early 1992 just as Nevermind blew up worldwide. To mark the 20th anniversary of that album's release, we revisit the Seattle band's sole Auckland visit.

Seattle stalwarts Pearl Jam kicked off their 20th anniversary celebrations over Labour weekend in the US, Volume's Janina Percival was in amongst it, armed with a Polaroid camera.

For the past 50 years Detroit has given birth to genres that would be heard worldwide. Motown's deep back catalogue, house and techno are all musical exports of this great city.

Front-of-house and backstage photos from the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards. All photos by Milana Radojcic.

For a city that too often seems sadly concerned with its musical past as opposed its future, it was refreshing to see the sixth birthday relying heavily on youth and new talent for its celebrations.

Jim Pilcher witnessed The Who play the Wellington Town Hall on 31 January, 1968.

TrinityRoots' third coming saw a refigured lineup coming together to continue the legacy of one of New Zealand's best-loved bands.

If F. Scott Fitzgerald once glumly declared that there are no second acts in American lives, Karl Steven appears to be onto his third.

After spending almost a decade weaving magic with High Dependency Unit, Tristan Dingemans found himself in a malaise.

Watch the highlights of when Jordan Luck met Keith Quinn. The two were recorded in conversation for Talking Heads, a feature of the street press magazine Volume (RIP).