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<i>Review: </i>Wanda Jackson at The Powerstation
Wanda Jackson's promoters moved the venue twice as demand grew. Jacqueline Smith made it to The Powerstation on Tuesday to see what all the fuss was about.
Movie review: <i>Shrek Forever After</i>
Everyone's favourite ogre faces a midlife crisis in what might be the most serious Shrek movie of them all, writes Russell Baillie.
Deftones: <i>Diamond Eyes</i>
On Diamond Eyes Chino is back to his shrieking, yowling, and soaring best with a unique voice that sounds like he's singing through a loud hailer.
Kate Nash: <i>My Best Friend Is You</i>
It starts very distinctively Kate Nash: all pretty piano, stirring strings, claps, and her voice - sweet as pain au chocolate.
Movie review: <i>Letters to Juliet</i>
With a script lacking in imagination and a predictable plotline, Letters to Juliet is quite simply overwhelmed by romantic cliches.
TV Eye: More fluff than claws
The new Underbelly lacks tension in its portrayal of King's Cross life, writes Linda Herrick.
<i>Review:</i> The 5 Star Comedy Preview
A comic genius is a guy who can skulk onto the stage and tell a joke about not being allowed to open his hotel window and have everyone giggling and writhing.
Airbourne - No Guts. No Glory
Still sounding like AC/DC, with hints of Iron Maiden and Motorhead, and a small dash of sweaty Australians, Cold Chisel and the Angels.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
There was a time when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club were a hazy and psychedelic rock band, then they became porch song bluesmen on Howl before ramping it up again on Baby 81.
So So Modern - Crude Futures
After a string of EPs and vinyl releases, globe-trotting Wellington four-piece So So Modern - who recently completed a six-week jaunt around Europe - have come up with their debut album.
Dane Rumble - The Experiment
For an album with such promising name, Dane Rumble's album is not exactly experimental
Gerald Finley - Great Operatic Arias
If you were swept away by the broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera La Boheme, then Gerald Finley's Marcello may have been one reason for the intensity of your pleasure.
Girls - Album
Christopher Owen, the brains and voice behind San Francisco's Girls sounds sad - about girls.
The Men Who Stare at Goats
There are some lovely moments and funny sequences in this wacky satire about the use of psychics within the American military, but The Men Who Stare at Goats never quite reaches its potential to be a laugh out loud film or a sharp po
Sa Dingding - Harmony
The debut album Alive of two years ago by this photogenic Chinese singer was a mish-mash of electro-pop, slightly twee vocals, Chinese folk, new age blandness and deadening over-production.
Pig Out - Rave X
Let's take a trip back in time to when ravers wore gas masks, and if you weren't wearing a mask you were blowing a whistle, while dancing to yabbering happy hardcore and banging beats that send you raving mad.
Goldfrapp - Head First
It's been a decade since British electronic act Goldfrapp - singer, synth player and clothes horse Alison Goldfrapp and producer Will Gregory - released their debut album Felt Mountain.
How To Train Your Dragon 3D
Based on the best-selling kid's book by Cressida Cowell, How To Train Your Dragon comes wonderfully to life on the big screen thanks to fabulous 3D computer animation, great voices, a story full of adventure, and plucky young her