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Send us your photos of Lady Gaga

American pop star Lady Gaga arrived in Auckland this morning, ahead of her two near sold-out nights at the city's Vector… More

Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune

Given there's hardly been a shortage of Hendrix albums since his death in 1970, the question is: Why had this album… More

Review: The Backstreet Boys

Nick Carter gave his best blue steel gaze and surveyed the crowd as though he was waiting for the knickers to start flying. Then he winked… More

Pink Floyd nails EMI over online album sales

LONDON - Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly… More

Review : Pixies at the Powerstation

To say that the first live performance by The Pixies in New Zealand has been highly anticipated is an understatement… More

NZ Arts Festival: Calexico review

As a band, Calexico is perfectly named: their music is a road trip to the cinematic imagination. It takes us to… More

Lady Gaga arrives in Auckland

American pop star Lady Gaga arrived in Auckland this morning, ahead of her two near sold-out nights at the city's Vector Arena over the… More

Pixies review : Twenty years late ... but it's great to see them

They were 20 years late, and playing an album they wrote as 20-somethings, but the Pixies finally… More

Grand return of Town Hall's centrepiece

The Auckland Town Hall organ has reclaimed pride of place in the Great Hall after two years of reconstruction in… More

Anna Nicole opera to premiere next February

LONDON - The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole will be presented by the Royal Opera on February 17… More

Scott Kara: Before we all went Gaga

I knew Stefani Germanotta before she was famous.It's not like we grew up together or anything. Stefani - who you might… More

Lil Wayne to do his rapping behind bars for year

Rapper Lil Wayne, his lawyer Stacey Richman by his side, listened to the judge in a Manhattan criminal court sentence… More

NZ Arts Festival: Sing the Truth review

It was destiny, it was church. Nina Simone was called "the high priestess of soul" and the musicians and audience gather… More

Preview: APO at Auckland Town Hall

Eckehard Stier is very happy to be back in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, after a busy but… More

Spohr - Symphonies 3 & 6

Twenty years ago, Louis Spohr was a figure in the footnotes of learned music tomes. His oratorio, The Last Judgement, a particularly… More

Musical journey through Ethiopia

The name Nick Page might not be as well-known as Paul Simon, Damon Albarn or Ry Cooder. But the British music producer,… More

Love affair began in Paris

Francis Falceto still remembers the night in Paris he heard a record by Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed.It was April 1984, and he was at a… More

The politics of the bigger world

Eckehard Stier is very happy to be back in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, after a busy but… More

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