Queen review: Guaranteed to blow your mind
Queen review: Guaranteed to blow your mind
About 30,000 people eagerly welcomed Queen and Adam Lambert when they played at Forsyth Barr Stadium for the first time ever.
Music Review
Large audience enjoys clarity, finesse
Large audience enjoys clarity, finesse
Michael Houstoun has been a very popular and respected internationally acclaimed New Zealand pianist, teacher and recording artist for half a century.
Consort of Voices in perfect setting
Consort of Voices in perfect setting
A celebration of German-Romantic era repertoire was presented in St Joseph's Chapel yesterday afternoon by Southern Consort of Voices.
Music Review: Jan Preston
Music Review: Jan Preston
Jan Preston is classically trained but after hearing Winifred Atwell playing boogie-woogie she was hooked.
Music Review: Shemekia Copeland
Music Review: Shemekia Copeland
"When the whole world seems fake, give me something real," Shemekia Copeland pleads on Smoked Ham and Peaches.
Music Review: Santigold
Music Review: Santigold
Philadelphia-born Santigold, who grew up listening to her parents reggae records and visiting Jamaica, has lobbed a breezy dancehall flare into the middle of the northern summer.
Music Review: Travis Scott
Music Review: Travis Scott
Travis Scott is perhaps best known as Kylie Jenner’s Baby-Daddy, yet this status will change with grandiloquent third album Astroworld.
Music review: Pusha T. DAYTONA.
Music review: Pusha T. DAYTONA.
Heralding the approach of Yeezy Season (Kanye's plan to release an album every week through June) Pusha T's DAYTONA suggests it`s time to batten down the hatches.
Music review: 'The Kiwi Music Scene: 1968'
Music review: 'The Kiwi Music Scene: 1968'
Nineteen sixty-eight was a notable year in New Zealand in which the men's rowing eight won an Olympic gold medal, the All Blacks beat France three zip, and the Wahine disaster cast a long shadow...
Music review: Chvrches 'Love is Dead'
Music review: Chvrches 'Love is Dead'
Scottish synth-pop trio Chvrches have embraced their commercial pop side.
Classical music: 'Digressions'
Classical music: 'Digressions'
This fine debut album from Lin features three appealing but seemingly unrelated works.
Music review: Arctic Monkeys
Music review: Arctic Monkeys
From fluorescent adolescents to Britain's most revered indie rockers, Arctic Monkeys has proven no strangers to new directions.
Music review: Parquet Courts
Music review: Parquet Courts
If the ballad-heavy Human Performance (2016) found New York's Parquet Courts starting to cast off their lo-fi trappings, then the follow-up, their sixth album, takes their shuffle into commercialism several steps further.
Music review: Courtney Barnett
Music review: Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett makes lackadaisical-sounding music about being uptight.
Music review: Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco
Music review: Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco
Van Morrison is feeling frisky.
Music review: Tami Neilson
Music review: Tami Neilson
Tami Neilson's last two records, Dynamite and Don't Be Afraid, have largely reflected a soul-infused country sound. In Sassafrass the soul aspect is much more to the fore, and it works a treat.
Music review: Ben Harper
Music review: Ben Harper
Five years ago, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite collaborated on 2013 Grammy-winning album Get Up, but I reckon that was just a warm-up for No Mercy In This Land.
CD Review: Post Malone
CD Review: Post Malone
Soundcloud sensation and sadboi-in-chief Post Malone’s sophomore effort is aimed squarely at the streaming market he so successfully (and cynically) cornered with the likes of viral breakthrough...
Music Review: The Disappointments
Music Review: The Disappointments
This members of this line-up have been serious contributors to the New Zealand rock scene for decades: blues vocalist Hammond Gamble, bassist Andy MacDonald, and Brent Eccles, today best known for...
Music review: Darren Watson
Music review: Darren Watson
Wellington's Darren Watson has unplugged for his sixth solo album after a barnstorming career with Chicago Smokeshop.