Spellbinding performances worthy of awards
A small audience greeted the exceptionally talented performance by the winners of the highest awards Australia and New Zealand have on offer.
Music Review
Music review
Music review
Rita Ora has come a long way from her family’s exodus from Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) when she was a baby.
Lemalu’s craft all the greater
Lemalu’s craft all the greater
An audience with Jonathan Lemalu in St Matthew’s in the City, Auckland, on April 29 proved to be an exhilarating experience.
Children enjoy enriching musical encounter
Children enjoy enriching musical encounter
Babies and pre-schoolers were entertained with arrangements of well-known classical music excerpts at a fun festival event at St Paul's Cathedral.
Review: Excitement attends first post lockdown ‘live’ performance
Review: Excitement attends first post lockdown ‘live’ performance
The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra (with New Zealand conductor Kenneth Young) received a great welcome from packed houses for their two concerts at the King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre at the...
Review: Nadia Reid - Out of my Province
Review: Nadia Reid - Out of my Province
Nadia Reid’s third album brings a flood of descriptions to the table, some of them contradictory, writes Tony Nielsen.
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.
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.
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.