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Kiwi singer-songwriter legend Neil Finn is taking his latest album “Dizzy Heights” on the road.

Legendary actor James Garner, known for his parts in The Rockford Files and The Notebook has died, aged 86. Entertainment website TMZ reported that an ambulance was depatched to the actor’s Los Angeles home about 3pm (NZT) but he was dead when they arrived.

Hip-hop artist Ladi6 waited until the end of our interview to drop the bomb. Before the release of her third studio album Automatic, she was on the benefit

Who has the best guitar riff of all time We asked our readers to make their picks from rock ‘n’ roll history, and

Daimon Schwalger aka The Nomad is a DJ, producer, recording artist and recently converted beard enthusiast, currently based on the South Island’s West Coast. “I guess I first got into music back in the mid 80s when the stuff that hit me hard was break-dance music.

No, that wasn’t a tear on my cheek. There’d been a little light rain.

Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1970s was a city exhausted by civil rights battles, a city in which counterculture activists were settling into jobs and mortgages and were tired of being “mad at society”. For Karin Slaughter – a toddler then, though she remembers the music and the commercials – it was a fascinating time for her city and a rich source of material for her latest novel, Cop Town, the first in a new series.

REVIEW: Like that other near half-century old allegorical science-fiction franchise Star Trek, there’s been a quick rule of thumb about the success or failure of each instalment of this “simians-rule” series.

Despite her casual attire of Chuck Taylors and a black shirt dress, excitement is bubbling beneath the surface for hip-hop artist Ladi6. Balancing an upcoming 13-stop New Zealand tour of her chart-topping third album, Automatic, with overseas commitments, Karoline Tamati has a lot on her plate