A wave of sound will hit Mount Maunganui early in the New Year, with fans set to pour into the Bay Dreams Festival. Shapeshifter

One well-known New Zealander and his family are airing their struggles on the Baycourt stage this month and audiences are in for a

Coventry seven-piece ska legends The Specials will take the stage at Womad 2017, organisers have announced. Since they founded the

Christchurch's Marley Sola has released a self-titled debut EP. The four-tracker features two previous singles On My Own and Fill

If you find yourself disoriented in the bush, local volunteers are ready to help.

I am always on the look-out for a holiday film that draws out deeper reactions in my kids than a couple of cheap laughs. A few years

Big Dyls (Dylan Cossey) from The Block NZ is auctioning off a surf lesson, to raise money for a cause close to home.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a cooler sound this summer than Banks. She made many fans two years ago with Goddess. Now, the California

This year the show comprises a display of flowering plants at Te Puna Quarry Park's gallery but, next year, the event is likely to

In just three hours all 17,526 tickets to the Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl on August 23, 1965, sold out. Their last live

Electric Wire Hustle this week release their third album The 11th Sky. The electro-soul outfit will back up Friday's release with

The school holiday animated flick is often a hit-and-miss affair. Its critical success relies on the studio getting the right level

World Car-Free Day comes to Tauranga with surprising results. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Lizzie Marvelly has been entertaining us for 10 years and in that time gathered many unforgettable moments. She says performing at

Kiwi singer-songwriter Lydia Cole this week releases a second single from her upcoming album. Sober, which follows the Silver Scroll-nominated

The sci-fi genre tends to put my cynical filmic sensibilities on high alert. More often than not, the genre offers cinema an easy

If you haven't heard a brass quintet before, a concert featuring top performers from the South Island is coming to the city. "We

It's impossible to fully appreciate this 16th studio album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds without the tragic context that is the death

Expect the unexpected is good advice if you're about to leap into a new album from De La Soul. And so it is with And the Anonymous

A Kiwi lad who in the space of a few months went from playing acoustic gigs in Auckland bars to performing in front of thousands in

A Facebook group called Kiwi Daddys is being lauded as the "good gang" - creating a non-judgmental space for dads to come together and discuss issues facing Kiwi men.

Baycourt Theatre, September 9 to 24. Presented by Tauranga Musical Theatre. Ticket prices: $34 - $59, phone 0800842538 or go to www.ticketek.co.nz Dig

It appears that author John le Carré's work has become the darling of movie executives in the same way that John Grisham's

Athenree House gave author Lindsey Dawson the title of her new historical novel, Scarlet and Magenta. Not the house itself, but a

What do you get when a bunch of old mates decide to go on tour? A heap of hits. A touring force of Sharon O'Neill, Shona Laing, Debbie

A swarm of swinging kilts, blazing pipes and pounding drums will march the low road of the ASB Arena when the Royal Scots Dragoon

Four rugby titans are in town this month and towering above them all is Ian Jones, (Kamo to anyone who knows anything about rugby). He

What at first sounded like a terrible idea has turned out amazing. Black Eyed Peas' new version of Where Is The Love? is a brave re-imagining

Over the last few months I've been engaged in quite a few conversations with a lot of new business owners seeking a path to enlightenment

A former guitarist in Kurt Vile's Violators, Steve Gunn is nothing if not prolific. Eyes On The Lines is his 14th album since 2007