EntertainmentAlbum Review: Mastodon, The HunterThe music of Mastodon is perfect for a spot of hunting. It's pure blood sport music because when it's human against beast, and you're pumped up with scything and powerful tunes like Black Tongue and Spectrelight you will not back down.28 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Spirit Of ProgressConstructed in the manner of ensemble films such as <i>Nashville</i>, <i>Grand Canyon</i> and <i>Crash</i>, this novel by the award-winning Australian writer Carroll again refracts the lives of some characters who have populated his previous work. 28 Sep 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: The Sense Of An EndingIn 1967 the great critic Frank Kermode published The Sense Of An Ending, a series of lectures that not only mined the apocalyptic theme in art, but reviewed the ways in which fiction carves order and pattern out of the chaotic flux of time. 28 Sep 12:00 PM
OpinionAlbum review: Pajama Club, Pajama ClubWhile it’s easy to be sceptical about the side projects of well-established musicians, particularly when they consist of odd amalgams of collaborators, they can often emanate a certain charm. 27 Sep 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Mel Parsons, Red Grey BlueMel Parsons' sophomore album is like high quality aural chocolate - sweet, comforting, sometimes dark, full of subtle layers, and a treat for your ears.24 Sep 03:30 AM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Game, The R.E.D AlbumThe often disgusting and downright mean things rappers get away with really is something. On Game's fourth, star-studded album everyone from Erykah Badu to the cronies at Interscope records are in his sights.24 Sep 03:30 AM
EntertainmentMovie Review: The Human Resources ManagerPitched somewhere between Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and the 80s Kiwi shaggy dog story Carry Me Back, this unassuming absurdist Israeli feature may have trouble winning hearts on this side of the world.23 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentDance Review: Te Houhi - The People and the Land are OneAtamira Dance Company's's beautifully crafted new <i>Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One</i> draws on intricately connected layers of dance, video imagery and narrated text to share poignant ancestral stories from the Ngai Tuhoe lineage. 22 Sep 07:10 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Alice Cooper, Trusts StadiumIt was a little disappointing really, only for the fact Alice Cooper - still the reigning king of gonzo shock rock after more than 40 years in the business - died just once, maybe twice, last night.22 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Super Villains, The KingslanderAre Super Villains New Zealand’s first masked hip-hop group? 21 Sep 10:56 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Friends With BenefitsAs the title implies, Friends with Benefits deals with the social convention of what is meant to be meaningless sex between good friends.21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Bulletproof, Dub Me CrazyIt's a little cheeky having the same song on consecutive albums. Soundtrack To Forever (featuring Tiki Taane) appeared on Bulletproof's 2010 album, and it also popped up on Tiki Taane's album from earlier this year - which makes it twice as cheeky. 21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: The Devil's RockIt would be nice not to feel the need to eviscerate yet another New Zealand Film Commission-backed local horror that isn't up to its genre job description.21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Beirut, The Rip TideThe songs still ring out with trumpets and french horns, a wurlitzer and ukulele, among many other instruments. 21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Various Artists, Come TogetherAlthough the Stones were more profoundly influenced by black American music, the young Beatles certainly drew from that well. 21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Little White LiesThe second feature by one of the superstars of contemporary French cinema is an ensemble comedy-drama that is entrancing and infuriating in about equal measure.21 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentReview: APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Auckland Town HallJoe Nunweek's take on the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, the country's premiere songwriting awards ceremony.21 Sep 03:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: The Quality Of MercyWhat kind of historical novelist is Barry Unsworth? Despite his practised ear for the idioms of the mid-18th century drawing-room, and weather eye for the contents of the era's wardrobe, he is not a pasticheur. 19 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: The Drab Doo-Riffs, The WinchesterThe Rugby World Cup opening ceremony may have hogged the TV, but there was plenty of entertainment across town at The Winchester, writes Joe Nunweek.18 Sep 08:00 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Elzhi, Fu BarFor the past 50 years Detroit has given birth to genres that would be heard worldwide. Motown's deep back catalogue, house and techno are all musical exports of this great city. 18 Sep 08:00 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: @Peace, San Francisco Bath HouseFelicity Perry found Aucklanders @Peace very much at home in Wellington.18 Sep 08:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Good Living StreetA family history. Also a social and intellectual history, and a different take on the Australian Dream. 18 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: John Butler Trio, Live at Red RocksThis new package from Australia's John Butler Trio includes a DVD of their June 2010 concert, and a double audio CD. The two-hour-plus set ranges over material from their five studio albums, with emphasis on last year's April Uprising.16 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Patti Smith, Outside Society: Looking BackThese 18 songs are made up of selections of tracks taken from all of punk rock poet Smith's albums, starting from 1975 debut 'Horses', through to 2007's 'Twelve'.16 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Panther and the Zoo, More FunThink of songs in the spirit of Weezer and Elvis Costello with a touch of The Strokes, though with a relaxed and youthful Kiwi attitude.16 Sep 06:30 PM
