Canadian police have had to apologise after threatening to punish drunk drivers with Nickelback's music.

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Chris Martin says fans can bring "camels and grandmothers" to Coldplay shows from now on after a list of strict concert restrictions went viral.

From off-screen affairs to sudden marriage breakdowns, 2016 saw a massive spike in celebrity private lives being exposed.

A free cultural and music festival which was held in Napier every December for 13 years is being revived next weekend after a break

Little Mix are bringing their Glory Days tour to New Zealand next year for one show only in Auckland.

The troubled rapper is reportedly living separately from wife Kim Kardashian after his psychotic episode.

Watch: Crowded House's Neil Finn perform alongside Coldplay at their Auckland concert.

Hundreds gathered to say goodbye to pop pioneer Ray Columbus.

Lianne La Havas had to stop to collect herself because the crowd was "too much" - in the best way.

New Zealand pop pioneer Ray Columbus has been fondly remembered this week.

Concerns about drunken behaviour has forced the Reggae by the River show to start four hours earlier.

Lianne La Havas talks redefining soul and learning life lessons from Prince ahead of her NZ show tonight at the Tuning Fork.

The beauty and mystique of Māori musical instruments were almost lost to the world. But Napier man Layton Robertson is playing his part to help revive them. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

West has reportedly cancelled all his upcoming tour dates indefinitely as he is released from hospital after a breakdown.

Coldplay's show will have airport level security and the list of things you can't take inside is insanely strict.

Being compared to Lorde seems inevitable when you're a female Kiwi singer, but Theia's cutting her own path.

Although Swift hasn't released any of her own music this year, she has been busy making money somehow.

"It's largely a misconception that Tame Impala is a band," he says. "We play as a band on stage but it's really not how it is at all on the album. The album is just me.

Some may consider the Canadian police department's punishment cruel and unusual.

Footage has surfaced of a man being waterboarded at an Australian music festival - apparently by choice.

Prog rock legend Alan Parsons talks to Karl Puschmann about ditched album concepts, playing live and punk

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Seeing Pixies? You could be - the rock legends will be here for three shows next March.

A Kiwi pop star and a Nasa astronaut have joined a line-up of speakers set to take part in an Antarctic TedX event that will be livestreamed around the world.

The legendary rockers discuss their return to their blues roots on their new album Blue & Lonesome in part one of a three-part series. Blue & Lonesome is first studio album from The Rolling Stones in more than a decade, out December 2. Get it here.

Frankie Stevens reflects on the life of Kiwi music legend Ray Columbus.

We're getting Adele, Justin Bieber, Guns N' Roses, 21 Pilots, Green Day and Bruce Springsteen. But we're not getting Neil Young.

Ty Dolla $ign will play three New Zealand shows when he tours next year - and he's bringing a few friends with him.

Kiwi music legend Ray Columbus passed away at his home north of Auckland yesterday, aged 74, after a four-year battle with ill health.