Cameron Jibril Thomaz, popularly known as Wiz Khalifa, is teaming up with Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Crish Brown for his upcoming album’s tracks. The well known rapper, who is currently dating Amber Rose, is recording the follow up to Rolling Papers, which is his 2011 debut album. The title of Wiz Khalifa's new album will be O. N. I. F. C. It will be released late in this year.

The NZSO concert was recently held in the Auckland town Hall and this is really the hot topic of the moment. After a short Fanfare from Ross Harris, rising up from a Wagnerian underworld to herald a bright and triplet-laced new world ahead, Anthony Ritchie's A Shakespeare Overture provided the first salute to The Bard.

As impressed as one might be with this student work of the composer, given with all the pizzazz that the players and conductor Hamish McKeich could muster, it still remains a 21-year-old's meld of assorted mid-20th-century masters.

This is a review of the music concert recently held by Wiz Khalifa. I have not heard the album version of Rolling Papers just yet, but if it sounds anything close to the concert, no one will be let down.

Is it really all about who you know in Hollywood? Wiz might say so. He’s made connections with Snoop Dogg, Juicy J of Three Six Mafia, and Too Short through music sharing and singles. He proved Tuesday night that he is no stranger to hip-hop.

Bruckner last night hosted one of the memorable music concerts in the recent memory as he played Symphony number nine. Shen people who pursue relentless entertainment are surveyed about classical music concerts, they often complain that the atmosphere is too reverential –- no eating, no drinking, no talking, no texting, no coming and going, too much suppression of the audience’s ego for a greater good. Desperate for their business, presenters and symphony orchestras have lately been experimenting with “friendly” formats.

After last week’s breathless dance track, Breaking News, a second new Michael Jackson song has been unveiled at michaeljackson.com today. After the Take That Concert Tickets news, this is the hottest piece of Music gossip around.

This one, Hold my Hand, is a swaying ballad that on November 28 will become his first official single since he died last year.

Why is Robyn not one of the biggest popstars in the world like Lady Gaga? We don't know. Perhaps she forgot to tick a box on the application form. Perhaps it's because she doesn't wear dresses made of meat (or dresses that show her meat). Perhaps pop, as we've been warned, is all one big terrible conspiracy and its all rubbish and we should grow up and get a proper hobby.

For those watching sporting events at The Diamond, the headgear of choice is usually a baseball cap. On Saturday, it was cowboy hats all the way as the Wagon Wheel Country Music Festival returned to the Lake Elsinore stadium. A few thousand concertgoers (in V Festival Tickets) enjoyed sets by six acts –- including stellar turns by Lee Ann Womack and Dierks Bentley.

We all know that the music industry makes most of its profits in the run-up to Christmas, but even so, November 12 seems a bit early to be wearing paper hats and breaking out the mince pies. But in Andrea Bocelli’s mind, at least, the festive season is already raging. The second half of the show was peppered with elderly Yuletide chestnuts roasting on the open fire of Bocelli’s lush orchestral and choral accompaniment, with videos of snowy Alpine scenes for good measure. Coming back onstage to sing Silent Night, Bocelli had changed from a black jacket into a white one.

J.G. Thirlwell - aka Foetus, was a major player in the underground scene of the 1980s. Like Rihanna is now. In conjunction with others such as Lydia Lunch, Genesis P. Orridge, Coil, and The Hafler Trio, Foetus defined the bleeding edge of confrontational music during those “Family Values” days. While Robert Mapplethorpe and “Piss Christ” artist Andres Serrano had the Bush One-era NEA screaming for mercy, Foetus and his contemporaries seemed to provide the soundtrack.

Fleetwood Mac caught a lot of criticism for their 1979 album Tusk, mostly because they had not produced another Rumours. They took the easy way out by releasing their first live album on December 8, 1980. They also went conservative as ten of the eighteen tracks had originally appeared on their Fleetwood Mac and Rumours albums and only three from Tusk