Drum Media

Last week, Sam Mendes, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apple Corps Ltd announced that they would embark on releasing an unprecedented four movies about The Beatles.

"These new songs sound very different live, moshers fear not!"

Olivia Rodrigo announced the initiative just before taking the stage for her GUTS World Tour.

The album features the unreleased song 'Friendly Fire' and singles from Linkin Park's two-decade-plus career.

"They call me the Queen of Pop. I know it’s a compliment, but the monarchy is in the past."

"For where I'm about to take things, my entry to the world needs to be unique. There's only one thatboykwame, and that's me."

While blink-182 will no longer be performing in Christchurch, their gig at Auckland’s Spark Arena is still going ahead.

“It’s like we allowed ourselves to be musically vulnerable. I love it when a rock band is not embarrassed to admit that every song doesn’t have to be on 11.”

The duo's delicately plucked guitars blend together so mellifluously that it makes you wonder whether the contribution of electricity to popular music might have been overrated.

"I'm not price gouging like Taylor, to be blunt..."

"Every door that I walked through became conditional, and I put on the heavy mask I was expected to wear… the mask of a perfect victim and tireless advocate."