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A British record label has removed from sale a track by one of its artists after acknowledging it was a rip-off of a composition by Wellington musician Rhian Sheehan. Manchester-based Broken Bubble issued an apology to fans who had downloaded Japanese artist Sunnova’s track Silver Tear after Sheehan contacted the label and pointed out it was a blatant copy of his 2009 composition Standing In Silence Pt 2.

Matching her boyfriend and becoming the third straight Samoan winner was icing on the cake for Isabella Moore at the Lexus Song Quest last night. The 23-year-old soprano from West Auckland took out the competition of New Zealand’s best young opera singers, two years after her partner Amitai Pati won the award.

“Lion Man” Craig Busch has roared back onto TV screens around the world. Busch’s new reality TV series, The Lion Man: African Safari, is being beamed into an audience of tens of millions in India, South Africa and parts of Europe on the Discovery Channel network’s Animal Planet

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies launched a full-scale assault on Comic-Con. The cast and crew from the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy showed off the first trailer for the fantasy film at the pop-culture convention, as well as a blooper reel from both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.

Kanye West fans, rejoice: the self-proclaimed rap megastar is heading to New Zealand later this year. The 21-time Grammy Award winner, who is bringing his YEEZUS tour to Australia for a five-city run in September, was strongly rumoured to be adding a New Zealand concert date, an industry source told the Sunday Star Times.

You have reviewers saying Mutineers is your best album since 1998 multi-platinum seller White Ladder. Were you intimidated by your own success Unquestionably that is true but it’s a bit more complicated than that

REVIEW: You know what they say – you wait ages for a decent Kiwi film to come along, and then four arrive at once. With a handful more debuting in the New Zealand International Film Festival (some of which we may be lucky to see on wider release later), the industry looks to be in very rude health indeed.

REVIEW: There doesn’t have to be big-name film stars in a horror movie to get me into the cinema, but unless the story otherwise promises a clever, innovative conceit (like the terrific horror parody The Cabin in the Woods) then the casting of actors I’ve rated highly in more general fare will get my hopes up.

Listening to Bill Bailey reel off his list of pets is beginning to get exhausting. “We have a few birds of all kinds of different hue, we have parrots and cockatoos and pigeons and starlings,” he is saying.