• Guide

    Your Socialiser Guide to the Weekend in Auckland

    Weekends are precious. Just over two and a quarter glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility.

  • News

    Auckland City Limits Reschedules for March 2018

    Not even Kendrick could save the festival from hitting a roadblock in 2017.

  • News

    A Massive LEGO Christmas Tree is Coming to Auckland

    The tree will stand over 10 metres tall and weigh 3.5 tonnes.

  • News

    Wellington's Eyegum Collective Have Launched a New Music Festival

    Championing a 'do-it-together' spirit and first-rate underground music.

  • News

    Splore Festival Unveil Their Second Artist Lineup

    More entertainment for the country's greatest dress up party.

  • News

    The Second Lineup Has Been Announced For Rhythm and Vines

    Over 100 acts are now scheduled to perform at the country's longest running New Year's festival.

Latest Guides
  • News

    Hilarious Dance Party Crap Music Rave Is Returning to New Zealand

    Helping us laugh at the musical hiccups of others.

  • News

    Watch Glen Hansard Sing Inside the Sails of the Sydney Opera House

    Experience a completely new angle of this iconic performance venue.

  • News

    An Intercontinental Lineup Has Been Announced For WOMAD

    For fans of ska-punk, laidback bossa nova, New Orleans brass, dubstep and everything in between.

  • News

    The Finalists Have Been Announced For the 2016 NZ Music Awards

    All vying for the prestigious golden bottle opener.

  • News

    Against the Grain: How Geneva Alexander-Marsters Conveys Her Culture and Ideas Through Music

    Follow the journey of Auckland's fearless creatives doing things on their own terms.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Electric Wire Hustle

    Defying genres and reaching for a higher state of being.

Latest Places
  • Cafe

    This That

    57 Lorne St , Auckland City

    A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.

  • Bar

    Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

    476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

    Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.

  • Bar

    Cassette Nine

    Vulcan Lane, Auckland

    Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.

  • Restaurant

    Miss Clawdy

    12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland

    There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.

  • News

    The Winners of 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Awards Have Been Announced

    "A light-hearted song about taking someone to Mars and lying in the dirt, drinking Cognac and listening to records."

  • News

    Iconic Music Venue The Kings Arms Tavern is Up For Sale

    What the industry would call a 'bum note'.

  • News

    The First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017

    If beachside dancing and mid-ocean listening weren't already enough.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Kittens Of The Internet

    New music, Channel Orange and beating the shit out of your inner critic.

  • News

    The Top Five Finalists For The 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Have Been Announced

    The most prestigious prize in New Zealand songwriting.

  • News

    Prince's Paisley Park to Open for Tours

    Paisley Park is in your heart.

  • News

    A Sit Down With Finn Andrews of The Veils

    Songwriting, spirituality and the love of making an ungodly racket.

  • News

    The Six Best Dates In Auckland This September

    Some bonding activity ideas for you and your other half this month.

  • News

    The Five Best Dates in Auckland This August

    Take a friend, take your S/O, take that person with who you have a thing but you're not putting any labels on it.

  • News

    Announcing the Twenty Best New Zealand Songs of the Past Year

    Regardless of sales figures and chart success.

  • News

    Win Tickets to Ladyhawke at the Powerstation

    New Zealand's foremost synth-pop juggernaut.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Indie-Pop Purveyor Lawrence Arabia

    Musical inspiration, sound evolution and the origin of names.

  • News

    BitTorrent Is Launching a New (and Legal) Music Streaming Service

    Not just the platform that helps you sneakily pirate TV shows.

  • News

    Win a Four-Course Degustation With Matched Wine at Harbourside

    Plus, musical accompaniment from lauded jazz muso Nathan Haines.

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