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NewsAgainst 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.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Electric Wire Hustle
Defying genres and reaching for a higher state of being.
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NewsThe 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."
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NewsIconic Music Venue The Kings Arms Tavern is Up For Sale
What the industry would call a 'bum note'.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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NewsSay Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game
Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards
Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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NewsThe First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017
If beachside dancing and mid-ocean listening weren't already enough.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Kittens Of The Internet
New music, Channel Orange and beating the shit out of your inner critic.
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NewsThe Top Five Finalists For The 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Have Been Announced
The most prestigious prize in New Zealand songwriting.
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BarScarlett Slimms & Lucky
476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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BarCassette Nine
Vulcan Lane, Auckland
Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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RestaurantMiss 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.
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NewsInfluential Label Stones Throw Records is Coming Down Under For Its 20th Birthday
And tickets are only $3.
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NewsA Sit Down With Finn Andrews of The Veils
Songwriting, spirituality and the love of making an ungodly racket.
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NewsThe Six Best Dates In Auckland This September
Some bonding activity ideas for you and your other half this month.
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Wynyard Quarter is Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday With a Day-Long Blowout
The loveable community space is all grown up.
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NewsThe 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.
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NewsThe First Lineup Has Been Announced For The Others Way Festival
New Zealand's answer to SXSW is back.
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NewsAnnouncing the Twenty Best New Zealand Songs of the Past Year
Regardless of sales figures and chart success.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Indie-Pop Purveyor Lawrence Arabia
Musical inspiration, sound evolution and the origin of names.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Brother-Sister Electro-Duo Broods
Plus, score a Broods prize package.
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NewsBitTorrent Is Launching a New (and Legal) Music Streaming Service
Not just the platform that helps you sneakily pirate TV shows.
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NewsWin a Four-Course Degustation With Matched Wine at Harbourside
Plus, musical accompaniment from lauded jazz muso Nathan Haines.
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NewsAuckland Museum Announce Their First Major Exhibition Dedicated to New Zealand Music
From the Dunedin Sound to barbecue reggae.
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NewsYour Guide to Record Store Day 2016 in Auckland
Forget the hype and the Justin Bieber single on "piss yellow vinyl" and help out the little guys this Record Store Day.
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Finalists Announced For the 2016 MMF Music Managers Awards
Recognising the individuals behind some of the nation's most successful musicians.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces Killer 2016 Lineup
And tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday, April 21.
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NewsScore Tickets to L'orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits
A wacky, unimaginable interpretation of the gravel-voiced raconteur.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Have Dropped Their Artist Schedule and Site Map
Main Stage #1, 9.30pm, be there.
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