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NewsConcrete Playground Chats Briefly With Team Dynamite
Very brief chat with Sky Pirate's Skipper Lance.
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NewsFinalists Announced for the 2014 Silver Scroll Awards
Celebrating the creative excellence of music released in the past year.
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NewsTinder Founders Launch Music Discovery App
Bringing the swipe-if-you-like concept to the world of music.
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NewsNo Cameras Allowed Doco Shows One Guy Sneaking Into 50 Music Festivals
Recording your own misdeeds never looked so good.
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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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NewsCalifornia’s First Electronic Sriracha Festival Fuses EDM with Hot Sauce
Water stations undeniably necessary.
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NewsJenny Lewis Drags Up with Famous Friends in New, Instantly Viral Video
Lewis celebrates the end of a six year solo hiatus with Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathway and an instantly viral video.
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NewsRhythm and Alps 2014 Line up Announced
Blowing the cobwebs out of the hill flanked region once again.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets Glass Owls
The musicians behind an honest collection of tunes that ignite an unexplainable kind of joy at every tap of the play button.
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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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NewsAngus and Julia Stone Announce First Australian/NZ Dates in Three Years
Australia's ARIA-dominating folksters are back.
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NewsKurt Vile’s ‘Waking On a Pretty Daze’ Mural Painted Over
This Philadelphian should have Googled before he painted.
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NewsRhythm and Vines is Bringing a Piece of Glastonbury to the Festival
A 4000-strong, flame-shooting dance floor - all made out of an old cowshed.
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NewsNZ Folk Newcomer Aldous Harding Announces Debut Album and Australian Tour
New Zealand's answer to Julia Stone is killin' it across the Tasman.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets Peking Duk
We caught up with renowned party Peking Duk ahead of their only New Zealand show on June 26, 2014
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NewsBastille Announced for Rhythm and Vines and Rhythm and Alps Festivals
The synth-pop band are making their way down under for a flurry of dates
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NewsCelebrate the Unluckiest Music Format on World Cassette Day
Celebrating the world's unluckiest music format.
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NewsRed Bull Flying Bach Coming to Auckland
Head spins driven by the keys of a piano and windmills following an obbligato.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Broods
The duo talk to Concrete Playground about fame, family and songwriting.
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NewsNominations Open for the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2014
Nominations are now open for the glitziest event on the NZ music industry calendar.
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NewsNew study uncovers the largest vocabularies in rap
Pimp, pimps, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words.
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NewsBob Dylan Announces 2014 Tour of Australia and New Zealand
The legendary musician is gifting us with a month-long tour for his 73rd birthday.
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NewsJonti Buries Himself Under an Avalanche of Tunes for Vivid LIVE
Ahead of his Vivid performance at the Opera House, Jonti took time out to discuss his love for The Avalanches and what to expect from the future.
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NewsThe Winners of the 2014 Music Managers Foundation Awards
A night dedicated to the workhorses of the industry
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NewsJanelle Monae and Kimbra Postpone Golden Electric Show
Sudden illness has held up The ArchAndroid singer in Melbourne.
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NewsAstral People’s Top Five Tunes to Start Your Weekend
Crank up a spot o' Rainbow Chan, Phuture and The Avalanches this weekend.
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NewsNew York’s East Village Radio to Shut Down After 11 Years
Heavy licensing fees will see the independent online station forced to shut down, broadcasting its last show on May 23.
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NewsGum Ball to Possibly Take a Break in 2014
Another bout of festival cancellation blues is about to go 'round.
