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NewsEight Genre-Defining Beards of Modern Music
The Beards aren't the only band with facial hair that says a lot about their music.
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NewsTen Up and Coming New Zealand Musicians
Corona Extra presents ten of the best up and coming New Zealand musicians.
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NewsTen Inspiring and Insightful TED Talks by Musicians
Amanda Palmer isn't the only industry luminary with a penchant for both lyrics and discourse.
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NewsReview /// Presidents of the United States of America
Monday night peaches was a sumptuous start the week. If only I could have a second helping....
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Tim Richards
We caught up with Tim Richards ahead of the release of his new collaboration with top kiwi producers Antix.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Moves to Its Permanent Home
The North Byron Parklands are prepped and ready to go for July 2013.
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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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NewsYour Tweets Control the Music in SXSW’s Interactive Vending Machine Stage
With Doritos' Bold Stage concert you can choose the songs, special effects and even performers with nothing more than a tweet
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NewsThe Off-White Album: How History and Decay Affect 45-Year-Old Records
No matter what their colour, condition or quality, Rutherford Chang wants your iconic 1968 Beatles 'White Album'.
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NewsNetsky Live Returns to New Zealand
If you missed Netsky Live at Rhythm and Vines, or you were there and could not feel the bass through the damaged speakers, here is your chance to see Boris again with his full live set.
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NewsBjork Turns to Kickstarter to Spread Biophilia
The musician turns to crowdfunding to get her educational music app reprogrammed for Android and Windows 8.
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NewsGroovin’ the Moo Confirms 2013 Line-Up Leak
Tegan and Sara, The Kooks, Tame Impala and Flume are set for a regional Australia takeover.
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NewsSecret Garden 2013 Announces Line-Up (Not That It Needs To)
A weekend for lovers of food, music, dress-ups, and adventures.
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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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NewsMusic for the Concrete Playground Summer 2013
Enjoy some new sounds for your summer in the Concrete Playground.
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NewsTen Must See Shows At Auckland Arts Festival 2013
We round up our ten must see shows for the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival.
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NewsNew Stage Added to St Jerome’s Laneway 2013
A brand new stage for the new and improved St Jerome's Laneway Festival.
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NewsPitchfork’s Top Five Albums Of 2012
2012 saw the release of some truly awesome and at times groundbreaking new music
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NewsiTunes New Zealand Top Ten Songs for 2012
Here are New Zealand's most downloaded songs on iTunes for 2012. Hmmm
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NewsFunny Pictures of Serious Musicians
The music industry often takes itself too seriously. Funny photos of serious musicians are scarce, but hilarious.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Temper Trap
We caught up with Jonny and Lorenzo from The Temper Trap and talked Melbourne, Halloween and Sir Edmund Hillary lookalikes.
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NewsTen Musicians On Why They Make Music
These ten quotes from ten songwriting legends provide a fascinating insight into what drives these musicians to be musicians
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NewsSoundtrack to Auckland
Three of New Zealand’s top pop artists have joined Auckland’s leading performing arts organisation to record a soundtrack for contemporary Auckland.
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NewsThe Yolanda Be Cool Product Recall
Yolanda Be Cool recall their overly infectious hit single We Speak No Americano to promote their debut album Ladies and Mentalman.
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NewsFive Entertaining Reasons to go to R&V Soundcheck
We caught up with Hamish Pinkham, and after a coffee and some mushrooms at Dizengoff , he gave us five reasons why we should go to R&V Soundcheck. I'm sold.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Maria Minerva
I don’t even know where I’m going to end up living or anything like that. As always, I’m just a homeless person with two suitcases and a lot of enthusiasm.
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NewsTen Rhythm and Vines Acts You May or May Not Have Heard Of
James Mason dissects the first release of acts to the Rhythm and Vines 2012 lineup. Some you may have heard of, and some that you will be hearing a lot more of.
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NewsNew Zealand Music That is Hot Across the Ditch
A revised article from Concrete Playground Australia that profiles New Zealand artists that are looking hot across the ditch.
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NewsWeird and Wonderful Celebrity Transformations
Musicians are notorious for their reason-defying epiphanies that are usually indicative of either groundbreaking creativity or mid-career slumps.
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NewsRhythm and Alps Lineup Released
Rhythm and Alps, the spoilt brat of a sister to Rhythm and Vines has released her lineup, and it is looking good.
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NewsMusic for the Concrete Playground
As the weather is decidedly more ave, stay inside and warm up with these tight tracks.
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NewsVirgin Mobile to Live Stream Splendour in the Grass
Australia's favourite mid-winter music festival kicks off this Friday, with some amazing acts gracing Belongil Fields in Byron Bay.
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NewsThe xx Release New Song ‘Angels’
With their second album, Coexist, set to be released in September, The xx have given us a taste of what's to come with this new track.
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NewsParklife 2012 Lineup Released
Arguably one of Australia's best festival circuits, Parklife 2012 lineup has been released.
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NewsLondon. What Are You Listening To? vII
Concrete Playground London Correspondent Dan Maas brings back some tunes that are hot in London town.
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NewsTen ’90s Bands That Should Tour New Zealand
And now that today’s musical landscape is drenched in weightier lyrics it seems there’s a yearning to grab this carefree innocence by the high waist of its mom jeans.
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News10 Years of Rhythm and Vines – Reflection
Hamish Pinkham takes us down memory lane as Rhythm and Vines heads into their 10th Anniversary.
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NewsThe V Motion Project
The V Motion project will follow NZ Music Producer Joel Little and his team of Tech Developers, as they aim to crack the technology behind music software Ableton and the Xbox Kinect.
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