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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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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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NewsThe xx announce April tour
The dark darlings of indie pop return with a sexxier sound than ever.
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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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NewsWin Tickets To Fat Freddy’s Drop at the Sydney Opera House
Watch New Zealand's favourite seven member band present their animated and illustrated Blackbird album preview.
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NewsSecret Garden Festival 2013 Announces Ticket Details & Family Ballot
Start deciding on your spirit animal.
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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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NewsField Day Announces 2013 Lineup
Hot Chip, SBTRKT, Mark Ronson and The Vaccines head up the 2013 bill.
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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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NewsFuture Music Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
The Prodigy, Dizzee Rascal and Azealia Banks headline Future's "biggest line-up yet".
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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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NewsSt Jerome’s Laneway Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
Bat for Lashes, Nicolas Jaar, Yeasayer and Perfume Genius among this year's headliners.
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NewsAstral People and Strawberry Fields Present Land of the Giants
A four-headed audio experience said to span continents, planets and timeframes.
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NewsSurry Hills Festival 2012 Announces Musical Line-Up
Sonic accompaniments to everything from single-origin lattes to craft amber ales.
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NewsYou+1 Floating Festival with Steve Aoki, Rudimental and Flight Facilities
Sound waves meet ocean waves at Sydney's brand new floating festival.
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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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Ten Cool Artists From Across the Ditch
New Zealand artists have been making big waves recently in musical fields that have nothing to do with dubstep or flying anything.
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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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NewsSydney’s Best All Night Dance Parties
Ways to party into the wee hours that don't involve popped collars or dubstep remixes of Gotye.
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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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NewsWin a Double Pass to See Electric Guest
Los Angeles duo Electric Guest are heading to Australia for Splendour in the Grass, fresh from touring around the world.
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NewsWeezer Announce Australian Tour
Despite a career spanning twenty years, the band has only been been to Australia once.
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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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NewsEight International Festivals Australia Could Learn From
Large-scale gatherings that manage to combine brazen antics, booze and grannies in souped-up shopping carts with more cultivated offerings.
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NewsGet a Hobby: Eight Short Courses to Take This Winter
Unleash some creative talent or start a new hobby by signing up to a short course in something a little bit different.
