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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.
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NewsWin VIP Tickets to Parklife
We have a double VIP pass to giveaway in each city that Parklife will be making an appearance.
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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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NewsHarvest Festival 2012 Lineup, Dates and Locations
Harvest is back for its second year and the official lineup has now been announced.
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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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NewsWin Ten Nights on the Town
Concrete Playground is giving you the chance to experience the best of Sydney's cultural life for an entire month!
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Ten ’90s Bands That Should Tour Australia
There's '90s nostalgia in the air, and we're grabbing it by the high waist of its mom jeans.
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NewsThe Best Places in Sydney to Hear Music for Free
Save your coin for ciders at one of these no-cover venues.
