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    Five Minutes with The National's Scott Devendorf

    Discussing the band's seventh album, key influences and his Spotify playlist.

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    Rhythm & Alps Drops Its First Lineup For 2017

    Ring in the New Year with Tash Sultana, Fat Freddy's and Little Dragon.

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    Laneway Teases 2018 Festival, Reveals Dates and First Headliners

    Mac DeMarco and Anderson .Paak will tour the festival's seven dates.

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    Rhythm and Vines Announces First Artist Lineup for 2017

    It's shaping up to be another blinder in Gizzy.

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    Bay Dreams Unveils Its First Artist Lineup

    Carry your NYE shenanigans into 2018 with French electro, psych-reggae and indie-pop.

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    The 20 Best New Zealand Songs From the Past Year Have Been Announced

    Including a chart-topping earworm, te reo thrash metal and two from Lorde.

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    Ostro's Dinner Concert Series Is Back For 2017

    Enjoy a side of soul at the waterfront brasserie.

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    The First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Northern Bass

    Including 'the most influential drum and bass DJ to ever live'.

  • News

    A La La Land Concert Experience is Coming to Auckland

    An orchestral shred session to the big screen musical.

  • Guide

    Six Ways to Mark Midwinter Matariki

    Celebrate the Maori New Year with indigenous cuisine, spine-tingling kapa haka and stories around a fire.

  • News

    Lorde Announces 2017 New Zealand Tour of Intimate Venues

    She'll play small venues in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

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    Auckland Live Welcomes Back Its International Cabaret Season For 2017

    A Kate Sheppard rock opera, an original disco diva and a Trans-Tasman mutant story.

  • Guide

    The Best Events to Check Out at the 2017 Wellington Jazz Festival

    What to see, dance to, eat and stumble across.

  • News

    Concrete Playground's Picks for the 2017 Auckland Writers Festival

    Not strictly for the bookish and writing obsessed.

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    Five Minutes With Alt-Pop Songwriter Andrew Keoghan

    Discussing his new album, musical inspirations, and life in the Big Apple.

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    An Epic Three-Day Mud Festival is Coming to New Zealand

    If you ain't dirty, you ain't here to party.

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    Splendour in the Grass Announces Dream-Fulfilling 2017 Lineup

    After six years, LCD Soundsystem are coming back to Australia.

  • GALLERY: Relive CubaDupa Through Dexter Murray's Snaps

    All the characters from Wellington's favourite day.

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    Dance Beneath a Forest Canopy at New Music Festival ORO'17

    The day-long event is modelled on music festivals and raves of the '90s.

  • News

    The Five Best Things to See at CubaDupa

    The best street festival this side of the Pacific.

  • Guide

    The Ten Best Events to Check Out at the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival

    From multi-sensory installations, an off-beat cabaret with flapping appendages, and a Shortland Street musical.

  • News

    Why La La Land Shouldn't Win Best Original Score at This Year's Academy Awards

    And why you should care about the oft-forgotten Oscars category.

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    London Could Be Getting a Permanent Public David Bowie Memorial

    A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a three-storey monument to the entertainment icon.

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    A Shortland Street Musical is Coming to Auckland Arts Festival

    The most exciting development for the soap since 'penis-gate'.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Australian Multi-Instrumentalists Hermitude

    Get acquainted with some Blue Mountains electronica and score a double pass to the group's show this Friday.

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    Ten Brilliant Things to See and Do at the Auckland Fringe Festival

    Look beyond your average night out at the movies.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Sydney Electronic Producer What So Not

    The allure of making beats, how 'High You Are' came to life, his progress as a musician and plans for the future.

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    Your Guide to Splore 2017

    It's all about nurturing your soul with the perfect mix of art, music, performance, food and good vibes.

  • Guide

    15 Brilliant Things to do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend

    You're spoilt for choice this year, folks.

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    Mikey Havoc on the Return of Kiwi Band Push Push

    Havoc gets the band back together for a reunion tour with British hard rockers The Darkness.

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    A Conversation With Car Seat Headrest Frontman Will Toledo

    The journey to a record deal, finding motivation as an artist and the makings of a 'classic rock show'.

  • Guide

    The Best Free Things to Do in Auckland This Week

    Dancing in the park, openair cinema and a belated Christmas shindig.

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    Laneway Folk Artist Julia Jacklin on the Enduring Influence of Britney Spears, Post-Lockout Laws Sydney and Finding Your People

    The gloomy yet dreamy folk singer-songwriter began making music after she was prematurely struck by existential crisis as a 10-year-old child.

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    The Best Ways to Ring In 2017 Across Auckland

    For those who have been shredding for the CBD.

  • News

    Auckland Museum Has Launched a Series of Sunday Sessions

    Covering everything from modern jazz to psychedelic pop, otherworldly hip hop and indie fuzz.

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    Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Drax Project

    Insight into the story behind the band, their goals, sound and why we should head along to their upcoming gig.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Diaz Grimm

    Off the back of releasing his second album, 2077, we talk the importance of community, Trump, and living in the future with the eternally optimistic Cambridge rapper.

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