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    WOMAD Drops Its Artist Lineup for 2018

    Dance knee-deep in a pond to afro-funk, metal-folk and punk performed on ouds, koras and squeeze boxes.

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    Find Love in The Candle Wasters' New Web Series Happy Playland

    Behind the capital's new lesbian rom-com musical mashup.

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    Laneway Festival Officially Announces Complete 2018 Lineup

    BABADNOTGOOD, Conan Mockasin, The Internet and The War on Drugs will join Mac DeMarco and Anderson .Paak for the summer 2018 festival.

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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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    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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    Six Ways to Mark Midwinter Matariki

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

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    Lorde Announces 2017 New Zealand Tour of Intimate Venues

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

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    House of Dumplings

    117 Taranaki Street, Wellington

    You will have your dumpling and eat it too.

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    Southern Cross

    39 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro

    The bar's ridiculously ‘gram-able courtyard is the perfect summer afternoon spot to sip on a cold one.

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    St John’s

    5 Cable Street, Wellington

    Bean bags with your beersies? Yeah, go on.

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    Baobab

    152 Riddiford St, Newtown

    A Newtown cultural institution.

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    Ekim Burgers

    257 Cuba St, Te Aro

    The best homemade burgers that you can’t actually make at home.

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    Enigma

    128 Courtenay Place, Te Aro

    Goliath-sized burgers and laid-back staff make Enigma a great late night haunt.

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    Bebemos

    88 Riddiford Street, Wellington

    The laid-back Latin craft beer bar houses over 60 different types of beers.

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    Fidel’s Cafe

    234 Cuba Street, Wellington

    Cuba Street's Cuban icon.

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    Sweet Mother's Kitchen

    5 Courtenay Place, Wellington

    New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.

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    Tommy Millions

    Cnr Courtenay Place And Taranaki Street, Wellington

    Big fans of Tommy.

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

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

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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.

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    All the characters from Wellington's favourite day.

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    The Five Best Things to See at CubaDupa

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    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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    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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    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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    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'.

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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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    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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    Concrete Playground Meets Tycho

    Plus, win an up-close-and-personal experience with the band at Laneway Festival.

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    Auckland City Limits Reschedules for March 2018

    Not even Kendrick could save the festival from hitting a roadblock in 2017.

  • Guide

    Your Socialiser Guide to the Weekend in Wellington

    Weekends are precious. Just over two and a quarter glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Hip-Hop MC Raiza Biza

    The Hamilton-based MC discussing his artistry and the importance of passing down knowledge to the hip-hop artists of tomorrow.

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    Golding's Free Dive is Throwing a Big Dia de los Muertos Party

    A little pre-siesta fiesta to observe Day of the Dead and Garage Project's new drop.

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    Wellington's Eyegum Collective Have Launched a New Music Festival

    Championing a 'do-it-together' spirit and first-rate underground music.

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    The Second Lineup Has Been Announced For Rhythm and Vines

    Over 100 acts are now scheduled to perform at the country's longest running New Year's festival.

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    Hilarious Dance Party Crap Music Rave Is Returning to New Zealand

    Helping us laugh at the musical hiccups of others.

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    Watch Glen Hansard Sing Inside the Sails of the Sydney Opera House

    Experience a completely new angle of this iconic performance venue.

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    An Intercontinental Lineup Has Been Announced For WOMAD

    For fans of ska-punk, laidback bossa nova, New Orleans brass, dubstep and everything in between.

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    The Finalists Have Been Announced For the 2016 NZ Music Awards

    All vying for the prestigious golden bottle opener.

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    Against the Grain: How Geneva Alexander-Marsters Conveys Her Culture and Ideas Through Music

    Follow the journey of Auckland's fearless creatives doing things on their own terms.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Electric Wire Hustle

    Defying genres and reaching for a higher state of being.

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