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NZ Music Month: Sundae Sessions presents Home Brew
Home Brew perform at York Street Studios for NZ Herald…
Laneway 2013: Japandroids post-nothing, to something
Four years ago David Prowse and Brian King of fiery Canadian noise-makers Japandroids were fed up with the lack of interest…
Laneway 2013: Jessie Ware's lucky break
Jessie Ware was studying journalism and doing dissertations on Kafka when a lucky break changed her life.
Laneway 2013: Tame Impala top of the world
They may be from Perth, far away from Australia's usual rock breeding grounds, but since releasing their debut album Innerspeaker…
Laneway 2013: Alt-J go from dole to 'new Radiohead'
This time last year the four members of acclaimed Brit band Alt-J were on the dole. Now they're Mercury Music prizewinners…
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Laneway 2013: What to expect from Alt-J
Kylie Minogue, meet Dr Dre. That's one of the first surprises that greets fans at Alt-J's sold-out Melbourne show - the band's lightly-does-it mash-up cover of Minogue's hit Slow and Dre's Still Dre . They call it - you…
Laneway 2013: Bat for Lashes is boxing at shadows
Eclectic English singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, better known as Bat for Lashes, will headline January's Laneway festival in the wake of her new third album.
How Laneway shapes up
New Zealand Laneway organisers have been trying for three years to lure British indie star Bat For Lashes to Auckland for the festival. "To finally get her to say yes is just massive," says co-promoter Mark Kneebone. The…
Talking Heads: Andrew Dubber and Mark Kneebone
Talking Heads - Andrew Dubber and Mark Kneebone by nzherald.co.nz/music Academic and author Andrew Dubber is the driving force behind New Music Strategies , a music culture thinktank established with the aim to "make…
Laneway's line-up confirmed
Spooky English songstress Bat For Lashes , iconic Kiwi rockers Bailterspace and psychedelic funksters Yeasayer will headline next year's Laneway Festival. The fourth instalment of the Auckland Anniversary Day music…
Tour news: Gluepot Reunion, Laneway Festival, Evermore
A special concert celebrating former Auckland venue the Gluepot will see pub rock stalwarts Street Talk and Citizen Band reunite for a trip down memory lane. The Gluepot Reunion Concert will be headlined by Dragon and Hello…
Forward Thinking: Got sax on the brain
Somewhere in the top of a hall cupboard lies a dark secret. It lies in a coffin-shaped case, the outside covered with stickers dating it to an era when something called "nukes" was clearly something to worry about. Inside…
Kimbra soars UK charts
New Zealand singer Kimbra is at number one in the British charts - as the guest vocalist on Gotye's hit Somebody That I Used To Know . The song by the Australian artist, who headlined Laneway in Auckland recently, has…
Concert review: St Jerome's Laneway Festival, Silo Park
I really like Silo Park. I'm a fan of urban design that embraces the character of an area's industry and history rather than knocking it down and building a generic plaza on top of it. The whole "revived British port town"…
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Hugh Sundae: The impossible urban journey
Hugh Sundae reports on a few notable venues he is glad are in the Auckland CBD.
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NZ Music Month daily concerts: OPOSSOM's Sundae Session
Watch OPOSSOM perform at York Street Studios for NZ Herald Online's Sundae Sessions.
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Talking Heads: Duncan Greive and Brendan Smyth
NZ On Air is now seven rounds into MakingTracks, the music funding scheme established to increase diversity in local music…
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It was the biggest and best Laneway yet. And yesterday, on the Auckland waterfront, if you walked past the buskers, the Anniversary Day Regatta crowds and the nearby seafood festival, the indie music extravaganza was the…