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Rhythm and Vines 2011

Photos from Rhythm and Vines 2011, an annual three-day music festival held at Waiohika Estate Vineyard in Gisborne.

Jessie J storms in

Summer music: Ladi6

We asked Ladi6, who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks, to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Summer music: Midnight Youth - Jeremy Redmore

We asked Jeremy of Midnight Youth, who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks, to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Summer music: Fat Freddys Drop - Toby Laing

We asked Toby Laing of Fat Freddys Drop, who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks, to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Summer music: Dave Dobbyn

We asked Dave Dobbyn who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Summer music: Hello Sailor - Dave McArtney

We asked Dave McArtney of Hello Sailor, who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks, to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Summer music: Shapeshifter - Nick Robinson

We asked Nick Robinson of Shapeshifter, who is one of the many local music stars hitting the beach pub circuit in the coming weeks, to discuss the joys of touring and what it's like to have a job keeping the holidaying hordes entertained.

Ringing in the New Year: 10 big New Year's Eve gigs

Here is TimeOut's annual pick of the 10 big gigs for New Year's Eve.

Concert review: Kurt Vile, Kings Arms

Concert Review: Cold Chisel, Vector Arena

Florence and The Machine: The 10 commandments

Florence and the Machine's debut album, Lungs, made an international star of the Brit goth pop glamour queen. Now she's released a follow-up and announced concert dates in Auckland in the New Year. She talks to Tom Lamont.

UK rock band Yes to play NZ for first time ever

Prog-rockers Yes - perhaps best known for the song Owner of a Lonely Heart - play in New Zealand for the first time in their 40-year career with a show at Vector Arena on April 1.

Tour news: Mayer Hawthorne, Real Estate and Tiki Taane

In other tour news white boy soul man Mayer Hawthorne and his band The County return to New Zealand for shows in February.

Odd Future to play night before Big Day Out

The controversial rap crew kicked off the Big Day Out bill because of their homophobic and misogynistic lyrics will perform a show in Auckland the night before the one-day festival.

History Made: Black Sabbath, Ngaruawahia Music Festival

Hours before Black Sabbath played their first New Zealand show, young Kiwi promoter Barry Coburn was summoned to a makeshift dressing room where Ozzy Osbourne said, "When we come on, we want a burning cross - make it happen".

Black Joe Lewis: Tell 'em what your name is!

"Pretty bad-ass". In the short time speaking to Austin, Texas-based Black Joe Lewis, he uses the term several times to describe his horn section in his band, The Honeybears, their live show and his influences.

Adrian Sherwood: Strange Turn

Disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed, London label/collective On-U Sound has been dishing out the dubwise damage for three decades, with Adrian Sherwood always at its core.