A bustling Auckland Anniversary weekend is set to climax today with the Laneway Festival and Anniversary Day Regatta.

Chris Schulz talks to Savages, expected to be the loudest act at Laneway.

Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, has stepped out from in front of the band and is taking to the stage solo for the first time since 2005. She tells Lydia Jenkin what Laneway fans can expect from her set on the Cactus Cat stage.

Los Angeles siblings Haim emerged as one of the hottest new bands of last year with a sound that makes them one of Laneway's sunniest prospects. Tom Lamont caught them on tour.

Rising local star Watercolours talks to Lydia Jenkin about following her own artistic path.

Get ready for a serious case of ADD: no band on the upcoming bill for Auckland's Laneway Festival will play for longer than 45 minutes.

Auckland's Laneway music festival has suffered a second blow, with headliner James Blake pulling out to attend the Grammy Awards just weeks before the event.

Here are six hot young acts we're looking forward to checking out at Laneway.

Check out the local and international acts performing at the 2014 Laneway Festival, taking place at Auckland's Silo Park.

Laneway Festival's new line-up has been revealed.

Take a look at some of the artists that will be playing at the 2014 Laneway Festival on January 27.

Mark Kneebone. Cool by name, and cooler by nature, Kneebone is Co- Promoter of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival. Now in its fourth year, Laneway has grown to become the largest Auckland-based music festival and the leading alternative music festival in New Zealand. The backstage story follows Mark as he got ready for the 2013 Auckland Laneway Festival.

Watch a replay of The Eversons speaking to Hugh Sundae in NZ Herald Online's live-stream studio at St Jerome's Laneway Festival, 2013.

Watch a replay of The Phoenix Foundation speaking to Hugh Sundae in NZ Herald Online's live-stream studio at St Jerome's Laneway Festival, 2013.

Watch a replay of Street Chant speaking to Hugh Sundae in NZ Herald Online's live-stream studio at St Jerome's Laneway Festival, 2013.

Join the NZ Herald team and a host of thousands from Auckland's Silo Park for today's Laneway 2013 live blog.

Photos from St Jerome's Laneway Festival at Auckland's Silo Park.

Jessie Ware was studying journalism and doing dissertations on Kafka when a lucky break changed her life.

This time last year the four members of acclaimed Brit band Alt-J were on the dole. Now they're Mercury Music prizewinners.

For Talking Heads, academic and author Andrew Dubber and director of the New Zealand chapter of St Jerome's Laneway Festival, Mark Kneebone, talked about new music strategies in the digital age.

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.