The promoters of an all-new hip-hop festival in Auckland are confident their line-up of veteran hip-hop acts will deliver.

How did Auckland's newest music festival cope with crowds of 25,000? The Herald team takes a look at the things you might have missed at Auckland City Limits.

Bone Thugs-N- Harmony will headline an all-new hip-hop festival in Auckland in May, it has been confirmed.

Prime Minister John Key was among guests at the festival today.

Campbell Smith says Beck was supposed to on the bill at this weekend's Auckland City Limits festival, but "we couldn't make it work".

Booker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and standout New Zealand writers are lined up for the Auckland Writers Festival.

Brass Poppies may be a chamber opera, but its 70 minutes achieved the vision and the resonances that one might not find in a piece twice its length.

The skies above Carterton were a riot of colour as participants from New Zealand and around the world took to the air for the 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival, which wrapped up on Monday.

The British rockers - consisting of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard - will play the Friday night of the festival in Somerset, England, later this year.

Continuing to add to the attractions of music, great food, and kids activities, Auckland City Limits has now announced its artwork programme for the festival on Saturday, March 19 at Western Springs.

Auckland City Limits announces a new facet to the festival today: Auckland Kiddie Limits.

He's known for going ballistic at his live shows, jumping around, over and on to his mixing desk. He'll often invite as many crowd members as will fit on stage to dance to his mashed-up medleys.

Auckland's Laneway Festival, with a near sellout crowd, graced Silo Park on the waterfront yesterday for what's rumoured to be the last time.

Follow all the action from today's Laneway music festival in Auckland with as many reviews as Chris Schulz, Rachel Bache and Amy Shanks can muster.

A Laneway act has pulled out of his performance just hours before the Auckland festival was due to begin.

Five artists worth checking out at this year's Laneway Festival.

Chris Schulz tries to track down mysterious musical pixie Grimes ahead of her Laneway appearance.

Purity Ring's gloomy grind now comes with dance moves. They tell Chris Schulz why.

This festival is in Christchurch's Hagley Park this week. In Auckland it will be in locations around the waterfront.

Australian dance act Flume will be the final act to perform at this year's Laneway festival, today's timetable release confirms.

With so many great festivals around the world, it can hard to choose. We've picked out six of the best - so get planning.

Happy campers danced, flocked and shopped in Gisborne sunshine on the first day of the Rhythm and Vines music festival.

The Rhythm and Vines festival kicked off in Gisborne yesterday with major changes to alcohol policy after riots broke out last year.

Festival-goers are packing into the Rhythm and Vines site, getting ready for the rural New Year festival.

Arriving at Splore, it's easy to pick out the veterans of this three-day arts and music festival.

Rapping and partying, partying and rapping. After a tough few years, Mac Miller is living the dream. He talks to Chris Schulz.

One of the failed Echo Festival's acts, Disclosure, is still coming to Auckland to play a DJ set.

The big day out for bogans is back, with a new look and its third new location in as many years.

The summer season's off to a bumpy start with the cancellation of two festivals. Lydia Jenkin investigates the state of the industry and what it takes to succeed.