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.

Pasifika beats, arts, culture and talent will be seen and heard around Auckland over the next two weeks during the Urbanesia festival, which starts today.

A new music festival was on shakey ground but the director of Echo Festival says it can be just as good in Auckland. Paxon Talbot talks to Chris Schulz.

Splore has added its biggest name yet to the bill for its summer-friendly February festival.

Auckland City Limits has its own Austin music hero in the line-up with Shakey Graves heading to the festival. He talked to Russell Baillie backstage at Austin City Limits.

As headliners of next year's Auckland City Limits, The National might seem like unlikely summer festival fare but the US indie giants just keep gaining momentum and fans. Russell Baillie reports.

When Kendrick Lamar walks on to the Auckland City Limits stage, hip-hop fans will see an artist who has come a long way in a short space of time.

Four more festivals have announced their line-up tonight, presenting a wide array of international and local acts who will be entertaining us during summer 2016.

SoulFest, which was to feature Lauryn Hill, Mary J Blige and De La Soul, cancelled because of low ticket sales.

Summer is music festival season and it's also the time when shipping container season starts booming.

If you need new jandals, now might be the time to splurge with two summer music festivals confirming their line-ups today.

Perri Exeter is a choreographer and dance teacher at Rutherford College where her students got the best scholarship results in New Zealand.

Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry talks to Lydia Jenkin about the band's return to Auckland, abusive reaction to its latest video and the much-anticipated new album.

Auckland City Limits is a new multi-genre summer music festival promoters hope will replace the Big Day Out in the hearts of local music fans.

Chrvches are there. So are Grimes, Flume and Beach House - but who else made the cut in this week's Laneway line-up? Here are five artists we thought deserved some extra attention.

An Auckland University lecturer has won a major international film award with his film Free in Deed.

Coming to a paddock near you ...

Psychedelic rock institution The Flaming Lips are headlining a major new summer music festival. Frontman Wayne Coyne talks about the band's long strange trip and the Miley Cyrus connection to Russell Baillie.

The Flaming Lips is but one of 20 acts coming to the McLaren Valley Music and Arts Festival, a new event to run at a venue nestled below the Bay of Plenty's Kaimai Ranges in mid-January.

The Laneway Festival has been told today it cannot move to the Auckland Domain, raising the possibility of the country's largest urban music festival moving to Wellington or Christchurch.

Two of the biggest events on the Auckland calendar, the Lantern Festival and Laneway Festival, could move to the Domain.

Britpop legends Blur brought the three-day mud fest that was Splendour in the Grass to a close, and finally made amends for their Big Day Out cancellation in 2013.

A reveller at a music festival has become an unlikely internet star after he tweeted that he had been packed into a tent bag and could not escape.

Kanye West requested a whole field for 250 members of his crew at Glastonbury Festival.

The 12 best snaps you need to see from the Glastonbury Music Festival.

Photos from Glasonbury music festival that you need to see.

The Foo Fighters have reportedly signed up to headline UK music festival Glastonbury in 2016 after they were forced to pull out of this year's show due to frontman Dave Grohl's broken leg.

Thousands of people walked through the doors at yesterday's Auckland Fair first held in 2010 at Auckland Art Gallery.