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.

Team Rhythm and Vines says it plans to tighten its focus while aiming to widen and freshen the appeal of its new-look summer music festival.

Why go to a music festival when you can watch it from the comfort of your own home? Chris Schulz and Lydia Jenkin have their say.

Photos from the 2015 Coachella music festival in California, USA.

Some come to South by Southwest seeking glory. Others come to roll their eyes at it.

The four-day festival at the Manukau Sports Bowl in Auckland opened yesterday with a 7am flag-raising ceremony and powhiri.

Teaching war dances and chants from the old island ways comes naturally to a family who have been involved in the Auckland Secondary Schools' PolyFest for decades.

Kanye West has been confirmed as one of this year’s headline acts at the Glastonbury Festival.

In a swift response to the fruit fly no-go zones in and around its original Western Springs stomping ground, the 23rd Pasifika Festival moves to Manukau this year.

Auckland's Pasifika Festival is facing a backlash from those who pushed for it in the first place - with some threatening to boycott the event.

Eight thousand people gathered at Hagley Park in Christchurch yesterday for the final of the biennial Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival.

Graham Reid speaks to English folk-rock veteran Richard Thompson about his return to Womad.

A wild 24 hours delayed a Cricket World Cup clash, brought flooding to Wellington and the South Island and forced the postponement of a music festival.

The Polynesian Panthers - incensed by the police's dawn raids on Pacific Island families in Ponsonby and Grey Lynn searching for overstayers.

A sea of black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets welcomed punters at Auckland's second Westfest festival. Chris Schulz and Rachel Bache take in the darkness.

Danik Abishev was born in the circus "I really didn't have a choice about becoming a performer," he says.

Fanfare Ciocarlia are bringing a blast of Balkan brass to the 'Naki for Womad next month. Garth Cartwright profiles the group and its humble Romanian beginnings.

Nestled in beautiful Tapapakanga Park Splore festival became annual for the first time this year, and it seems the move was a very successful one, write Lydia Jenkins and Rachel Bache.

To ensure her family continues to be lucky in the coming Year of the Sheep, New Lynn mother Maria Lee keeps true to traditions and age-old Chinese New Year practices.

Tinashe is bringing her sultry sound to New Zealand for the first time with a headlining slot at Splore. She talks to Rachel Bache.

Mr Scruff's signature style is all cups of tea, potato animation and marathon mixes, finds Lydia Jenkin.