Australian artist Chris Emerson found himself headlining Auckland's recent Laneway music festival completely by accident. Here's how it happened.

Some of the biggest acts in the hipster music world were at Laneway. But they were all outshined by the day's real star: the new venue.

Several Kiwi acts have kicked off today's Laneway festival at its new home in Albert Park precinct.

Four years ago, Amelia Murray worked the doors at Laneway Festival just to nab a free ticket. Today, she gets an upgrade: she's performing on the festival's main stage.

Organisers of the Laneway Festival have introduced a new safe zone for women after a journalist was harassed on live TV last year.

Pencil in as many of these acts as you can when it comes to planning your Laneway experience.

With a name like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Laneway's final act is bound to make a statement.

A Laneway act has had to pull out due to medical reasons, but on the plus side, Young Thug is taking their place.

Tame Impala will headline next year's new-look Laneway festival in Auckland, alongside woozy rap acts, indie rock bands, neo-soul singers and Swedish punks.

Auckland's Laneway music festival is moving to a new location - its fourth site in eight years. Promoters say it's the best one yet - here's why.

A much-loved music festival based on Auckland's waterfront is set to reveal its new home this week.

Despite last summer's somewhat disastrous festival season, our options are still looking pretty good.

The boyfriend of a TV3 reporter who was interrupted during a live TV cross says she was groped.

The beards! The silos! The bands! The dancing bananas! Chris Schulz, Rachel Bache and Amy Shanks take in the last Laneway Festival at Silo Park.

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.

Chris Schulz meets Vince Staples, whose tales of real life warfare have struck a chord in the world of hip-hop.

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

It's the music that matters, says flamboyant artist.

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

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.

Australian rockers Violent Soho are huge at home but are only just starting to make a dent in New Zealand. They talk to Chris Schulz.

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.

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.

With everyone from Grimes to Chvrches, Flume and Purity Ring, Laneway's line-up for 2016 is so good it's hard to pick who the headliners actually are.

The at-risk St Jerome Laneway Festival has secured an Auckland venue for another year - the same one it's played for the past four years.

A poster touting Chvrches, Albert Hammond Jr and Sufjan Stevens as the headliners for next year's Laneway Festival has been labelled a fake. But is it?

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.