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.

Laneway's big name headliners may have osbcured some of the smaller names on the bill - and they don't get any fresher than Yukon Era.

Who's who among Laneway's eclectic 2017 line-up? Chris Schulz makes his picks from those set to grace the stages at Albert Park Precinct next January.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the ongoing diet of gallery exhibitions, theatre and comedy, Auckland's creative offering rivals any of the world's great international cities, writes Heather Shotter.

Traffic congestion could be reduced if the council made it compulsory for commercial premises to display their number.

Twenty or more minute queues for the women's loos at Laneway Festival in the blazing sun. Men could use larger portaloos, but women did not have that luxury.

Pictures of the artists who performed at the 2015 Laneway Festival in Auckland. Photos courtesy of Laneway and Jonathan Pilkington.

If there's a year that Laneway has come of age, mark it down as this one.