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.

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.

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.

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.

Today's fifth Laneway Festival in New Zealand is a sell-out.

As the veteran Scottish indie outfit Belle & Sebastian head to Laneway in Auckland, the group's members talk about the band's enduring appeal and global cult following.

Banks can’t wait, finds Paula Yeoman.

Live coverage of today's St Jerome's Laneway festival in Auckland, including updated reviews and photos throughout the day.

They're one of 2014's hottest new rap acts, and they'll be heating up Laneway by performing inside a silo. Chris Schulz talks to New York rap trio Ratking.

Lydia Jenkin talks to Josh Lloyd-Watson, founder of one of the hottest bands of 2014.