Growing tomatoes and learning how to make apple cider – Feist has been enjoying the fruits of a well-earned break. Now back with new album Metals, the elusive songstress talks to VOLUME about getting back together with her guitar.

M83's latest album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, released last October, is a huge, melodramatic, pop soundscape filling two discs, richly layered and boldly drawn.

Indie pop duo Cults are the epitome of New Yorker-style coolness.

A sweet, artistic, free spirit, with a voice that rivals Enya and Bjork, New York-based Cameron Mesirow, who works under the artist name Glasser, is the kind of musician who dreams up the idea of a two-person organ, and then actually gets one made.

Belgian-born Australian indie pop artist Gotye (you say it like "Gaultier"), whose real name is Wally De Backer, is much loved in Australia.

What is a Laneway? Are the Horrors horrible? What time are the passouts playing? Watch the live chat replay with co-promoter Ben Howe.

Stormy, atmospheric, a velvet glove with barbs - and that’s just the guitar. Why is Laneway 2012 visitor Anna Calvi embarrassing men in what tends to be their six-string province?

Canadian songstress Feist and British doom-pop merchants The Horrors are set to headline a new-look Laneway Festival in Auckland next year.

A famous Rolling Stone once said: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." In fact, I'm going to manipulate his words and say: architecture could very well make you want to dance.

Anna Valvi may have chosen music over art, but there is room for both in the life of the London singer who is now also the toast of the fashion industry.

An Emerald City might have kicked off Laneway in the sun this week but the Auckland band has been holed up in a Berlin studio working on their latest slab of instrumental art-rock. Cathrin Schaer reports.

Scott Kara reflects on a successful event-relocation to the newly refurbished Aotea Square.

Exclusive photos from Foals' headline set at the 2011 Laneway Festival in Aotea Square, Auckland.

Live reports, information and anything else we can think of from the Laneway Festival at Auckland's Aotea Square.

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) will not play the Auckland Laneway Festival today due to a flight from Singapore that was delayed by more than seven hours.

Essential information for Laneway Festival goers has been released ahead of the day-long festival on Monday - Auckland Anniversary Day.

Eighties band Children's Hour are no strangers to controversy. Frontman Chris Matthews talks to Scott Kara about reliving those good ol' days at this year's Laneway Festival.

Scott Kara's week of movies, TV and music.

Yeasayer are back for Laneway, but don't expect a repeat of an infamous earlier trip, says Paula Yeoman.

Pip Brown's stomach is tying in knots thinking about her upcoming performance at Laneway. It will be her first gig at home since the Big Day Out of 2010, after which she collapsed and took herself to her childhood home to recuperate.