!!! (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.

With the summer music festival circuit more jam-packed than ever, what does it take to stay afloat and get punters through the gates?

Wellington music fans will have the opportunity to see a cut-down selection of this year's Auckland lineup, when Laneway moves to Wellington on Tuesday February 1st 2011.

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Float across a tumultuous sea of female emotions

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: A golden book of musical intrigue

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: The party gets serious

The Laneway festival has a lineup that will ensure a dreamy, then magical, then devastatingly angular musical experience.

Auckland's inaugural Laneway Festival rocks the CBD on Anniversary Day.

Raincoats and plastic ponchos were de rigueur early on at the first Laneway Festival at Britomart in central Auckland yesterday.

The 3Ds have returned to reclaim their legend as the loudest goofiest pop band to have sprung from these shores.

The buzz for young Brit band The xx has propelled them all the way to Auckland for the Laneway Festival.

One of 80s Britrock's brightest lights, Echo & the Bunnymen are headlining a new local music festival.