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Exclusive: Paige shares her new music video and why she loves South Auckland

My Māori new year’s resolution is to stop spending time with people who drain my mana

Auckland rapper/actor/geography student Hans. shares his new music video

Revel in gay, sparkly 90s love with Milly Tabak & The Miltones’ new single

Watch out for NZ rap competition winner RAAJ

Pop duo Foley show us their hidden talent: ranking Birkenstocks

Team Dynamite share their soothing new track ‘Dragon Fruit’

NZ music festivals have no excuse for lack of gender diversity

Finding freedom in Sweet Lolita fashion

Benee's bandmates on the hunt for the next pop star

Release of the week: teen punks Sit Down In Front talk first world problems

Covid closed Ōtāhuhu's only art gallery, but there's a novel way to keep it going

A comedian teaches us his potato salad recipe, which is fancier than it sounds

Bailey Wiley on the power of your family calling you out for your bullsh*t

Troy Kingi spent a year researching his Taite Award-winning album, then wrote it in two weeks

Revealed: New Zealand's top five underground rappers, judged by Smoke and Church

When They Ask You: a new poem by Mohamed Hassan

The 'Bob Ross' of Māori carving has become an overnight streaming sensation

How to make a beat with SWIDT producer Smokeygotbeatz

Sound Check: HIGH HØØPS on how NZ music can emerge stronger from Covid

Sound Check: Randa rejects the productivity myth

Here's our award-winning stories

Disruptors 4: The quiet persistence of theatre life in lockdown

Disruptors 3: The problem with having a seat at the table

Disruptors 2: Sarita Das and Alice Canton on the transformative power of art

Sound Check: Folk singer Holly Arrowsmith is rebuilding a housebus and her dreams

Live music's fight to survive Covid-19

Sound Check: Indie-pop duo Imugi 이무기

Melodownz turned self-affirmations into a catchy hook

Sound Check: Merk carries on