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Dance music icons Basement Jaxx headlined Synthony last weekend. Kara Rickard tracked them down in Auckland’s Domain on the eve of the sold out show.  Audio

Many New Zealanders put up with dizziness and vertigo. They don't have to. Sometimes there is a cure.

Tony Stamp reviews American songwriter Lucy Dacus's fourth album, the third solo LP from Ringlets guitarist László Reynolds and some blunt, pithy techno from Canada’s Marie Davidson.

The sold-out Synthony in the Domain was a magical farewell to summer as 40,000 festival-goers threw on their glitter and party gear for a nostalgic trip down dance music lane, writes Liz Garton.

Aotearoa’s premier music historian Grant Gillanders tells Music 101 about six decades of unearthing and reviving rare Kiwi tunes.

Tinā will make you laugh and cry, but if you're Samoan like its star, maybe also despair just a little.

It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent – Laetare Sunday. ‘Laetare’ is Latin for ‘rejoice’, and traditionally the day is a break in this otherwise austere season of the church calendar. Cheerful hymns in this week’s programme include Ain’a that good news! and O clap your hands together. Audio

A new campaign is educating parents about abusing coaches and match officials at children's sports games.

It may share a name with Heston Blumenthal’s famous UK pub, but The Fat Duck in Te Anau is making culinary waves of its own.

Expert takeaways from the viral Netflix series that sparked a global conversation about the online world of teen boys and violence.

King was born Deaf and uses New Zealand Sign Language full-time, leading the primary school class using every tool in his kit that is not the spoken word.

The Kiwi actor was in a Liverpool cafe when she found out local drama series was in the running for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award.

How did a concert that started with an orchestra playing dance bangers become the biggest one-day festival in New Zealand?

The rock band will score a prize for their album, Killjoy, which set them on their way to New Zealand legend status.

Independent Music New Zealand will acknowledge Killjoy, the second album from the rock band, which broke through in 1995 with the colossal riffs and pop sensibility that the band became known for.

International flute player Emily Beynon discusses her approach to music ahead of her concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audio

The widow of late Green Party MP Fa'anānā Efeso Collins is calling for an inquest into his death, accusing the organisers of the charity event he was attending at the time of failing him. Audio

Caledonia TV could be the next collateral victim of drastic budget cuts following New Caledonia's civil unrest last year.

A new creative hub in West Auckland is helping to preserve Tongan culture through song and dance.Te Puna Creative Hub has taken over the Whoa! Studios building in Henderson, and occupies the former children's theatre.

One of Fiji's deputy prime ministers says Sitiveni Rabuka is the best man to rebuild Fiji after "sixteen years of dictatorship".

Earlier this month, the Papua New Guinea government amended the country's constitution to make it more difficult to bring votes of no confidence in the government.

As the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) celebrates Covenant Day, its status as a commonwealth of the United States is again front and centre, as economic woes and China's influence looms in the region.