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'Why are you sweating?': Pure hell in the Oasis ticket queues.
Twenty-seven minutes, nine cancelled transactions and a single Oasis ticket: the Ticketmaster queue to top all Ticketmaster queues.
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Chris Schulz
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Fights, missing headliners, a rape allegation and a huge cancellation.
Our festival season is off to a weird, troubling and downright disturbing start.
Oct 13
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Chris Schulz
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Tinnitus broke him. His guitar saved him.
How Shihad rocker Jon Toogood found his quiet place.
Oct 7
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Chris Schulz
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Tinnitus broke him. His guitar saved him.
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Is true love possible in the age of streaming?
Prepare yourself: I have a big question to hit you with on this fine Friday morning.
Oct 3
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Chris Schulz
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Is true love possible in the age of streaming?
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Big shows by major artists are only for the rich now.
Want to see your favourite acts play live? You're going to need flights, accommodation – and some pretty expensive tickets too.
Oct 1
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Chris Schulz
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September 2024
Meet Ōtautahi's premiere Weezer tribute act, Weezier.
They only play one show a year. But they make that show count.
Sep 26
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Chris Schulz
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A landmark NZ album was lost for 27 years. It’s just been found.
Dam Native's debut, acclaimed as an Aotearoa hip-hop classic, has been missing since 1997. Why?
Sep 23
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Chris Schulz
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Who'd start a record label right now? This guy.
"It just sort of makes sense," says Chris Cox, aka the DJ Frank Booker. He looked at the odds and decided: “Fuck it, let’s do it."
Sep 19
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Chris Schulz
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How much vinyl is too much vinyl?
One Pōneke collector has 50,000 records. He let me visit to see them all for myself.
Sep 16
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Chris Schulz
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No Green Day or The Killers tours for NZ – but why?
Two more major acts are skipping New Zealand. Do we smell?
Sep 12
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Chris Schulz
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Is this music’s toughest job?
Fitting 50 acts onto 10 stages across one hectic night is a programming nightmare for Reuben Bonner. It is, he says, all worth it.
Sep 9
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Chris Schulz
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Ten years ago, I broke the worst story ever.
The day the Big Day Out was no more.
Sep 3
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Chris Schulz
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