Our top pick for this Friday’s Big Day Out is surf pop duo Best Coast on the Green Stage at 4pm. Lawrence asked front woman Bethany Cosentino about everything from Johnny Marr, cats, Drew Barrymore and weed, ahead of their NZ show. Your Wikipedia entry refers to you as “garage rock”, “surf pop” and “lo-fi”...

Shayne P Carter joins the illustrious lineup on January 30th at the Laneway Festival, down at the newly developed Silo Park. We here at Mix It Up are extremely excited by this year’s lineup, we sent our writer James Smith to catch up with Shayne before the big day… How has 2011 been for you?...

Big Day Out fans with iPhones get a gift on show day this year – the super handy Big Day Out 2012 Mobile App is available to download NOW and it is set to enhance your festival experience by providing everything you need to get organised, stay connected and never miss a thing on the...

Tell us who the Transistors are?  Olly sings and plays drums, Colin plays bass and only sings when we bully him into it, my name is James and I sing and play guitar. How did you manage to secure the opening slot for the Foo Fighters earlier this year? Tell us about the experience.  It...

Local band SHERPA have been added to Laneway NZ lineup. The Auckland 4-piece have been playing together since 2007, gaining momentum through touring NZ, releasing 2 EPs and supporting bands such as The Clean. This band is one to watch – and what a better place to do it – this Auckland Anniversary Day at...

On Friday 20 January the BIG DAY OUT, lands at Auckland’s Mt Smart stadium once again. And what a show it is. With its final timetable now unveiled, it is clear to see that a four stage BIG DAY OUT is still a kaleidoscopic rock funhouse with thrills around every corner. One big day… 42...

Following on from her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album, we are buzzing with joy to announce that LADYHAWKE is set to release her second album, Anxiety on March 19 via Modular Recordings & Universal Music NZ. The new album was recorded in New Zealand and France earlier this year by producer and long-time...

Lana Del Rey is set to release her new single ‘Born To Die’ on Monday 2nd January. Her album, also titled Born To Die, will follow on 6th February. ‘Born To Die’ follows Lana’s first single ‘Video Games’ which began its life online in July accompanied by a video created by Lana. Since then ‘Video...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s album and latest video ‘Bicycle’ have been collecting media accolades around the world on the eve of the group’s debut shows in New Zealand this week. UMO’s self-titled album was recorded at home by Ruban Neilson in Portland Oregon and has been toured relentlessly by his group around the world over the...

BIG DAY OUT is proud to announce the return of the Vert Ramp Skate Show to the national tour for 2012. Twenty years ago, skateboarders rolled in on a huge custom built vert ramp to the sounds of skate rock band “Village Idiots” (on what was to become known as the “Skate Stage”) marking the...

In director Sean Pecknold’s transfixing video for “The Shrine/An Argument,” Fleet Foxes have released a fittingly epic and haunting animated companion piece for one of the stand-out tracks from their celebrated 2011 album Helplessness Blues. On May 3rd, 2011 Fleet Foxes released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) to rave reviews from...

TALLY HO! Flying Nun’s Greatest Bits, the highly anticipated compilation is out now. In 1981, Flying Nun Records released The Clean’s “Tally Ho!” . It became the rallying cry and the start of a charge that still continues. 30 years on, ‘Tally Ho!’ seemed a fitting title for what is the first “Best Of” compilation...