Where Neil Finn’s at

I don’t think I’m going to venture into rap,” decides Neil Finn in between sips of a takeaway coffee. “DLT tried to convince me once.studio and he said, ‘Come on man, you’ve just got to sound like you’re telling a child off.’ And when you hear rapping, that kind of makes sense.

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Sun set to shine on Big Day Out

Big Day Out festivalgoers should not let morning showers dampen their enthusiasm because the sun will shine on the festival’s return to Auckland when the party really gets going in the afternoon. The country’s biggest music festival will be held at Western Springs Stadium for the first time tomorrow, after a one-year hiatus due to poor ticket sales in 2012, and Auckland should turn on some pretty typical weather

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Indie trio Yo La Tengo

OPINION: Comatose, kaput, absolutely buggered. I picture Ira Kaplan shambling around his New Jersey home like a zombie, eyes red-raw and itchy under his mop of brown curls, brain befuddled, the dull throb of jet engine hum still buzzing in his ears, his luggage still where he dropped it just inside the front door

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