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From TE KAAHU to Stan Walker to Alien Weaponry

From Lorde's sun-drenched 'Solar Power' to Jujulipps' slick "Airplane Mode', New Zealand's music videos remain cool and exciting

Dive into fresh local releases from Joe Ghatt, The Fuzzy Robes, Lorde, Sam Bambery, Lucian Rice, Beth Torrance, and more

"I am truly changed as I know you were too by that group of people on the Pantages stage moving together with warmth, strangeness and pure cool," singer writes of 'Stop Making Sense'

The musician warned fans not to get too antsy, writing: "Start ur excitement on a low flame and bring it up to a gentle simmer .. we building stamina for this chapter”

"Everything starts out as a bunch of bullshit in a laptop," she says in lengthy e-mail to fans

When Lorde became a superstar 10 years ago, "Royals" was the smash hit. But since then, a different song from Pure Heroine has resonated hugely with fans whose experience of growing up mirrored her own

The singer explains she is "living with heartbreak again" and has "gotten sick half a dozen times"
Rolling Stone sent Laura Studarus to Flow Festival Helsinki to capture acts like Devo, Lorde, Caroline Polachek and more

The singer joined Lorde to perform the Melodrama single at Sziget Festival in Budapest