Welcome to this week's nzherald.co.nz playlist - a feature that allows readers to stream curated music from Herald staff.

Summer is the perfect time to relax, take a holiday and to go explore the beautiful countryside, road trip style. What's a road trip without a sweet playlist to blast through the car speakers? Luckily, we've sorted you out with some essential songs for cruising across Aotearoa.

This mix includes some great tracks from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, OutKast, M83 and Imagine Dragons, for your listening and driving pleasure.

This playlist was curated by entertainment reviewer Rachel Bache. Follow nzherald_ent on Spotify for more playlists.

Warning: Some songs contain explicit language

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- nzherald.co.nz