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The RNZ Music team is celebrating NZ Music Month with Fresh Music Daily - new music from a different Kiwi artist every day. Video

If you want something great to watch during lockdown, the RNZ Music have got you covered. Here’s a bunch of top-notch music documentaries we’ve handpicked for your viewing pleasure. Video

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a local music TV channel coming back from the dead, US media not feeling the Bern - and RNZ Concert / RNZ Music: the… Audio

Rising kiwi star Benee joins Charlotte to share some of her favourite tunes. Video, Audio

Peta Mathias' new book Eat Your Heart Out is an exploration of love stories from around the world, intertwined with recipes that suit romantic encounters. Although, she maintains that anything cooked… Audio

What one figure from history would you like to see a hologram of in concert? Dead musicians are taking the stage again in digital form.  Audio

Music critic Amy Raphael first wrote about sexism in the music industry in her 1995 book 'Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock'. She's revisited the subject 20 years later in her new book 'A… Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present the new single and video from Kiwi jazz/soul singer Lou’ana, who's headlining this weekend’s Waiheke Jazz Festival. Video

Rex Orange County is the music making name of 20-year old Alex O'Connor. Yadana Saw speaks to the British artist who's duetted with Randy Newman, worked with Tyler, the Creator and is heading to… Video, Audio

The story of unlikely bad boy East End fashion designer Alexander McQueen - aptly titled McQueen - is, like so many documentaries about tortured artists, predictably tragic and sadly unenlightening. Video, Audio

Several documentaries about great female rock stars have come to film festivals in recent years, so music enthusiast and RNZ Music studio operator Jana Whitta offers some highlights and insights on… Video, Audio

Whitney charts the rise and fall of one of the great music stars of the Eighties and Nineties - Whitney Houston. Video, Audio

Nick Bollinger surveys the southern excursion of Oakland soul belter Shannon Shaw. Audio

Megan Whelan has already interviewed multi-award winning Canadian New Zealand musician Tami Neilson twice in the last year. Her new record is called Sassafrass! Roll on interview number three. Audio

From the clean Nashville sound of Jamie McDell, to the weathered voice and humour of Bernie Griffen - RNZ Music's Kirsten Johnstone samples the latest country offerings from our neck of the woods.  Video, Audio

Long-lived rock act Queens of the Stone Age use super-producer Mark Ronson’s pop sensibilities and frontman Josh Homme’s restlessness to make Villains a swaggering, soulful, riff-rocking album.  Video, Audio

What happens when you cross a classical choir with an indie pop group and throw in a guest conductor? Pure magic is the hope of Nota Bene along with Wellington three-piece The Mermaidens and conductor… Audio

Psychopaths are usually portrayed as sadists or criminal masterminds, but you don't have to be a Hannibal Lecter type to have aspects of psychopathology, says criminal psychologist Devon Polaschek… Audio

Virginia Hanlon Grohl is the mother of Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. She interviewed the mothers of 18 famous musicians for her book From Cradle to Stage. Audio

Lord Echo AKA Mike Fabulous gets grilled by Yadana Saw about the challenges he set himself in the making of his new album Harmonies. Video, Audio

There is something about a wreck we find irresistible. But our culture reserves the most intense fascination for women who are are what writer and blogger Sady Doyle describes as "trainwrecks". Audio

RNZ Music producer Sam Wicks walks us through a C60's worth of musical selections. Audio

Today, on New Zealand live a woman who made her musical debut 12 years ago as guest vocalist on the chart-topping single by Adeaze, "Getting Stronger." She has since gone on to record four studio… Video, Audio

Aaradhna sits down with Sam Wicks to talk through the experiences that shaped Brown Girl, her soul-searching new set. Audio

Sylvia Patterson reflects on her own life, feminism in rock and roll and the demise of music journalism in her book, I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music. Audio

Asti-Loren, Maya Payne and Nakita. These three young women are changing the way New Zealand makes pop music, and they’re doing it one carefully crafted post and polished pop song at a time. Video, Audio