New Horizons

In April, the music world lost the great American producer Hal Willner to Covid-19. William Dart tributes a man whose various albums did the same for a panorama of musical heroes, stretching from Kurt… Read more Video, Audio

Bill Direen of The Bilders fame is back with a new band and an album that bears its name, Ferocious. William Dart looks at some of Direen's new music, together with a few Bilders classics and a… Read more Video, Audio

We've waited almost eight years for a new album from Fiona Apple, so her Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a cause for celebration. William Dart celebrates. Read more Video, Audio

We're just over halfway through New Zealand Music Month. How's it faring for our local musicians in these Covid-19 times? William Dart features new music by Kate Owen, Aidan Fine, and Olivia Foa'i… Read more Video, Audio

Returning to New Horizons after a few weeks of lockdown-imposed repeats, William Dart takes a look at a new compilation album from Tim Burgess and Bob Stanley inspired by the soundtrack music to the… Read more Video, Audio

In a programme celebrating the high-quality releases on the Nonesuch label, William Dart focuses on a new album from Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and Nico Muhly, in which the world of Balinese… Read more Video, Audio

William Dart takes a brief jaunt through a number of tracks with duetting singers before settling on the album, Anchor, from the partnership of mother and daughter Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy. Read more Video, Audio

Joan Wasser goes by the stage-name Joan As Police Woman. She writes arresting music. For William Dart, there's no point resisting - he goes along quietly with her 2018 album Damned Devotion. Read more Video, Audio

Marc Ribot is one of the world's great guitarists that you've possibly never heard of. As a session musician he's played with almost everybody. In 2018, he released a solo album of his own - a… Read more Video, Audio

William Dart looks back at the career of Laurie Anderson and, in particular, the album Landfall, about Hurricane Sandy, created with the help of Kronos Quartet. Read more Video, Audio

Grief and loss have inspired some fine music, from great Requiems to the simplest of elegies. Most recently they're the force behind Nick Cave's latest album, Ghosteen, which comes four years after… Read more Audio

The songs of Tom Waits, but with a difference - delivered by women singers from Bette Midler and Crystal Gayle to Patty Griffin and Aimee Mann. Read more Video, Audio