New Horizons

William Dart reflects on Auckland Arts Festival's recent tribute concert to singer-songwriter Mahinaarangi Tocker, who died 10 years ago this month. Read more Audio

William Dart takes a stroll on the sunny side, featuring new releases with some happiness-inducing music from NRBQ, Eels, Stephen Malkmus, and Jack White. Read more Video, Audio

William Dart surveys the career of Joan Baez, now of almost 60 years, and features her new album Whistle Down the Wind. Read more Video, Audio

William Dart takes a brief look at Kiwi political songs, including some songs from the archives by Mervyn Thompson, and a tribute CD to union man and songwriter Peter Conway called 'For Pete's Sake'… Read more Audio

William Dart spends the first half of the programme on a digression about Burt Bacharach's "Walk On By", before getting around to looking at the musician called Kramer and his new album of Brill… Read more Video, Audio

Prompted by a new album by Idaho singer Eilen Jewell, William Dart listens to a number of white women (and a couple of white men) singing the blues. Read more Video, Audio

William Dart pays tribute to singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, most well-known for leading the late 60s-early 70s band Pearls Before Swine, and who died recently. Read more Video, Audio

After announcing the demise of its own print version earlier last year to go fully digital, the local magazine NZ Musician reappeared on the streets with a December/January edition. A fan of paper… Read more Video, Audio

William Dart looks at the music of Lisa Knapp, an English folksinger-songwriter with tiny hints of Kate Bush and Björk to her sound. Read more Video, Audio

English banjo player and songwriter Dan Walsh is currently touring NZ: he’s playing 21 small venues across the county, so William Dart thought this week’s New Horizons just had to be... Banjo week. Read more Video, Audio

William Dart kicks off the year by listening to a number of brotherly musical partnerships, including the Finns, the D'Addarios (from The Lemon Twigs) and the Maels (from Sparks). Read more Video, Audio

William Dart is hauling a sack of Christmas goodies … songs by Sufjan Stevens, Jamoa Jam, Paul McCartney with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, Shirley Temple, The Radio Kings, Esquivel, and Luther Vandross… Read more Audio