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Join respected music commentator and critic William Dart for a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond. From new releases to forgotten gems, he draws on an encyclopaedic knowledge and gargantuan record collection to offer fascinating insights and surprising links. William’s choices are sometimes classic, sometimes quirky, always engaging and entertaining.
This programme concluded in December 2024, but you can enjoy episodes below.
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Shayne P. Carter's Offsider
16 Oct 2016William Dart reviews Shayne P. Carter's new album Offsider in the context of his previous releases and conversations between the two men about classical music. Read more Audio
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Everybody's In Show-Biz
9 Oct 2016William Dart revels in a remastered reissue of The Kinks' 1972 album Everybody's In Show-Biz, and takes a quick look at James Blake's new album The Colour in Anything. Read more Audio
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The Land Where The Good Songs Go
2 Oct 2016William Dart pays tribute to recently-departed Auckland singer Grant P. Chilcott and leads up to that by considering the issues of good songcraft - Brian Wilson and Randy Newman serve as exemplars. Read more Audio
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All-Welsh Half Hour
25 Sep 2016William Dart looks to the nation that gave us Shirley Bassey and Mary Hopkin and discovers a few not so well-known treasures including Datblygu and 9Bach. Read more Audio
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A Sondheim Selection
11 Sep 2016In anticipation of NZ Opera's production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, William Dart spins a few Sondheim tracks. Read more Audio
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Andrew Keoghan's Every Orchid Offering
4 Sep 2016William Dart reviews Andrew Keoghan's recent album Every Orchid Offering. Read more Audio
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Esperanza as Emily
28 Aug 2016William Dart reviews bass-player/singer/songwriter Esperanza Spalding's new album Emily's D+Evolution. Read more Audio
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Clever Music
7 Aug 2016Returning to a topic he's touched on before, William Dart looks at "clever" music - music with far, far more going on in it than just surface. Centring on a new album by American songwriter Finnegan… Read more Audio
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Pronto Monto
William Dart revisits Kate and Anna McGarrigle's third album, Pronto Monto, first released in 1978 but never available on CD until now. Read more Audio
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Absolute Truth
After hearing Lawrence Arabia preview a number of songs in Auckland's Queen's Arcade in April 2015, William Dart was impatient for the album. Absolute Truth has finally dropped and William is… Read more Audio
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Oysterband +
William Dart's theme is the British folk song and what happened to it in the hands of groups such as Fairport Convention, Bellowhead and Oysterband. Read more Audio
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Red Hot and Recent
Centring around the new tribute album to the Grateful Dead from the Red Hot label, William Dart looks also at some of the label's other releases - many of which aim to raise awareness of HIV and the… Read more Audio
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