New Horizons

After relaxing over summer to the music of Wilco, William Dart starts this year's series of New Horizons by also looking at what Jeff Tweedy is writing about the music of others, with a few surprises… Read more Audio

With New Horizons going to air on Christmas Eve, what better excuse for a half-hour of songs about dear old Santa and his dear wife. William Dart finds some of them are more serious that you might… Read more Audio

In his penultimate programme of the year, William Dart looks back at some of the local releases he didn't have time for, or didn't have enough time for in earlier programmes. Music by Ebony Lamb, Troy… Read more Audio

William Dart's annual collection of the best and the rest runs the gamut from Christmas carols and #MeToo protests to the latest hip supergroup and what might be a farewell album from a veteran… Read more Audio

Sufjan Stevens' new release, Javelin, has provoked William Dart to a week of deep immersion in the American's earlier music to find out just where his new elegiac songs fit in. Read more Audio

William Dart tracks the pathway of Wellington songwriter Ebony Lamb from the band Eb & Sparrow through to the undertstated triumph of her first solo album. Read more Audio

This year's APRA Silver Scrolls are done and dusted. William Dart now sits back to be charmed by 2023's Scroll monarchs, The Beths. Read more Audio

On 17 October the world of music became inestimably poorer with the death of jazz composer Carla Bley. William Dart tributes this extraordinary woman. Read more Audio

The world has waited 18 years for a Rolling Stones album featuring new and original material and now it's arrived in the form of Hackney Diamonds. William Dart checks it out. Read more Audio

William Dart remembers the late Nanci Griffith and her music, now put in the spotlight by a new tribute album, titled More than a Whisper, with musicians from Mary Gautier and Iris DeMent to John… Read more Audio

William Dart makes a perhaps unexpected visit to the cabaret, with entertainment from Cécile McLorin Salvant, Finn Andrews and NZTrio, Joan Morris and William Bolcom, along with, in a brand new Rattle… Read more Audio

It's difficult to keep up with the energetic Matthew Bannister, now coming through with a second album from his band, The Changing Same. William Dart looks at this along with Bannister's brand new… Read more Audio