Featured Music Stories
What happened when The Rolling Stones went to Invercargill?
This weekend marks 60 years since The Rolling Stones toured New Zealand. Dave Hogan was there to meet them at Invercargill airport in his school uniform. Audio
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Hooked on Opera
29 Jan 2025John Drummond, former music professor at Otago University, composer and broadcaster, talks about his book Habitation of Dreams: A Life in Opera. Audio
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Grace writes notes for the Auckland Philharmonia
28 Jan 2025RNZ's Bryan Crump talks with Grace Wellik, the Auckland Philharmonia's Young Composer-in-Residence for 2025, and Evie Dwyer-Leech, who's part of the orchestra's Learn & Participate team. Audio
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The Mixtape - Songwriter Holly Arrowsmith
25 Jan 2025Born in the Santa Fe desert, New Mexico, and then raised in the mountains of southern New Zealand, Holly Arrowsmith’s Americana-tinged folk & country sound has been awarded APRA's 'Best country song' award twice. Her latest album Blue Dreams has been critically acclaimed. We asked Holly to curate this week's RNZ Mixtape. Audio
RNZ Concert
RNZ Concert is New Zealand’s fine music network. Concert promotes New Zealand music and composition and features live broadcasts of concerts and recitals, as well as international content from other public radio broadcasters, podcasts, and on-demand programmes.
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 February 2025
4:15 am todayThis week’s listener requests include a Brendan Taaffe’s contemporary folk hymn To the hills, a harvest anthem by English composer John Rutter, and Isaac Watt’s well-loved hymn When I survey the wondrous cross. Audio
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Inside Out: Callum Allardice's Elementa
1 Feb 2025Multi-award winning NZ guitarist Callum Allardice's new album 'Elementa' is a combination of his signature cinematic soundscapes, and a small-group intimacy. Audio
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Bringing the bass
30 Jan 2025RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump catches up with NZ double bass player Louis van der Mespel on a trip home from the Netherlands. Audio
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The Mixtape - DJ, engineer and promoter Leesa Tilley
1 Feb 2025Leesa Tilley is a musical polymath who launched and managed the first four years of the Ragamuffin Music Festival as a promoter. Over the years, she has… Video, Audio
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The Mixtape chats of 2024 you don't want to miss
21 Dec 2024The Music 101 team have gathered some of the wonderful chats of 2024 you don't want to miss. You can find a link to the whole Mixtape for each guest below, or… Audio
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The Mixtape: Musician Dan Sperber
7 Dec 2024This episode of the RNZ Mixtape features Auckland bass guitarist, vocalist and composer, Dan Sperber, who has played in a number of Auckland based bands… Audio
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The Mixtape: Paddy Gower - from pessimist to optimist
30 Nov 2024Our guest picking the music is New Zealand journalist Patrick Gower. Paddy started his career on the graveyard shift at the Herald, moving on to become a… Audio
Recent Music Stories
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Alien Weaponry: 'We're all kind of nerdy and geeky'
1 Feb 2025Brothers Henry and Lewis de Jong were just kids when they formed the metal band with their childhood friend Tūranga Edmonds. An intimate new documentary gets inside their world. Video, Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 1 February 2025
1 Feb 2025On this week's show there's classic blues from Jimmy Reed, Etta James covers Bob Dylan, a preview of M Ward's forthcoming tour dates plus a birthday tune for Graham Nash. Audio
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Can You Dig It
1 Feb 2025Flutist Herbie Mann gets funky, Thabani Gapara plays the music of Louis Mhlanga, Mike Nock teams up with NZTrio, and Lisa Tomlins recalls Pixie Williams. Audio
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Elliot & Vincent drop in ahead of Laneway
Elliot & Vincent (Elliot Finn and Vincent Cherry) join us in the Music 101 studio ahead of their Laneway set next week. The two piece rock 'n' roll band have been turning heads with their ability to… Audio
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Humanhood by The Weather Station
1 Feb 2025The music on Tamara Lindeman's latest is as tangled and windswept as her inner monologue, but it's always beautiful. Audio
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Alien Weaponry on new doco and taking te reo to the biggest metal festivals
A new documentary about maori metal band Alien Weaponry will be released in cinemas this Waitangi Day. Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara follows brothers Henry and Lewis Te Reiwhati de Jong as teens… Video, Audio
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Review: Bryan Adams makes us so happy it hurts
1 Feb 2025Everything about the veteran rocker's Christchurch show was unexpectedly wild, Dan Buchanan writes.
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Bella Kalolo – Playing Favourites
Force of nature, Bella Kalolo, recently won TV Personality of the Year at the NZ TV Awards. She's also an accomplished vocalist. She joins Mihi and Susie to play some favourites. Video, Audio
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FireAid LA benefit includes everyone from Katy Perry to Green Day
When the first song of the night features record-smashing pop icon Billie Eilish out the front of pop-punk royalty Green Day, you know you're in for something special.
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FireAid benefit concerts rock out in support of LA
The star-studded gigs included surprise appearances from a raft of celebrities, including St. Vincent and Dr. Dre.
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Audio
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Southern Stars - The 2022 New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir Tour Concert
31 Jan 2025New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2022 Tour, recorded at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Christchurch on 14 July 2022. Audio
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Writing for children is never childs play
31 Jan 2025As Sounz seeks submissions from composers for this year's work for the childrens ensemble Arohanui Strings, we speak to the man who wrote last year's; South African born Keith Moss.
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The LA fires benefit has one of the biggest music line-ups you'll ever see
A cavalcade of enormous rock and pop stars, old and new, will perform at a benefit concert in Los Angeles, and streamed around the world.
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Marianne Faithfull, English singer and actress, dies aged 78
The daughter of a World War II intelligence officer, Faithfull had a front-row seat as drugs, alcohol and sexual excess enveloped the early years of the rock industry.
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First Week Wrapped
Remember $2 shops? we're talking true $2 only stores, So'omalo does and he wants to tell you all about them. Janay debut's her new segment hear me out and she might of convinced us on a new workplace… Audio
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Pocket Edition for Wednesday 29 January 2025
29 Jan 2025On this week's episode of Pocket Edition Maggie Tweedie shares new music from Len Blake and Crystal Chen. Audio
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Adam Chamber Music Festival 2024 - Under Southern Skies
29 Jan 2025Soprano Jenny Wollerman and pianist Jian Liu perform the world premiere of a major song cycle by Jenny McLeod, written in 2003. Audio
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'Limbo sucks' says Kiwi drummer waiting to hear if he'll join big-name US band
29 Jan 2025Stan Bicknell is facing an agonising wait after the audition of a lifetime with unconventional prog rock group Primus. Video
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Bookmarks with Laura Tupou
Bookmarks is our regular segment where we ask a guest to select some of their favourite Books, Podcasts, Movies, Music. Today Jesse is joined by Three news weekend Anchor Laura Tupou. Audio
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Music Critic: new music from Rubi Du and School Fair
29 Jan 2025Creative director at Naked PR Zac Arnold has some brand new music for you. He plays the new single from Rubi Du, Played Me. He also enthuses about a new song from School Fair, a torn moon mended. Audio
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James Blunt announces one-off show in Auckland
29 Jan 2025The British musician will perform his debut album Back to Bedlam at Spark Arena in October. Audio
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Womad Aotearoa gives stage over exclusively to DJs
29 Jan 2025The Tui Stage - formerly known as the Dell - will be the setting for a handpicked lineup of DJs.
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Rising production costs impact music festivals
Music lovers are spoilt for choice when it comes to summer festivals across the motu. But rising production and artist costs along with dwindling ticket sales are proving challenging for promoters… Audio
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