Featured Music Stories
Cheeseburger Hill Choir
Cheeseburger Hill, a choir of young voices from Thailand, are in New Zealand to take part in the World Choir Games. They perform live in the RNZ Auckland studio. Video, Audio
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Songwriter: An album of previously-unheard Johnny Cash songs
12 Jul 2024The posthumous return of the Man in Black features a collection of demos recorded in the early '90s, discovered and repurposed by his son, John Carter Cash. Video, Audio
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The Mixtape: Filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford
13 Jul 2024The New Zealand actor chats to Charlotte Ryan about acting, music and directing her upcoming semi-autobiographical film. Video, Audio
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40 years of The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘These days it's Jim and William Reid being themselves’
13 Jul 2024Scottish brothers Jim and William Reid have now learned how to recover from the "horrendous arguments" that tore their alternative rock band apart in the '90s. 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, 21 July 2024
4:15 am today19th-century lawyer and politician Robert Grant only wrote a few hymns, but there's one you'll still find in many hymnbooks today: O worship the king. Sing along in this week's programme. Audio
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Mia Makaroff and the 'Butterfly' effect
19 Jul 2024Choral composer Mia Makaroff talks with Bryan Crump about how she came to write her best-known song, 'Butterfly', and being a juror at the World Choir Games. Video, Audio
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Singakademie Graz: 'Singing is an adventure'
18 Jul 2024Singakademie Graz, one of over two hundred choirs in Auckland for the World Choir Games, squeezed in to the RNZ studio to perform live on RNZ Concert’s Three to Seven show. Video, Audio
Featured Music Programmes
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 July 2024
4:15 am today19th-century lawyer and politician Robert Grant only wrote a few hymns, but there's one you'll still find in many hymnbooks today: O worship the king. Sing… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 July 2024
14 Jul 2024It's Sea Sunday today, remembering and celebrating those whose workplace is the sea with hymns including Eternal Father (the 'Navy Hymn') and Will your anchor… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 July 2024
7 Jul 2024You might think the life of a 19th century hymn translator was pretty uneventful. Not so for John Mason Neale, who translated our first hymn in this week’s… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 June 2024
30 Jun 2024Celebrating the season of Matariki this week, with hymns in te reo Māori and hymns of remembrance. And we mark the Feast of St Paul. Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 20 July 2024
20 Jul 2024On this week's Nashville Babylon there's blues from Big Maybelle, a track from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore's latest album, classic soul courtesy of Otis Redding plus a birthday tune for Dion. Audio
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Swing a Rainbow
20 Jul 2024Nick Tipping takes a jazz journey through the colours of the rainbow - from Gerry Mulligan's 'Red Door' to Billie Holiday singing 'Violets for your Furs'. Audio
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Honeysuckle Rose
20 Jul 2024Uri Caine plays an updated version of 'Honeysuckle Rose'; Ben Wilcock has fun with 'Ben's Bounce'; and Jutta Hipp teams up with Zoot Sims. Audio
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'I cannot explain what I'm seeing' - Public Enemy legend Chuck D on 2024's wild ride
Pioneering rapper Chuck D tells Music 101 that pilates workouts are the reason he's still able to belt out rap songs at 63 years old. Audio
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Clairo's Charm is tasteful and tightly controlled, but definitely worth your time
20 Jul 2024The soft-pop superstar reappears with an extra shot of soul on her third album. Audio
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Texan band Loma partly recorded their new album in an end-of-life centre
20 Jul 2024Tony Stamp chats to the art-rock trio over four timezones about their third album How Will I Live Without a Body. Audio
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Aotearoa's rising rap star Jujulipps
20 Jul 2024The trophy's keep coming for South African raised, Tamaki Makaurau based rapper and hip hop artist Jujulipps. In April she won the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut for her EP Get That Shot at the… Audio
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Aotearoa's rising rap star Jujulipps
20 Jul 2024Jujulipps is a South African raised, Tāmaki Makaurau based rapper and hip hop artist full of promise.
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Chuck D- "We are in the war of art not the art of war"
Pioneering rapper Chuck D inspired a wave of Hip hop through his social and political commentary in Public Enemy. Maggie Tweedie speaks to Chuck D about his surprising passion for pilates, his many… Audio
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Larry Killip: an under-the-radar icon of NZ music history
Lynfield-based Larry Killip describes himself as "possibly the most famous person that you have never heard of". With a musical career stretching back to the mid-60s, Killip's first band The Zarks was… Audio
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NZ Live: Dateline
19 Jul 2024For NZ Live today we head to our Wellington Studio, and the band Dateline Dateline is the musical project of Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington singer Katie Evans. Audio
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New music with Jeremy Taylor
19 Jul 2024Jeremy plays a hits set from George Benson, plus new releases from future superstar Chappell Roan and Cigarettes After Sex, plus an unearthed treasure from Kirsty MacColl. Audio
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Music Critic: Zac Arnold
18 Jul 2024Today Zac talks to Emile about music from LEAO and Annika Rani. Audio
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The TAHI Evie's Final Episode
Unfortunately this is the last show for Founding TAHI member Evie. We will miss her a lot but come listen to this special show. She catches up with the very talented Bunny Holiday and we get Evie's… Audio
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Have Tenacious D been political in the past?
18 Jul 2024Fans have criticised Jack Black for throwing Kyle Gass "under the bus" with his statement, speculating he is prioritising his acting career prospects over their friendship. Video
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Adele says she will take a 'big break' from music
"I miss everything about before I was famous, I think probably being anonymous the most," Adele said.
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Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 16 July 2024
On today's episode, RNZ's Money Correspondent explains the numbers as inflation reaches its lowest level in 3 years. Climate experts say the government's draft emissions reduction plan is confused and… Audio
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Jack Black cans Tenacious D's NZ tour after bandmate's Trump comment
17 Jul 2024The rockers were due to land in NZ, but Black was "blindsided" by an off-colour comment Kyle Gass made about the Trump shooting.
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Dave Wilson: Music about family
17 Jul 2024Music correspondent Dave Wilson joins Kathryn with some tracks that celebrate family connections, inspired by what some award-winners shared at the Aotearoa Music Awards earlier this year. Audio
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'Genre-bending' Tongan songwriter releases new song
Music artist Finau Lauaki has released her latest single titled 'Isn't it Obvious'. Audio
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All Together Now: creating singing communities
16 Jul 2024Kate Bell and Steven Rapana, co-conductors of All Together Now, talk with Bryan Crump about their recent experience of taking part in the World Choir Games, and the kaupapa behind All Together Now. Audio
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Music feature: NZ Country music with Brendan Dugan
New Zealand has a country music scene that stretches all the way back to the 1930s, with some of the earliest country recordings made outside America pressed in Wellington. Audio
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The TAHI Bella Rafflyn & Watson
On today's show So’omālō and Matua Harry debate the pronunciation of Worcestershire sauce, Bella Rafflyn chats with So’omālo about stepping into her solo venture, and we meet Tāmaki Makaurau indie pop… Audio
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Bringing people and cultures together through choral singing
15 Jul 2024Project director of the World Choir Games, Jelena Dannhauer, talks with Bryan Crump about how the Games came about and what the event involves.
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