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Celebrating brass banding at the Pacific Festival of Brass
8 Jul 2024The 2024 national brass band championships begin on Wednesday. This year, the contest is widening participation to outside New Zealand and into the Pacific. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with two… Audio
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Jazz legend Herbie Hancock to perform in NZ in October
8 Jul 2024The 'Cantaloupe Island' composer will play shows in Auckland and Wellington.
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It's been 25 years since TrueBliss - but it feels like it was 'just yesterday'
8 Jul 2024Five young women were swept to stardom off the back of the TV show Popstars - but not everyone had their best interests at heart, band member Joe Cotton says.
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Worlds of Music 7 July, 2024
7 Jul 2024Music from the world, for the world, with Asha Bhosle, Punch Brothers, Addictive TV, and Mexican acoustic guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela.
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The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed
7 Jul 2024William Dart features an enticing new tribute album reminding us of the magic and the loss of Lou Reed. The Power of the Heart has a stellar line-up of contributors: Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright… Audio
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Salvia Palth's follows the worldwide sensation of his debut with a surprise second LP
7 Jul 2024Eleven years after his incredibly successful first album, the Wellington-based musician returns with a slightly more hi-fi collection of bedroom pop. Audio
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Kaytranada is sonically sweaty on Timeless
7 Jul 2024The Grammy-winning producer returns with a dancefloor behemoth, crammed with special guests. Video, Audio
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Jess Coenelius: 'It’s not like there’s a huge canon of rock musicians singing about parenthood, you know?'
7 Jul 2024The NZ-born singer-songwriter is now based in Los Angeles after 18 years in Melbourne, and receiving glowing reviews for the first two albums released under her own name. Video, Audio
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Iva Davies: From oboe player to punk-rock legend
7 Jul 2024Icehouse is one of Australia's best-known and beloved rock bands. 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 programme, Christ is made the sure… Audio
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The Banks Peninsula musician who does weather data visualisations
6 Jul 2024Lyttelton creative TG Shand is not a "city person", and instead loves to watch the weather change over Banks Peninsula. Video, Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 6 July 2024
6 Jul 2024On this week's show there's blues from Bessie Smith, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James, classic country from Kris Kristofferson plus some jumpin' jive courtesy of Louis Prima. Audio
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Rodger Fox's Last Album
6 Jul 2024Before he passed away in late May, Rodger Fox recorded one final album with his big band. Fittingly, it's called "Alive in New York". Audio
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Anna Coddington: Retraining the voice from Long Covid
6 Jul 2024Despite some serious challenges, Anna Coddington has created a bilingual album for the dancefloor. She celebrates with Charlotte Ryan. Audio
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In the Winelight
6 Jul 2024Nick Tipping checks out sultry ballads from Kurt Elling, Kenny Burrell, and Phil Woods; Benny Green and Red Garland swing hard; and the SFJazz Collective takes on Horace Silver. Audio
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Auckland musician Joe Ghatt is endearingly aimless on Caper
6 Jul 2024Tony Stamp reviews the local guitar-slinger's psychedelic new LP. Video, Audio
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The Banks Peninsula musician who does weather data visualisations
6 Jul 2024Otautahi- based Annemarie Duff, previously of Melbourne shoegazer band Miniatures, has been producing music under the moniker of T. G. Shand since 2018. T.G Shand's songs have been regulars on student… Video, Audio
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Warren Ellis: On how Dirty Three saved him
6 Jul 2024Australian musician and film composer Warren Ellis has lived many lives, as a teacher, busker, a recovered heroin addict, alcoholic and famously a sonic experimenter in successful bands like Nick Cave… Audio
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Morgan Andrew King into semi finals of Lexus Song Quest
6 Jul 2024Maori bass baritone Morgan Andrew King is one of a handful of opera singers who will compete in the Lexus Song Quest in Wellington at the end of this month. He's currently studying a postgraduate… Audio
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Playing Favourites with Marlon Williams
6 Jul 2024Marlon Williams joins the show to play some of his favourite music. The Lyttelton superstar cut his musical teeth as a member of a church choir. His love of choral music has extended into other… Audio
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The Christian music underground
Christian - or worship - music is probably bigger than you think, and its appeal to the young and isolated is undeniable Audio
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The Mixtape - Legendary music critic Colin Hogg
6 Jul 2024Colin Hogg can't live without music - lately a bit of Bill Evans and Claude Debussy - but doesn't like being told what to listen to. The veteran music journalist and writer selects five of his… Video, Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Finn is back with bag of fresh tracks, tonight he's got new music from acoustic improvisers Unknown to Known, singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy and Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Joanna Wang.
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Kiwis build giant road cone for Burning Man festival
Coney McConeface is a massive road cone that is being built by a team of Kiwis for the infamous Burning Man Festival, Hippathy Valentine describes to Susana Lei'ataua why it's so special. Audio
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