Recent Music Stories
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The TAHI Savina Fountain and Kzz
On this episode of The TAHI we talk about the new Ignite intake from Big Fan with general manager Savina Fountain. We talk about Parnell baths and the idea that being open for swims at this… Audio
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Jon Toogood
23 Jul 2024Between Shihad, The Adults and many other side projects, Jon Toogood's fingerprints have been all over New Zealand rock and roll for the past three decades. Today he has finally announced his first… Audio
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How's life in NZ's chillest band? 'Hectic'
23 Jul 2024Laid-back six-piece Leisure began life at a bach. Now, they're playing Lollapalooza. Video
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Trumpet player Nina Noble - breaking through the brass ceiling
22 Jul 2024Talented young musician Nina Noble has been awarded a place at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London to study for a Master of Performance. She talks with Bryan Crump about the lack of women… Video, Audio
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Worlds of Music 21 July, 2024
Music from the world, for the world, with Lila Downs, Taraf de Haidouks, Richard Thompson, and Welsh experimental folk-rock ensemble, 9Bach. Audio
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Ani DiFranco & John Grant as Good as Ever
21 Jul 2024William Dart looks at new releases from songwriters Ani DiFranco and John Grant, both released within the same month, with songs that reach out to their audiences with the artists' familiar… Audio
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The new album by UK collective SAULT is excellent... but you can't listen to it
21 Jul 2024The elusive UK soul collective present a one-track album that celebrates spirituality. Audio
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1990s cult hitmakers The Folk Implosion return with Walk Thru Me
21 Jul 2024Lou Barlow's indie pop duo reunite for another mix of the heartfelt and experimental. Video, Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 July 2024
21 Jul 202419th-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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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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The Mixtape: Veteran Broadcaster Grant Walker
Selecting the songs is veteran broadcaster Grant Walker. He has worked across the spectrum in radio as a breakfast host and newsreader, through to television. Where many will know him as narrator of… 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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Jujulipps, Aotearoa's new rap star, is soaring
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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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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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',on and being a juror at the World Choir Games. Video, 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 Everingham. 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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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
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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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