Recent Music Stories
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AMA-winner Amamelia on three favourite musical subgenres
14 Jul 2024The winner of Best Electronic Artist at the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards joins Tony to talk him through three of her favourite musical subgenres. Audio
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Herbie Hancock: 'What I am is a human being. What I do is play music'
14 Jul 2024Sixty years ago, jazz giant Herbie Hancock's life was changed for ever, when he got wind Miles Davis was looking for him. Audio
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Herbie Hancock returns to NZ
14 Jul 2024With a career spanning seven decades and a staggering 14 GRAMMY awards, few artists have had more influence on modern music than Herbie Hancock. He speaks with RNZ Concert presenter, jazz musician and… 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 hold. Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 13 July 2024
13 Jul 2024On this week's show there's classic reggae from the Congos, sounds from the swamp courtesy of Larry Jon Wilson, CW Stoneking covering the White Stripes plus a birthday tune for Christine McVie. Audio
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The Mixtape: Chelsie Preston Crayford
The New Zealand actor chats to Charlotte Ryan about acting, music and telling a story "set in the world" of her own teenage life in early-2000s Wellington. Video, Audio
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The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘These days it's Jim and William Reid being themselves’
13 Jul 2024Following the release of Glasgow Eyes, Charlotte Ryan speaks to The Jesus and Mary Chain founder Jim Reid about the band's infamous 90s shows and mid-career break up, and what got them back together.
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Dig if you will a picture: Prince's autobiographical flick turns 40
When Warner Bros. gave the greenlight for Prince to make the Purple Rain film they did so with some trepidation, writer Matt Thorne tells Music 101. Audio
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The Mixtape: Filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford
Our guest picking the music is actor, writer and director Chelsie Preston Crayford. Chelsie's acting projects have been vast and numerous including Eagle vs Shark, Savage, The Panthers, Netflix's… Audio
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EJ Barnes on singing Led Zeppelin: 'You want to go for it full-force'
13 Jul 2024EJ Barnes - daughter of Jimmy - is looking forward to having "a good, hard crack" at singing Led Zeppelin classics at three tribute shows around Aotearoa this month. 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 2024Forty years after forming The Jesus and Mary Chain, Scottish brothers Jim and William Reid tell Music 101 how they recovered from the "horrendous arguments" that tore their band apart in the '90s. Audio
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'The summer of Prince': 40 Years of Purple Rain
13 Jul 2024This month marks 40 years since the release of Purple Rain, the 1984 American romantic rock musical film scored by and starring Prince in his acting debut. The semi-autobiographical story in the film… Audio
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The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘These days it's Jim and William Reid being themselves’
13 Jul 2024Scottish band The Jesus and Mary Chain return to New Zealand this month touring their new album Glasgow Eyes, hailed as some of their best music since their explosive debut Psychocandy. The band are… Audio
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Sons of Thunder
13 Jul 2024Ella Fitzgerald sings Rodgers & Hart; Dexter Gordon gets moody; and Wellington 8-piece The Jac brings the thunder. Audio
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Sack of Woe
13 Jul 2024Nat Adderley plays 'Sack of Woe'; Errol Garner swings hard; and Ike Quebec plays Dvorak. Audio
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Playing favourites: Grant Robertson
13 Jul 2024Hon. Grant Robertson joins Bryan Crump to share some of his favourite tunes. Grant was NZ's Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2023, he's a former deputy Prime Minister and was Labour MP for Wellington… Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
12 Jul 2024He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Audio
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The Panel with Nick Leggett and Sally Wenley (Part 2)
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Nick Leggett and Sally Wenley discuss an Auckland tourism campaign that Mayor Wayne Brown deems "deeply embarassing" and season two of the… Audio
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Taioro: weaving te reo Māori and poetry with chamber music
12 Jul 2024Spoken word performer Sharn Maree and taonga pūoro specialist Rob Thorne - two members of Taioro, along with viola player Donald Maurice - talk with RNZ's Andrew Clark about the ensemble, and the work… Audio
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The Pre-Panel for 12 July 2024
Today on the Pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show and producer Sam Hollis joins to discuss a man who tried to smuggle snakes through customs. Audio
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NZ Live: Amber Carly Williams
Amber is a singer-songwriter from Christchurch whose rare voice conjures attention-grabbing dream-pop soundscapes, paired with heart-breaking song-writing that is at once both vulnerable and… Audio
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The elusive Kiwi artist making it big on Spotify
12 Jul 2024He won't play live and declines many interviews. But he's more popular than Benee, Six60 and L.A.B. combined. Video, Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
12 Jul 2024Wellington band Terror Of The Deep have just reissued a long-lost album from 2010. Grant Smithies has two key tracks from that today, followed by a new single from Christchurch-based singer Holly… 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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