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RNZ Music Pocket Edition: 30 October 2024
18 Nov 2024On this week's episode of Pocket Edition Maggie Tweedie shares new music from Allysha Joy, Mel Parsons, Kaytanada and Fazerdaze. Audio
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RNZ Music Pocket Edition: 27 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024On this week's episode of Pocket Edition Maggie Tweedie shares new music from Joe Armon-Jones, Hermanos Guiterez and Ladi6. Audio
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RNZ Music Pocket Edition: 20 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024Hip Hop is this week's theme of Pocket Edition. Maggie Tweedie speaks to American painter and rapper Juraasic 5's Chali 2na and Jesse Mulligan sits down with MC of the Grammy-Award winning hip-hop… Audio
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Music on the brain: a stroke survivor's symphonic memoir
18 Nov 2024In November 2021, Andrew Stopps suffered two life-altering strokes, but it was music that fuelled his recovery. Now, the musician has composed a symphonic memoir that has captured the attention of New… Audio
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Review: Twenty One Pilots told us how to rock, and I don't mind
18 Nov 2024Break out the red beanies.
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Lilburn Lecture 2024: The music critic - an endangered species in Aotearoa New Zealand? - Elizabeth Kerr
17 Nov 2024Music critic and commentator, Elizabeth Kerr speaks about the role of music critic in the Aotearoa arts ecosystem. She recalls feisty New Zealand music writers from last century, outlines her own… Video, Audio
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The Sampler: What to listen to this week
17 Nov 2024Tony Stamp looks at an exhaustive new collection from UK rave legends Underworld, folk musician Laura Marling motherhood-infused latest and Soft Power by Fazerdaze.
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'Ono' nā Moana & The Tribe
17 Nov 2024William Dart celebrates the return of Moana and the Tribe after a decade of recording silence with their new album Ono. Audio
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Quincy Jones
17 Nov 2024Quincy Jones was one of the 20th Century's most influential musicians, as a trumpet player, arranger, composer, and producer with everyone from Lionel Hampton to Michael Jackson. Nick Tipping takes a… Audio
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Strawberry Hotel by Underworld
17 Nov 2024The UK rave legends run through familiar styles as well as some new experiments, with help from one of their daughters. Audio
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A new study values live performance in Aotearoa
17 Nov 2024Massey and Canterbury Universities have published new research into the economic and wellbeing effects of live performance. Tony Stamp speaks with three of the people involved. Audio
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Soft Power by Fazerdaze
17 Nov 2024Amelia Murray delivers her second album as Fazerdaze, a feminine take on stadium rock sounds alongside lush synth pop. Audio
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Patterns in Repeat by Laura Marling
17 Nov 2024Patterns in Repeat alludes to cycles of motherhood, the British folk musician's songs influenced by the birth of her daughter in multiple ways. Audio
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The Musical Outlier: Diverse sounds from the electronic underground
The sheer diversity and invention of electronic music today in Aotearoa is evident in a list of sounds at the upcoming electronic sonic arts festival Outlier in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Curated… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 November 2024
17 Nov 2024Marking World Day of the Poor in Hymns on Sunday this week. Pope Francis established this day in the Catholic liturgical calendar in 2017 - a Sunday set aside to reflect on how poverty is at the very… Audio
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Fazerdaze: 'I'm very much reclaiming my fierceness'
16 Nov 2024On her new album Soft Power, Christchurch musician Amelia Murray (aka Fazerdaze) leaves people-pleasing in the dust. Video, Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 16 November 2024
16 Nov 2024This week's Nashville Babylon features classic soul from Anne Peebles and Alabama Shakes, blues courtesy of Earl Hooker and Howlin' Wolf plus birthday tunes for Jeff Buckley and Dr John. Audio
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The Mixtape with muso and music academic Rob Burns
Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is Dr. Rob Burns, an English born musician who played professionally in the UK from an early age and eventually emigrated to New Zealand where, until recently, he was an… Audio
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Why Bic Runga's 'Birds' is an essential NZ album
16 Nov 2024Want to forget yourself for a while? Listen to Bic Runga's often-overlooked third album, Nick Bollinger writes for Music 101.
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Mousey: Live session on Music 101
Christchurch-based songwriter Sarena Close, who performs under the name Mousey, is an artist who doesn't shy away from sharing what's real in her life. Her new EP is called The Dreams of Our Mothers'… Video, Audio
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'This is me in my vulnerable state': Singer Aaradhna on her new album
16 Nov 2024Taking the reins as a producer has enabled RnB singer Aaradhna to dig deep on Sweet Surrender - the follow-up to her chart-topping 2016 album Brown Girl. Video
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Musical Chairs with Shihad
Dipping back in time, a youthful Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood from Shihad talk to Malcom Young in 1998 for an early edition of Musical Chairs. Earlier this week the Wellington band announced they were… Audio
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Fazerdaze on new album: 'People forget there's a human at the heart of it'
Fazerdaze, the artist name of Christchurch-based musician Amelia Murray is back with her long awaited second album Soft Power. After receiving glowing reviews for her earlier releases including her… Audio
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Essential Albums: Good Shirt - Good
16 Nov 2024Goodshirt combined classic pop influences with a D.I.Y sensibility learned from Chris Knox, to make one of the essential New Zealand albums of the early 2000s. Nick Bollinger discusses Goodshirt's… Audio
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