Recent Music Stories
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
14 Jun 2024Big basslines, creamy strings, blazing horns and glorious singers- it's time to warm up the winter with some classic Philadelphia soul from Teddy Pendergrass and The Jones Girls. After that, Grant has… Audio
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Earth Tongue's Great Haunting is a willfully weird blast of riff-heavy rock
14 Jun 2024The local duo generate enough noise to fill several stadiums, and fill their songs with a spooky type of myth-making. Video, Audio
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First Gore, Now the World!
13 Jun 2024New Zealand singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell has won a scholarship to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend global country music summit Americanafest. Audio
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Celine Dion opens up about stiff person syndrome
The singer felt burdened keeping her diagnosis to herself, saying she felt like she was lying to her fans.
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New Zealand Order of Merit for Warner Haldane
13 Jun 2024Congratulations to arts administrator Warner Haldane, whose work behind the scenes in New Zealand arts and music organistations has been recognised in this year's King's Birthday Honours. Audio
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Music Critic: Tony Stamp
13 Jun 2024Today Tony talks to Charlotte about music from Fabiana Palladino and Waxahatchee. Audio
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The TAHI Thomas Rose & Jason Parker
On todays show Evie catches up with rising pop star Jason Parker and gets to bottom of why he’s in a sling and Thomas Rose has a quality chat with So’omālō about his long awaited album, Audio
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First song: Jaya
13 Jun 2024Today's first song comes from 14 year old singer Jaya Jesse played her debut Aotearoa Sun on the show about 18 months ago. When she released her new single "Me He Korokoro Tui", we knew we needed to… Audio
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The 1975 frontman Matty Healy: On being relevant...but not too relevant
13 Jun 2024We’re going back to 2019 when Charlotte Ryan interviewed The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy. The band has blown up since then… due to a famous ex-girlfriend and a lot of good music. Audio
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Iconic French singer Françoise Hardy dies aged 80
Hardy bust onto the music scene in 1962, inspiring the likes of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan.
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Kristin Darragh on singing The Angel
12 Jun 2024“I just revere this work, and the poem, and Elgar. I’m so lucky to be doing it!” Hamilton-based singer Kristin Darragh will be performing the role of The Angel in Edward Elgar's epic work, The Dream… Video, Audio
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AYO cellists take centre stage
12 Jun 2024The cello section gets to shine at the Auckland Youth Orchestra's upcoming concert, which includes a performance of 'Symphony for Eight' by Philip Glass. Young musicians Damon Herlihy-O'Brien and… Video, Audio
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Martin Shkreli copied one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, lawsuit claims
The plaintiff says the notorious "pharma bro" told fans he kept and had shared the album.
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Music with Charlotte Ryan
12 Jun 2024Music correspondent Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to look at the re-release of john Lennon's 1973 album Mind Games. Audio
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New Zealand Chamber Soloists: Mōtete
11 Jun 2024The New Zealand Chamber Soloists continue their commissioning project 7x7 with a new work from Gillian Whitehead, surrounding it with music by Haydn, Shostakovich and Robert Schumann. Audio
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Music feature: Paying tribute to Rodger Fox
11 Jun 2024Rodger Fox was a heavyweight of the Aotearoa New Zealand jazz scene For over five decades he led the Rodger Fox Big Band, championing young kiwi musicians on a global stage. John Dix joins us to… Audio
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The TAHI Lilly Carron & Tim Provise
On today's show, Lilly Carron chats about her new EP and starting her music career so young, Tim Provise is in the studio and calls So'omālō out for missing his comedy show. Evie reckons the lotto… Audio
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Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis announces NZ shows
11 Jun 2024Dean Lewis is bringing The Epilogue World Tour to Aotearoa with three shows slated for November.
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Hammond organist at St Louis baseball, ice hockey games
Keeping the punters energised is part of the plan for sport organist Jeremy Boyer -who plays the stadium organ for Major League baseball team the St Louis Cardinals Audio
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Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
9 Jun 2024William Dart catches up with the music of Beth Gibbons, the voice of Portishead a few decades ago and now the assured songwriter of her new solo album, Lives Outgrown. Audio
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Arab Strap are not fine at all on new LP I’m totally fine with it
9 Jun 2024The acerbic Scottish duo are in particularly good form, thirty years after their inception, on an album that takes aim at social media. Video, Audio
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Christoph El' Truento on Dubs From the Neighbourhood
9 Jun 2024The award-nominated producer has worked with Avantdale Bowling Club and other hip-hop luminaries, and applied his psychedelic touch to numerous genres. On his latest, he delves back into rocksteady… Audio
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Georgia Lines: My latest track
9 Jun 2024Georgia Lines won Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, while her EP Human - released the following year - has been streamed millions of times. Her debut album, The Rose… Audio
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