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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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Essential Albums: Ladi 6 - The Liberation Of...
16 Nov 2024When the single 'Like Water' hit the New Zealand top ten in early 2011 it established Ladi6 as this country's major R&B star. But that success was just one milestone in a long journey, and the song… Audio
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Essential Albums: The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
16 Nov 2024Buffalo was the album that lifted the profile of Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation both here and internationally. It saw their collective approach reach new heights - in the sophistication of the… Audio
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Essential Albums: Doug Jerebine - Is Jesse Harper
16 Nov 2024Recorded in London in 1969, these recordings provided classic material for Kiwi rockers The Human Instinct yet the originals remained largely unheard until their discovery and release in 2012. Nick… Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: King Kapisi - Savage Thoughts
16 Nov 2024Hip-hop is a musical form invented by African Americans, and yet here is a version that could only have come from deep in the Pacific. It has a proud sense of place and yet it looks outward. To quote… Audio
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Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds
16 Nov 2024If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Audio
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Sweet Surrender with Aaradhna
16 Nov 2024Award-winning soul singer Aaradhna is back with a much-awaited new album Sweet Surrender - her first in eight years. Susie joined Aaradhna in her studio to see where the magic is made, and learn more… Video, Audio
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Spreading climate change message with Coldplay
A group of Pasifika Climate Change warriors has been using their musical voices to advocate for the protection of their beloved Pacific Islands facing rising seas. Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Tonight, with music from Dogo du Togo, Weirs and Magic Tuber Stringband and skymning. Audio
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Ruby Solly: (Pū)oro Exhibition
15 Nov 2024Ruby Solly demonstrates the pūtangitangi (small Māori instruments made of clay) she's created for an exhibition this weekend. Video, Audio
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NZ Live: Sin City
Today Jesse is joined by five-piece band Sin City. They released their second album "Another Round" in April. Despite being from Auckland, the band is now based over in Aussie, but they're finally… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
15 Nov 2024Grant says it's time for uplifting music, so plays dancefloor friendly gems from Detroit's Aged In Harmony, South London indie trio St Etienne and Los Angeles gospel diva, Betty Griffin. Audio
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The mysterious crew trying to revive Wellington's nightlife
15 Nov 2024A team of young music and visual artists are creating spaces in the capital city for people to get goofy and dance.
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Brass bands: "like a family"
14 Nov 2024British-born trumpeter, teacher and conductor Vickie van Uden talks about embracing the brass music whanau of Christchurch. Video, Audio
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The supergroup made up of Turkey's and Nukes
Taranaki folk band Turkey the Bird and ukulele trio The Nukes have teamed up to release a brand new song "These Birds". Turkey The Birds Andrea Manella & Ben Collier from The Nukes join us to give it… Audio
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Harper Finn & Where's Jai
On Today's show we chat with Harper Finn who is back in NZ for some Mahi after spending most of the last few years over in New York! We also catch up with Where's Jai who have had a busy 2024. Both… Audio
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'Do They Know It's Christmas' mix to be released for hit's 40th anniversary
An "ultimate mix" of Do They Know It's Christmas is set for release later this month to celebrate 40 years since the festive charity hit's recording.
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'One of our favourite shows', Coldplay's Chris Martin tells Auckland
14 Nov 2024Review: Secure your 3D moon googles and slip on a compostable plant-based LED wristband. Audio
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Coldplay take stage for first of three Auckland shows
14 Nov 2024It was a sky full of stars in Auckland last night as British pop rockers, Coldplay, took the stage at Eden Park. RNZ journalist Nicky Park spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio
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Auckland 'a-buzz' with energy ahead of Coldplay concerts
13 Nov 2024One concert-goer told RNZ the energy in town was electric - and the "city is all hyped up". Audio
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The complex work of a conductor
13 Nov 2024Vasily Petrenko returns to Aotearoa to conduct New Zealand Symphony Orchestra concerts in Wellington and Auckland. He talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about the complex job of a conductor, which… Audio
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