All episodes
Saturday, 1 June 2024
- 10:59 Review: Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish
- 1:20 Neil Finn: Live in studio with new Crowded House album
- 2:06 Backstage at the Aotearoa Music Awards
- 2:40 Gore polishes boots for the Gold Guitars
- 3:05 SWIDT on new album: “This is our art, this is our vessel, this is our voice to be heard”
- 4:07 The wonderful world of Rodger Fox
Saturday, 25 May 2024
- 1:20 Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years: Drama, anxiety "and a ridiculous amount of good times"
- 2:30 Gareth Shute on his favourite Auckland venues
- 3:15 Voom’s Buzz Moller: The trick to writing a good song
- 4:10 The Mixtape: The Bat’s Paul Kean
- 4:40 Best Country Music Song winner a tribute to a 'real cowboy'
- 3:46 NZ Music Month Live: Byllie-jean at the Christchurch Art Gallery
Saturday, 18 May 2024
- 1:20 Dame Hinewehi Mohi welcomed into the NZ Music Hall of Fame
- 2:10 Serj Tankian: Learning to deal with your own mind
- 2:30 Yadana Saw on her favourite Wellington venues
- 2:50 Delaney Davidson: LIVE at the Great Hall, Christchurch
- 3:15 Lyrics to NZ’s most misquoted song up for auction
- 4:00 The Mixtape: The hero guitars of NZ music with Glen Moffatt
Saturday, 11 May 2024
- 1:20 Jordan Rakei: On work ethic and selling out
- 2:06 Angus and Julia Stone: Live at Roundhead Studio
- 2:30 Aaron Hawkins on his favourite Dunedin venues
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Liv Sisson on Fungi, Food and Music
Saturday, 4 May 2024
- 1:30 The Chills' Martin Phillipps Music Collection up for sale
- 2:06 NZ Music Month Live in Studio: Phoebe Rings
- 2:30 Mel Parsons on her favourite Christchurch venues
- 3:15 Local band 'Ha The Unclear' a hit in France
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Taite award winner Vera Ellen and producer Ben Lemi
Saturday, 27 April 2024
- 1:20 Peter Hook talks Joy Division and New Order
- 2:10 Backstage at the Taite Music Awards
- 2:40 'The band from Wellington': DARTZ on success and Europe tour
- 3:11 Sleater Kinney: Working through grief with music
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Mike Howie
Saturday, 20 April 2024
- 1:20 ‘It’s what we love doing’ - UB40 still rocking after 45 years.
- 1:40 Celebrating vinyl and music: International Record Store Day across Aotearoa
- 2:30 Thirty years of Illmatic: Artists and pundits pay tribute to rap classic
- 3:15 The Dandy Warhols on where it all began, new album and NZ show
- 3:40 Review: He Rākau, He Ngārara by Aro
- 4:00 The Mixtape: UK musician and DJ Nabihah Iqbal
Saturday, 13 April 2024
- 2:30 Review: EP IV by Yumi Zouma
- 1:20 Mark Knopfler: 'I'm just really delighted when the records make people happy'
- 1:40 Why Splore Fest is taking a year off
- 2:15 Khruangbin: On finding their original sound
- 2:30 Review: Cowboy Carter by Beyoncé
- 3:15 Irish Comedian David O'Doherty phones in for a chat and a tune
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Actor and artist Ana Scotney
Saturday, 6 April 2024
- 1:20 The Black Keys: On recording with Beck and Noel Gallagher
- 1:50 Troy Kingi: On tour with the Bill Withers Social Club
- 2:15 The return of Beth Orton
- 2:30 Review: Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee
- 2:40 John Baker on 1960s Christchurch band Chants R&B
- 3:15 Grace Cummings on powerful new album: 'I can’t be anyone else'
- 4:00 The Mixtape - Comedian Barnie Duncan
Saturday, 30 March 2024
- 11:00 The Mixtape: Jim Mora
- 1:15 Chris Isaak: Mirror suits and serenades
- 2:15 Gin Wigmore on sharing a stage with Tom Jones in Napier
- 2:30 Review: Bright Future by Adrianne Lenker
- 2:40 NZ’s Mountain Boy: staying true to music in the Spotify age
- 3:20 The Fuzzy Robes: recording psychedelic prayers in NZ churches
Saturday, 23 March 2024
- 1:25 Delaney Davidson speaks honestly about new album
- 1:45 Fred Again’s promoter on the "tonne of hype" hitting NZ
- 2:15 UK’s Jungle talk sampling and collabs ahead of NZ show
- 2:30 Review: Three by Four Tet
- 3:20 Flying Nun’s Look Blue Go Purple to be celebrated at Taite Music Awards
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Comedian Guy Williams
Saturday, 16 March 2024
- 1:21 'Fuemana Mania’: 30 years of New Urban Polynesian
- 1:44 A taste of Womad 2024
- 2:00 Gold dust woman Julia Holter: ‘I come up with new ways to surprise myself’
- 2:30 Review: The Collective by Kim Gordon
- 3:00 Amiria Grenell performs tracks from her new album ‘The Winter Light’
- 3:30 Brainorchestra: 'I skipped class to make beats'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Katchafire’s Logan Bell
Saturday, 9 March 2024
- 1:20 Teddy Swims bares his soul: ‘My pain was necessary’
- 2:10 The state of today’s dance scene with pioneer Jeff Mills
- 2:30 Interview: Jagari of Zambian rock legends WITCH
- 2:40 Polynesian metal band Shepherds Reign has everyone talking
- 3:20 Bug Week's Airini Beautrais on the soundtrack to her new book
- 4:00 Mohamed Hassan: creator of the first Kiwi-Muslim comedy
Saturday, 2 March 2024
- 1:20 Chaos in The CBD: from the North Shore to London’s top house clubs
- 2:15 Real Estate’s Martin Courtney: music journalism matters
- 3:15 Post-classical composer Rose Riebl: On finding her musical home
- 1:40 Japanese trio Shonen Knife on 42 years of playing pop punk
- 2:30 Review: Filter by Byllie-jean
- 2:30 Review: Two Star and the dream Police by Mk.gee
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Martin Kwok
Saturday, 24 February 2024
- 12:00 LISTEN: Stan Walker on life, love and his new single, 'Māori Ki Te Ao'
- 1:45 Lisa Tomlins on Pixie Williams: New Zealand's first pop star
- 2:15 L.A.B. Live with new album
- 2:30 The Sampler - Blu Wav by Grandaddy
- 2:30 The Sampler - Imitation of War by Itasca
- 3:20 Jazmine Mary live with their electric guitar
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Shona McCullagh on the Arts: 'We did everything for nothing'
Saturday, 17 February 2024
- 1:20 Queens of the Stone Age's Jon Theodore: “It was chaos, the songs were just suggestions”
- 1:50 Karen O’Leary: Can the saxophone be funny?
- 2:00 John Baker: Detroit rockers MC5’s impact on kiwi bands
- 2:30 Review: King Perry by Lee "Scratch" Perry
- 2:30 Review: & the Charm by Avalon Emerson
- 2:30 'Innovations like this do not come along every day': The life and beats of J Dilla
- 3:20 Introducing: Sam Bambery
- 4:05 The Mixtape - Jean McAllister - 20 years in Red Mole
- 10:30 Stan Walker: ‘This song is my love letter to our people’
Saturday, 10 February 2024
- 1:20 The National’s Matt Berninger on depression: 'It’s like a flu that just holds on'
- 2:00 Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: Music to attract aliens
- 2:30 Review: People Who Aren't There Anymore by Future Islands
- 2:30 Review: Pony Baby by Pony Baby
- 3:20 Introducing: Crystal Chen
- 3:30 Backstage at Laneway: Blondshell, AJ Tracey and UMO
- 4:04 The Mixtape: Miriama Kamo
Saturday, 3 February 2024
- 1:20 Celebrating Christchurch artists at Little River Festival
- 2:00 Dinosaur Jr. heading to NZ
- 3:20 DJ Nia Archives and the new generation of jungle
- 3:20 Introducing: Miakie & Ethan Jupe
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Tom Scott
Saturday, 27 January 2024
- 1:20 Calexico returns to NZ to celebrate classic album 'Feast on a Wire'
- 2:15 Faye Webster talks ahead of Laneway
- 3:15 Introducing: Admiral Drowsy
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Ebony Lamb
Saturday, 20 January 2024
- 9:00 Aotearoa's music micro-labels
- 1:15 Rapper and producer Waguan on Zulu Milk
- 3:15 Scott Kirkland on 30 years of The Crystal Method
- 4:00 Postcards: DJ Kava McIntyre reports back from Berlin's musical melting pot
Saturday, 13 January 2024
- 1:15 Tusekah: ‘Music has always been with me’
- 1:30 Sonya Waters: 'I've always loved that lush, ethereal sound'
- 3:10 Christopher Tubbs love of balearic beats
- 4:05 Postcards: A tour through the historic streets of Philadelphia with Rachel Andie
Saturday, 6 January 2024
- 1:45 The otherworldly music of US singer-songwriter Julie Byrne
- 2:00 The Sampler: The best international albums of 2023
- 3:15 Marc Masters: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- 4:00 Postcards: A musical journey to Athens with Vasileios Vrakas
- 5:00 RNZ Music Summer Mixtape- Ana Chaya Scotney
- 1:15 Nabihah Iqbal: ‘I’ve learnt how resilient the human body and mind can be’
Saturday, 23 December 2023
- 2:30 Review: Mermaidens by Mermaidens
- 2:30 Review: Run It Back by Home Brew
- 3:45 Introducing:Leonard Powell
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Best Of 2023 Part 3
Saturday, 16 December 2023
- 2:30 Review: Idiot Check by Iti Bubbas
- 2:30 Review: i/o by Peter Gabriel
- 3:30 Introducing: Goodwill
- 3:45 Music 101 Live Session: Kirsten Morrell
- 5:00 The Mixtape - Best of 2023 Pt.2
