All episodes
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
Saturday, 9 December 2023
- 1:10 SAMPHA- ‘I had a very nutritious musical upbringing’
- 2:45 Home Brew's Tom Scott on their first new music in 11 years
- 3:20 Grayson Gilmour: RNZ Music Live Session
- 3:30 Introducing: Romi Wrights
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Best of 2023 Pt.1
Saturday, 2 December 2023
- 1:45 The Topp Twins: 'When we come back out raging, you better watch out'
- 2:10 Photographer Kate Simon on Rebel Music & Bob Marley
- 3:30 Introducing: Ema I'U
- 3:45 Liam Finn - New Single 'I Want You To Be So Happy'
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Fiona McDonald
Saturday, 25 November 2023
- 1:45 Lee Fields ‘I try to touch people's souls’
- 3:30 Introducing: NickyByNicky
- 3:30 David Bowie: Serious Moonlight over Western Springs
- 4:00 The Mixtape - Chris van de Geer
Saturday, 18 November 2023
- 1:30 Country queen Dolly Parton turns rockstar with new album
- 2:30 King Creosote on his new album: I DES
- 3:30 Leather Jacket Records are reissuing forgotten local gems
- 3:30 Introducing: YAHYAH
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Matt Harvey Concord Dawn
Saturday, 11 November 2023
- 3:30 Introducing Cloudy
- 3:45 Puerto Rican Pachyman to play Others Way Festival
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Sam Low
- 5:30 Basment Jaxx: Using music to uplift the mind and soul
- 10:35 Music 101 live session: The Phoenix Foundation
Saturday, 4 November 2023
- 1:45 Arooj Aftab ahead of her Womad 2024 performance
- 2:45 Mermaidens: live in session
- 3:21 Cloudboy's Demarnia Lloyd on the early Dunedin days and the bands reunion
- 3:30 The Mixtape: Nicola Toki
- 3:30 Introducing: Luna Shadows
Saturday, 28 October 2023
- 1:00 Fat Freddys Drop Joe Lindsay Co Hosts the first hour in celebration of Marauders doco series
- 2:30 'It’s constant work but it’s the greatest pleasure of my life'- Alison Mosshart of The Kills
- 3:30 Introducing: Timmy The First
- 3:45 Thee Golden Geese - Bird Of The Year 2023
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Matthew Hyde of Beastwars
Saturday, 21 October 2023
- 1:20 US indie band Bright Eyes set to play to Auckland - at last
- 2:15 Rodger Fox Big Band featuring King Kapisi with Erna Ferry to Headline at 2023 Wellington Jazz Festival.
- 2:30 Goodbye Arkada Hotel by Mary Lattimore
- 2:30 Javelin by Sufjan Stevens
- 3:20 Introducing: Bridges
- 3:30 Maxine Funke's delicate folk songs have earned her a global audience
- 4:10 The Mixtape: Paolo Rotondo
Saturday, 14 October 2023
- 1:45 Graham Nash on his new album Now
- 2:30 Jamila Woods - Water Made Us
- 3:30 Introducing: Nganeko
- 3:30 Music 101 Live session - Office Dog
- 3:45 Election show preview and snacks chat with Lisa Owen
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Kip Chapman
Saturday, 7 October 2023
- 1:45 Behind the scenes of the 2023 APRA Silver Scrolls
- 2:20 'With Love K M T P'
- 3:00 Music 101 Live Session: Speech Act Theory
- 3:30 MĀ set to play with seven piece band at the Nelson Arts Festival
- 3:45 Introducing: KIKO
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Ariana Tikao
Saturday, 30 September 2023
- 2:00 Romy on dealing with devastating loss through dance music
- 2:30 Epiphytes by Jet Jaguar
- 2:30 ...And Nobody Made a Sound by Model Home
- 2:45 Introducing: Modniy
- 3:10 Black Belt Eagle Scout on the influence of nature
- 3:20 Anatomy of a Scroll: Marlon Williams "Don't Go Back"
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Toni Huata
- 4:20 Anatomy of a Scroll: Tiny Ruins 'The Crab/Waterbaby"
Saturday, 23 September 2023
- 3:30 Introducing: Erin G
- 1:30 Anatomy of a Scroll: The Beths, 'Expert In A Dying Field'
- 1:50 Anatomy of a scroll: Avantdale Bowling Club 'Friday Night @ the Liquor Store'
- 2:30 Icelandic-Chinese musician Laufey: 'I'm not out here making pure jazz music'
- 3:30 Flying Nun opens a new store in store in Auckland
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Cleve Cameron
Saturday, 16 September 2023
- 1:45 UMO's Ruban Nielson on Layla and Laneway
- 2:30 Kristin Hersh talks about her new album Clear Pond Road
- 2:30 Whakarehu by Mokomokai
- 3:30 Introducing: Feshh
- 3:45 Award winning producer Joel Little on his new initiative 'Big Fan Live'
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Saturday, 9 September 2023
- 1:50 The Nomad celebrates 25 years of Musical Movement
- 2:30 Cecile McLorin Salvant returns to NZ for The Wellington Jazz Festival
- 2:30 Strangers Again by Hemi Hemingway
- 2:30 Parallelograms by Vor-stellen
- 3:15 Introducing: Model Home
- 3:45 Singer Riiki Reid on her new Waiata with Muroki - Kārewa
- 3:50 NZ Korean musician Hanbee to play Laneway 2024
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Suzy Cato
Saturday, 2 September 2023
- 1:20 2023 APRA Silver scrolls top 5 finalists
- 1:50 The Lives and Times Of Tim Finn
- 2:30 Dreams by deepState
- 2:30 The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor by Clementine Valentine
- 3:30 Lloyd Cole on Bowie and ambiguity
- 3:30 Introducing:Jujulipps
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Marnie Karmelita
- 2:30 Slowdive - More than a legacy band