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4:00 PM.Bringing the tunes and a barrel of energy to the Mixtape is comedian and self-proclaimed 'volunteer journalist' Guy Williams. Guy is a winner of the prestigious Billy T award and a regular face on our… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Next month as part of the Taite Music Awards the 2024 Independent Music Classic Record trophy will be presented. This year Dunedin band Look Blue Go Purple will be celebrated for their 1991 album… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The British producer's latest batch of tunes is predictably lovely. Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.British electronic group Jungle are lifelong friends from Shepherd's Bush, London - the epicentre of Kiwi's partying abroad. Now Jungle are heading to our shores, playing Spark Arena on May 15th… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Not many artists can announce two shows at Spark Arena. Yet UK DJ Fred Again sold out both in a matter of minutes, with more than 60,000 fans queuing up for a ticket. The DJ's promoter talks to… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Award-winning musician Delaney Davidson talks to Charlotte Ryan about his tenth - and he says final - studio album Out of My Head. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.To mark the release of Legacy - a new RNZ documentary about the Māori reggae band Katchafire​ - frontman Logan Bell shares songs that have shaped his life and music.  Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.New Jersey based Brainorchestra is a prolific hip hop producer and one you should watch. The beat maker's first studio was a flash drive that he would plug into the school computer. He's become an… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Folk singer Amiria Grenell grew up in rural Canterbury where her family famously hosted the Whitecliffs music festival in their paddocks. Following the success of her 2012 release Three Feathers… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp reviews the ex-Sonic Youth member's second solo album, a noisy, hip-hop influenced outing that puts provocateurs her junior to shame. Read more Video, Audio

2:00 PM.Los Angeles based composer and singer Julia Holter is set to release her sixth studio album, with the inspired title Something in the Room She Moves. Maggie Tweedie talks to Julia about her… Read more Audio

1:44 PM.Charlotte Ryan talks to Maggie Tweedie live from WOMAD. Read more Audio

1:21 PM.In the early 90s, siblings Phil, Christina, Tony and Pauly Fuemana would lay down a fresh and unique record that would soon be dubbed a classic. Thirty years on New Urban Polynesian is set to be… Read more Audio, Gallery

4:00 PM.You may have heard, read or seen his work - he previously worked at RNZ as a journalist, is the writer & host of The Big Picture Podcast, and wrote a book How to be a Bad Muslim and a collection of… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest picking the music this week is award-winning journalist, writer and poet Mohamed Hassan. You may have heard, read or seen his work - he previously worked at RNZ as a journalist, is the host… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.In the background of Airini Beautrais' new collection of essays A Beautiful Afternoon a soundtrack of Destiny's Child, Kanye West, Radiohead and Beck's Loser is playing. Airini won an Ockham award for… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.When Shepherds Reign, a five piece band from South Auckland, were nominated for the prestigious Taite Music Prize this week their Pacific metal music was broadcast on Breakfast television and radio… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The singer in Zambia's most successful rock act speaks with Tony Stamp about pioneering Zamrock in the 1970s, and the band's resurrection and new roster, ahead of their first New Zealand appearances.

2:10 PM.From his cult radio show as The Wizard in the 1980s to forming the techno collective Underground Resistance, then Axis Records, many call Jeff Mills a dance music legend. He's performing at the… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.American soul singer Teddy Swims may have blown up on the charts, but it was New Zealand that fell hard for him first. His breakout song 'Lose Control' was the number 1 radio song here for 11 weeks… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Martin Kwok is an Emmy award-winning sound editor, DJ and music obsessive based in Pōneke Wellington. He worked on Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary Get Back and the soundtrack to the highly… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp reviews the Ōtautahi musician's debut EP. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp assesses the debut from an aurally-inventive American guitarist. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Shonen Knife are an all girl Japanese band hailing from Osaka. Raised by conservative parents, singer/guitarist Naoko Yamano talks to Maggie Tweedie about the early days of sneaking her guitar out of… Read more Video, Audio