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2:00 PM.Synth-electro quartet SoccerPractise are live in session the M101 Studio. They speak with Yadana Saw Read more Video, Audio

1:45 PM.Melbourne based kiwi RnB duo Fortunes perform 'Focus' to celebrate their first ever EP. Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Trevor Reekie talks to producer Alan Jansson, Hello Sailor band mate Harry Lyon, and album facilitator and friend Kelly Addis about Graham Brazier's final album Left Turn at Midnite. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Gemma Ray is an Essex born, Berlin based songwriter whose music references a whole panorama of retro references, making for a cinematic psychedelic sound. In NZ for shows, she plays live with her band… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Is Kendrick Lamar the greatest living rapper? Nick Bollinger weighs up the evidence. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.The one and only frontman of HLAH, Booga Beazley sits down with Kirsten Johnstone to share his favourite tunes and tall tales. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In the Music 101 Pocket Edition, Kirsten Johnstone gets a recipe for borscht from Niko Ne Zna, Mel Parsons is currently on tour around New Zealand, she stops by for a live session, and Tony Stamp… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.Mzwetwo and Tapz talk about their first Gallantino tour, merging rock into rap music and what it's like to grow up so far away from their Zimbabwe home. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Kirsten Johnstone gets the recipe for Babushka's Borscht with Wellington Balkan brass band Niko Ne Zna. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Tama Waipara and Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi (Teeks) discuss the evolution of Pao Pao Pao a mentoring program for Maori musicians. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Mel Parsons performs a couple of songs ahead of her upcoming tour of the main centres. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Richard Thorne, the owner/editor of NZ Musician, discusses putting the magazine to bed after 29 years and the future of NZMusician.co.nz Read more Audio

2:00 PM.English dub producer Forest Swords has been riding a wave of acclaim over the last few years from forward-thinking music fans. He's collaborated with Massive Attack and Young Fathers, has just signed… Read more Video, Audio

2:00 PM.Christchurch musician Pickle Darling introduces his song "Mouthful". Read more Audio

2:00 PM.For his new album, Grammy-nominated Iraqi musician Rahim AlHaj drew on stories recounted to him by people in his native country after the US invasion. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger checks a set from West African women's collective L'Amazones d'Afrique. Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Andrew Keoghan, multi-instrumentalist, classically trained musician, former TV presenter and ex-pat presents his C-60 of favourite tunes. He speaks with Yadana Saw. Read more Video, Audio

3:45 PM.Alex Behan discusses the upside and downside of fame with Justin Hawkins of The Darkness Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Without Borders introduce their song See You Around Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Oscar Dowling plays two new songs from his debut solo release 'Free and Easy'. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Alex Behan talks with Spycc and INF from SWIDT about the influence and genius of Kendrick Lamar. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Teeth is a pan-generational supergroup comprised of Phoenix Foundation members Luke Buda and Tom Callwood, ex-Muttonbirds' David Long and go-to-avant garde jazz drummer Anthony Donaldson. They have… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Wellington musician Grayson Gilmour is ready to set loose his 8th solo release, 'The Otherness' on Flying Nun in July. For our occasional video series Headquarters, Kirsten Johnstone visits Grayson's… Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.David Dallas goes deep with Alex Behan about his new album - what it's about, how it was crafted, and why it took so long to come out.  Read more Video, Audio

7:30 PM.In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses an album that explores the Puerto Rican heritage of Hurray For The Riff Raff's Alynda Lee Segarra; and an unexpected late-career detour into swing-era… Read more Audio