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12:30 PM.Charlotte Ryan chats with Stella Donnelly, a young Australian singer-songwriter making an impact with her brazen lyrics, ahead of her appearance next month at Laneway Festival. Read more Audio

4:09 PM.Ballads for the end of the world, torch songs for broken hearts, political missives for everyone, and a glimmer of hope in them all. It’s Song Crush’s 2019 wrap of the (international) songs they’ve… Read more Video, Audio

7:00 PM.On this week's Pocket Edition we pay tribute to the late Rick Bryant, talk to Nadia Reid about her new single, and Angel Olsen about her new album. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is jewellry designer Boh Runga, best known as the flamehaired frontwoman of Stellar*. She shares her tunes with Yadana Saw. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Nick Bollinger remembers blue eyed soul man, raconteur Rick Bryant and poet, songwriter, screenwriter and stand up Arthur Baysting, both of whom died earlier this week. Nick and Yadana Saw reflect… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Kirsten Johnstone talks to the singer-songwiter about her acclaimed new album, moving to North Carolina, and maintaining mental health on the road. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Auckland musician Ashley Alexander introduces his song 'Nicotine'. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Nadia Reid spoke to Charlotte Ryan about the recording process of her new album 'Out Of my Provence' and introduces us to her single 'Best Thing'. Read more Audio

2:38 PM.It was another strong year for music in Aotearoa, from the internationally acclaimed Aldous Harding and Tiny Ruins, to the grass roots DIY acts just bubbling up. The Song Crush team play some of their… Read more Video, Audio

4:30 PM.A new book called "Wired For Sound - The Stebbing History of New Zealand Music" by Grant Gillanders & Robyn Welsh tells the story of an enduring Kiwi success story. Trevor Reekie talked to the 2… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Auckland band Na Noise introduce their song 'Bad Dreams'. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Eddie Johnson tells us about spending two years in Los Angeles recording his second album All I Have with some heavyweight producers. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Over the past twenty years there has been a bumper crop of memorable and beautiful local albums that have found notable success. We are proud to offer you our top 21 albums of the twenty-first century… Read more Audio

4:15 PM.Founding member and bass player for Bad Religion, Jay Bentley talks to Elliott Childs about keeping the L.A punk band going for 40 years. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Art-pop from Moses Sumney and FKA Twigs, a techno soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, an afrobeat banger, some sad-boy-soul, and some Scottish minimalist dream-pop feature on Song… Read more Video, Audio

2:23 PM.Whanganui-based musician Anthonie Tonnon's rail journey across the country last year was a love letter to passenger rail in Aotearoa. He plays us some new music from the upcoming tour Rail Land 2019.

2:00 PM.Auckland teen hip hop duo Church & AP talk to Tony Stamp about starting their career in community centres, and changing up their sound for their debut album Teeth. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Ziggy Marley talks to Charlotte Ryan ahead of his performance at WOMAD 2020. He shares his thoughts on world politics, his father Bob Marley's legacy and the legalisation of cannabis. Read more Audio

3:35 PM.All year the Song Crush team have introduced you to new songs they're loving, but this week host Kirsten Johnstone threw the call out to you the listeners, for your favourite tune of 2019. Here's a… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Legendary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is set to make just his second NZ appearance, at the 2020 Auckland Arts Festival. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Wellington band Dawn Diver is the songwriting project of Ben Lemi. It's a new experience for the Trinity Roots drummer as he tells Yadana Saw in this live session. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Internationally renowned Wellington group Fat Freddy’s Drop have announced ten shows across New Zealand this summer, with support from acts including L.A.B, Avantdale Bowling Club, JessB, Bailey… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.New York-based Kiwi songwriter Miriam Clancy joins Music101's Charlotte Ryan to a talk about her latest album Astronomy and her upcoming NZ tour. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.We speak to German composer and record producer Nils Frahm ahead of his first ever New Zealand show Read more Audio