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3:00 PM.Aussie provocateur Kirin J Callinan joined RNZ Music's Tony Stamp to perform some covers, and discuss indecent exposure. Read more Audio

12:06 PM.Songs of love lost, frustration, and oxygen particles feature in Song Crush this week.  Read more Video, Audio

5:05 PM.This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance and unofficial Minster of Flying Nun. He shares an exclusively Dunedin collection of tracks ahead of The Others Way Festival. Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.In the ten years since Sons of Zion released their debut album, they've given up their day jobs, written some chart-topping songs, and played to massive audiences in New Zealand and abroad. They… Read more Video, Audio

3:12 PM.Some veterans of music are back in fine form, and The Song Crush team are here for it.  Read more Video, Audio

2:24 PM.The Woodstock Festival took place between August 15 and 17 1969 attracting a crowd of over 400,000 people and wrote itself into the history of music. For Bobbi & Nick Ercoline Woodstock became a… Read more Audio

2:11 PM.Comedian, musician and former Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen brings his new show Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome, to Auckland in September. He spoke to Elliott Childs about the… Read more Video, Audio

2:50 PM.Wellington four-piece DOONS share their song 'Won't You Come Through. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Australian indie-rock surrealist Kirin J Callinan is touring NZ this month. He joined us to explain how Hollywood actress Andie MacDowell ended up staring in his latest music video 'You Weren’t In… Read more Video, Audio

1:24 PM.Tiki Taane joins Yadana Saw in the RNZ studio to play his new song 'Serendipity' and talk about what inspired the song and it's heart warming video. Audio

3:15 PM.Woodstock '99 is remembered as a violent, fiery disaster. The media blamed the bands for the mess, but did they really cause the riot? In his new podcast Break Stuff, author and music journalist… Read more Video, Audio

12:04 PM.Why is Chance The Rapper’s album getting such terrible reviews? We find out, and hear some new goth-pop from Angel Olsen, a banger from newcomer Georgia, something special from Race Banyon and more. 

10:50 AM.Grey Lynn hip-hop duo Eno x Dirty perform new songs and talk about some of the inspirations behind their high energy party raps Read more Video, Audio

11:33 AM.Song Crush this week has songs about self-empowerment and drowning in sorrow, in equal measure. Read more Video, Audio

5:05 PM.Mark Vanilau is this week's mixtape selector. A keyboardist and singer in his own right, Mark has work with Dave Dobbyn, Warren Maxwell, Hollie Smith and Ladi6. He shares his songs and stories with… Read more Audio

2:02 PM.The Song Crush team play remedies for your mid-winter maladies, including songs from Thelma Plum, Bob Dylan and David Kilgour.   Read more Audio

10:39 AM.A new documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, currently showing at the NZ International Film Festival, seeks to reveal the truth about the late INXS singer. Director Richard Lowenstein speaks to RNZ… Read more Audio

9:41 AM.A new documentary playing at the NZ Film Festival called The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash is a sensitive and compelling portrait of the man and the artist. As film-maker Thom Zimny tells Kirsten… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.He Waka Kōtuia are a Ōtepoti/Dunedin kapa haka roopu who have just released an album with Mara TK and Troy Kingi. The rangatahi join Yadana Saw to talk about the process of songwriting. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Elliott Childs talks to New York based guitar builders Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej, the subjects of Carmine Street Guitars, a documentary which is playing at the New Zealand International Film… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Tauranga folk band The Harmonic Resonators is a multi-generational group that plays classic Kiwi singalong tunes. They swung by the RNZ studios to perform this awesome medley of beloved NZ waiata. Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.In his only New Zealand interview, Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist James Blake tells RNZ Music why concertgoers need to "shut up" and "just listen to the person play". Read more Audio