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4:00 PM.Garth Cartwright, a New Zealand-born, London-based music and arts writer chooses tunes and talks to Trevor Reekie about hitting the road, exploring new places, absorbing the music and encouraging the… Read more Audio

Aotearoa soul supergroup Love And Hope join Yadana Saw in the Music 101 studio. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Two Auckland Festival shows in March put waiata Māori front and centre - a free sing-along event in Aotea Square called Tira, and another called Tōku Reo Waiata. The brains behind the shows, Tama… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin joins us in studio for a live performance and a chat about her new album Crushing. Read more Video, Audio

3:56 PM.In the late 80s and early 90s, Manchester’s The Happy Mondays had a reputation as a hedonistic, drug fuelled hot mess of a band. Amazingly, they're still alive and touring. Johnny Vahry caught up with… Read more Video, Audio

2:06 PM.The Song Crush team enthuse over new music by Aldous Harding, Chaka Khan, Weyes Blood, The Better Oblivion Community Centre and much more.  Read more Video, Audio

7:00 PM.On this week's Pocket Edition we chat with Aussie teen punks The Chats, go deep with Christchurch stalwarts Al Park and Adam McGrath, and host a live performance from ex-pat Lydia Cole. Read more Audio

8:00 AM.OUT NOW: Rū Ana Te Whenua: Alien Weaponry Shake Europe. RNZ Music's new 10-part web series that follows Northland thrash metal band Alien Weaponry on their 2018 European tour. Read more Video

3:20 PM.Singer-songwriter Lydia Cole is back from two years living in Berlin. She's currently touring NZ before heading back to tour Europe in March. Kirsten Johnstone caught up with her for a chat and a live… Read more Video, Audio

2:20 PM.Australian blues musician C.W Stoneking tells Elliott Childs about collaborating with Jack White and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and reinventing himself throughout his career. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Al Park has been a stalwart of the Christchurch music scene for a considerable number of years. Trevor Reekie sits down with Al and Adam McGrath to talk about the new tribute album Better Already -… Read more Audio

1:17 PM.Welsh musician Cate Le Bon live in session with Kiran Dass in RNZ's Auckland studios just after she arrived in the country. Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.Queensland teen punk trio the Chats found viral success with the video for their song 'Smoko', a tongue-in-cheek ode to the sanctity of the Australian tea break. Midway through their first NZ tour… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.The Song Crush team this week debrief on the Grammy Awards, country/pop artist Jamie McDell explains why Kacey Musgraves won album of the year, and there's new music from Jessica Pratt, Nakhane and… Read more Video, Audio

7:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition we talk to Dr Kirsten Zemke about recent abuse allegations in the music industry, and catch up with Horace Panter from The Specials. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Teresa Paterson has been involved in the NZ music industry for more than two decades working in band management, PR and at record labels, including a stint as the head of Virgin Records NZ. She shares… Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.In 1993 Phil Bell AKA Sir Vere co-founded 95bFM's True School Hip Hop Show. Since then he's dabbled in TV and publishing, and is now Program and Content Director at Mai FM. Ahead of the True School… Read more Video, Audio

3:20 PM.Horace Panter talks to Trevor Reekie about his career in the band which he documented in his book 'Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials' published in 2008. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.British singer Jorja Smith won the Critics Choice Prize at the 2018 Brit Awards, and scored a Grammy Nomination for Best New Artist on the strength of her debut album Lost & Found. Prior to her set at… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Electronic musician Jon Hopkins was in town last week to perform the closing slot at Auckland's Laneway festival. Tony Stamp caught up with him to chat about transcendental meditation and his surprise… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.With a rich discography that spans two decades of broken beat, jazz and Auckland's High Street scene, Mark de Clive Lowe has finally made an album that goes to his core. Heritage is a musical response… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Kirsten Johnstone, Tony Stamp, and Yadana Saw present their favourite songs of the week, with a special ring-in from John Campbell. Songs by Tiny Ruins, Rosalía, Methyl Ethel, Fatima, Josin, and… Read more Video, Audio

1:15 PM.After two new shocking documentary series about R Kelly and Michael Jackson's alleged sexual misconduct, can we still listen to their music with a clear conscience? Yadana Saw speaks with… Read more Audio

9:00 AM.In this week's Pocket Edition we chat to Masego about muscles, Zach from Beirut talks ghost peppers, and Pickle Darling tells us how he made his debut album in various moldy bedrooms. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Christchurch band The Butlers introduce their song 'Leopard of Sweet Dreams'. Read more Audio