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7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger delves into the life-and-death matters of Zola Jesus's Okovi. Read more Audio

4:40 PM.Local pop sensation Nakita is reinventing herself at the ripe old age of nineteen. Read more Audio

3:40 PM.Australian EDM artist What So Not talks about Piha being the genesis of his album and how playing Toto's 'Africa' in his sets made the song chart after thirty years. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Today's hip-hop 'battles' have interesting similarities with the art of traditional Samoan oratory (lauga), says music producer Anonymouz. He brings the two art forms into conversation in the upcoming… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.British pop star Dua Lipa was named the UK's most streamed woman of 2017 by Spotify, and when Bruno Mars brought his mammoth 24K Magic tour to New Zealand last month, he handpicked her as his… Read more Video, Audio

2:00 PM.Lucy Dacus' astonishingly confident second album Historian has cemented the 22 year old from Virginia as one of the standout artists of 2018. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Public Enemy's Chuck D and Rage Against The Machine's Brad Wilk talk power, politics and packing a punch with their new band Prophets of Rage. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Jack White has always gone against the grain, drawing on the minimalism of early blues and analogue recording for The White Stripes when everyone else was going digital. His third solo record Boarding… Read more Video, Audio

11:00 AM.Trevor Reekie talks to Israeli musician Victoria Hanna backstage at Womad. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Tina Cross started her career as a teenager on song and dance Television shows in the 70s. At 59, she's a songwriter, an ambassador for Women's refuge, and she runs workshops in prisons. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Cinematic jazz gang Carnivorous Plant Society perform live at RNZ. Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.Tony Stamp speaks to Hex's Kiki Van Newtown at South By Southwest. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Rahim Alhaj's new album 'Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet" draws from the stories and experiences recounted to him by Iraqui people following the U.S. invasion. He talked to Trevor Reekie… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Kim Deal is one of the most iconic and influential voices of the 90s as bassist and sometime singer of The Pixies, and as leader of her own band The Breeders.  She speaks to Kirsten Johnstone about… Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.The American tenor saxophonist heralded as the saviour of jazz tells us he leaves "the music wide open". Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.Almost ten years after her death from an asthma attack, the late Mahinārangi Tocker was celebrated with a tribute show Love Me As I Am, part of the Auckland Arts Festival. Tony Stamp speaks to… Read more Video, Audio

12:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition we have interviews with jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who just performed at Womad and Auckland Arts Festival, and Kim Deal, the veteran bass player, singer… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger absorbs the guitar-soaked fantasias of Texan exoticists Khrungabin. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Literate lyrics and memorable melodies define the second album by 22-year-old North American Lucy Dacus. Nick Bollinger discusses. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition, Kirsten Johnstone hosts Broods' Georgia Nott for a live session of her new material; Tony Stamp catches up with Pitch Black who are on their 21st anniversary tour and… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.The RNZ Music team talk about some of the best tunes of the summer (in their opinions). Read more Video, Audio

3:40 PM.World Champion DJ Spell who once dominated the turnabilism is now running his own global search for the world's best DJ. He and DJ Alphabethead give Yadana Saw a crash course in the art of scratching.

3:00 PM.Laurie Anderson, pioneer of electronic music, inventor, visual artist, and wife of the late Lou Reed has just released an album with The Kronos Quartet, inspired by the objects she lost in Hurricane… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free of Pitch Black talk us through their collaboration with Phil Dadson's From Scratch project. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Broods frontwoman Georgia Nott released her new album on International Women’s Day. For The Venus Project, she has collaborated with an all women crew, from players to publicists. Read more Video, Audio