Song Crush Podcast Options

4:28 PM.The Song Crush team this week play a song created by AI, an old ghost song, a fiery love poem, and some trade-aid jazz.  Read more Video, Audio

3:54 PM.The Song Crush team this week have songs to make you bounce in your chair, others to make you weep. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by Tony Stamp and Brad ‘Sticky’ Warrington for new tunes by Jess B… Read more Video, Audio

2:00 PM.On this week's Song Crush we delve into UK hip hop, doom rock, alt-country and plenty in between, with help from Wallace Chapman and Leilani Momoisea Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.The Song Crush squad gets swept away by Weyes Blood, celebrates staying home with Hybrid Rose and Fanfickk, and samples Meer's aural cuisine. Read more Video, Audio

1:18 PM.We warm up for the release of Cuz I Love You, the third album from booty-shaking self-loving flute-tooting star Lizzo, get tantric with Rosie Lowe, swept away by the charms of Argentinian trio Fémina… Read more Video, Audio

4:39 PM.The Song Crush team this week listen to new releases ranging from homegrown, colloquial hip-hop to grown-up love songs, Japanese indie pop to British Brexit music.  Read more Video, Audio

6:00 PM.Californian pop prodigy Billie Eilish has just released her debut LP, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? 11-13 year olds Tahu, Sophie, Honey and Grace take a first listen. Read more Audio

6:00 PM.Pop prodigy Billie Eilish's long awaited debut LP is out, and who better to give it a first listen than a group of 11-13 year old young women? Plus we have new music from Flume, Lafawndah, SOAK and… Read more Video, Audio

4:14 PM.Songs with a contemplative feel dominate the Song Crush selections this week, with songs from The Cinematic Orchestra, Neneh Cherry, Scott Mulvahill and Koffee. Read more Video, Audio

7:30 PM.It's a jumbo edition of Song Crush this week as seven of RNZ Music's regular song-crushers choose their best track of the summer. Read more Video, Audio

7:30 PM.The Song Crush team this week listen to Solange’s misty eyed tribute to her hometown of Houston, and new music from Four Tet, Helado Negro, Stella Donnelly and more.   Read more Video, Audio

3:52 PM.A come-back dance-floor banger from The Chemical Brothers, some gender-bending Ocker punk, a power ballad, and a heart-breaking falsetto are some of the sounds you'll hear in Song Crush this week.  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

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

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

1:30 PM.Kirsten Johnstone talks about hot new music with Radio Active's Breakfast host Maggie Tweedie, RNZ music producer Tony Stamp and Jana Whitta from Girls Rock! Aotearoa, among other things. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by RNZ music producers Tony Stamp, and Yadana Saw, The Sampler’s Nick Bollinger (who is off writing a book for the next six months) and Sharon Van Etten super-fan John… Read more Video, Audio