Song Crush

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

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

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. 

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

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

The Song Crush team this week play some tracks you should listen to instead of the new Ed Sheeran record Read more Audio

On this week's Song Crush we dabble in disco, flirt with funk, and indulge in some capital 'P' pop. Read more Video, Audio

Some songs can articulate an experience so well that it feels as if the writers have actually read your mind. The Song Crush team this week have a couple of those songs, from rapper NF, Radiohead's… Read more Video, Audio

Make a cuppa, pull up the blankies, Kirsten Johnstone and the Song Crush team serve up toasty new tunes to warm you up. This week's show includes The Comet is Coming, Iron & Wine and Calexico and… Read more Video, Audio

The Song Crush team this week has new music ranging from scandipop to jazz. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by RNZ Afternoons producer Emile Donovan, Inside Out host Nick Tipping, and RNZ Music’s… Read more Video, Audio

It’s almost the middle of the year so we’ve got a large handful of our regular selectors in the studio to pick our favourite songs of the year so far - or at least, eight of them. Read more Video, Audio

The Song Crush team this week listens to Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker's evolution, new songs from Sleater-Kinney, Purple Pilgrims, Lower Dens and more. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by Tony… Read more Video, Audio