Music

Today's first song comes from 14 year old singer Jaya Jesse played her debut Aotearoa Sun on the show about 18 months ago. When she released her new single "Me He Korokoro Tui", we knew we needed to… Audio

On todays show Evie catches up with rising pop star Jason Parker and gets to bottom of why he’s in a sling and Thomas Rose has a quality chat with So’omālō about his long awaited album,  Audio

We’re going back to 2019 when Charlotte Ryan interviewed The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy. The band has blown up since then… due to a famous ex-girlfriend and a lot of good music.  Audio

In tune with the NZSO. Audio

“I just revere this work, and the poem, and Elgar. I’m so lucky to be doing it!” Hamilton-based singer Kristin Darragh will be performing the role of The Angel in Edward Elgar's epic work, The Dream… Video, Audio

The cello section gets to shine at the Auckland Youth Orchestra's upcoming concert, which includes a performance of 'Symphony for Eight' by Philip Glass. Young musicians Damon Herlihy-O'Brien and… Video, Audio

Music correspondent Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to look at the re-release of john Lennon's 1973 album Mind Games.  Audio

The New Zealand Chamber Soloists continue their commissioning project 7x7 with a new work from Gillian Whitehead, surrounding it with music by Haydn, Shostakovich and Robert Schumann. Audio

Rodger Fox was a heavyweight of the Aotearoa New Zealand jazz scene For over five decades he led the Rodger Fox Big Band, championing young kiwi musicians on a global stage. John Dix joins us to… Audio

On today's show, Lilly Carron chats about her new EP and starting her music career so young, Tim Provise is in the studio and calls So'omālō out for missing his comedy show. Evie reckons the lotto… Audio

William Dart catches up with the music of Beth Gibbons, the voice of Portishead a few decades ago and now the assured songwriter of her new solo album, Lives Outgrown. Audio

The award-nominated producer has worked with Avantdale Bowling Club and other hip-hop luminaries, and applied his psychedelic touch to numerous genres. On his latest, he delves back into rocksteady… Audio

The acerbic Scottish duo are in particularly good form, thirty years after their inception, on an album that takes aim at social media. Video, Audio

Georgia Lines won Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, while her EP Human - released the following year - has been streamed millions of times. Her debut album, The Rose… Audio

The New Zealand Youth Choir features in this week’s programme, singing Wairua tapu (a hymn to the Holy Spirit by Ngapo Wehi) and the African-American spiritual Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. Audio

On this week's Nashville Babylon there's a previously unreleased song from Johnny Cash, a folk classic courtesy of Nic Jones, a boogie woogie stunner from Hadda Brooks plus blues from Sonny Boy… Audio