Music

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

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

Nick takes a look at some of the leading lights of jazz's rainbow community, including drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Bill Stewart, singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, pianists Fred Hersch and… Audio

Nick checks out tracks from Roxy Coss, Benny Green, and Ingrid & Christine Jensen; an arrangement of a Robbie Burns song by NZ drummer John Rae, and one of the Buddy Rich Band's signature tunes. Audio

C. Zukey is a Canadian-born New Zealand alternative musician from Auckland with an incredible, heartbreaking story. His new album Stonefruut is inspired by some intense family experiences over the… Audio

Our guest picking the music over the next hour is Dujon Cullingford, a DJ and record collector based in Ngaruawahia. Dujon is a champion for underground New Zealand funk, soul and disco from back in… Audio

Mount Kimbie began their music journey 15 years ago as a duo at the forefront of electronica. Today the beloved English band continue to inspire with their critically acclaimed new album The Sunset… Audio

C Zukey is a Canadian-born New Zealand alternative musician from Auckland. His beautiful new album Stonefruut is inspired by some intense family experiences over the last few years, the birth of his… Audio

In the mid-1960s, Sandy Edmonds was one of the biggest names in New Zealand music with hits like Daylight Saving Time. Rock'n'roll reporter John Baker reflects on the UK-born pop singer's short but… Video, Audio

Te Ohorere Williams is a classical soprano who recently graduated with a Masters of Music at Auckland University. She was first drawn to opera while watching a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute… Audio

Auckland will be in full voice next month as 11,000 singers hit town for The World Choir Games. 250 choirs from more than 30 countries, representing a diverse range of choral music styles will compete… Audio

Tonight, a track from Berlin-based Kiwi project Saturns Drive, new music from Norwegian-American auteur Okay Kaya, and a glimpse of the 20-minute lullaby reimagining of gnarly Baltimore rock band… Audio