Recent Music Stories
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Future Jaw-Clap: the wild years of Wellington jazz
6 Nov 2024Musician and author Daniel Beban has written a book about a group of young musicians who unleashed a new kind of jazz on Wellington. Video, Audio
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Bookmarks with Te Kahu Rolleston
6 Nov 2024Te Kahu Rolleston is an award winning spoken word poet. Audio
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Music Critic: Christoph El' Truento and Flying Lotus
6 Nov 2024Sarah Thomson plays and discusses two new tracks; Performer Dub by Christoph El' Truento and Let Me Cook feat. Dawn Richard by Flying Lotus. Audio
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Shortland St music writer wins national choral music comp
Wellington-based composer and multi-instrumentalist William Philipson writes the music for Shortland Street. Audio
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Anthony Field - the 'Blue Wiggle' - on his mental health ride
Field speaks about feeling "sad", a late diagnosis with ADHD and his own son's anxiety that his dad would never come back from The Wiggles tours. Audio
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Concert for Animals
5 Nov 2024RNZ Concert is offering a Guy Fawkes night radio show of music chosen to be gentle for pets, and people, during fireworks, in collaboration with SPCA.
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Soothing sounds for furry friends
5 Nov 2024SPCA Scientific Officer Dr Alison Vaughan talks with Bryan Crump about how music can help keep your pets calm this Guy Fawkes night. Audio
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Arielwose & Coast Arcade
On the show today we have Leo and Thom from Coast Arcade in to tell us about their latest single 'City Limits', we also meet local singer-songwriter arielwose who chats to us about her latest waiata… Audio
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Waikato graphic novels getting posthumous release
5 Nov 2024Musician, artist, academic and radio personality Dean Ballinger was known as one of Kirikiriroa Hamilton's foremost creatives. Audio
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John Farnham's memoir doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths
We learn how he was drugged, coerced and abused by a former manager. How he faced financial ruin many times over and how he and his wife Jill struggled to conceive children for many years.
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Fifty years of keeping Music Alive
4 Nov 2024Nikki Wells, Programme Convener for Music Alive, talks with Bryan Crump about the history of the Christchurch-based amateur music club and their upcoming celebration concert at the end of this month.
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'It's so ethereal': Moana & The Tribe's journey to capturing indigenous voices
4 Nov 2024Moana & The Tribe have returned with a concept album project that starts in Aotearoa and travels around the world - encapsulating the voices, language, and culture of six indigenous wāhine. Video, Audio
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The Richard Poems with Simon Sweetman
Simon Sweetman is a Wellington-based writer, broadcaster, podcaster and RNZ semi-regular. His new collection, The Richard Poems, is out this month, and has an accompanying soundtrack. Audio
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Three great albums you might have missed
4 Nov 2024Tony Stamp catches up with three releases from 2024, from US trio Bonny Light Horseman, British singer Lucy Rose, and Alberta collective Crack Cloud.
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Concert for Animals to be broadcast on Guy Fawkes night
Guy Fawkes night and the impact on household and farm animals is a well traversed topic with the New Zealand Veterinary Association once again helping to promote an Animates petition calling for the… Audio
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Worlds of Music 3 November, 2024
3 Nov 2024Music from the world, for the world, featuring Asha Bhosle, Amara Toure, Art Blakey, and Pakistani-American singer and composer, Arooj Aftab. Audio
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Happiness is Near
3 Nov 2024Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are back together again with a new album, titled Happiness in Near. William Dart checks whether it lives up to its optimistic title. Audio
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Certain Limitations by Luke Temple
3 Nov 2024An uneven collection from the Here We Go Magic frontman that pops in its mellower, tropical moments. Audio
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Red Mile by Crack Cloud
3 Nov 2024The Canadian collective marry punk attitude to classic rock on songs as blunt as they are catchy. Audio
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Dreamer's Motel by Joachim Cooder
3 Nov 2024The LA musician finds beauty in the everyday on his lovingly crafted new album. Audio
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This Ain't the Way You Go Out by Lucy Rose
3 Nov 2024An album of very British-sounding tracks that land somewhere between soul and folk, pairing Rose's smooth voice with rhythmic heft. Audio
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Fast Favourites: Journalist and TV presenter Amanda Gillies
For more than two decades, award-winning journalist and presenter, Amanda Gillies has been gracing the screens in the living rooms of Kiwi homes. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 November 2024
3 Nov 2024Marking the Feast of All Saints today with William Walsham How's great hymn For All the Saints. Audio
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Chali 2na: 'I was born when hip hop was just emerging'
The rapper and artist talks to Music 101 growing up in "gang-ridden" Chicago, coming back to NZ, and 30 years of Jurassic 5. Audio
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