Featured Music Stories
Brass bands: "like a family"
British-born trumpeter, teacher and conductor Vickie van Uden talks about embracing the brass music whanau of Christchurch. Video, Audio
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The complex work of a conductor
13 Nov 2024Vasily Petrenko returns to Aotearoa to lead New Zealand Symphony Orchestra concerts in Wellington and Auckland. He talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about the complex job of a conductor, which involves much more than the work onstage in front of an orchestra. Audio
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Soprano Breony Bearman finds her second wind
12 Nov 2024The winner of this year's Lockwood NZ Aria competition talks about why she came back to singing after giving it away for a decade. Audio
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Vintage flight for classical tourists
11 Nov 2024Mark Oremland mixes classical music with classic planes. Video, Audio
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Is the music critic an endangered species in Aotearoa New Zealand?
7:00 pm todayMusic critic and commentator, Elizabeth Kerr recalls feisty New Zealand music writers from last century, outlines her journey in a media landscape where arts coverage is demonstrably shrinking, and offers some ideas for the restoration of a species in danger of extinction, in the 2024 Lilburn Lecture. Video, Audio
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New Horizons: 'Ono' from Moana & The Tribe
5:30 pm todayWilliam Dart celebrates the return of Moana and the Tribe after a decade of recording silence with their new album Ono. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 November 2024
4:15 am todayMarking World Day of the Poor in Hymns on Sunday this week. Pope Francis established this day in the Catholic liturgical calendar in 2017 - a Sunday set aside to reflect on how poverty is at the very heart of the Gospel. This year's theme is "The prayer of the poor rises up to God". Audio
Featured Music Programmes
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The Mixtape with muso and music academic Rob Burns
16 Nov 2024Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is Dr. Rob Burns, an English born musician who played professionally in the UK from an early age and eventually emigrated to New… Audio
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The Mixtape: Writer Megan Dunn
9 Nov 2024Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is author, artist, writer and mermaid enthusiast Megan Dunn. Audio
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The Mixtape: DJ Tina Turntables, Station Manager at Radio One
26 Oct 2024Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is Kristina Simons, aka DJ Tina Turntables. She started her career in music television, working at Juice TV, Max TV and Alt TV and… Audio
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The Mixtape: Pos Mavaega on 30 years of Pacific Underground
19 Oct 2024Our guest picking the music is Pos' Mavaega, Musical Director for Pacific Underground, NZ's longest running Pacific performing arts group who are celebrating 30… Audio
Recent Music Stories
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The Sampler: What to listen to this week
6:20 pm todayTony Stamp looks at an exhaustive new collection from UK rave legends Underworld, folk musician Laura Marling motherhood-infused latest and Soft Power by Fazerdaze.
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Worlds of Music 17 November 2024
6:00 pm todayMusic from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie. Audio
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Quincy Jones
5:00 pm todayQuincy Jones was one of the 20th Century's most influential musicians, as a trumpet player, arranger, composer, and producer with everyone from Lionel Hampton to Michael Jackson. Nick Tipping takes a… Audio
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Strawberry Hotel by Underworld
4:40 pm todayThe UK rave legends run through familiar styles as well as some new experiments, with help from one of their daughters. Audio
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A new study values live performance in Aotearoa
4:20 pm todayMassey and Canterbury Universities have published new research into the economic and wellbeing effects of live performance. Tony Stamp speaks with three of the people involved. Audio
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Soft Power by Fazerdaze
4:10 pm todayAmelia Murray delivers her second album as Fazerdaze, a feminine take on stadium rock sounds alongside lush synth pop. Audio
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Patterns in Repeat by Laura Marling
2:40 pm todayPatterns in Repeat alludes to cycles of motherhood, the British folk musician's songs influenced by the birth of her daughter in multiple ways. Audio
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The Musical Outlier: Diverse sounds from the electronic underground
The sheer diversity and invention of electronic music today in Aotearoa is evident in a list of sounds at the upcoming electronic sonic arts festival Outlier in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Curated… Audio
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Fazerdaze: 'I'm very much reclaiming my fierceness'
16 Nov 2024On her new album Soft Power, Christchurch musician Amelia Murray (aka Fazerdaze) leaves people-pleasing in the dust. Video, Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 16 November 2024
16 Nov 2024This week's Nashville Babylon features classic soul from Anne Peebles and Alabama Shakes, blues courtesy of Earl Hooker and Howlin' Wolf plus birthday tunes for Jeff Buckley and Dr John. Audio
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Why Bic Runga's 'Birds' is an essential NZ album
16 Nov 2024Want to forget yourself for a while? Listen to Bic Runga's often-overlooked third album, Nick Bollinger writes for Music 101. Audio
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Mousey: Live session on Music 101
Christchurch-based songwriter Sarena Close, who performs under the name Mousey, is an artist who doesn't shy away from sharing what's real in her life. Her new EP is called The Dreams of Our Mothers'… Audio
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'This is me in my vulnerable state': Singer Aaradhna on her new album
16 Nov 2024Taking the reins as a producer has enabled RnB singer Aaradhna to dig deep on Sweet Surrender - the follow-up to her chart-topping 2016 album Brown Girl. Video
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Musical Chairs with Shihad
Dipping back in time, a youthful Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood from Shihad talk to Malcom Young in 1998 for an early edition of Musical Chairs. Earlier this week the Wellington band announced they were… Audio
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Fazerdaze on new album: 'People forget there's a human at the heart of it'
Fazerdaze, the artist name of Christchurch-based musician Amelia Murray is back with her long awaited second album Soft Power. After receiving glowing reviews for her earlier releases including her… Audio
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Nick Bollinger's NZ Essential albums: Bic Runga - Birds
16 Nov 2024If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Audio
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Essential Albums: Good Shirt - Good
16 Nov 2024Goodshirt combined classic pop influences with a D.I.Y sensibility learned from Chris Knox, to make one of the essential New Zealand albums of the early 2000s. Nick Bollinger discusses Goodshirt's… Audio
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Essential Albums: Ladi 6 - The Liberation Of...
16 Nov 2024When the single 'Like Water' hit the New Zealand top ten in early 2011 it established Ladi6 as this country's major R&B star. But that success was just one milestone in a long journey, and the song… Audio
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Essential Albums: The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
16 Nov 2024Buffalo was the album that lifted the profile of Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation both here and internationally. It saw their collective approach reach new heights - in the sophistication of the… Audio
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Essential Albums: Doug Jerebine - Is Jesse Harper
16 Nov 2024Recorded in London in 1969, these recordings provided classic material for Kiwi rockers The Human Instinct yet the originals remained largely unheard until their discovery and release in 2012. Nick… Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds
16 Nov 2024If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: King Kapisi - Savage Thoughts
16 Nov 2024Hip-hop is a musical form invented by African Americans, and yet here is a version that could only have come from deep in the Pacific. It has a proud sense of place and yet it looks outward. To quote… Audio
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Sweet Surrender with Aaradhna
16 Nov 2024Award-winning soul singer Aaradhna is back with a much-awaited new album Sweet Surrender - her first in eight years. Susie joined Aaradhna in her studio to see where the magic is made, and learn more… Video, Audio
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Spreading climate change message with Coldplay
A group of Pasifika Climate Change warriors has been using their musical voices to advocate for the protection of their beloved Pacific Islands facing rising seas. Audio
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