All episodes
Saturday, 16 November 2024
- 1:20 Nick Bollinger's NZ Essential albums: Bic Runga - Birds
- 2:10 Fazerdaze on new album: 'People forget there's a human at the heart of it'
- 3:10 Musical Chairs with Shihad
- 3:40 Mousey: Live session on Music 101
- 4:00 The Mixtape with muso and music academic Rob Burns
- 2:40 Patterns in Repeat by Laura Marling
Saturday, 9 November 2024
- 1:20 Which music festival is right for you?
- 2:15 Psychedelic folk artist Arthur Ahbez on his new album
- 2:40 Ladi6 pops in for a chat to celebrate new release 'Alofa'
- 3:15 Adam Hattaway and the Haunters: Live session
- 3:40 Songs of a Lost World by The Cure
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Writer Megan Dunn
Saturday, 2 November 2024
- 1:30 Moana Maniapoto travels with The Tribe to record indigenous voices
- 2:20 Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na: ‘I was born around the time when hip hop hit, and I thank God for that!’
- 3:40 Keep Me On Your Mind by Bonny Light Horseman
- 4:10 The Mixtape: Shihad’s Jon Toogood ‘After what I went through I needed gentle, calm music’
Saturday, 26 October 2024
- 1:10 Buzzcocks survivor Steve Diggle: 'The band's on fire now!'
- 2:15 Salmonella Dub on writing in nature: ‘You could catch a kahawai from the mixing desk’
- 3:15 Big Sur live in the RNZ studio
- 3:40 In My Chambers by Wiri Donna
- 4:00 The Mixtape: DJ Tina Turntables, Station Manager at Radio One
Saturday, 19 October 2024
- 1:20 Biographer on the Prince doco we won't see
- 2:15 Mel Parsons Live on her Regional Sabotage Tour
- 2:15 Mel Parsons Live on her Regional Sabotage Tour
- 2:45 Horomona Horo: Best known taonga pūoro practitioner becomes Arts Laureate
- 3:15 Jim Nothing on his local life and new music
- 3:40 Viva Hinds! by Hinds
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Pos Mavaega on 30 years of Pacific Underground
Saturday, 12 October 2024
- 2:15 Remi Wolf phones in from a bathroom floor in Atlanta
- 3:15 Louis Baker Live in Titahi Bay
- 3:30 Review: My Method Actor by Nilüfer Yanya
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Tama Waipara, Co-director of Wellington Jazz Fest
Saturday, 5 October 2024
- 1:15 Silver Scrolls: 5 songs about connection, fun and whakapapa
- 2:15 Review: Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping
- 2:30 The Hard Quartet: Drummer Jim White on why rock's not dead
- 3:15 Che Fu performs live with big band: 'I'm really happy to hear my songs in this way'
- 3:40 1994 part six: Pavement, Sebadoh, Ween
- 4:00 The Mixtape: DJ Vee
Saturday, 28 September 2024
- 1:20 Dam Native: 'Our tupuna wrote that record. I just held the pen’
- 2:15 Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders live at Futuna Chapel
- 3:15 Rob Ruha joins the effort to beat haka world record
- 3:30 Bob Mould brings solo electric tour to NZ
- 4:00 The Mixtape: The Spinoff Editor Madeleine Chapman
Saturday, 21 September 2024
- 1:07 Remembering Eddie Low
- 1:20 Jamie xx drops album of anthems: 'I'm so ready to be out there playing again'
- 1:45 The best of NZ Jazz announced
- 2:15 Bright Eyes on new album: ‘Music is cool when it’s outside the sterile recording studio’
- 3:00 Review: Amelia by Laurie Anderson
- 3:15 Katy Perry drops new album. Does it stack up?
- 4:00 The Mixtape: DJ, Producer, Musician Mark de Clive Lowe
Saturday, 14 September 2024
- 1:20 Doug Hood tribute from music critic and old friend Colin Hogg
- 1:45 Dire Straits' Chris White - 'It was a really happy band'
- 2:15 Unlocking Creative Freedom: Jon Hopkins
- 3:15 Pitch Black's music remixed by hero producer Adrian Sherwood
- 3:40 The Sampler: Okay Kaya's quirky new record Oh My God—That’s So Me
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Musician and entertainer Anika Moa
Saturday, 7 September 2024
- 1:20 Tami Neilson on joining Willie Nelson's tribe
- 2:40 Drummer Chris O'Connor's new gig as a music therapist
- 3:00 The Sampler: 1994 part 2
- 3:15 Georgia Gets By: 'This EP is therapy sessions with myself'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Comedian and children's author David Walliams
- 4:00 The Sampler: 1994 part 3
Saturday, 31 August 2024
- 1:20 Rikki Morris: On being an 80s popstar and finding the perfect ballad
- 2:15 'It's an other-worldly state': Bill Callahan talks songwriting
- 3:15 'Music is a divine gift' says Teremoana Rapley
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Former Pitchfork editor Puja Patel
- 4:15 Review: Jack White's – No Name
Saturday, 24 August 2024
- 1:20 Fontaines D.C: 'Romance lives between light and dark'
- 2:20 Louisa Nicklin on her producer Shayne Carter: ‘I really liked how he talked about and thought about music’
- 3:15 KOMMI: On 'WitchHop' & working with Marlon Williams
- 4:00 The Sampler: 1994 - Part 1
- 4:00 The Mixtape: David Merritt's life in poetry
Saturday, 17 August 2024
- 1:20 Troy Kingi: On his journey into Joshua Tree desert to record latest album
- 2:15 Marlin's Dreaming: Live in studio with new album HIRL
- 3:00 Review: Eat Your Own Ears Recordings Vol. 1
- 3:15 Lawrence Arabia on performing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Comedian and creator Jesse Griffin
Saturday, 10 August 2024
- 1:20 Nathan Haines: 'I’m just amazed I’m still here talking to you’
- 2:30 Midnight Oil doco: ‘Pub rock was a rebellion of a generation’
- 3:00 Review: Blue Dreams by Holly Arrowsmith
- 3:15 DIY music collective bringing ‘Great Sounds Great’ to Pōneke
- 4:10 The Mixtape: Film director Ant Timpson
Saturday, 3 August 2024
- 1:10 Julia Parnell: Director of Martin Phillipps doco pays tribute
- 2:15 New Brian Eno documentary: 'Billions of potential versions of the film'
- 2:35 Neo Sora: Capturing Ryuichi Sakamoto’s swansong
- 3:20 Karl Sölve Steven explores Swedish roots in new project
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Fashion rebel Kristine Crabb
Saturday, 27 July 2024
- 1:40 Exhibition features 'old school' Gen X artists
- 3:00 Review: Still Here Season 2 by Hanisi Garue
- 3:15 Cassandra Jenkins on her midlife crisis: ‘Music seemed like a foolish thing to follow’
- 4:00 The Mixtape: WORD Christchurch director and beloved book reviewer Kiran Dass
- 5:00 The Black Seeds' Barnaby Weir is back with TRiPS
Saturday, 20 July 2024
- 1:30 Chuck D: "We are in the war of art not the art of war"
- 2:30 Aotearoa's rising rap star Jujulipps
- 3:00 Interview: Loma
- 3:15 Review: Charm by Clairo
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Veteran Broadcaster Grant Walker
Saturday, 13 July 2024
- 9:00 The unheard album by Johnny Cash
- 1:25 The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘These days it's Jim and William Reid being themselves’
- 2:30 'The summer of Prince': 40 Years of Purple Rain
- 3:15 EJ Barnes on singing Led Zeppelin: 'You want to go for it full-force'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford
Saturday, 6 July 2024
- 4:00 The Mixtape - Legendary music critic Colin Hogg
- 1:20 Warren Ellis: On how Dirty Three saved him
- 2:20 The Banks Peninsula musician who does weather data visualisations
- 3:00 Review: Caper by Joe Ghatt
Saturday, 29 June 2024
- 1:30 Anna Coddington: Retraining the voice after Long Covid
- 2:20 Aaron Frazer on new music and breaking up: 'It sucks, but it’s not forever'
- 3:00 Review: Uneven Ground by Death and the Maiden
- 3:20 Indy Yelich: 'Your voice has to stand out on its own'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: DJ and producer Lord Echo
Saturday, 22 June 2024
- 9:00 Review: I Hear You by Peggy Gou
- 5:00 How to beat the Spotify algorithm
- 1:20 John Lennon speaks in rare NZ interview
- 2:10 Music 101 on Charlie XCX: How to become a BRAT
- 2:30 Tiki Taane on scoring new film Ka Whawhai Tonu: 'We shed DNA on that battlefield'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Writer and poet Romesh Dissanayake
Saturday, 15 June 2024
- 1:30 DJ Vika: 'Those who dance never grow old'
- 2:05 NZ's DJ Messie heads to Glastonbury
- 2:30 Blonde Redhead: Learning to 'float' with finest album yet
- 3:00 Review: Night Reign by Arooj Aftab
- 3:15 Earth Tongue Live: Channelling the eerie depths of 80s horror
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Sam Hunt
Saturday, 8 June 2024
- 9:00 Review: Sabotage by Mel Parsons
- 1:20 Remembering Sandy Edmonds, a 1960s pop supernova
- 2:30 C. Zukey: On creating music from grief
- 3:10 Mount Kimbie: On new music and preparing for Glastonbury
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Cratedigger Dujon Cullingford
Saturday, 1 June 2024
- 10:59 Review: Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish
- 1:20 Neil Finn: Live in studio with new Crowded House album
- 2:06 Backstage at the Aotearoa Music Awards
- 2:40 Gore polishes boots for the Gold Guitars
- 3:05 SWIDT on new album: “This is our art, this is our vessel, this is our voice to be heard”
- 4:07 The wonderful world of Rodger Fox
