Grant Smithies

Featuring Dudley Benson, Neil Young and Mary J Blige. Audio

Grant Smithies rides side-saddle from Te Aro to Thorndon with Wellington grunge revivalists Bunnies On Ponies, then fires up the hookah pipe for a listen to A Day In My Mind's Mind - a double vinyl… Audio

Grant Smithies checks out the lesbian love songs and post-modern murder ballads of New Orleans folk band Hurray For The Riff Raff, then gets sand in his Speedoes while listening to Nelson surf-rock… Audio

Grant Smithies considers new releases from balladeering Buddhist monk Leonard Cohen, Scottish reggae sound system Mungo's HiFi and English electronic music pioneer, Richard "Aphex Twin" James. Audio

Grant Smithies rounds-up the five finalists for the 2014 APRA Silver Scroll, the only peer voted songwriting award in New Zealand, with the winner decided by over 10,000 fellow songwriters from the… Audio

The Nukes - ukulele band and Joel Mulholland. Audio

Music this week includes tracks from Basement Jaxx, Thom Yorke, M.I.A and Vampire Weekend. Audio

Featuring 'Benjamin Booker', 'Die! Die! Die!', and 'Shabazz Palaces'. Audio

Featuring The Bats and their lead singer Robert Scott. Audio

Featuring Jack Antonoff, Jungle and DJ Vadim. Audio

Featuring music from Lew Pryme, Doprah and Mr Scruff. Audio

Grant Smithies plays country folk Swedish sisters 'First Aid Kit', punk indie rockers Parquet Courts, and funky soul man Lee Fields. Audio

Tracks from Grace Jones, Curtis Harding, and Quantic. Audio

Grant Smithies features music from independent record label Arch Hill. Audio

Including Sherpa, Tiny Ruins and Jamaican singer Horace Andy. Audio

Kylie Minogue's new album "kiss me once" - plus music from Pixies and a single from Geoff Chapple - the man behind the national walking track "Te Araroa. Audio

Featuring Flip Grater, Shocking Pinks and Elton John. Audio

Grant Smithies is choosing this weeks songs. Audio

It could be time to blow the dust off the old vinyl and start belting out those power ballads because the music industry looks set to become stuck like a broken record. Audio

Grant Smithies is choosing this weeks songs. Audio