Prince

For today's music feature we focus in on the career and legacy of Prince. Emerging in the late 1970s as a prodigy musician, he developed a reputation as a prolific virtuoso who wrote, produced… Audio

Film of a young Prince Rogers Nelson at the age of 11 attending a teachers strike in Minnesota was recently discovered in the archives of a local TV news station. Matt Liddy, the Production Manager at… Audio

It's been 10 years since Kiwi musician Kimbra hit the top of the New Zealand music charts -- and those of myriad other countries around the world -- as vocalist on Australian singer/songwriter Gotye's… Audio

With recent news that pop music producer Joel Little has sold his music catalogue for undisclosed millions to music service Hipgnosis, Yadana Saw will be taking us into the world of songs management… Audio

Amy Winehouse's best friend Tyler James has spent the last four years writing a book about the star's life, My Amy. Tyler joins the show to talk about his special bond with Amy and why she pushed the… Audio

Wednesday 21st April marks five years since Prince passed away. He was 57. Undoubtedly a music icon, he's regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation. We look back at the life and… Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, The Phoenix Foundation's Samuel Flynn Scott takes us through their new album Friend Ship and Professor Susan Rogers former sound engineer for Prince speaks with Jesse… Audio

Susan Rogers always dreamed of working in the recording industry and then along came a prince, the Prince, who along with her tenacity helped make the dream come true. Audio, Gallery

Nick Bollinger discusses the power of refusal in the music of Lincolnshire's Billy Nomates; the visceral post-rock of Auckland's Wax Chattels; and a motherlode of previously unreleased Prince. Audio

The unreleased recordings of Prince have long been the stuff of legend, until now. His 1987 masterpiece Sign O' The Times has been re-issued, including all the original tracks as well as dozens of… Video, Audio

Most music fans have heard about Prince's vault - some 30 albums' worth of unreleased material.  Audio

Prince William has delivered a message of hope in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks -- saying "hate will fail to divide us." He was speaking ath the Al Noor mosque on the second and final… Video, Audio

Music reviewer Grant Smithies says quick, call an osteopath! LA jazz-funk wunderkind Louis Cole has a new album out and it might just dislocate your spine. We'll hear two tracks from Cole's third solo… Audio

Anna Calvi stakes out some middle ground on both the gender and musical spectra; Yves Tumor makes an apocalyptic dance music you might call post-everything, and a private Prince recording goes public… Audio

Nick Bollinger eavesdrops on Prince's private piano party. Audio