Featured Music Stories
Embrace the music and dance
Ahead of the Royal NZ Ballet's Aotearoa tour performing Swan Lake, the company's executive director chooses some of his favourite music. Video, Audio
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Here are the finalists for the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards
18 Apr 2024Stan Walker and Avantdale Bowling Club's Tom Scott are leading nominations for the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards.
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Classical and kapa haka combine to honour Māori Battalion
15 Apr 2024Bryan Crump talks with musicians involved in the Orpheus Choir's next concert on 20 April, which features Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man" and a work by Takerei Komene, "E Kiwi E". It's the world premiere of their work, a tribute to the 28th Māori Battalion. Video, Audio
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Mark Knopfler: 'I'm really delighted when the records make people happy'
13 Apr 202474-year-old former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler talks to Charlotte Ryan. Video, Audio
RNZ Concert
RNZ Concert is New Zealand’s fine music network. Concert promotes New Zealand music and composition and features live broadcasts of concerts and recitals, as well as international content from other public radio broadcasters, podcasts, and on-demand programmes.
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 April 2024
about 2 hours agoLooking ahead to ANZAC Day this week, with hymns including Abide with me and Shirley Murray’s Honour the dead. Audio
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Orchestra students back in school for the holidays
Nicky Fogden-Smith, Coordinator and Course Director of the NZ Secondary Students' Symphony Orchestra, speaks to Bryan Crump ahead of the orchestra's concert in Christchurch. Audio
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From Belgium to Samoa via Aotearoa
18 Apr 2024Belgian classical crossover pianist Daniel Verstappen is coming to Auckland for a cultural crossover gig with Samoan New Zealander Dr Opeloge Ah Sam. Joe Harrop from the Black Quartet is the middle man. Video, Audio
Featured Music Programmes
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 April 2024
about 2 hours agoLooking ahead to ANZAC Day this week, with hymns including Abide with me and Shirley Murray’s Honour the dead. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 April 2024
14 Apr 2024More Eastertide hymns today, including He is risen. The words, written by Cecil Frances Alexander in the 1840s, have been set to a tune by Dunedin composer and… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 April 2024
7 Apr 2024George Woodward's hymn This joyful Eastertide begins today's programme. George was a man of many talents: as well as writing hymns, he was a bell ringer, he… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 31 March 2024
31 Mar 2024Celebrate Easter Sunday with favourite Easter hymns, including Jesus Christ is risen today, Thine be the glory, and the New Zealand Easter hymn Christ is alive!
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Recent Music Stories
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The Auckland record store pressing vinyl made out of cooking oil
20 Apr 2024It's Record Store Day, and one Auckland shop is taking the new-found interest in vinyl one step further.
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30 years on, Dandy Warhols still out to 'blow our own minds'
20 Apr 2024Lacking technical skills in the beginning, the band had to experiment and get creative. That's stood them in good stead, the Portland, Oregon band's frontman says. Audio
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‘It’s what we love doing’ - UB40 still rocking after 45 years
20 Apr 2024Robin Campbell - founding member of the Birmingham reggae-pop band - is excited to play both classics and new songs at their two NZ shows this October. Audio
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Nashville Babylon - 20 April 2024
20 Apr 2024On this week's show there's tracks from Emmylou Harris, Son Volt and Daddy Long Legs, classics from the Stones and Iggy Pop plus a reggae smash from Steel Pulse. Audio
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Music lovers out in force for Record Store Day
20 Apr 2024At one shop, people started lining up at 3.15am ahead of the annual celebration of independent record stores and the music they sell. Audio
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100 Years of Henry Mancini
20 Apr 2024Nick celebrates 100 years since the birth of the great film and TV composer Henry Mancini, with jazz versions of some of his greatest tunes. Audio
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I Got It Bad
20 Apr 2024In this week's show: Quincy Jones leads a big band, Miles Davis takes a back seat, and Alex Trask fronts an exciting trio. Audio
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How 'the greatest hip hop record ever made' has endured
20 Apr 2024Released on 19 April 1994, Nas' Illmatic is often considered as the greatest LP in hip hop. New Zealand hip hop stars including DJ Sir-Vere, Tom Scott and more weigh in on its influence. Audio
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The Mixtape: Nabihah Iqbal
20 Apr 2024The English musician, writer and broadcaster shares her favourite music with Charlotte Ryan. Audio
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On He Rākau, He Ngārara, Aro explore our native trees and insects
20 Apr 2024The husband and wife duo used funding from Creative NZ to conduct research for each waiata. Video, Audio
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The Dandy Warhols on where it all began, new album and NZ show
20 Apr 2024Maggie Tweedie talks to the band's frontman Courtney Taylor. Audio
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Thirty years of Illmatic: Artists and pundits pay tribute to rap classic
20 Apr 2024RNZ reporter Adam Burns spoke to some of Aotearoa's hip hop community about why Illmatic is so revered. Audio
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The energy is undeniable on Nia Archives' debut Silence is Loud
20 Apr 2024The UK musician masterfully fuses jungle and pop on her debut LP. Video, Audio
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Ha the Unclear wander through their catalogue on Kingdom in a Cul de Sac
20 Apr 2024Freshly signed to a French record label, the local band have released a collection that's both best-of and new release. Video, Audio
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Celebrating vinyl and music: International Record Store Day across Aotearoa
20 Apr 2024We check on festivities at New Zealand’s longest running independent record store, Slow Boat Records in Wellington. Audio
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Taylor Swift's new album - What's the verdict?
The double album is being lauded as "extreme in its emotions and uninterested in traditional hits" - but one critic has called it "at times, cringeworthy".
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‘It’s what we love doing’ - UB40 still rocking after 45 years
20 Apr 2024Robin Campbell - founding member of the Birmingham reggae-pop band UB40 - is excited to play a mix of classics and new songs at their two NZ shows this October. "I love playing old stuff, I love… Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Featuring a political track from Dunedin doom-pop two piece Night Lunch, a new release from Baby Rose and BADBADNOTGOOD, and Melbourne-based Cyanide Thornton's self-titled 2018 EP. Audio
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The Pre-Panel for 19 April
19 Apr 2024Today on the Pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show and producer Ayana Piper-Healion discuss the albums that were perfect from the first time you heard them. Audio
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Music 101: Charlotte Ryan
19 Apr 2024Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101 here on RNZ each Saturday afternoon from 1pm talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because… Audio
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NZ Live: Sam Cullen
19 Apr 2024For NZ Live today we have Invercargill, born Sam Cullen. He currently he lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland and a brand new EP out today. It's called Love Again. Sam in our studio for NZ Live this… Audio
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Taylor Swift fans react as new album leaks hours before release
Taylor Swift fans have been sent into something of a frenzy after her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, appears to have leaked online early.
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Music Critic: Jana Te Nahu Owen
18 Apr 2024Today Jana talks to Jesse about music from Sleater Kinney and Troy Kingi. Video, Audio
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