Yadana Saw
RNZ Music Pocket Edition 355: Self Esteem/Slice of Heaven
In this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, we learn how Slice of Heaven overcame its underdog status to grow into our unofficial anthem and Self Esteem's Rebecca Taylor on her album that's topping… Audio
Music with Yadana Saw
Yadana plays Tami Neilson's cover of the Willie Nelson Christmas song Pretty Paper, a summery track from Sorrento with Andy Lovegrove's honeyed voice and bassist extraordinaire Marika Hodgson. Plus an… Audio
The Mixtape: RNZ Music Team Top Picks of 2021
We finish off 2021 with the RNZ Music team picking their favourite songs of the year! Video, Audio
Slice of Heaven: The story of Aotearoa's unofficial anthem
Dave Dobbyn's Slice of Heaven has been called New Zealand's unofficial anthem. Thirty five years after its release Yadana Saw's explores how the song made in two days with Herbs, rejected by radio and… Video, Audio
Yadana Saw and Jim Pinckney on the life of Robbie Shakespeare
We pay tribute to Robbie Shakespeare, who passed away earlier this week. Yadana Saw and Jim Pinckney discuss his epic career as one part of the best Jamaican rhythm sections ever: Sly and Robbie. Audio
RNZ Music Pocket Edition #352: Dave Gahan, French for Rabbits
In this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode's lead singer speaks about his new covers album, French for Rabbits' Brooke Singer explains what it's like to put out a record… Audio
French for Rabbits - The Overflow
French for Rabbits have just released their third album The Overflow. By lead singer and songwriter Brooke Singer's estimation the record is the most accomplished for the Pōneke act. Video, Audio
Adele persuades Spotify to stop shuffling albums
British singer and songwriter Adele has persuaded Spotify to stop shuffling albums by default- , so now the tracks play in the order the artists intended.
The singer tweeted: "We don't create albums… Audio
RNZ Music Pocket Edition #350: Sting, Haitus Kaiyote
In this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw she shares a string of songs relating to Aussie neo soul band Haitus Kaiyote and Sting shares his lockdown album with Charlotte Ryan Audio
Music with Yadana Saw
RNZ music journalist Yadana Saw takes a deep-dive into the world of boybands - from their origins in the Beatles to what makes them such a hit with their fans. Audio
'Games should be engines of happiness' - The rise of NZ's video game industry
The world-wide gaming industry is big. It's really big. Just ten years ago it generated over 25 billion dollars of income a year in the US alone. Last year it took in 135 billion dollars. Taking in… Audio
The Eastern Sound Collective
With the world pretty much kept out of Aotearoa New Zealand thanks to a certain pandemic, we have to find the world within our shores. And the surprising thing is how often that seems to be happening… Audio
Wellington crime writer Anne Harré
It's taken a while but finally Wellington joins New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Paul Cleave's Christchurch as a cool crime novel city. As Anne Harre described it: "Dig a little deeper and the… Audio
Jane Campion's location manager Sally Sherratt
It's no surprise that the opening movie to launch the New Zealand International Film Festival this year should be the highly-anticipated The Power of the Dog. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten… Video, Audio
Australian indigenous company Bangarra Dance Theatre
One of the notable elements in this year's International Film Festival is the strong representation of Indigenous films and film-makers. One of them is an Australian documentary called Firestarter. In… Audio
Music editor Stephen Gallagher
Swedish record label Moviescore Media has just released the original score for a short documentary about endangered elephants called Kimana Tuskers. The score was composed and produced by film and… Audio
Sound artist Anonymouz is inspired by tatau art
Resample Tatau is an ambitious new work from award-winning creative producer and sound artist Faiumu Matthew Salapu, better known as Anonymouz. Inspired by his personal journey to receive his tatau -… Audio
RNZ Music Pocket Edition #348: Self Esteem/Shapeshifter
In this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, UK pop darling Self Esteem talks with Tony Stamp and Shapeshifter's Sam Trevethick on the need to vaccinate for summer festival season Audio
RNZ Music Pocket Edition 347: Helado Negro, Hollie Smith
In this week's Pocket Edition, Los Angeles' Helado Negro speaks to Tony Stamp about singing and speaking 'Spanglish', and Hollie Smith explains why her latest album Coming in From The Dark. Audio
RNZ Music Pocket Edition #346: Luke Buda/Adam McGrath
In this week's Pocket Edition, Luke Buda takes Charlotte Ryan through his latest solo album and Adam McGrath of The Eastern talks to the power of live music and coming together. Audio