RNZ Music

Popular music is filled with singing siblings and performing parents, all making music together. In the 2nd of four programmes Nick Bollinger conducts an informal survey of musical families, their… Read more Audio

Popular music is filled with singing siblings and performing parents, all making music together. In the first of four programmes Nick Bollinger conducts an informal survey of musical families, their… Read more Audio

Today we are treated to a performance by singer-songwriter Jim Nothing, who is back with his second album 'Grey Eyes, Grey Lynn'  Read more Audio

Today Jesse is joined by Psychedelic folk/rock songwriter Arthur Ahbez. He's been in the game over 10 years and just put out his third album, 'Arthur Ahbez & The Flaming Ahbez'. As the name implies… Read more Audio

Goodshirt combined classic pop influences with a D.I.Y sensibility learned from Chris Knox, to make one of the essential New Zealand albums of the early 2000s. Nick Bollinger discusses Goodshirt's… Read more Audio

When the single 'Like Water' hit the New Zealand top ten in early 2011 it established Ladi6 as this country's major R&B star. But that success was just one milestone in a long journey, and the song… Read more Audio

Buffalo was the album that lifted the profile of Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation both here and internationally. It saw their collective approach reach new heights - in the sophistication of the… Read more Audio

Recorded in London in 1969, these recordings provided classic material for Kiwi rockers The Human Instinct yet the originals remained largely unheard until their discovery and release in 2012. Nick… Read more Audio

If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Read more Audio