Music
Herbs keyboard player Tama Lundon has died
A Herbs bandmate shared the news that their longstanding keyboard player had died.
Bookmarks with author Naomi Arnold
It's time for Bookmarks and today award-winning nature and science writer Naomi Arnold joins Jesse. Naomi is a keen tramper, last year she fulfilled a 20-year dream of walking Te Araroa - the hiking… Audio
New music from Keira Wallace and Brandon De La Cruz
Critic Matthew Crawley shares new music from Keira Wallace - winner of the Play It Strange secondary school songwriting competition - 'Your Surface Settles' and Brandon De La Cruz 'How Many Names for… Audio
Why is Taylor Swift's engagement such HUGE news?
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know Taylor Swift has got engaged to American football player Travis Kelce. Now, RNZ might not seem the place for talk of Taytay .. but she is an… Audio
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement
Superstar pop Icon Taylor Swift and her beau Travis Kelce are engaged. AUT lecturer Dr Rebecca Trelease spoke to Charlotte Cook. Audio
Music with Yadana Saw
Yadana Saw shares her picks from the much-anticipated second release from Baltimore's Nourished By Time, a slice of Lebanese swoony surf rock, and how Avantdale's man of many collectives is finally at… Audio
First look at the line-up for this year's Rhythm and Vines
A Brooklyn rapper will headline and a Baltimore band bring punk to the Gisborne event for the first time.
Antony Hermus: a man with a mission
"I always say, 'Everyone loves classical music, only some don't know about it yet', and I feel it is my mission to let people know about it." Dutch conductor Antony Hermus talks with RNZ Concert. Audio
Autaia and Dani Kionasina
We recap 2025's Pacific Music Awards and play you back our chat with one of the nights big winners Janay tells us about her time down south and we chat to some awesome creatives Audio
Twenty years in charge of The Realm
Jazz drummer Greg Crayford is getting ready to lead celebrations of two decades of his jazz residency at Wellington bar The Realm. Audio
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announce two NZ shows
The soulful Australian musicians will perform two shows in the capital next year.
The profound ways music influences our mind
A major study has shed light on the effect music can have on our imagination and the role it could play in helping stimulate social interaction. Audio
Paul Kelly's 'Rita Wrote A Letter' latest in long line of sequel songs
Australian singer Paul Kelly served up an early Gravy Day gift this year with 'Rita Wrote a Letter', the surprise sequel to his beloved classic 'How to Make Gravy'. Here are some more examples of…
Worlds of Music 24 August, 2025
Music from the world, for the world, featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia, Shuggie Otis, Rahim Alhaj, and Indian slide guitarist, Debashish Bhattacharya. Audio
From the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Len Lye Centre:
"Writing about music," an old expression goes, "is like dancing about architecture". An expression used to express the futility of translating music into words. So what about translating architecture… Audio
Seduction, debauchery and madness: Mary Shelley's birth of Frankenstein
Following a notorious night of debauchery, English novelist Mary Shelley becomes the mother of horror. Set in Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, ATC's new thriller, Mary: The Birth of Frankenstein… Audio
Favourite music from childhood with Fleabite and Levity Beet's Beetbite
FleaBITE have recently joined up with another popular and prodigious creative talent Takaka's Levity Beet to create the kids music duo BeetBITE. These two artists have between them taken top spots at… Audio
Best Song Eva: Jimmy Barnes
Scottish-born, Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes is with Jim to chat about the 40th anniversary edition of his album For The Working Class Man, and choose the Best Song Eva... Audio
Misty frequencies: the radio soundtrack of my life
From crystal set to valve, portable transistor to app, radio has always been present for Hokianga writer Susy Pointon.
Hymns on Sunday, 24 August 2025
‘Hymns by Tims’ feature in this week’s programme: English hymn writer Timothy Dudley-Smith, and Timothy Rees (Bishop of Llandaff in the 1930s). Audio
