Features

A previously unknown recording of the song that kicked off the New Zealand recording industry has just been discovered, and it's four years older than the famous Pixie Williams / TANZA hit. Audio

Opinion - The government wants to call the vote on legalising marijuana a binding referendum but it isn't a binding referendum, explains Graeme Edgeler.

Envy, greed and gluttony are three of the Seven Deadly Sins and like everything else in this world, they find their expression in music.

In the Te Rapa district of Hamilton, Fonterra tanker drivers know that every evening their biggest fan will be waiting for them on a dairy farm on Reid Road. Video, Audio

The grandson of hill country blues legend R.L Burnside, Cedric Burnside grew up immersed in the music and the history of the blues. He speaks to Elliott Childs about his music and life in Marshall County, Mississippi. Video, Audio

It's one of the world's most endangered languages but the people from the Fijian dependency of Rotuma living in New Zealand are trying hard to keep the language alive with classes and the second ever Rotuman Language Week. Video

Markus Zusak's latest book, Bridge of Clay, the story of five brothers growing up unsupervised in Sydney's suburbs, is a project he wrestled with for more than ten years, he told Jim Mora. Audio

A photographic exhibition telling the story of the development of the Virtuoso Strings orchestra just opened at Pataka gallery in Porirua.

Israel Folau's future in Australian rugby is looking increasingly grim after a independent panel determined that the Wallabies superstar committed a "high level" breach of his contract.

If the cello is your favourite, then here are some terrific players playing some of the best music in the repertoire.

Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead’s lead guitarist-turned-orchestral composer, discusses with Zoë George the wonderful absurdity of being programmed alongside Haydn and Ravel for the NZSO’s Shed Series in Wellington.

Auckland R&B five-piece Leisure have just released a video documenting their concert with the APO at Auckland’s Town Hall in 2018.

Some children are born anxious and some learn to worry from the very people who want to shield them from uncomfortable feelings. Audio

Natalie Lin, Ashley Brown and Sarah Watkins play music by two New Zealand composers plus Bax and Beethoven.

One of the world’s most famous yoga masters was to some a beloved teacher and a guide to enlightenment. To others, he was a sexual predator and a bully. Audio

The chair of the Samoa Medical Council is calling for overseas experts to take over management of the country's main hospital.

An appeal has gone out for money and supplies to help hundreds of workers from Fiji's water utility who have lost their jobs

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's upper atmosphere has again reached record highs.

Songs to make you bounce in your chair and songs to make you weep by Jess B, Soaked Oats, Scott Mannion and more. Video, Audio

Neven MacEwan was an All Black from 1956 to 1962. The high-jumping lock played 52 matches for the All Blacks but when his career ended his struggles with alcohol almost destroyed his life. Audio, Gallery

Radiohead’s lead guitarist-turned-orchestral composer Jonny Greenwood speaks about the absurdity of being performed alongside Haydn and Ravel by the NZSO, and his film scores for Paul Thomas Anderson.

The Detail - After 30 years of Tomorrow's Schools, the Goverrnment's looking at a shake up that might just take us full circle. Audio

RNZ Music is stoked to be the first to share the new video from local folk-pop singer songwriter Harry Parsons, ‘Scars’.

Voices - The way we present ourselves to the world is social, cultural and even political. It can send a powerful message about our values, signifying our sense of belonging - or struggle - to fit in. Audio