Features

Broods frontwoman Georgia Nott released her new album on International Women’s Day. For The Venus Project, she has collaborated with an all women crew, from players to publicists. Video, Audio

William Dart pays tribute to singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, most well-known for leading the late '60s-early '70s band Pearls Before Swine, and who died recently. Video, Audio

Still only 27 years old, the British clarinettist is recognised as one of the world's finest players, in both classical and jazz.

Charlie Jane Anders wrote the sci-fi fantasy All the Birds in the Sky, which Time ranked 5th on its best novels of 2016 list. The Wireless asked her about her favourite things.

Over 150 years, the neo-gothic walls of the High Court in Auckland have absorbed details of some of New Zealand's most notorious crimes. Edward Gay tours the building.

At an old cigarette factory in Masterton, prefab houses are being built a third cheaper than their conventional counterparts, Rebecca Stevenson from The Spinoff reports.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra plays for Star Wars at the NZ Festival this weekend. Here's one they prepared earlier ...

Interviews with Beck, Laurie Anderson, and Pitch Black and DJ Spell; live sessions from Brood's frontwoman Georgia Nott and WOMAD performers The Spooky Men's Chorale; and the RNZ Music team share their picks for our end-of-summer Mixtape.

Extra Time this week focuses on athletics with some top New Zealand's athletes still having to prove themselves before of the Commonwealth Games. Audio

Neil Finn’s music didn't disappoint, but his lack of interaction with the audience was noted.

Laurie Anderson, electronic music pioneer, inventor, visual artist and wife of the late Lou Reed has just released an album inspired by the objects she lost in Hurricane Sandy. Video, Audio

This month's free classical download is Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart.

Want to know what the Music Through the Night is going to be? You can find it here in our Schedules.

After 66 years, British music weekly New Musical Express has announced it will no longer publish a print edition. We take a look back at NME'scolourful history with former staffer Pat Lon. Audio

A grandson of a Mexican immigrant, Francisco Cantu became a US Border Patrol agent at the age of 23, spending four years policing the frontier migrants risk their lives to cross. Audio

Three young NZ composers curate a concert selecting music that has influenced them, alongside their own works played by NZTrio.

A new group in Norfolk Island says the island is facing an economic and social crisis.

An independent adjudicator in New York has dismissed an objection to the re-certification of sustainable tuna fisheries controlled by the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, or PNA.

The long, drawn-out taro ban battle between the two Samoas has clearly angered Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi

Resilience is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days but there are some people who overcome significant set-backs that require something more. Audio

Laurie Anderson, pioneer of electronic music, inventor, visual artist, and wife of the late Lou Reed has just released an album with The Kronos Quartet, inspired by the objects she lost in Hurricane Sandy. Video, Audio

After 66 years, British music weekly New Musical Express has announced it will no longer publish a print edition. We take a look back at NME's colourful history with former staffer Pat Lon. Audio

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has completed a whirlwind trip of the Pacific Islands, stopping in Samoa, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Island.

The Department of Conservation is fighting a losing battle repairing tracks eroded by the sea in parts of the Abel Tasman National Park - one of this country's most visited spots. Video, Audio