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NZ Live: Best performances of 2025!
We're celebrating some of the best performances of the year 2025 has been a huge year for NZ Live, which celebrated its 20th anniversary with an entire month of extended birthday performances from… Audio
Essential Albums: Shona Laing - South
Shona Laing was just seventeen when she had her first national hit in 1972. Fifteen years later, she was reintroducing herself as a different kind of artist. In this episode, Nick Bollinger looks at… Audio
Essential Albums: Strawpeople - Broadcast
If any New Zealand band captured the synth-pop zeitgeist of the mid-90s it was Auckland's Strawpeople. In this episode, Nick Bollinger takes a close listen to their 1994 album Broadcast, which served… Audio
Essential Albums: Warratahs - The Only Game In Town
The Only Game In Town launched Kiwi country institution The Warratahs on a career that has spanned four decades. In this episode, Nick Bollinger revisits this debut, talks to some of the people… Audio
Essential Albums: Collision - Collision
New Zealand funk band Collision only ever made one album, but it is now regarded as an Antipodean classic of lost 70s funk. In this programme, Nick Bollinger dusts off his precious vinyl copy, and… Audio
Essential Albums: Dudley Benson - The Awakening
With his choirboy background and unusual palette of chamber instruments, Dudley Benson presented a unique artistic vision on his 2008 debut album The Awakening. Nick Bollinger talks to Benson about… Audio
NZ Live: Paige!
Time for NZ Live, and today we've got Paige in the studio. The Auckland based singer signed a record deal with Sony Music in 2019 after being championed on IG by Billie Eilish Since then, she's… Audio
NZ Live: Jorydn with a Why is in Studio A
It's time for NZ Live and today we feature an artist who's all set to provide the soundtrack to your summer; it's Jordyn with a Why. Jordyn released her debut album 'Hibiscus Moon, Love & Justice'… Audio
NZ Live: Troy Kingi
Troy Kingi joins us for NZ Live to celebrate his new album, Night Lords. Audio
NZ Live: L.A Mitchell is in our Christchurch studio!
It's time for NZ Live and today Jesse is joined by Otautahi Christchurch singer songwriter L.A Mitchell You may know her from 'Fly My Pretties', 'Bill Withers Social Club' alongside Troy Kingi and… Audio
NZ Live: Love Square in studio
Time for NZ Live, our weekly showcase of Aotearoa's best musicians... Today the studio is full of horns .. there are saxophones and trumpets everywhere. And amongst the instruments are Nick Atkinson… Audio
NZ Live: Lou'ana is in our Auckland studio
It's NZ Live time, your weekly showcase of the best new music Aotearoa has to offer and today we're joined by Lou'ana. Her new album 'Disco Witch' is out today, it's the follow up to her 2020 debut… Audio
White Lightning - The Music of Clarence White
Clarence White revolutionized the role of the guitar in Bluegrass, played on sessions for many of the top artists of the 60's and 70's and was a member of the influential rock band The Byrds… Audio
NZ Live: Yurt Party live in Christchurch!
Time for NZ Live and today things are bound to get groovy. Yurt Party are an Otautahi-Christchurch band who have sold out shows with their Balkan and Latin-inspired music. Their album '200' is out… Audio
Bressa Creeting Cake - Bressa Creeting Cake
Bressa Creeting Cake came of out of West Auckland in the mid-1990s with an album full of sonic and songwriterly surprises. Nick Bollinger takes a close listen and talks to members Geoff Maddock and… Audio
NZ Live 10th October - Riiki Reid
It's time for NZ Live, and today we're joined by singer-songwriter Riiki Reid. Riiki's back with a new EP 'The Drench' following her success with last year's E.P 'Skin' Riiki has opened for the likes… Audio
Not for Broadcast - Part 5: The Word From On High
In the final part of this series Nick Bollinger explores more songs about God and sex, and hears from some current broadcasters about a few records they played but maybe shouldn't have. Audio
Not for Broadcast - Part 4: Explicit Content
Sexual innuendo has always been a staple of the pop song, but when is a song too sexy for the radio? The fourth part of this series looks at the history of songs, sex and censorship. Audio
Not for Broadcast - Part 3: Political football
What's the difference between a political satire and a campaign song? In the third part of this series Nick Bollinger listens to some songs about politicians that were deemed suitable for broadcast -… Audio
Not For Broadcast - Part 2: Teenage Rebellion
In the second part of this series Nick Bollinger goes back to the 1950s and looks at how a nationwide morals panic influenced the songs that were played - and not played - on New Zealand radio. Audio
NZ Live: Tom Scott performs!
It's time for NZ Live - and this week we've got singer songwriter Tom Scott performing music from his upcoming solo album ANITYA. Video, Audio
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