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1:25 PM.Busking is the hard and fast way to learn your trade as a musician. After four years playing the streets Graeme James has just released his debut album News from Nowhere. Read more Video, Audio

3:40 PM.Sandboards introduce their song 'Duneboys Theme'. Read more Audio

1:30 AM.Visiting Welsh singer-songwriter, Cate Le Bon, performs live in the Auckland studio and speaks to Jesse Mulligan. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger reviews an acoustic retrospective of Jack White. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Alt-rock trailblazers The Pixies have made an official replacement for founding member Kim Deal, who left the band back in 2013. With their sixth album 'Head Carrier' out this week, new bass player… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Poet, rapper, writer and youth mentor Dominic Hoey picks some verbose and subversive music for the RNZ Music Mixtape. Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Affsid Kidjhagiffy introduces his song 'Wallace Went Walking'. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Mara TK talks about re-configuring Electric Wire Hustle's line up and his new EP 'The 11th Sky'. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Passenger has a billion YouTube clicks for the song 'Let it Go' and his latest album Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea was recorded at Roundhead Studios in Auckland. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.The national finals for the Smokefree Rockquest and Pacifica Beats are this weekend in Auckland and RNZ celebrate 28 years of music by bringing together students from this years final with Te Awanui… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.The Veils' Finn Andrews and Run the Jewels' El-P talk to Sam Wicks about their unlikely collaboration. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Modern day troubadour, North American singer-songwriter Ryley Walker talks to Trevor Reekie about maintaining  motivation in his own musical belief. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Thomston's debut album Topograph has just been released and he joins Alex Behan in studio to perform a few songs and share a little bit about his musical journey. Read more Video, Audio

9:51 AM.Moana Maniapoto, leader of Moana and the Tribe, will join a distinguished group of New Zealand artists when she is inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame later this month. Read more Audio

In The Mixtape, Derek Jacombs talks to Nick Bollinger about his influences and inspirations, and introduces a few of his current favourites. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Second generation musical collaborators Name UL take Yadana Saw on a tour of their studio space and the songwriting process behind their debut album Choice(s). Read more Video, Audio

12:00 PM.To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Cramps' first-ever New Zealand dates, John Baker talks to some of the characters who were there to bear witness. Read more Audio

5:30 PM.Earth Tongue introduce their track 'Portable Shrine'. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Legs McNeil speak with Trevor Reekie about his seminal punk book, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Read more Audio

10:15 AM.Laneway Festival have announced the line-up for next year’s event, which is going down at Albert Park on Auckland Anniversary Day. Read more Audio

4:05 PM.The RNZ Music team have assembled to share their picks for springtime. Kirsten Johnstone hosts a collaborative C60 of picks from RNZ Concert's David Houston and M101's Alex Behan, Sam Wicks, Zac… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Trevor Reekie speaks to Jim Pitt who has been the man behind the live music on American late night TV Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Matthew Crawley joins Alex Behan to review Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Skeleton Tree and the accompanying film 'One More Time With Feeling.' Read more Video, Audio