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4:00 PM.Team RNZ Music convenes to present some of our favourite sounds of the year so far. Part Two of Three. Audio

3:00 PM.David Ridler, NZ On Air's Head of Music and Radio, speaks with Zac Arnold about NZ On Air's recent changes to new music funding. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.For the latest edition of Headquarters, Auckland prog-hip hop instrumentalists Yoko-Zuna take Sam Wicks through their Karangahape Rd rehearsal room. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.prizegiving introduce their song 'Vailima'. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Following a 13-year stint in New Zealand, Motor City house and techno producer Recloose is Stateside once again – he talks to Sam Wicks about his new home in New York City. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.UK music journalist Dave Henderson, curator of Cherry Red Records' Close to the Noise Floor compilation, on the formative years of the UK's electronic underground. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Pos Mavaega, core member of the Christchurch-formed Pacific Underground, talks about the performing arts organisation's 23 years of history. Read more Audio, Gallery

5:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition: the award-winning arts organisation Pacific Underground. A special taonga puoro session for Matariki; and French electro-duo Air celebrate 20 years of music. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Dust to Dusky sees Anna Coddington, Bella Kalolo, Tami Neilson and Colleen Davis (as Dusty), take the stage to  celebrate Dusty Springfield, re-imagining the hits of the smoky-voiced pop-soul vocalist… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:45 PM.Douglas Lilburn and The Dead C have more in common than you think. Yadana Saw takes a walkthrough Zombies on the Horizon, an exhibition about Aotearoa's experimental music adventurers. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:15 PM.Sprawling New York jazz collective Snarky Puppy are playing a sold-out Wellington Jazz Festival show. A sliver of the band catch up with Nick Bollinger ahead of their gig. Read more Audio

8:00 PM.Under the wings of Richard Nunns, Brian Flintoff and Hirini Melbourne, Alistair Fraser began playing and crafting taonga pūoro 17 years ago. He has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Jean-Benoit Dunkel of French electronic duo Air talks to Trevor Reekie about the group's two-decade-strong career. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Adam Franklin, frontman and founder of shoegaze stalwarts Swervedriver, on life as an indie rock veteran. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Maaka introduces his song 'Matariki'. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger surveys an epic five-disc tribute to tie-dyed icons Grateful Dead. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In this week's Music 101 Pocket Edition: Ladyhawke and her new sober LA life; Eastern Bloc's sound of disappointment and SWIDT fly the flag for Onehunga. Read more Audio

4:30 PM.SWIDT's Smokeygotbeatz, Spycc and INF talk to Sam Wicks about their hometown rap pride. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Led by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, The Black Quartet is bridging musical worlds. For a one-night-only concert for the Auckland Arts Festival, they collaborated with Tiny Ruins, Lawrence Arabia and Rob… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 PM.Shayne P Carter introduces the first offering from his forthcoming piano driven album 'We Will Rise Again'. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Pikelet rekindles their musical practise with their latest album 'Tronc'. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Pip Brown is in a good place right now. Sober, married, and living at the base of the Hollywood Hills, 'Wild Things' is her third album as Ladyhawke, and it reflects her positive frame of mind. She… Read more Video, Audio

10:00 AM.The Veils' 'Axolotl' – a menacing sign of things to come. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based DJ/producer Opiuo is taking his celebratory sound – and energetic live show – to the world. Read more Audio