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4:00 PM.She's the first woman to write a full-length ballet score in Aotearoa, she's won many awards for her composition, and she's on the road with her group The Blackbird Ensemble, interpreting the songs… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Canadian punk band F***ed Up are about to play two New Zealand shows. Frontman Damian Abraham talked to Tony Stamp about his love for kiwi label Flying Nun, whose roster he calls "the best music… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Egyptian percussionist and composer Hossam Ramzy passed away on September 10 aged 65. Trevor Reekie spoke to a close friend of his - award winning drummer Bruce Aitken. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Auckland musician Antony Jeffares introduces his song 'Wrong/ Loss'. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Pitch Black discuss their new album and accompanying wine release with Charlotte Ryan. 

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2:00 PM.Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Tami Neilson shares tour stories ahead of her NZ shows Read more Audio

1:40 AM.Tina Cross is celebrating 40 years since she performed 'Nothing But Dreams' at the 1979 Pacific Song Contest. She talks to Charlotte Ryan about working in the Music Industry and what she learn in the… Read more Audio

2:24 PM.Nick Cave is at peace with his ghosts, Björk is cut up by The Knife, and New York indie-rockers Vivian Girls are back in business. Kirsten Johnstone and the Song Crush team are back with new songs to… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.This week's RNZ Music mixtape selector is singer/songwriter Maisey Rika. She shares her stories and favourite tracks with Kirsten Johnstone. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Charlotte Ryan talks to Michael Timmins of The Cowboy Junkies Audio

1:30 PM.James Reid talks to Charlotte Ryan on Music 101. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Schools out and the kids take over! Teenage music fans Oscar Horner and Benny Lindsay Williams explain the listening habits of the young and share their new favourite songs. Honorary adolescent Mark… Read more Video, Audio

7:00 PM.On this week's Pocket Edition we celebrate Th' Dudes' induction into the NZ Music Hall of Fame with Peter Urlich and Dave Dobbyn, and SideKickNick explains the eleven year gap between his debut album… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Charlotte Ryan talks to Dave Dobbyn and Peter Urlich about their old band Th' Dudes. Read more Audio

2:15 PM.Christchurch's Zane 2000 introduces his song 'I COPY'. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.SideKickNick released his first album Miscellaneous Adventures in 2008, then spent the next decade playing in Voom, doing sound design for films, and painstakingly assembling album number two: a… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Somali-New Zealand rapper Mo Muse brings friends Summer Thieves and Abdul Kay in to the studio to play songs from his debut LP, The First Generation, and speaks to Kirsten Johnstone.  Read more Video, Audio

4:02 PM.There's music for driving, running, dancing, and dreaming this week in Song Crush: A 96 year old Ethiopian nun, some techno legends, a Tongan finding his groove in Berlin, and a lo-fi bedroom producer… Read more Video, Audio

2:38 PM.This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is Ngahiwi Apanui, tumuaki (Chief Executive) of Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori and founding member of conscious roots band Aotearoa. He shares his 100% New Zealand… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Charlotte Ryan interviews Nathan Haines for The Mixtape. Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Peter Ruddell from Sulfate introduces their song 'Bush'. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Ayisha Jaffer phones in from an Alaskan nature reserve to tell us about her new EP as Skux. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Charlotte Ryan interviews frontman of English pop-rock group The 1975, Matty Healy. Read more Audio

5:13 PM.The song crush team have sonic whiplash this week, veering from orchestral bombast to old-school hip-hop to scandi-avant-techno to Chinese opera meets Jamaican rocksteady. Read more Video, Audio