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7:30 PM.For Boarding House Reach, Jack White goes heavy on the funk and synthesisers, but has he over-reached himself? Nick Bollinger takes a critical listen. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Los Angeles based songwriter Chelsea Jade charts her music career from busking in Botany town mall to writing a chart-topping hit for EDM pop duo Chainsmokers. This year she'll release her own solo… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Whangarei-born Melbourne musician Tom Lee-Richards brought his looping pedal into the RNZ studio to perform two songs. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Playing with the Auckland Philharmonia is a big deal, and the traditionally laid-back R&B five-piece Leisure, aren't treating it lightly. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Gin Wigmore has a beautiful six-month-old boy, a brand new album – Ivory, and she's just started a 'girl gang'. Read more Video, Audio

1:10 PM.Founder of English dub label On-U Sound and champion of global bass culture Adrian Sherwood shares his theories on the universal appeal of reggae music. Read more Video, Audio

7:30 PM.Wellington band Eb and Sparrow peer into some dark corners but also find places of comfort and hope on their third album. Nick Bollinger has a listen. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger discusses the bloody, gutsy songs of 20-year-old Sophie Allison, otherwise known as Soccer Mommy. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger delves into the life-and-death matters of Zola Jesus's Okovi. Read more Audio

4:40 PM.Local pop sensation Nakita is reinventing herself at the ripe old age of nineteen. Read more Audio

3:40 PM.Australian EDM artist What So Not talks about Piha being the genesis of his album and how playing Toto's 'Africa' in his sets made the song chart after thirty years. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Today's hip-hop 'battles' have interesting similarities with the art of traditional Samoan oratory (lauga), says music producer Anonymouz. He brings the two art forms into conversation in the upcoming… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.British pop star Dua Lipa was named the UK's most streamed woman of 2017 by Spotify, and when Bruno Mars brought his mammoth 24K Magic tour to New Zealand last month, he handpicked her as his… Read more Video, Audio

2:00 PM.Lucy Dacus' astonishingly confident second album Historian has cemented the 22 year old from Virginia as one of the standout artists of 2018. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Public Enemy's Chuck D and Rage Against The Machine's Brad Wilk talk power, politics and packing a punch with their new band Prophets of Rage. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Jack White has always gone against the grain, drawing on the minimalism of early blues and analogue recording for The White Stripes when everyone else was going digital. His third solo record Boarding… Read more Video, Audio

11:00 AM.Trevor Reekie talks to Israeli musician Victoria Hanna backstage at Womad. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Tina Cross started her career as a teenager on song and dance Television shows in the 70s. At 59, she's a songwriter, an ambassador for Women's refuge, and she runs workshops in prisons. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Cinematic jazz gang Carnivorous Plant Society perform live at RNZ. Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.Tony Stamp speaks to Hex's Kiki Van Newtown at South By Southwest. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Rahim Alhaj's new album 'Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet" draws from the stories and experiences recounted to him by Iraqui people following the U.S. invasion. He talked to Trevor Reekie… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Kim Deal is one of the most iconic and influential voices of the 90s as bassist and sometime singer of The Pixies, and as leader of her own band The Breeders.  She speaks to Kirsten Johnstone about… Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.The American tenor saxophonist heralded as the saviour of jazz tells us he leaves "the music wide open". Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.Almost ten years after her death from an asthma attack, the late Mahinārangi Tocker was celebrated with a tribute show Love Me As I Am, part of the Auckland Arts Festival. Tony Stamp speaks to… Read more Video, Audio

12:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition we have interviews with jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who just performed at Womad and Auckland Arts Festival, and Kim Deal, the veteran bass player, singer… Read more Audio