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NZ Live: Love Square in studio
7 Nov 2025Time 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… Read more Audio
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NZ Live: Lou'ana is in our Auckland studio
31 Oct 2025It'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… Read more Audio
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White Lightning - The Music of Clarence White
27 Oct 2025Clarence 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… Read more Audio
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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… Read more Audio
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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… Read more Audio
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NZ Live 10th October - Riiki Reid
10 Oct 2025It'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… Read more Audio
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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
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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
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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 -… Read more Audio
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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
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NZ Live: Tom Scott performs!
3 Oct 2025It's time for NZ Live - and this week we've got singer songwriter Tom Scott performing music from his upcoming solo album ANITYA. Read more Video, Audio
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Not For Broadcast - Part 1: Book of the Banned
3 Oct 2025From the earliest days of radio, there have been songs that were deemed unfit for airplay. Who banned these records and why? Starting with the discovery of a mysterious old leather-bound book, Nick… Read more Audio
