RNZ Music

Tenacious Nashville-based blues-rock duo Larkin Poe recently played 2 sold out NZ shows recently at Auckland's Tuning Fork and Christchurch's Blue Smoke. Sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe… Read more Audio

Mississippi musician Cedric Burnside talks to Elliott Childs about his relationship to the Blues and being the grandson of Hill Country Blues legend R.L Burnside. Read more Video, Audio

Front-person of Auckland Pop band Openside, Possum Plows talks to Yadana Saw about the band's new EP and how their LGBTQI identy influences their music. Audio

Join Tom Scott performing hip hop and future soul songs from @Peace & The Plutonium Noise Symphony in 2014, as well as his latest project Avantdale Bowling Club. Read more Audio

Anika Moa, Samuel Scott (Phoenix Foundation), Anthonie Tonnon and Clicks (Anna Coddington and Dick Johnson) have re-interpreted songs by iconic Dunedin band The Chills, to celebrate the release of a… Read more Video

Auckland-based, Christchurch-bred band SPAWTS are bringing back the jangle with their throwback guitar-bass-drums indie sound. Today they release their new single 'Piss in the Wind' from their… Read more Video, Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present the debut single and video from Wellington-based folk-pop songwriter Claudia Jardine… starring a cute pug called Frank. Read more Video

On this week's Pocket Edition we talk to Aldous Harding about her beguiling new album Designer, and Troy Kingi tells us about his first te reo Māori song. Read more Audio

Museums Wellington has put together a great lineup of local acts for New Zealand Music Month, with shows from artists including country legend Barry Saunders, 'witch-rock' trio Hex, Christchurch… Read more

An exhibition of New Zealand music photography, From the Pit, is on display at Auckland’s Flying Out record store, and Q Theatre throughout New Zealand Music Month. Read more

This week's RNZ Music Mixtape selector is Henry Oliver. Currently the editor at Metro Magazine, he's also been the bassist in Die Die Die, a proprietor of popular K'Rd bar DOC, and a budding tennis… Read more Audio