RNZ Music

There is no shortage of stories of bias against women in the music industry. And the release of a new piece of audio gear "designed specially for females" shows that this bias can affect even the… Read more

The Phoenix Foundation’s Samuel Flynn-Scott checks out the food, music and whacky shirts of Laneway Festival 2019. Read more Video

The Frank Burkitt Band have won the 2019 Best Folk Artist Tui, which was presented at the Auckland Folk Festival this evening. Read more

Rap duo Church and AP take their show to the regions. Church tells Yadana Saw what the youth want. Read more Audio

Wellington duo Bored Housewives Club introduce their song Personfriend. Read more Audio

Lontalius is one of the local names on the lineup at Laneway 2019. He spoke to Tony Stamp about songwriting in LA, writing in different genres, and the choice to include pronouns in his lyrics. Read more Audio

Opal Ocean are an acoustic guitar duo who met in Melbourne, but who both have roots in New Zealand. Kirsten Johnstone got them in the studio to play a couple of songs and tell their story of going… Read more Video, Audio

John Psathas one of NZ’s most famous composers, having written music for the 2004 Olympic games, for world renowned performers, for films, and collaborated with artists such as Warren Maxwell and Serj… Read more Audio

Three-piece bluegrass band Rhodeworks is made up of brothers Laurence, Sam and Nate Rhodes, whose ages range from 12 to 17 years old. With a lot of support from mum and dad, the brothers are forging… Read more Audio

Fyre Festival was supposed to be “the most insane music festival the world had ever seen, instead it was a squalid collection of soggy tents on an abandoned building site. Samuel Flynn Scott of the… Read more Video

RNZ Music is excited to premiere the new video from Wellington duo Bored Housewives Club, ‘Personfriend’. Read more Video

New York singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has announced she'll play only one show in New Zealand at Auckland's Powerstation this June. Read more Video