RNZ Music

Mel Parsons, Tami Nielson and Lawrence Arabi are among the many fantastic live performances we enjoyed on NZ Live in 2018. RNZ's studio engineers got together and picked their favourites. Read more Video, Audio

Lorraine Barry is the manager behind Dave Dobbyn, Tom Scott, Mark Vanilau and Nomad. In her RNZ Music mixtape she shares songs and tales from her international career working with Massive Attack… Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger is taking time off from The Sampler to write a book about 70s counterculture in NZ. He talks with Music 101's Alex Behan. Read more Audio

Music 101 presenter Alex Behan hosted his final episode on Saturday 22 December. We thank Alex for his great contribution to the show, his professionalism, and for being the public face of our passion… Read more Video

Gray Bartlett MBE has been part of the New Zealand music scene furniture as a guitarist and as a concert promoter for 60 years. He plays a collection of covers and Christmas songs with 16-year-old… Read more Video, Audio

Yadana Saw makes sense of events in 2018 when musicians went political and politicians embraced music like never before. Read more

Whanganui-based musician Anthonie Tonnon wraps up his tour of our nation's railroads today. Rail Land is a series of shows where he and the audience all travel to and from the gigs by train. We caught… Read more Video

Christchurch director Martin Sagadin has used his local landscape to create arresting music videos for the likes of Marlon Williams, Girlboss, Ben Woods and Motte. He says 2018 has been a landmark… Read more Video

Shania Twain's first ever New Zealand show at Auckland's Spark Arena last night was an absolute banger. Our reviewer Susan Strongman had the time of her life. Read more

Music and literature reviewer Kiran Dass picks her best books about music from 2018. Read more

An eclectic bunch of New Zealand musicians made it big in 2018. RNZ Music takes a look at some of the Kiwi artists whose stars burned bright this year. Read more Video

The team at RNZ - both on air and off - pick their favourite songs of 2018 and tell us what they're up to over summer! Read more Video