RNZ Music

Last Friday he live streamed the entire recording session for the album from his Roundhead Studios in Auckland. A week later the album is out. Nick Bollinger gives his verdict. Read more

In this week's Pocket Edition, we talk to Jane Abernethy (she signs new musical talent to record label 4AD), Auckland pop musician October, and two of the guys from Queens Of the Stone Age backstage… Read more Audio

SWIDT, Chelsea Jade and MAALA are also on the bill for this year's Wondergarden, set to take place at Auckland's Silo Park this New Years Eve. Read more Video

Jane Abernethy is the Director of A&R for seminal record label 4AD. Trevor Reekie talked to her ahead of the Going Global Music Summit in Auckland. Read more Video, Audio

This week's RNZ Music mixtape selector is best known as the vocalist for Nesian Mystik. But since the band called time Te Awanui Reeder has been a busy musician, student, father and iwi business man… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland band Racing dropped in to perform live ahead of their nationwide tour. Read more Video, Audio

Neo-soul singer and producer Noah Slee is making a name in the international scene right now with his debut 'Otherland'. The Berlin based Tongan speaks to Yadana Saw. Read more Audio

The Music 101 team digs into the significance of an all-female lineup of Silver Scrolls nominees. Read more Audio

Friday night: the best night of the week. Neil Finn and friends are recording his new album ‘Out Of Silence’ during a world-wide live video stream which you can watch here: Read more Video

Songwriter Paul McLaney has set Shakespeare's soliloquies to music for Play On – a stage show and also an album. He performs 'To Be or Not To Be' from Hamlet with Fur Patrol's Julia Deans and The… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

Long-lived rock act Queens of the Stone Age use super-producer Mark Ronson’s pop sensibilities and frontman Josh Homme’s restlessness to make Villains a swaggering, soulful, riff-rocking album.  Read more Video, Audio

The five finalist songs for the 2017 APRA Silver Scroll have been announced - and for the first time ever, they are all by female artists. Read more Video, Audio