Jimi Hendrix
Music feature: Fender Stratocaster
Today's music feature is all about the iconic Fender Stratocaster - the guitar of choice for many rock stars. Ethnomusicologist and Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Auckland Dr… Audio
Alice Cooper: 'Covid-19 was like being hit by a truck'
Alice Cooper is a survivor in every sense of the word, having given up an addiction to alcohol and cocaine almost 40 years ago Now at 73-years-old, Alice is still beating the odds, having recently… Video, Audio
Paul Ubana Jones - the life and music of Jimi Hendrix
New Zealand folksinger and songwriter Paul Ubana Jones was a contemporary of Jimi Hendrix. On our music feature today he shares his knowledge of the star and plays us some of his memorable sounds. Audio
Aaron Tokona: music, mental illness, and minigolf
Vocalist and guitarist who plays with drummer Nick Gaffaney in hard rock duo Cairo Knife Fight, and is currently on the Nation of the State tour throughout New Zealand with his funk band Ahoribuzz. Audio
Whitesnake singer David Coverdale: 'There's not a misogynist bone in my body'
He's the stereotypical tight-trousered, big-haired rock lothario, but Whitesnake singer David Coverdale insists he can sleep comfortably at night in the #MeToo era. He's about to play an Auckland… Audio
Music history - Jimi Hendrix
On this day in 1959, 16 year old Jimi Hendrix made his stage debut when he played a show at the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue in Seattle. Audio
Nashville Babylon 14 October, 2019
On tonight's show Mark has music from Jimi Hendrix and Lambchop, a new release from Vetiver, a birthday tune for Sam Moore of Sam and Dave and a live RNZ session track courtesy of Jen Cloher. Audio
Steve Katz: Woodstock was an entirely uncomfortable experience
Former Blood, Sweat & Tears guitarist Steve Katz joins Jim to discuss his memories of Woodstock 50 years on and why he feels the festival has been viewed by many through rose-tinted glasses. Audio
The music of Gordon Walters' artistic New Visions
Julia Waite, co-curator of Gordon Walters: New Vision, a major retrospective of art by one of New Zealand’s foremost modern artists at Auckland Art Gallery, plays five pieces of music to illustrate… Audio, Gallery
Local 70s disco classic gets re-issue treatment
Nick Bollinger revisits the disco, flares and Marshall stacks of 1970s New Zealand with the reissue of a classic from Turangi five-piece Golden Harvest. Audio
From Handel To Hendrix
Trevor Reekie investigates how Handel and Jimi Hendrix were kind of neighbours, and Jimi's influence on the London scene of the late '60s. Audio
Playing Favourites with Jeremy Jones
Director of the Auckland multi-media company Propeller Motion who created the video for Planet Key, and the Animation Nation series for TV3's The Nation. Audio
New Horizons: Bob Dylan covers
William Dart presents a programme revolving around how Bob Dylan has covered Frank Sinatra standards in his new album "Shadows In The Night" and how he himself has been covered by myriad other… Audio
Lead Belly
A definitive new retrospective collection covering the work of Huddie William Ledbetter aka Lead Belly – Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection – has just been released. Trevor Reekie talks… Audio
Electric Ladyland (Part 2)
Part Two of Stuart Grundy's deconstruction of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's classic third and final album. Audio
Electric Ladyland (Part 1)
Stuart Grundy deconstructs the making of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's third and final studio release, Electric Ladyland. Released in 1968, it was Hendrix's only #1 album in the USA. He died two years… Audio