Yadana Saw

 RNZ Music's Yadana Saw joins Kathryn to look at how local music fans have a wealth of riches as musicians return to live venues around Aotearoa. Yadana takes us through some of the shows you can… Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, we hear a performance from the 2020 APRA Silver Scroll awards and Tony Stamp checks in with some expat musicians holed up around the world during the global pandemic. Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, The Phoenix Foundation's Samuel Flynn Scott takes us through their new album Friend Ship and Professor Susan Rogers former sound engineer for Prince speaks with Jesse… Audio

It's been five years since Wellington favourites The Phoenix Foundation released their last album, Give Up Your Dreams. Since then they've been writing, recording, touring with the NZ Symphony… Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, Tony Stamp delves into the Roland TR-808 drum machine as the unassuming but versatile workhorse of modern music, and Yadana Saw meets some to the upcoming voices in… Audio

Aotearoa hip hop celebrates its 32nd birthday this month. That's how long ago Upper Hutt Posse released their groundbreaking track 'E Tū', New Zealand's first ever hip hop single. We're celebrating by… Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne speaks with Charlotte Ryan, Tony Stamp speaks with Joe Talbot from UK punk outfit IDLES, and Nadia Reid and Tiny Ruins play a live… Audio

The 90s have called and some of its artists are back. Yadana shares the 2020 releases from Austrian chill merchants Kruder and Dorfmeister, Bristol trip hop bad boy Tricky and RnB sweetheart Alicia… Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping encourages us to vote in the annual Settling the Score competition, Tony Stamp visits Auckland's community centres and mental health services… Audio

Tony is joined by RNZ Music's Yadana Saw and Fat Freddy's Drop MC Slave (AKA Mark Williams), to assess new songs from UK musicians Tricky, Slowthai, and SAULT, as well as kiwis in Berlin No Romance… Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, Tony Stamp speaks with soul and RnB artist Marley Sola, Yadana Saw takes a walk in the forest with former Trinity Roots drummer Riki Gooch, and Arli Liberman talks about… Audio

In 1999 Hinewehi Mohi made history at the Rugby World Cup when she performed the New Zealand national anthem in te reo Māori. Twenty years on, she's making history again with a new album that… Video, Audio

Founding Trinity Roots drummer Riki Gooch has just released an album that features taonga puoro player Alistair Fraser. Rangatira is an exploration of memory and offering to grieve a lost friend Audio

A missing father, a mysterious cassette tape and a clutch of memories inspired Troy Kingi’s new album The Ghost of Freddie Cesar, which tries to make sense of his Dad's disappearance. Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards chat about the remastered release of the 1973 record Goats Head Soup, Yadana Saw speaks with Auckland singer songwriter… Audio

Hip hop turned 47 last month. RNZ Music's Yadana Saw will explain how an art form from the Bronx became one of the world's most popular forms of music. She'll tackle the unfair rap, rap has received… Audio

Auckland pop singer songwriter Paige reveals how writing her new EP Always Growing was a process of exaggerating and dramatising the struggles of life. Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, US band Future Islands speak with Charlotte Ryan about their new album. Yadana Saw tracks down a 1990s one hit wonder who has released an album with Solange's producer… Audio

Eddie Chacon, one half of 90s duo Charles and Eddie talks about making an album with Solange and Frank Ocean's producer three decades after the hit song 'Would I Lie To You?'. Video, Audio

In this week's Pocket Edition, Charlotte Ryan speaks with rapper Vayne about making a better life through music, Porirua College music teacher Mat Hoyes talks about his Lilburn Research Prize winning… Video, Audio