Music
Music Critic: Tony Stamp
Music 101 producer Tony Stamp reviews Sir Chloe's song Take It and Pavement's Spit on a Stranger. Audio
DC Maxwell shares his new single Golden Light
Taite music award nominee DC Maxwell joined Jesse to discuss life in Melbourne. Audio
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony push out NZ dates to 2026
The US hip hop group were down for a one-off NZ show in October, but say studio commitments have forced them to hold off until May 2026.
Music with Maggie Tweedie
Maggie Tweedie plays tracks from new Irish pop star CMAT, art-pop veterans Gorillaz, and Nashville's Al Nicol. Audio
Sundays at Four: Jian Liu
Award-winning Chinese/New Zealand pianist Jian Liu weaves together pairs of piano works by Chinese and New Zealand composers in this beautifully-curated concert, recorded at The… Audio
Chloe Chua: "the most important competition is to compete with yourself"
Rising violin star Chloe Chua will be performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia this Thursday. She came into the studio to chat with RNZ Concert's David Morriss. Video, Audio
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland talks
Five albums in six years. 75 million records sold. Then, just like that, The Police walked away leaving us with songs everyone still knows: "Message in a Bottle," "Don't Stand So Close to Me," "Every… Audio
Music feature: Tonight's The Night by Neil Young
Elliott Childs joins Jesse to remember Neil Young's classic album 'Tonight's The Night'. Audio
Harper Finn
Returning to the country and for his second chat on The TAHI Podcast is the incredible Harper Finn who has new music, new shows and as always wisdom to bless us with. Audio
Chamber music in the heart of the Waipā District
There's a brand new chamber music festival taking place in the Waikato town of Cambridge this weekend. RNZ Concert talks with one of the Artistic Directors, bassoonist Todd Gibson-Cornish. Audio
Kiwi indie-pop band travels to Seoul in cultural exchange
Last month, Christchurch indie-pop band There's A Tuesday went to Seoul in South Korea for a music residency and were accompanied by music journalist, Samantha Cheong. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 21 September 2025
We're marking World Peace Day this week. Established in 1981 by the United Nations, the day is dedicated to the absence of war and violence, and observed around the world every year on 21 September. Audio
Tiki Taane on leaving Spotify - 'a platform that goes against everything I sing about'
"You take my songs and turn them into bombs… I'm gonna set my music free," he sings in his new track 'Bye Bye Spotify'.
Toiere
Toiere unites beloved operatic arias, duets and ensembles in their original languages and te reo Māori, celebrating voice, language and identity while honouring Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich cultural… Video, Audio
Nashville Babylon: 20 September 2025
On this week's Nashville Babylon there's blues from Etta James and Jimmy Hughes, reggae from Lee Scratch Perry, a solo classic courtesy of the Zombies' Colin Blunstone plus a brand new track from… Audio
Sounds of Joy
Kiwis Maggie Gould, Bryan Smith, and Antipodes lead off a set which also includes Joe Lovano, John Coltrane, and Lee Morgan. Audio
What's New?
An early track by Horace Silver; Don Byas plays 'Laura'; and Helen Merrill teams up with Clifford Brown and Quincy Jones. Audio
The Mixtape: Gareth Shute
The author of five non fiction books about music and creativity in Aotearoa, Gareth Shute's latest is called Songs From the Shaky Isles: A Short History of Popular Music in New Zealand. He also writes… Audio
The Sampler: Jens Lekman
Tony Stamp investigates a new album called Songs For Other People's Weddings, by Swedish pop musician Jens Lekman, who has made a career pivot into actual wedding singing, and co-authored a book about… Audio
Majic on final Kōkōuri EP Mutuwhenua
The kaupapa Māori waiata project has released its third EP, Mutuwhenua. Led and organised by mātanga reo Hana Mereraiha with Majic alongside a range of other singers, it features production by Rory… Audio
