Music

William Dart looks at a new tribute to The Velvet Underground's debut album titled I'll Be Your Mirror, featuring St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Matt Berninger, Courtney Barnett and others. Audio

Origami as you've never seen it before... Artist Sarah Hunter has designed giant origami light-shade installations from her photographs of her much-loved childhood stomping ground on Hawke's Bay's… Audio, Gallery

The Black Seeds are the sound of summer for many Kiwis. As frontman Barnaby Weir puts it, when you hear one of their songs, it can only be one band. The eight-piece, Wellington-based band have just… Audio

Lawyer, politician, church minister, teacher, opera singer: just some of the many and varied occupations of the hymn writers in this week's episode of Hymns on Sunday. Audio

Kapa haka group Tuwhitia kia Angitu performs at the Auckland Arts Festival's 'Pūmanawa', Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, 21 March 2021. Audio

On this week's Nashville Babylon there's music from the Band and Steve Earle, a birthday tune for Laura Nyro plus tracks to mark the forthcoming release of Sir Peter Jackson's Let It Be documentary… Audio

Nick checks out the Hard Bop Grand Pop, Horace Silver- plus tracks from organist Rhoda Scott, and Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli. Audio

Nick checks out some more from Horace Silver, as well as John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, and Allan Holdsworth. Audio

Our guest on The Mixtape today is the delightful Madeleine Sami. Audio

Adam McGrath and The Eastern play two fundraiser shows in support of much-loved Hastings venue Common Room. Yadana Saw talks to Adam about the challenges facing musicians under the shadow of COVID19… Audio

Tony Stamp delves into a summery sample collage from Tāmaki Makaurau beat-maker Christoph el' Truento, the fearsome second album by Melbourne punk rockers Amyl & The Sniffers, and a collection of… Audio

Luke Buda, film composer and founding member of The Phoenix Foundation, takes us into his studio, based in his home garage and talks us through his first solo album in 11 years 'BUDA' Video, Audio

Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101, talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and picks us a track to play. Audio

Our musical eyes and ears in Christchurch, Tony Ryan, takes a look at what Christopher's Classics has lined up for chamber music lovers next year. Audio

Limited quarantine capacity has been blamed for the cancellation of Bay Dreams, one of New Zealand's largest music festivals.

Event organisers say the difficulty of securing space for international… Audio

RNZ's own Flo Wilson talks about new music from Corin, Serpentwithfeet and Mitski. Audio