Music
Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Featuring Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Drugdealer, and Clbrks & Kurt Terese Audio
This Weekend: Mainland Big Band
We're heading to Christchurch, and the Cashmere Club, where the Mainland Big Band will be performing. Audio
The Panel with Leonie Freeman and Mike Williams Part 2
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Mike Williams. This half hour the panel hears about the vandalism inflicted on sports fields and reserves in Rotorua… Audio
A match made in the Netherlands
Talented young musician Bethany Angus returns to Aotearoa with new skills and a new partner. Audio
NZ Live: The 20th anniversary party
Bringing you NZ Live each week is a huge team effort, inlcuding our amazing collective of audio engineers who make it sound so good each an every week. For the grand finale of the NZ Live 20th… Audio
New music with Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy explores new music from people who have been quiet lately - Pulp, Ladi 6 and The Lemonheads. Audio
From music marketing to musical meditations
New Zealand musician Leah Thomas talks to RNZ Concert from New York about her just completed arts management course, and the mindful book that came out of it. Audio
Will our favourite music artists ever make it to New Zealand?
Muso and Afternoons regular Chris Schulz says we need big artists, major shows and large-scale touring to return to Aotearoa - immediately. Recently, the likes of Taylor Swift, Oasis, Billie Eilish… Audio
Lucy Gray & Latafele Allyssa Verner-Pula
Latafele Allyssa Verner-Pula joins So'omalo to talk about Samoan Language Week and her new podcast! Lucy Gray is in town and chats to Janay about upcoming shows and new music. We intervene with Janay… Audio
Lucy Gray & Latafale Allyssa Verner-Pula
Latafale Allyssa Verner-Pula joins So'omalo to talk about Samoan Language Week and her new podcast! Lucy Gray is in town and chats to Janay about upcoming shows and new music. We intervene with Janay… Audio
Singer Jessie J says she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer
The singer says she has been diagnosed early and will "disappear for a bit" to have surgery this month.
RNZ Music Pocket Edition 4 June 2025
This week on Pocket Edition, Maggie Tweedie introduces fresh music and interviews Ladi6 about creating her new album, Le Va, which helped her heal after losing her mother. Earth Tongue-psychedelic… Audio
Tony Yan Tong Chen: back with the old band
Once he was a second violinist in the Auckland Youth Orchestra. Now Tony Yan Tong Chen is the piano soloist for the orchestra's next concert. Audio
Bookmarks with Annemarie Jutel
Author, former elite runner and now graphic novelist Annemarie Jutel is health professor and world leader in critical diagnosis at Victoria University of Wellington. Audio
Music Critic: Ned Collette & the Thalia Zedek Band
Music critic Matthew Crawley joins Jesse to share new music from Ned Collette, and the Thalia Zedek Band. Ned Collette - Athens Thalia Zedek Band - Boat Audio
Music with Kirsten Zemke: Songs that are out of this world
Music correspondent Kirsten Zemke looks at science fiction theme music and plays a selection of some of the biggest hits of the 20th century. Audio
AMA comments were frustration at performance's politicisation - Bishop
Senior government minister Chris Bishop said his comments directed at a performance at the Aotearoa Music Awards were due to his frustration at its politicisation. The minister was heard saying "what… Audio
Old opera, brand new production
Bruno Ravella is in Aotearoa to direct a brand new production of Puccini's La bohème for NZ Opera. Audio
Peter de Blois: singer, conductor, teacher, now ONZM
Peter de Blois talks about being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in this year's King's Birthday Honours List. Audio
Music feature: Stories from the road
Jesse spoke to Dustin Watts about his life on the road working security with the likes of Taylor Swift, and Metallica. Audio
