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A pleasant surprise has emerged from a basement studio in Auckland, Aaron Wood's solo project mixing vintage technology with lashings of post-punk. Audio

Tony catches up with the Te Whanganui-a-Tara multi-hyphenate about her environmentally-aware second LP. Audio

Singer-songwriter Neive Strang enlists producer Sean Donnelly for a simmering set of songs that wisely foreground her voice. Audio

Arts News from across the country with Mark and Angie - for the second week of April 2025. Audio

"I am like the active verb to be and to do," wrote the determined trailblazing early New Zealand painter and writer Emilly Cumming Harris. "I am," she added, "too necessary an appendage to be left… Audio

Isabel Frey is singer and ethnomusicologist from Vienna, who is attempting to carry the musical tradition of the Jewish Labour Bund, the Yiddish-speaking socialist party in pre-World War II Eastern… Audio

On the road between Christchurch and Queenstown, the town of Fairlie often gets called gateway to the Mackenzie Country.  Video, Audio

 Shawn Simpson is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and joined Culture 101. Audio

The Kaikoura titi, or Hutton's shearwater is a remarkable bird. Endemic to Kaikoura and endangered, it is the only alpine-breeding seabird in the world.  Audio

Thousands of students were outside Parliament in Wellington on Friday for the School Strike 4 Climate protest. The core team organising were aged between 14 and 17 and their overarching theme "Don't… Audio

The Auckland-based artist shares some of his cultural recommendations. Audio

Another year - another drop in trust in the news here, according to the biggest annual survey of it. But the slump seems to have stalled and some outlets have gained trust this time round - though… Audio

Another year - another drop in trust in the news here, according to the biggest annual survey of it. But the slump seems to have stalled and some outlets have gained trust this time round - though… Audio