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The Mixtape: DJ, Producer, Musician Mark de Clive Lowe
21 Sep 2024Our guest picking the music is musician, DJ, composer and producer Mark de Clive-Lowe. Mark started his career in the late 1990s as a central player in Auckland's jazz scene and has gone on to make a… Audio
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Katy Perry drops new album. Does it stack up?
21 Sep 2024RNZ's resident pop expert Sam Robinson weighs in on Katy Perry's new album 143 in a year of giant pop releases. Read a review of 143 here. Audio
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Laurie Anderson pays tribute to an aviation pioneer on Amelia
21 Sep 2024The legendary avant-garde artist's latest release is a musical retelling of Amelia Earhart's final flight. Audio
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Jamie xx: 'I'm so ready to be out there and playing again'
When it comes to finetuning a dance track, nothing beats real-time feedback from a live audience, electronic musician Jamie xx says. Video
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Bright Eyes on new album: ‘Music is cool when it’s outside the sterile recording studio’
21 Sep 2024Conor Oberst and his friends have released a new Bright Eyes album Five Dice, All Threes, featuring some beautiful collaborations with Cat Power and The National's Matt Berninger. Singer Conor and… Audio
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The best of NZ Jazz announced
21 Sep 2024Music 101 is excited to announce the finalists for the APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. We will announce the four finalists and play an excerpt of each wonderful composition on the show. Audio
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Jamie xx drops album of anthems: 'I'm so ready to be out there playing again'
21 Sep 2024The new Jamie xx album In Waves promises to own the dance floor this summer. The English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer started his career at the age of 18 forming the XX with his friends… Audio
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Remembering Eddie Low
RNZ has just received the news that New Zealand musician Eddie Low has died. Eddie Low was an Award-winning singer, entertainer, songwriter, composer known as the 'voice in a million'. He was a member… Audio
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Māori highschool gives sneak peek into perfomance
Te Kura kaupapa Māori o Ruamata is a total immersion Māori highschool based in Rotorua competing for Smoke Free Rock Quest 2024. Audio
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Katy Perry's new album rollout is a masterclass in what not to do
'Woman's World' is Katy Perry's worst-performing single release from an album in her 16-year career. What went wrong? Video
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Surtitle partnership diversifying the language of opera
20 Sep 2024The great works of opera can now be enjoyed in real time by blind and low vision music lovers. Audio
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Gemma's New Season
20 Sep 2024Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor, Gemma New, talks with Bryan Crump about the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's programme for next year. Video, Audio
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Music 101: Charlotte Ryan
20 Sep 2024Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101 here on RNZ each Saturday afternoon from 1pm talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because… Audio
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NZ Live: Violet Hirst
20 Sep 2024Violet hails from Otago and began releasing her brand of indie-folksy tunes about five years ago. Last year she released her debut LP 'Donegal' and she plays NZ Live in our in Tamaki Makaurau studio.
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
20 Sep 2024He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Audio
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New book celebrates one of NZ's most prolific hymn writers
19 Sep 2024New Zealander Shirley Erena Murray is considered one of the country's most influential international hymn writers of our time, with many of her 400 pieces published in the US and Europe. She was… Audio
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Live: NZSO - Jupiter: Copland, Cresswell & Mozart
19 Sep 2024Stephen De Pledge and the NZSO give the world premiere of NZ composer Lyell Cresswell’s final work. Flanking the piano concerto is Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring depicting a rural wedding, and…
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Bret McKenzie: On writing songs that are not funny
19 Sep 2024This week we revisit an interview with Bret McKenzie, one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, to talk about coming out of solitude and writing songs that are not funny. Audio
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Composer's parting gift
19 Sep 2024The dying composer Lyell Cresswell's gift to his pianist friend Stephen De Pledge was a new concerto. Now De Pledge finally gets to perform it. Audio
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Music Critic: Yon Loader and Jordyn with a Why
19 Sep 2024Zac Arnold talks James Stuteley's project Yon Loader and his new song Another Year. Audio
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Hemi Kelly & Garage Playlist Updates
On the show today the team bond over therapy, Waimirirangi chats with te Reo Maori kaiako and champion Hemi Kelly who shares some tips around implementing the language, and we respond to the flood of… Audio
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String quartet heads for outer space
18 Sep 2024The Auckland Philharmonia and Auckland Stardome are combining forces for a new musical and astronomy show: "Strings under the Stars". Audio
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Music with Yadana Saw
18 Sep 2024Music correspondent Yadana Saw joins Nine to Noon to look at how waiata anthems have gone from strength to strength, with a bunch of new releases across the month. Audio
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