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2:40 PM.This week marks 50 years of music therapy in Aotearoa. Chris O'Connor, drummer for The Phoenix Foundation, joins Charlotte Ryan in studio to talk about his new career as a music therapist and the… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Tami Neilson, the Canadian born/ NZ-based country singer, has broken new ground for Kiwi country music - she has been welcomed into Willie Nelson's tribe. Last year we heard the beautiful duet she… Read more Video, Audio

4:15 PM.Elliott Childs reviews Jack White's latest album, No-Name, noting that it marks a return to the bluesy rock sound that originally endeared him to fans of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead… Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest picking the music today is one of the most powerful voices in the music industry. New York-based music journalist Puja Patel was the editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, a hugely influential music… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Teremoana Rapley speaks to TAHI presenter So'omalo Iteni Schwalger at the Pacific Music Awards after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.American Songwriter Bill Callahan has been writing music under the name Smog and his own name since the early 1990s. His distinctive baritone voice and melancholy songs often sound like poems set to… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.In 1988 New Zealand was riding the wave of 80s pop culture, and at the forefront was Rikki Morris. His hit 'Nobody Else', produced by his late brother Ian Morris, topped the charts here. Rikki has won… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Tony Stamp looks back at three albums turning 30 this year, in the first of a six-part series. Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.The poet's job description is "keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in," David Merritt says. Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.KOMMI (Kai Tahu, Te-Ati-Awa) is a Lyttelton-based rapper who performs in Kai Tahu dialect - the principal Maori iwi of the South Island. They are also a writer, poet, activist and a kaiako - lecturing… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Auckland musician Louisa Nicklin and producer Shayne Carter talk to Charlotte Ryan about their creative friendship, the upsides of getting older and hanging out in the Coromandel bush.

1:20 PM.After years of trying to throw their sound "50 miles down the road", Irish post-punk rockers Fontaines D.C. have crashed through a new sonic frontier on their fourth album Romance. Guitarist Conor… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest on the Mixtape is Kiwi actor, comedian, writer and director Jesse Griffin. Jesse is the co-creator of Educators, as well as starring in Nude Tuesday, 7 Days, 800 Days. Many will be familiar… Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.James Milne (Lawrence Arabia) will join Dianne Swann (When the Cats Away) and The Phoenix Foundation legends Sam Scott and Luke Buda to recreate the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's live. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The London record label and promotion co. present an impressive selection of artists they've worked with over the years. Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.Indie pop band Marlin's Dreaming is live in the RNZ studio to celebrate the release of their fourth studio album HIRL. Formed by longtime friends in Dunedin, the band have moved to Tamaki Makaurau… Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.Award winning local musician Troy Kingi released his 8th album yesterday Leatherman & the Mojave Green. The artist has a creatively ambitious goal to release ten albums, in ten years - and for every… Read more Audio

4:10 PM.As Bookworm opens in New Zealand cinemas this week, film director Ant Timpson joins us on the Mixtape. Ant founded the Incredibly Strange Film Festival AND the 48 Hours film competition. He's worked… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.The Great Sounds Great festival is happening on Saturday 31 August in Wellington. Bands, DJs and poets will be performing across seven stages in six neighboring music venues around Cuba St.

The… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The Best Country Song winner is joined by three members of Tiny Ruins for her third album of philosophical alt-country. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.As part of the NZ International Film Festival a documentary traces the 45-year journey of the Australian pub rock band, Midnight Oil. Paul Clark, the director, talks to Charlotte Ryan about how 'The… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Six years after throat surgery damaged his vocal cords, speaking doesn't come easy to New Zealand jazz icon Nathan Haines. These days Haines says his most effective instrument for "getting emotion… Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest picking the music over the next hour is designer Kristine Crabb, the fashion artist who dresses NZ' s most boundary pushing musicians…names like Lorde, Aldous Harding, Erny Belle, and Taite… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Award winning soundtrack composer and Supergroove icon Karl Sölve Steven has released a new project inspired by the folk music of his Swedish roots. V.A.V.A was created in collaboration with the… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.An intimate filmed performance of Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto is set to screen as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. Ryuichi, who died in March… Read more Video, Audio