Nz Music
The Logg Cabin: 6 February 2026
On this week's show Mark features thew finest from Aotearoa and abroad for this Waitangi Day special with tracks from Trinity Roots, Benee, The Black Seeds and The Beat, as well as a birthday shoutout… Audio
A History of Student Radio - Episode Five
In this new bonus episode Yadana Saw looks at the challenges facing the Student Radio Network and how the stations are staying alive and relevant in an increasingly digital first, music streaming… Audio
Live: Jenny Mitchell at The Piano - 21 August 2025
Listen to award-winning singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell performing live at the Piano in Otautahi Christchurch as part of her homecoming Forest House tour in August 2025. Audio
Brooke Fraser APO - Live at Spark Arena 22nd June. 2024
Brooke Fraser APO - Live at Spark Arena 22nd June. 2024 Audio
Essential Albums: Shona Laing - South
Shona Laing was just seventeen when she had her first national hit in 1972. Fifteen years later, she was reintroducing herself as a different kind of artist. In this episode, Nick Bollinger looks at… Audio
Essential Albums: Strawpeople - Broadcast
If any New Zealand band captured the synth-pop zeitgeist of the mid-90s it was Auckland's Strawpeople. In this episode, Nick Bollinger takes a close listen to their 1994 album Broadcast, which served… Audio
Essential Albums: Warratahs - The Only Game In Town
The Only Game In Town launched Kiwi country institution The Warratahs on a career that has spanned four decades. In this episode, Nick Bollinger revisits this debut, talks to some of the people… Audio
Essential Albums: Collision - Collision
New Zealand funk band Collision only ever made one album, but it is now regarded as an Antipodean classic of lost 70s funk. In this programme, Nick Bollinger dusts off his precious vinyl copy, and… Audio
Essential Albums: Dudley Benson - The Awakening
With his choirboy background and unusual palette of chamber instruments, Dudley Benson presented a unique artistic vision on his 2008 debut album The Awakening. Nick Bollinger talks to Benson about… Audio
Bressa Creeting Cake - Bressa Creeting Cake
Bressa Creeting Cake came of out of West Auckland in the mid-1990s with an album full of sonic and songwriterly surprises. Nick Bollinger takes a close listen and talks to members Geoff Maddock and… Audio
Aotearoa - Tihei Mauriora & He Waiata Mo Te Iwi
In the 1980s, a band of young Maori musicians set out to sing about their language and their culture. They named themselves Aotearoa. In this episode of Essential New Zealand Albums Nick Bollinger… Audio
Live: Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD
Listen to hometown favourites Fin Rah Zel performing their reggae drenched soul sounds live on the Dell Stage at WOMAD 2024 in Ngamotu, New Plymouth. Audio
Live: Strawpeople at WOMAD 2024
Listen to the innovative electro-pop musings of Strawpeople performing live on the Brooklandsstage at WOMAD Aotearoa in 2024. Audio
Live: Bailey Wiley at WOMAD 2024
Listen to the the soulful sounds of local singer-songwriter Bailey Wailey performing live on the Bowl Stage at WOMAD Aotearoa in New Plymouth in 2024. Audio
Essential Albums: Good Shirt - Good
Goodshirt combined classic pop influences with a D.I.Y sensibility learned from Chris Knox, to make one of the essential New Zealand albums of the early 2000s. Nick Bollinger discusses Goodshirt's… Audio
Essential Albums: Ladi 6 - The Liberation Of...
When the single 'Like Water' hit the New Zealand top ten in early 2011 it established Ladi6 as this country's major R&B star. But that success was just one milestone in a long journey, and the song… Audio
Essential Albums: The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
Buffalo was the album that lifted the profile of Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation both here and internationally. It saw their collective approach reach new heights - in the sophistication of the… Audio
Essential Albums: Doug Jerebine - Is Jesse Harper
Recorded in London in 1969, these recordings provided classic material for Kiwi rockers The Human Instinct yet the originals remained largely unheard until their discovery and release in 2012. Nick… Audio
Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds
If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Audio
Essential NZ Albums: King Kapisi - Savage Thoughts
Hip-hop is a musical form invented by African Americans, and yet here is a version that could only have come from deep in the Pacific. It has a proud sense of place and yet it looks outward. To quote… Audio
