BBC Future's Melissa Hogenboom shares the story of how her Dad's love of music has helped to slow his onset of dementia and the research behind music's effects on the brain.

For our series She Will Move You - profiling just a handful of Aotearoa's many great female electronic music makers - we meet Jaded Nineties Raver.

Our favourite local musicians share the song that's their soundtrack to summer. Chelsea Jade's pick is ‘Sticky’ by Ravyn Lenae.

The 1970s saw the landscape of American culture become a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, and when the disco era exploded in New York Casablanca Records were at the centre of it. Trevor Reekie speaks with co-founder Larry Harris about the label home to KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and funk master George Clinton and Parliament,

Our favourite local musicians share the song that's their soundtrack to summer. Wellington beat-maker Estère's pick is Vulfpeck's 'Back Pocket'.

Today's selector is Christchurch's Gemma Syme from RDU 98.5 FM.

Many great musicians died this year. We pay tribute to the major musical figures that left the stage in 2017.

In this week's Pocket Edition we talk to ex-Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, Wellington producer K2K, and Oliver Sim from The xx.

This week's RNZ Music Mixtape selector is the local king of summer gigs, Jordan Luck. He shares his c60 of favourite New Zealand music with Yadana Saw.

It was another banner year for the influential British minimalists after their third album I See You signaled a livening up of their sound and attitude. Tony Stamp talked to singer & bass player Oliver Sim.