Schools out and the kids take over! Teenage music fans Oscar Horner and Benny Lindsay Williams explain the listening habits of the young and share their new favourite songs. Honorary adolescent Mark Cubey introduces us to the modern phenomenon that is Post Malone.
On this week's Pocket Edition we celebrate Th' Dudes' induction into the NZ Music Hall of Fame with Peter Urlich and Dave Dobbyn, and SideKickNick explains the eleven year gap between his debut album and new double release.
Aldous Harding has won the 2019 APRA Silver Scroll Award for her song ‘The Barrel’, with the award presented tonight at a ceremony at Auckland’s Spark Arena.
SideKickNick released his first album Miscellaneous Adventures in 2008, then spent the next decade playing in Voom, doing sound design for films, and painstakingly assembling album number two: a double release called The Blue/ Red Planet Plan. He joined Tony Stamp to talk musical collage, manopause, and reminisce about the smoking room at their old uni.
Somali-New Zealand rapper Mo Muse brings friends Summer Thieves and Abdul Kay in to the studio to play songs from his debut LP, The First Generation, and speaks to Kirsten Johnstone.
There's music for driving, running, dancing, and dreaming this week in Song Crush: A 96 year old Ethiopian nun, some techno legends, a Tongan finding his groove in Berlin, and a lo-fi bedroom producer are all in there.
Charlotte Ryan interviews Nathan Haines for The Mixtape.
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