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Billy Bragg turned 50 on 20 December 2007, ahead of his New Zealand Big Day Out appearance in 2008. Trevor Reekie talks to Billy Bragg about a new album 'Mr Love and Justice', politics, parenting… Read more Audio

A New Zealand company Txttunes.com has grown an idea that allows kids without credit cards to buy songs using their phone account. Txttunes have recently announced an agreement with the North American… Read more Audio

Back in the mid 1970s Auckland jazz-rock legends Dr Tree shook the foundations of local jazz and took it to the rock bars and clubs, winning a devoted audience with super tight performances that… Read more Audio

Significant New Zealand hip hop/ urban record label 'Dawn Raid' are back up and running. In October 2007 there was a new album, and, crucially, a fresh template to develop and diversify the South… Read more Audio

Trevor Reekie discusses words and melodies with two literary troubadours. Bill Direen, a respected composer who has published as many books as he has released albums, and Otis Mace, a… Read more Audio

On 17th November 2007, Auckland punters dug out their mid 60's threads and head down to the Auckland nightclub the Monte Christo Room to witness the Wild Things Spectacular! A collection of fuzz… Read more Audio

The Music Industry is starting to read like a John Grisham novel. Every week there is some new seismic shift … last week Radiohead, this week, Madonna. We take a look at the "360 degree" deal that… Read more Audio

Radiohead fans downloaded the brand new album In Rainbows directly from the band's website paying no more than what their conscience told them they should pay. It's a revolutionary means of selling… Read more Audio

Access All Areas looks at the state of American CD sales which, despite a stellar week, with heavyweights Kanye West, 50 Cent and Kenny Chesney producing the best sales this year, overall sales were… Read more Audio

Alan McGee, the man who discovered Oasis is a hard man to track down. Since the heady days of running Creation Records McGee has been an active DJ, a regular blogger for The Guardian newspaper and… Read more Audio

In September 1967 Jimi Hendrix released his hugely influential debut album Are You Experienced?. Hendrix was very much a black rock musician in a white musical world and despite cutting his teeth on a… Read more Audio

Lee Prichard has written a book about Napier's legendary Cabana Hotel, one of NZ's classic live music venues - you hadn't done a national tour unless you'd played there! Trevor Reekie talks to Lee… Read more Audio