It was another strong year for music in Aotearoa, from the internationally acclaimed Aldous Harding and Tiny Ruins, to the grass roots DIY acts just bubbling up. The Song Crush team play some of their favourites.

A new book called "Wired For Sound - The Stebbing History of New Zealand Music" by Grant Gillanders & Robyn Welsh tells the story of an enduring Kiwi success story. Trevor Reekie talked to the 2 authors.

Auckland band Na Noise introduce their song 'Bad Dreams'.

Eddie Johnson tells us about spending two years in Los Angeles recording his second album All I Have with some heavyweight producers.

Art-pop from Moses Sumney and FKA Twigs, a techno soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, an afrobeat banger, some sad-boy-soul, and some Scottish minimalist dream-pop feature on Song Crush this week. 

Founding member and bass player for Bad Religion, Jay Bentley talks to Elliott Childs about keeping the L.A punk band going for 40 years.

Auckland teen hip hop duo Church & AP talk to Tony Stamp about starting their career in community centres, and changing up their sound for their debut album Teeth.

Ziggy Marley talks to Charlotte Ryan ahead of his performance at WOMAD 2020. He shares his thoughts on world politics, his father Bob Marley's legacy and the legalisation of cannabis.

All year the Song Crush team have introduced you to new songs they're loving, but this week host Kirsten Johnstone threw the call out to you the listeners, for your favourite tune of 2019. Here's a handful of the answers we got. 

Legendary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is set to make just his second NZ appearance, at the 2020 Auckland Arts Festival.

Wellington band Dawn Diver is the songwriting project of Ben Lemi. It's a new experience for the Trinity Roots drummer as he tells Yadana Saw in this live session.

Internationally renowned Wellington group Fat Freddy’s Drop have announced ten shows across New Zealand this summer, with support from acts including L.A.B, Avantdale Bowling Club, JessB, Bailey Wiley, and Philadelphia-native DJ Jazzy Jeff.

New York-based Kiwi songwriter Miriam Clancy joins Music101's Charlotte Ryan to a talk about her latest album Astronomy and her upcoming NZ tour.

We speak to German composer and record producer Nils Frahm ahead of his first ever New Zealand show

Hip hop musician Tom Scott and his collaborative project Avantdale Bowling Club have won the coveted Album of the Year at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards, which took place at Auckland’s Spark Arena on Thursday.

French For Rabbits find a new banging synth sound, British-Ghanaian rapper Kojey Radical shows his smooth side, and Wye Oak just keep on evolving - these songs and more on Song Crush this week. 

In this week's Pocket Edition, American guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn swings by for a live session and we meet the behind the scenes talent who were recognised at the NZ Music Artisan Awards ceremony.

Harper Finn talks to Charlotte Ryan about growing up in the musical Finn family and his new single

Auckland band Makeshift Parachutes introduce their song 'Be Kind Rewind'.

Charlotte Ryan talks to Six60 about being the biggest band in NZ and their plan for world domination.

Pluto are back together after a 10 year break. They talk to Charlotte Ryan about their new album and playing live again.

Doom folk, te reo Maori electronica, sample based soul and Jeff Goldblum's lounge album are some of the things discussed in Song Crush this week, but beware of tangents everywhere.

American guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn is currently touring NZ for the third time in as many years. He dropped into the RNZ studios to chat with Elliott Childs and play a couple of songs from his latest album The Unseen In Between.

This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is broadcaster, comedienne and writer Michele A'Court. She shares her songs and stories with Yadana Saw.

Kiwi singer Thomston talks to Charlotte Ryan about his two new EPs.