Tonight, a selection described as 'broadly lo-fi': including drag queen hypnagogic pop project Cindy Lee, death rock- and punk wave-influenced Brux, and a new local track from the Audio Foundation Improvisers Series Vol 3.

Nelson nut butter brand Fix & Fogg was approached by NASA with a request to create a space rocket-approved product - and now it's launched.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin is reviewing the debut for writer-director Lauren Taylor The Moon is Upside Down, Home, a real estate and design show with a difference, and all three seasons of Star Trek: Picard.

ComicFest is being held at the National Library of New Zealand on Saturday, with a range of events on offer for the comic- and cartoon-mad on its 10th anniversary.

Called a 'music mag for the music mad', Newzician Magazine features profiles, interviews and photo spreads on emerging independent musicians across Aotearoa New Zealand - in print.

Massey University Professor Mohan Dutta joins Emile Donovan to examine the India elections.

Commencing this weekend, duck season is an occasion so big in some parts of the country, club rugby games have to be shifted to another day to accommodate it. 

Moa bones, obsidian and tools found at the site indicate people first arrived here as early as 1250 AD - the last land mass in the entire world to be settled by humans.

In 1972, the Victoria University students' association raised $2000 for the Vietnam War - but did it go to the Viet Cong for the purchase of a tank?

The former prime minister reacts to foreign minister Winston Peter's comments on AUKUS.

Futuromania: Electric Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today is a new book that traces the history of sounds that prefigure pop music's future.

Nights' resident Agony Aunt, comedian Courtney Dawson, is back and ready to answer your quandaries, your palavers, your misgivings.

Started in 1991, the Costume Cave on Wellington's Wakefield Street has long been a friend to filmmakers, theatre practitioners and partygoers in the capital and across the country.

Festival Open Christchurch returns this year with 50 open buildings for the public to explore spanning Gothic Revival, Christchurch Modern, contemporary and a range of uses.

This weekend, Sam Harvey is hoping to not only win the Dead Cow Gully race in Australia, but break the work record running continuously for 800km in 120 hours.

Stuff political reporter Thomas Manch joins Emile Donovan to break down some of the big political stories of the week, including AUKUS posturing and a tough political poll for the coalition government.

We've seen it in just about every American sitcom, but why don't we 'post bail' in New Zealand? And why is paying to get out of jail allowed at all in some jurisdictions?

BBC World reporter Pete Ross joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally, including local elections in the UK, protests in the former Soviet state of Georgia, and a forthcoming report from a Canadian government inquiry into foreign interference and spying.

Otago Daily Times sports reporter Kayla Hodge joins Emile Donovan to cover the rise in suspensions to start the ANZ netball premiership, the New Zealand Warriors' search for up-and-coming talent in the deep south, and profile some of New Zealand's most underrated athletes.

The mental health hotline Lifeline turns 60 this year, and they say financial pressure has never been greater.

Every eighty years, a nova 3,000 light years away called T Coronae Borealis spectacularly erupts, appearing as a new star in the sky. 

Justine has been behind the award-winning docuseries NZ Wars, and tonight she's been celebrating the premiere of a new season with a personal connection, Stories of Tauranga Moana.

Featuring new music from New Zealand band Ha the Unclear, a 2022 track from Adelaide-based band Workhorse, and the debut album from artist Mandy, entitled Lawn Girl.

Wellington NZ commissioned the creation of 20 bronze pigeons statues to celebrate the city's business community. But now, two of the statues have disappeared, leaving some Wellingtonians all aflutter.