Location:
New Zealand
Genres:
Podcasts
Networks:
RNZ New Zealand
Description:
Tony Stamp reviews the latest album releases.
Language:
English
Episodes
Song Crush - Ep 1: Sharon Van Etten/Lawrence Arabia
1/28/2019
The Sampler's Nick Bollinger is on hiatus for six months while he writes a book, so RNZ Music has a brand new music podcast. Song Crush, hosted by audio obsessive Kirsten Johnstone, brings you the best new music every week.
Duration:00:29:14
The Sampler: Best local albums of 2018
12/18/2018
Nick Bollinger revisits some his favourite local sounds of 2018.
Duration:00:14:21
The Sampler: Best of 2018 International
12/18/2018
Nick Bollinger surveys some of the outstanding international sounds of the past 12 months.
Duration:00:16:07
The Sampler: Best of 2018
12/18/2018
In the final Sampler for 2018 Nick Bollinger revisits a few of the standout releases from the past 12 months.
Duration:00:30:23
The Sampler: 11 December 2018
12/11/2018
This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger explores the music of sci-fi folkie Jane Weaver, the cosmic obsessions of Alabama outsider artist Lonnie Holley, and asseses the impact of new love, parenthood and a move to Nashville on Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck.
Duration:00:29:10
The Sampler: Mith by Lonnie Holley
12/11/2018
Nick Bollinger explores the space-fixated sounds of Alabama outsider artist Lonnie Holley.
Duration:00:10:48
The Sampler: The Silver Globe by Jane Weaver
12/11/2018
Nick Bollinger lends an ear to the science-fiction, folk and electronica of Jane Weaver.
Duration:00:10:39
The Sampler: C'est la Vie by Phosphorescent
12/11/2018
Nick Bollinger asseses the impact of new love, parenthood and a move to Nashville on the music of Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck.
Duration:00:07:48
The Sampler 4 December 2018
12/4/2018
Elliott Childs reviews the new album from genre bending Canadian hardcore-punk band F'd Up, Kirsten Johnstone reviews I Need To Start A Garden by Portland-based songwriter Haley Heynderickx and Kirsten and Elliott discuss the second album from Auckland based quartet Yoko-Zuna.
Duration:00:29:42
The Sampler: Dose Your Dreams by F'd Up
12/4/2018
Elliott Childs reviews the new album from genre bending Canadian hardcore-punk band F'd Up
Duration:00:07:27
The Sampler: Voyager by Yoko Zuna
12/4/2018
Elliot Childs and Kirsten Johnstone discuss the dystopian second album from Auckland electro-hip-hop quartet Yoko-Zuna.
Duration:00:13:11
The Sampler: I Need To Start A Garden by Haley Heynderickx
12/3/2018
Kirsten Johnstone reviews I Need To Start A Garden, the debut album from Portland-based songwriter Haley Heynderickx, who investigates self-doubt, religious doubt and existentialism, but with a good dose of wry humour, and plenty of creepy crawlies.
Duration:00:12:26
The Sampler: 27 November 2018
11/27/2018
Nick Bollinger discusses a fiery collision between Chicago country stalwart Robbie Fulks and Louisiana piano pounder Linda Gail Lewis, a set of songs that consider the state of the union circa 1968;, and speaks to Kenducky songwriter Tyler Childers about purgatory, pot and the POTUS.
Duration:00:29:59
The Sampler: State of the Union
11/27/2018
Nick Bollinger discusses an album that looks at the state of American Dream, circa 1968.
Duration:00:07:48
Tyler Childers talks purgatory, pot and the POTUS
11/27/2018
Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers tours here next year with John Prine. Nick Bollinger caught up with him in a Minneapolis carpark.
Duration:00:14:11
The Sampler: Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis
11/27/2018
Chicago country stalwart Robbie Fulks and Louisiana piano pounder Linda Gail Lewis team up for a rambunctious set of duets.
Duration:00:07:58
The Sampler: The White Album Turns 50
11/20/2018
The Beatles 'White Album' is 50 years old and there's a new 6-disc edition to mark the occasion. Nick Bollinger takes a deep dive.
Duration:00:29:58
The Sampler: 13 November 2018
11/13/2018
Nick Bollinger discusses the spine-tingling harmonies and modern-day field recordings of Mountain Man, and a revealing 6-disc document of the sessions that produced Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks.
Duration:00:25:59
The Sampler : Magic Ship by Mountain Man
11/13/2018
Nick Bollinger discusses the spine-tingling harmonies and modern-day field recordings of vocal trio Mountain Man.
Duration:00:09:04
The Sampler : More Blood, More Tracks by Bob Dylan
11/13/2018
Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is one of the most celebrated albums in popular music. An exhaustive new 6-disc set lets us sit in on its construction.
Duration:00:17:00