Inside Track looks at the controversial issue of government funding for New Zealand Music. New Zealand On Air has been taking it in the teeth from many critics who say the agency just doesn't get it and funds boring, obvious music.

This episode features Brendan Smythe from NZ On Air and Chris Hocquard from the New Zealand Music Commission.

This episode follows on from the last one about Max TV. After a number of years where music television was absent from our screens we now have several channels littering the airwaves.

In this episode we look at what's changed to enable so many channels to exist at the same time and where it's all going.

This week Inside Track takes an up close look at Hamilton. For years it's been painted as a cultural dead end and a non-existent live music scene.

We caught a passing train and spent a day in the 'Tron and talked to people involved in the music scene.

The first Inside Track of 2008 visits Tempo: Music and Making It.

Put on every year by the <a href="http://www.hcac.org.nz/page/hcac_5.php">Hamilton Community Arts Council</a>, Tempo is a two day seminar series bringing together a wide range of speakers to speak to budding musicians about how to make it in the music industry.

The following episode features Sam Scott, Luke Buda, Blink , reporters and hosts from print and radio media and experts on the financial and marketing side.

Word on the street is that hip-hop’s dead...

The golden age of New Zealand Hip-Hop - from 2002 to 2004 - is over for now, but Inside Track has stumbled upon some new, crazy, and dare we say, fun rap that’s coming up from the underground! We speak to MC Stormtroopa, the Venomous Mic Technicians, and Coco Solid.