All episodes
Saturday, 26 May 2018
- 1:34 Five NZ dancefloor bangers with the host of legendary clubnight Atomic
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 189: Rei/ Oscar Key Sung
- 1:09 Pacific Music Awards
- 2:10 LIVE SESSION: Wellington rapper Rei performs in te reo
- 3:10 Matthew Young and his new E.P. Fruit
- 4:00 Oscar Key Sung: "I wanted to forget who I was"
- 5:00 The Mixtape: King Kapisi
- 7:30 Tell Me How You Really Feel by Courtney Barnett
- 1:00 What even is New Zealand Music Month? An oral history
Saturday, 19 May 2018
- 1:00 Courtney Barnett gets it all off her chest
- 1:10 Music Month Summit addresses women, diversity, wellness and regional isolation
- 2:05 Live Session: Nick Dow
- 2:30 Sola Rosa - In Spaces
- 3:00 Wax Chattels on their 'guitarless guitar music'
- 3:30 Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by Arctic Monkeys
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Rick Bryant
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 188: Courtney Barnett/ Sola Rosa/ Wax Chattels
Saturday, 12 May 2018
- 3:55 The Mixtape: NZ Music Month
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 187: Kings/ Anonymouz/ Parks
- 1:00 Pacific Music Awards 2018: how to produce a Pacific hit
- 1:35 Live Session: Louis Baker plays two new songs
- 2:05 Julia Deans on her new album We Light Fire
- 7:30 The Sampler: Eczema by Hans Pucket
- 7:30 Mother of Gloom by Emily Fairlight
- 6:00 E Tū: Thirty years on
Saturday, 5 May 2018
- 7:30 Primal Heart by Kimbra
- 7:30 The Sampler: Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B
- 1:10 Managing musicians in the modern music world
- 1:45 Burning Up Years: Wellington's live music scene 1960-78
- 2:05 Parquet Courts talk DIY, Dangermouse and Opposite Sex
- 3:00 Carb on Carb live @ RNZ
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Sandy Mill
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 186: Parquet Courts/Carb on Carb
- 7:30 Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae
Saturday, 28 April 2018
- 7:30 Cocoa Sugar by Young Fathers
- 7:30 The Sampler: Shining Day by Delaney Davidson
- 7:30 Orquesta Akokan
- 1:10 The Topp Twins: Good Sisters Gone Bad
- 2:10 RnB star Kehlani: ‘You have to be that loud, that proud, and that strong’
- 3:10 Camp Cope live @ RNZ
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Estère
Saturday, 21 April 2018
- 1:00 Kimbra: 'I'm not particularly drawn to massive celebrity or fame'
- 1:30 Why did Public Service Broadcasting make an album about Welsh coal mining?
- 2:30 Melbourne trio Camp Cope on standing up for gender equality
- 3:00 Boyboy's Sam McCarthy on confronting his vices
- 3:00 Roy Irwin: the unlikely King Of Pop
- 3:30 Garth Cartwright: going for a song
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Jeremy Taylor
Saturday, 14 April 2018
- 1:10 A bumper year for music festivals
- 2:10 SESSION: Tom Cunliffe, Template For Love
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Chris Matthews
Saturday, 7 April 2018
- 1:10 Spotify: the biggest music company in the world
- 1:30 Unknown Mortal Orchestra's new album is definitely not about the apocalypse
- 1:30 VIDEO: Unknown Mortal Orchestra release new album and perform live for RNZ Music
- 2:05 Headquarters: Groeni
- 3:00 Australian surf-rock duo Hockey Dad live at RNZ
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Taite Music Prize finalists
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 182: Spotify/UMO/Hockey Dad
- 7:30 The Sampler: Sex & Food by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Saturday, 31 March 2018
- 12:03 REVIEW: Perfume Genius at the NZ Festival
- 1:10 Adrian Sherwood on why reggae took over the world
- 1:40 INTERVIEW: Gin Wigmore just started a 'girl gang'
- 2:05 Leisure and the APO: "I’m pretty sure it will never happen again in our lifetimes"
- 3:00 Tom Lee-Richards in session
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Chelsea Jade
- 7:30 Don't Let Them Lock You Up by Hopetoun Brown
- 7:30 Boarding House Reach by Jack White
- 9:30 Jet Jaguar: creating new aural environments
Saturday, 24 March 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: Historian by Lucy Dacus
- 11:00 Victoria Hanna backstage at Womad
- 1:10 INTERVIEW: Jack White on ladybugs, taxidermy and his confounding new album
- 1:40 Chuck D: 'I always have a middle finger towards Captain Cook'
- 2:00 Lucy Dacus: 'Nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny'
- 2:30 VIDEO: How British pop star Dua Lipa got to #1
- 3:00 Hiphop & Samoan oratory: brothers from another mother
- 3:40 What So Not: the reason Toto's 'Africa' got back in the charts thirty years later
- 4:40 Nakita: " I have to figure things out for myself now"
- 7:30 Seeing Things by Eb and Sparrow
- 7:30 Clean by Soccer Mommy
Saturday, 17 March 2018
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 179: Kim Deal/ Kamasi Washington
- 1:20 Shona Laing on her friend and collaborator Mahinārangi Tocker
- 1:30 Kamasi Washington - the young giant of jazz
- 2:00 The Breeders' Kim Deal: All Nerve
- 2:30 Rahim Alhaj interview Live at WOMAD
- 3:15 Hex Live from SXSW
- 3:25 Carnivorous Plant Society cram the RNZ studio full of band members, instruments, and genres
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Tina Cross
Saturday, 10 March 2018
- 1:20 Beck interview: 'Sort of like Michael Jackson meets Sgt. Peppers'
- 2:00 Georgia Nott from Broods steers all-woman crew The Venus Project 'like a boss'
- 2:00 So Below's Maddie North perfects her gothic pop
- 3:00 Laurie Anderson: finding hope in loss
- 3:00 Pitch Black: From Scratch
- 3:40 Scratching the Itch - the competitive world of turntablism
- 4:00 RNZ Music Mixtape: Summer Selections 2018
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 178: Laurie Anderson/Pitch Black
- 7:30 Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin
Saturday, 3 March 2018
- 6:19 Swan song for iconic Kings Arms pub
- 1:10 Bloodlight and Bami director Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones: 'She’s her own Svengali'
- 1:45 Jack Antonoff - chasing perfect pop songs
- 2:10 Thundercat
- 2:35 Phoenix
- 2:45 Robinson
- 3:40 Introducing: Hybrid Rose
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Hugh Sundae
Saturday, 24 February 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: Make Way For Love by Marlon Williams
- 1:35 Get 'em while they're young: getting kids into steel bands
- 2:05 Big Boi: cooler than a polar bear's toenails
- 2:30 U.S. Girls' Meghan Remy is Mad As Hell
- 3:15 Israel Starr Live in Session
- 3:30 Indie maestro Merk plays live at RNZ
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Dave Gibson
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 176: Big Boi/Steel drums/U.S. Girls
Saturday, 17 February 2018
- 1:20 Marlon Williams: love, jealousy and Aldous
- 2:20 Celia Mancini: bringing music back from the abyss
- 3:00 A Tribe Called Red give indigenous Canadian music the electronic treatment
- 3:30 Live: Jordie Lane and the Sleepers
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Jim Wilson
Saturday, 10 February 2018
- 12:00 Too much music: can you listen to all the music you own?
- 5:00 Live: Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton
- 1:10 Volume South - an exploration of hip hop in South Auckland
- 2:05 Dizzee: still a cheeky rascal
- 2:30 TOKiMONSTA talks production
- 3:00 Coco Solid: 'Being able to tell our stories is something we have to fight for, constantly'
- 3:30 Introducing: Green Grove
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Andrew Boak
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 174: Dizzee Rascal/Coco Solid
- 7:30 The Sampler: Being There - Deluxe by Wilco
Saturday, 3 February 2018
- 1:05 Te Rā o te Raukura
- 1:20 Loyle Carner: from South London to Laneway to the Brit Awards
- 1:45 Grant Fell: "He was the thing that all creative scenes need."
- 2:10 VIDEO: Jocee Tuck performs 'Made to be' live
- 2:40 US soul merchants The Internet try NZ lollies
- 3:00 Tempestuous, chaotic: the life of Al Green
- 3:20 Introducing: Fever Party
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Pride Festival
- 7:30 The Sampler: Culture II by Migos
- 7:30 Ruins by First Aid Kit
Saturday, 27 January 2018
- 9:34 Jazz legend Hugh Masekela dies
- 10:34 A legendary curmudgeon falls
- 1:20 New Zealand's first Girls Rock! Camp
- 2:20 Craig David: the nice-guy superstar
- 2:40 Auckland Folk Festival 2018 - Sophie Mashlan
- 3:00 40 years of The Stranglers: thinking past the end of the night
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Gerry Paul
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 172: Craig David/Girls Rock Camp
- 7:30 I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life by Tune-Yards
Saturday, 20 January 2018
- 1:15 Bringing Music Back to the Parlour
- 1:30 Summer Jam - Mel Parsons
- 2:10 Broods' Georgia Nott collaborates with all-women crew for The Venus Project
- 2:30 Molly Lewis - The Whistler
- 2:50 Summer Jam - Moana Maniapoto
- 3:08 Lawrence Arabia: kickstarting his year with new songs
- 3:30 Summer Jam - Mara TK
- 3:40 Sylvan Esso: the purpose is joy
- 3:50 Summer Jam - Grayson Gilmour
- 4:05 The Mixtape: Pearl from 95bFM
- 7:30 Soul of a Woman by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 171: Georgia Nott/ Sylvan Esso/ Molly Lewis
Saturday, 13 January 2018
- 1:10 NZ punk pioneer Buster Stiggs, remembered by Simon Grigg
- 1:00 Summer Jams: Randa chooses their favourite summer song
- 1:30 Summer Jams: Kiki Van Newtown chooses her favourite summer song
- 1:40 Summer Jams: Julia Deans chooses her favourite summer song
- 2:15 Kelela: 'It’s a weird relationship that Americans have with race'
- 2:30 Summer Jams: Anna Coddington chooses her favourite summer song
- 2:40 Summer Jams: Aaradhna chooses her favourite summer song
- 3:05 Revolutions live at the Spiegeltent
- 3:30 Summer Jams: Louis Baker chooses his favourite summer song
- 3:40 Summer Jams: Emily Edrosa chooses her favourite summer song
- 4:05 The Mixtape: Jim and Max from Radio Active
Saturday, 6 January 2018
- 1:05 Is Spotify narrowing our taste in music?
- 1:30 Summer Jams: Samuel Flynn Scott shares his favourite summer song
- 1:30 The Growing family of Kitty Daisy and Lewis
- 1:50 Summer Jams: Chelsea Jade shares her favourite summer song
- 2:05 Summer Jams: Marlon Williams shares his favourite summer song
- 2:20 Music and my dad's dementia
- 2:30 Summer Jams: Estère shares her favourite summer song
- 2:45 She Will Move You - Jaded Nineties Raver
- 2:50 Summer Jams: Eddie Johnston (Lontalius) chooses his favourite summer song
- 3:00 Respect: the songs of Aretha Franklin
- 3:45 Casablanca Records - the inside story
- 4:05 The Mixtape: Gemma Syme
- 5:00 Music101 Pocket Edition 168: Spotify/Summer Jams
Saturday, 23 December 2017
- 10:10 Inside the world of Aldous Harding
- 7:30 The Sampler - local picks of 2017
- 7:30 The Sampler - 2017 international picks
- 10:00 Alien Weaponry set to play at the biggest heavy-metal festival in the world
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 167: Liam Gallagher/ K2K/ The xx
- 2:00 Liam Gallagher: it's good to be back
- 2:20 How The xx made one of 2017's best albums
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Jordan Luck
Saturday, 16 December 2017
- 7:30 Phases by Angel Olsen
- 7:30 Topography by Alphabethead
- 1:00 Sol3 Mio: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
- 1:10 Jonathan Densem: 'You just have to go for it'
- 1:20 Best of 2017: RNZ Music's favourite international tracks
- 1:45 Josh Teskey in session
- 1:50 Introducing: Maxwell Young
- 2:45 She Will Move You - Peach Milk
- 3:45 Best of 2017: great music reads
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 166: Ruban Neilson/Bjork/Glass Vaults
Saturday, 9 December 2017
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 165: The Shins/ Grizzly Bear/ Richter City Rebels
- 1:30 Hanging out with The Shins
- 2:00 Blind American singer-songwriter took 50 years to get his big break
- 2:30 Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste does not suffer fools
- 3:20 Introducing: Owlet Nightjar
- 7:30 The Sampler: Rules of Engagement by Ria Hall
- 7:30 The Sampler: Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygetron by Troy Kingi
- 3:30 Best of 2017: RNZ Music's favourite local tracks
