All episodes
Saturday, 2 December 2017
- 9:23 Sax and pedal steel duo deliver 'mind-melting' improvisation to NZ audiences
- 1:00 Troy Kingi and The Galactic Chiropractors live in session
- 1:10 Screw the charts, 2017's been a great year for NZ Music
- 2:10 The Staves on recording with Bon Iver: 'It was the most fun we've ever had '
- 3:00 Interview: Anoushka Shankar - freedom and tradition
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Ian Magan
- 7:30 Charlotte Gainsbourg grapples with legacy and tragedy on Rest
- 7:30 Heed The Call! Soul, Funk & Disco from Aotearoa, 1973-83
Saturday, 25 November 2017
- 1:10 Play it again Sammy's
- 1:30 'How Bizarre's Sister Sina is finally releasing her debut album after a 19-year wait
- 1:45 SoccerPractice discuss their excellent debut
- 2:05 Improbable pop stars: The Human League
- 2:30 E^st - Life goes On
- 3:00 Taxi DJs share the sounds they love in a unique music experience
- 3:20 Introducing: Erith
- 3:30 Downtown Boys: dismantling white supremacy and the police state
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Dick Frizzell
Saturday, 18 November 2017
- 7:30 Take Me Apart by Kelela
- 9:07 New breath of life for Breathing Cage
- 1:30 VIDEO: backstage with this year's VNZMA winners
- 2:05 At home with Kings
- 3:40 What do you say when people ask you where you are from?
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Sharon O'Neill
- 7:30 Reputation by Taylor Swift
- 6:00 Nick D and Kode9 discovered the best video game music of the 1980s
Saturday, 11 November 2017
- 1:40 All is Full of Love
- 11:04 Sister Nancy: the woman behind the biggest dancehall hit of all time
- 1:30 Interview: Marlon Williams | WOMAD 2017
- 2:40 Portugal The Man: "I'm 36, slightly overweight, I have no idea why I'm top of the charts."
- 2:50 Kimbra is on Top of the World
- 3:30 Introducing: Beachware
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Stephen Gallagher
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 161: Sister Nancy/Kimbra
Saturday, 4 November 2017
- 1:15 Neil and Liam Finn have an album but need a band name
- 1:50 Graeme James on his New Zealand tour
- 2:00 Making Music with Arduino
- 2:30 Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold on getting the band back together
- 3:00 Kurt Vile on his collaboration with Courtney Barnett
- 3:35 Pond: "There's just not much to do in Perth"
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Tama Waipara
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 160: Kurt Vile/Ponds
- 7:30 Local 70s disco classic gets re-issue treatment
Saturday, 28 October 2017
- 2:30 Ria Hall on her new album Rules of Engagement
- 1:30 Nadia Reid's producer wins big at the VNZMA Artisan Awards
- 2:00 Anthonie Tonnon "I’m trying to talk to my audience without hashtags"
- 2:30 She Will Move You - Villette
- 3:00 RIP Fats Domino
- 3:30 Cigarettes After Sex: "Sometimes the whole crowd is making out"
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Delaney Davidson
Saturday, 21 October 2017
- 2:17 Girls rock camp aims to address gender imbalance in the music industry
- 1:30 Who is the real Billy Corgan?
- 1:10 The wonderful Womad 2018
- 1:20 She Will Move You - Estere
- 2:30 Nite Jewel is bringing her 'liquid cool' to NZ
- 2:50 Die! Die! Die! aren't dead just yet
- 3:20 indi is on the Precipice of greatness
- 3:30 The Horrors
- 4:00 RNZ Music's Spring Mixtape
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 158: William Patrick Corgan/indi
Saturday, 14 October 2017
- 3:30 Clear the way for the Prophets of Rage
- 1:15 Dave Dobbyn, the pacifist at Passchendaele
- 1:40 The triumphant return of Julia Deans
- 2:00 Jordan Rakei beat his struggle with anxiety by making music
- 2:25 The New Zealand Music Foundation Wellbeing Service turns one
- 2:40 After life-saving brain surgery, Tokimonsta had to re-learn how to make music
- 3:00 Billy Bragg: how skiffle changed the world
- 5:20 Martin Phillipps of the Chills shows us Dunedin's historic venues
- 7:30 Album review: Aromanticism by Moses Sumney
- 7:30 The Sampler: Colors by Beck
Saturday, 7 October 2017
- 7:30 A fresh sound from Glaswegian post-rockers Mogwai
- 1:15 Who is the real Kimbra?
- 1:30 Katchafire: still on fire after 20 years
- 1:45 Yumi Zouma on Willowbank
- 2:20 Big (screen) ambitions for The Chills
- 2:40 Deer Park made an album between Auckland and Shanghai
- 3:00 Indialucia – from Flamenco to Raga
- 3:30 Arthur Ahbez live in session
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Unitone Hifi
Saturday, 30 September 2017
- 1:11 Silver Scrolls highlights
- 1:25 Chelsea Jade and Bic Runga
- 1:35 Alien Weaponry
- 1:45 Silver Scrolls: behind the music
- 2:06 Robert Scott performs 'Silence Or Something Else' by The Clean
- 2:20 Anatomy Of A Scroll: Nadia Reid, 'Richard'
- 2:40 Astro Children
- 3:10 A conversation with Look Blue Go Purple's Francisca Griffin
- 3:30 Anika Moa: live in session
- 4:06 Martin Phillips
- 4:25 King Loser's Chris Heazlewood pays tribute to his bandmate Celia Mancini
Saturday, 23 September 2017
- 1:00 Who should win the 2017 APRA Silver Scroll?
- 1:10 Raising a voice for refugees
- 1:30 Anatomy of a Scroll: Bic Runga on 'Close Your Eyes'
- 1:45 Anatomy of a Scroll - Lorde, 'Green Light'
- 2:05 "New talent, new styles” at the Waiata Māori Music Awards 2017
- 2:20 Anatomy of a Scroll: Chelsea Jade, 'Life Of The Party'
- 3:00 Angus and Julia isolate themselves for 'Snow'
- 3:20 The death of Optimus Gryme
- 3:30 Introducing: Zero Cool
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Andrew Dubber
- 7:30 Closed Circuits by Various Artists
Saturday, 16 September 2017
- 1:55 Maisey Rika and Troy Kingi win big at the Waiata Māori Music Awards
- 1:40 Summer Festivals 101
- 2:05 Billie Eilish: 15 year old pop prodigy on fiction and family
- 2:20 Shonen Knife: Ramones, rock and ramen
- 3:00 Kaupapa driven riddims: Grove Roots live in session
- 3:10 The future of Australasian hip hop
- 3:30 London Grammar
- 3:40 Introducing: Young Gho$t and Chronic Shnxman
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Hollie Smith
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 154: Shonen Knife/Billie Eilish
- 7:30 Sleep Well Beast by The National
- 7:30 American Dream by LCD Sound System
Saturday, 9 September 2017
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 153: Hex/ Rostam/ Best Bets
- 1:10 QUIZ: match NZ's party leaders with their favourite bands
- 1:10 Party leaders' favourite bands revealed
- 1:20 Jubilee – 2017 winners of Smokefree Pacifica Beats
- 1:30 Anabel Jamieson wrote a song about her dog
- 2:10 Rostam debut delivers on many levels
- 2:30 Nina Las Vegas hits Auckland
- 2:40 Introducing: Best Bets
- 3:00 Paul Kelly: "poet laureate of Australian music"
- 3:30 Hex summon the riffs
- 3:40 King Loser's Celia Mancini has died
- 3:40 King Loser - '16 Comeback Special
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Barnaby Weir
- 7:30 Out Of Silence by Neil Finn
Saturday, 2 September 2017
- 1:10 Pacifica Beats: countdown to the final
- 1:20 Local music shines at K Road festival
- 1:30 Tips for NZ musicians from industry summit
- 2:10 Hamilton rockers Devilskin deliver a massive show
- 2:40 Odesza don't know who's leaking their music
- 3:00 Why can't Soundcloud make any money?
- 3:40 Nelson's matryoshka-esque boutique record store
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 152: Devilskin/Soundcloud
- 7:30 Progress Junction by Sneaky Feelings
- 7:30 Epidural by The Spines
Saturday, 26 August 2017
- 9:17 Queens Of The Stone Age return with Villains, their most danceable album yet
- 1:10 The Music 101 team discuss the Silver Scrolls final five
- 2:30 October - Pure
- 3:10 Noah Slee - Soul, Sexuality and Spacifix
- 3:40 Auckland four-piece Racing perform live at RNZ
- 5:00 The Mixtape: AWA
- 1:30 Jane Abernethy discovered Bon Iver and signed Grimes
- 7:30 Little Arrows by Reb Fountain
- 7:30 Lesser Stars by Herriot Row
Saturday, 19 August 2017
- 1:10 Apple Music - 'credit where credit's due'
- 1:40 Broken news - Scribe's court no show
- 2:30 Rob Ruha on creating the te reo Māori version of Disney hit Moana
- 2:35 "A script for us" - the verdict on Taylor Swift's court win
- 3:00 Midnight Oil's Bones Hillman
- 3:30 Kirin J Callinan live at RNZ
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 150: Apple Music/Kirin J Callinan/Moana
- 5:00 Alien Weaponry rediscover te reo
Saturday, 12 August 2017
- 1:00 Young musical talent sprouting up at Acacia Woods
- 1:00 Iron & Wine's Sam Beam unleashes his inner beast
- 3:00 A week in the life of Mermaidens
- 3:00 Local music vid director Shae Sterling: “It’s such an amazing art form"
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Sneaky Feelings' David Pine
- 7:30 Mellow Waves by Cornelius
- 7:30 Then The Stars Start Singing by Charlotte Yates
- 8:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 149: Iron & Wine, Shae Stirling, Acacia Woods
Saturday, 5 August 2017
- 1:00 APRA's ambitious moves toward gender equality
- 1:25 Lisa Crawley on her new song 'Wedding Band'
- 1:45 Live session: Sons of Zion
- 2:30 Estère live at Blue Barn
- 2:45 How Bonobo got his groove back
- 3:10 Te Pari o Auahatanga - The Flood of Inspiration
- 3:30 Lydia Cole live at The Vic Theatre
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Lloyd Scott
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 148: Sons of Zion/Bonobo
- 7:30 The Time Has Come by Anne Briggs
Saturday, 29 July 2017
- 1:10 SWIDT: Onehunga to the maximum
- 1:40 The Head Like A Hole documentary: Swagger Of Thieves
- 2:10 Chelsea Jade wins development award
- 2:40 Introducing: Anxiety Club
- 3:15 Gang of Youths' Dave Leaupepe live in session
- 3:30 Moonshine Freeze by This Is The Kit
- 7:00 The Mixtape: Melody Thomas
- 7:30 Discussing dark matters with Randy Newman
Saturday, 22 July 2017
- 1:10 Murray Cammick's music photography: Auckland '75 - '85
- 1:45 Graeme Downes pays tribute to Roy Colbert
- 2:10 Fusillade - 28 songs and 28 videos in 28 days
- 2:20 Jol Mullholland
- 2:30 Introducing: Physical
- 3:10 Steve Gunn live in session
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Lucien Johnson
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 146: Eden and Jol Mulholland/Louis Baker
- 7:30 Otherness by Grayson Gilmour
- 7:30 Flying Nun reissues by Bressa Creeting Cake and Garageland
- 7:30 Design For Living by Blessed Relief
Saturday, 15 July 2017
- 6:00 Top 20 announced for NZ's most prestigious songwriting award
- 1:27 Edgar Wright's new movie Baby Driver is the best film you'll ever hear
- 3:30 Julien Baker feels completely at home in her girlfriend’s arms
- 1:45 JessB is spearheading a new wave of Auckland rap
- 2:20 Decades deliver debut album
- 2:40 Introducing: Soaked Oats
- 3:10 One man band Stretch wants 'less rock, more roll'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Karyn Hay
- 2:00 Louis Baker shares his soul
- 7:30 4:44 by Jay Z
Saturday, 8 July 2017
- 1:10 Trillion: remixing the past to make a new present
- 1:20 Kirin J Callinan, Aussie pop absurdist
- 2:05 Polish Club live in session
- 2:45 Inheriting the Penguin Café
- 3:10 Prince: 'the finest man in pumps I have ever met'
- 3:40 Introducing: A.U.R.A.
- 4:10 The Mixtape: RNZ Music's faves of 2017 so far
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 144: Trillion/Kirin J Callinan/Penguin Cafe
- 7:30 Two Hearts and No Brain by Kane Strang
- 7:30 The Sampler: Losing Heroes by The Bads
Saturday, 1 July 2017
- 10:44 Prince: artist, non-conformist, saviour
- 1:10 Sounds that send shivers up your spine
- 1:30 Live Session: Teeks
- 2:40 21-year-old Katikati bedroom producer taking the world by storm
- 3:06 Disasteradio - Oh Yeah
- 3:40 Live Session: Reb Fountain
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Rhian Sheehan
- 7:30 Sprite Fountain by The Ruby Suns
Saturday, 24 June 2017
- 7:30 Crack Up by Fleet Foxes
- 7:30 Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie
- 1:10 Aldous Harding takes on the United States
- 1:30 She Will Rock You - Amelia Murray
- 1:45 Janine - Unstable
- 2:10 The Modern Māori Quartet in session
- 2:30 Introducing: Jaggers x Lines
- 3:10 She Will Rock You - Annabel Liddell
- 3:30 The Volume Scene Report #3: Busking
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Tali
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 142: Aldous Harding/ Fazerdaze/ busking
Saturday, 17 June 2017
- 1:10 Lorde's Melodrama – first impressions
- 1:30 Lorde on Sober
- 2:10 Live Session: The Miltones
- 3:10 Steve Gunn on the American Primitive Guitar scene
- 3:20 This Was It: New York City and rock ‘n’ roll 2001-2011
- 3:40 Introducing: BooWho
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Paul Casserly
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 141: Julia Deans/ Emily Edrosa/ Steve Gunn
- 7:30 The New Happy by Glass Vaults
