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4:00 PM.Picking the music is one of Aotearoa's most celebrated and recognisable artists. From reimagining the Four Square man to exploring Maori iconography in a pop-art style, his work is bold, playful, and… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.David Kilgour is a heavyweight in New Zealand music. The singer-songwriter has been prolific with his band, The Heavy Eights, who have released 11 albums. The group has been enlisted to play the Port… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The American garage rock musician teams with underground hip-hop producer Kenny Segal for an album that goes deeper and darker than he has before, as per its title. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.They've been described as the funnest, most charming musical groups in Aotearoa right now, the post punk band from Tamaki Makaurau 'Ringlets' are playing a very special gig next Saturday alongside… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Formed in 1974, The Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and successful bands to have originated in the UK punk scene. They stood out for their musicianship, their often aggressive or… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.We pay tribute to Aotearoa music legend Toni Huata. with a replay of a Mixtape from 2023.

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3:15 PM.In the past year, Melbourne’s underground pub rock-punk band Amyl and The Sniffers have made a remarkable rise to global prominence. Maggie Tweedie speaks to guitarist Declan Merhtens about the bands… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.Jason Parker joins Charlotte Ryan to talk about his show Little Gay In, and share some of his favourite pride songs. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The singer speaks to Charlotte Ryan about her New Zealand Fringe Festival Show. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest this week is Pachyman, an LA-based, Puerto Rican DJ and multi-instrumentalist producer. On his RNZ Mixtape, Pachyman pays tribute to legends like King Tubby, Scientist, and Lee "Scratch"… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The UK singer's third album harks back to '80s pop greats, using sex as set dressing to get at something deeper. Audio

2:15 PM.Led Zeppelin is one of the biggest rock bands of all time but for decades its three surviving members have been notoriously media-shy… until now. In Becoming Led Zeppelin - the first ever… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.In 2023, after the pandemic had stamped out her budding international career, a pregnant Nadia Reid moved to the UK with her partner and their toddler. On her new album Enter Now Brightness, the… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Leesa Tilley is a musical polymath who launched and managed the first four years of the Ragamuffin Music Festival as a promoter. Over the years, she has organised and presented numerous events, worked… Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.Elliot & Vincent (Elliot Finn and Vincent Cherry) join us in the Music 101 studio ahead of their Laneway set next week. The two piece rock 'n' roll band have been turning heads with their ability to… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The music on Tamara Lindeman's latest is as tangled and windswept as her inner monologue, but it's always beautiful. Audio

2:20 PM.A new documentary about maori metal band Alien Weaponry will be released in cinemas this Waitangi Day. Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara follows brothers Henry and Lewis Te Reiwhati de Jong as teens… Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.This weekend marks 60 years since The Rolling Stones toured New Zealand. It was the band's first visit to NZ and Australia and at time the longest travel they had undertaken in their career. The tour… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest curating the Mixtape is multi award-winning songwriter Holly Arrowsmith. Born in Santa Fe desert, New Mexico, and then raised in the mountains of Southern New Zealand, Holly Arrowsmith's… Read more Audio

2:14 PM.A Complete Unknown, the highly anticipated biopic film about the legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, is now showing in New Zealand cinemas. Directed by James Mangold, the film has… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Recognised internationally as one of the finest songwriters of our time, The Veil's Finn Andrews joins Charlotte Ryan on the eve of their Europe and UK tour. The band will tour their seventh studio… Read more Audio