Music 101

Rising kiwi star Benee joins Charlotte to share some of her favourite tunes.

The first Song Crush of the year has some songs nostalgic for the 80s, as well as some up-and-coming local musicians and more. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by Tony Stamp and Waveney Russ.

In 2009 broadcaster Zane lowe sat down with RNZ's Sam Wicks to play and discuss some of his favourite tunes.

Wellington electro dream-pop duo Paper Plates introduce their lead single 'Wait'.

Philippa McIntyre was a succeful DJ in NZ for fifteen years, before upping stakes and moving to Berlin. She's since started her own record label 'At Peace', with a view to sharing kiwi dance music talent with Europe.

Julia Jacklin has been on tour for the last nine months in support of her raved-about album Crushing. The Aussie singer-songwriter spoke to Tony Stamp ahead of her appearance at Laneway 2020.

Michael Upton has been making exploratory electronic music under the name Jet Jaguar for 22 years now. To mark the release of his sixth album Everything Happens, For Some Reason, he spoke to RNZ's Tony Stamp.

This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is newsreader Katrina Batten. She talks to Yadana Saw about her lifelong love of pop music.

Niuean musician and music educator Mal Lakatani shares his new song with Music 101.

This week’s selector is Robyn Malcolm who has graced local stage and screen for the past three decades, she speaks to Yadana Saw about the songs that have stuck with her through the years

Berlin based Noah Slee is back on home soil. He brings his stripped back neo soul sounds to the RNZ studio

On this week's Mixtape one of New Zealand's finest singer-songwriters Shona Laing shares five of her favourite songs, and reminisces about her life and career.

South Auckland based Samoan artist Disciple Pati talks with Charlotte Ryan about her new single and powerful music video.

Wellington solo artist Samuel Morgan introduces his song 'Forever Together' from his debut album Nicotine Dreams.

Charlotte Ryan talks with Bruce Ward, the man who made the Christmas song 'Snoopy's Christmas' very popular in NZ.

Sisters Valentine & Clementine Nixon had an unusual upbringing, splitting their time between Christchurch and Hong Kong, before relocating to a valley in Coromandel. Their second album as Purple Pilgrims, Perfumed Earth, came out on Flying Nun Records this year. Tony Stamp talked to Valentine after she had left the valley and found somewhere with better phone reception.

At the turn of the millennium 15,000 people gathered at the top of a mountain to dance. And then, it rained. A lot. Produced by Kirsten Johnstone

The Killing Joke frontman and classical composer picks five of his favourite songs and spins plenty of yarns about his life and career.

Fanfickk introduces us to her song 'Pure'.

Charlotte Ryan speaks with Joel Shadbolt, the singer for hugely popular kiwi band L.A.B.