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2:40 PM.Seattle electronic duo Odesza are on their way to New Zealand with their new album but they still don't know who has been leaking their songs. Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Devilskin are bringing over Canadian band Cyco Sumo to support them on their upcoming national tour, as well as stand out local bands in each centre. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Kirsten Johnstone reports back with some of the big takeaways from this year's Going Global music summit. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The others Way festival was back for its third year with a stellar lineup including Bic Runga, Jonathan Bree (of the Brunettes), Grayson Gilmour, Lawrence Arabia, SoccerPractise and heaps more! Read more Audio, Gallery

1:10 PM.We visit Manurewa High School the day before the Smokefree Pacifica Beats National Finals to see how final rehearsals are going. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger discusses a dark - and sometimes danceable - set from Reb Fountain. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger reviews a new set of melodic and literary songs from Auckland singer-songwriter Simon Comber a.k.a. Herriot Row. Read more Audio

1:30 AM.Jane Abernethy is the Director of A&R for seminal record label 4AD. Trevor Reekie talked to her ahead of the Going Global Music Summit in Auckland. Read more Video, Audio

5:00 PM.This week's RNZ Music mixtape selector is best known as the vocalist for Nesian Mystik. But since the band called time Te Awanui Reeder has been a busy musician, student, father and iwi business man… Read more Video, Audio

3:40 PM.Auckland band Racing dropped in to perform live ahead of their nationwide tour. Read more Video, Audio

3:10 PM.Neo-soul singer and producer Noah Slee is making a name in the international scene right now with his debut 'Otherland'. The Berlin based Tongan speaks to Yadana Saw. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.October AKA Emma Logan introduces her new song "Pure". Read more Video, Audio

1:10 PM.The Music 101 team digs into the significance of an all-female lineup of Silver Scrolls nominees. Read more Audio

9:17 AM.Long-lived rock act Queens of the Stone Age use super-producer Mark Ronson’s pop sensibilities and frontman Josh Homme’s restlessness to make Villains a swaggering, soulful, riff-rocking album.  Read more Video, Audio

5:00 PM.Teenage metallers Alien Weaponry pop into Music 101 to discuss their brand of te reo metal. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In the Music 101 Pocket Edition,we talk to Victoria Banks who has started an online petition asking Apple Music to include liner notes on their streaming platform. Tony Stamp hosts a live session with… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.One of Australia's best loved rock bands has reformed for a world tour after a 15 year break for political reasons. Trevor Reekie talks to the band's kiwi bass player Bones Hillman about Midnight Oil.

2:35 PM.Taylor Swift fans and non-fans alike have been praising her legal victory of $1 in a sexual assault against a Colorado radio DJ. M101 seeks reaction from local women about why they responded so… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The blockbuster Disney film Moana has been translated into a record 54 languages, and the latest of those is te reo Māori. Musical director Rob Ruha spoke to Yadana Saw about what it was like creating… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Was the media crusading against Scribe? Was it breaking news or did the media overreact? RNZ Mediawatch's Colin Peacock shares his opinion with Yadana Saw. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Nashville country artist and songwriter Victoria Banks is behind an online petition asking Apple Music to include liner notes on their streaming platform. She explains to Yadana Saw why this would be… Read more Audio

8:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition, we talk to folk troubadour Iron & Wine, music video director Shae Stirling, and visit a hip hop open-mic night in Christchurch. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger reviews a fresh set from Wellington singer-songwriter Charlotte Yates Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger discusses the first album in a decade from Japanese electro-pop collagist Cornelius. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Sneaky Feelings were one of the first bands signed to Flying Nun Records. Over thirty years later they're gearing up to play their first shows in ten years, in support of a new album, Progress… Read more Audio