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2:00 PM.Tali's new EP celebrates her influences and inspirations from nineties Christchurch rave culture to Olympic gymnasts and swimmers. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Play it Strange is the foundation encouraging school aged kids to write songs and develop as musicians and is still going strong in its thirteenth year.  Founder Mike Chunn talks Alex Behan through… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:05 PM.This year’s New Zealand Music Awards Critics’ Choice winner might be seen as an up-and-comer, but he’s no newbie. Read more Video, Audio

5:38 PM.In the Music 101 Pocket Edition tonight Yadana Saw brings us the team’s coverage of the Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa exhibition which has just opened at Auckland Museum and The Critics’ Choice… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger checks the unique and familiar sounds of local duo Hopetoun Brown. Read more Audio

3:45 PM.During Music 101's live broadcast from Auckland Museum's VOLUME exhibition, host Alex Behan asked for your best NZ Music moments - here's a selection of your answers. Read more Video, Audio

4:05 PM.The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps delves deep into his back pockets to present an eclectic and personal selection of music inspired by the joy of discovery. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Thirty years after the release of their debut album, Neil Finn and Nick Seymour from Crowded House talk about the making of the record and the evolution of the songs from home demos to finished studio… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Since their inception in 1964, The Māori Volcanics have been the most successful, and enduring of the Māori showbands. Prince Tui Teka, Dalvanius Prime and Billy T James all started their careers with… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Victoria Travers, senior exhibition developer at the Auckland War Memorial Museum joins Alex Behan live at the Volume exhibition to talk about some of their best discoveries. Read more Audio

2:24 PM.There are many interactive elements to the Volume exhibition at Auckland museum, including playlists you can keep when you leave. DJ Sirvere was in charge of compiling the 90s playlist, he also… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.Split Enz founding bassist Mike Chunn left in '77, and went on to play in Citizen Band, author a few books, have a long career looking after songwriters at APRA and then started the Play It Strange… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.At the opening night of Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa Alex Behan was excited to bump into Jools and Lynda Topp. Audio

3:37 PM.Alex Behan celebrates the 30th anniversary of Crowded House - and we play an original demo. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Lyric sheets, stage costumes and the Takapuna Grammar school shoes Lorde wore while accepting her Grammy are all part of a new Auckland Museum exhibition, celebrating Kiwi music history. Read more Video

8:53 AM.Music fans have a chance to take a walk through seven decades of New Zealand pop history at an exhibition that opened last night in Auckland. We spoke with Alex Behan from RNZ's Music 101 programme. Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger convenes a Sampler Summit to discuss the latest album from octogenarian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. He is joined by musicians Steve Abel and Hollie Fullbrook, and broadcaster Kim… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Volume is the first major exhibition to tell the story of popular music in Aotearoa. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

5:00 PM.Singer-songwriter Mel Parsons makes a mixtape of favourites and talks about her roots in the shearing sheds of Westport. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Auckland yacht-rock five-piece Lesiure have just released their self-titled debut album. Band members Jaden Parkes and Josh Fountain chat to RNZ Music's Yadana Saw. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Hugo Jay introduces his track 'Spent'. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Manos Del Chango, the duo of gravelly voiced Lyttelton troubador Delaney Davidson and Californian/Mexican singer and casiotone warrior Nicole Izobel Garcia play songs live in the studio. Read more Video, Audio