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3:15 PM.RNZ's resident pop expert Sam Robinson weighs in on Katy Perry's new album 143 in a year of giant pop releases. Read a review of 143 here. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.The legendary avant-garde artist's latest release is a musical retelling of Amelia Earhart's final flight. Read more Audio

2:15 PM.Conor Oberst and his friends have released a new Bright Eyes album Five Dice, All Threes, featuring some beautiful collaborations with Cat Power and The National's Matt Berninger. Singer Conor and… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Music 101 is excited to announce the finalists for the APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. We will announce the four finalists and play an excerpt of each wonderful composition on the show. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The new Jamie xx album In Waves promises to own the dance floor this summer. The English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer started his career at the age of 18 forming the XX with his friends… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.RNZ has just received the news that New Zealand musician Eddie Low has died. Eddie Low was an Award-winning singer, entertainer, songwriter, composer known as the 'voice in a million'. He was a member… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is broadcaster, singer and author Anika Moa. Starting her music career over 20 years ago, Anika is one of Aotearoa's most loved musicians. She has written some of our… Read more Audio

3:40 PM.After relocating to a remote Island outside of Oslo, Okay Kaya has been able to access a deeper sense of solitude giving her more time to write and focus on a simpler and more stripped back album.  Read more Video, Audio

3:15 PM.NZ electronic duo, Pitch Black, have been making electronic music since 1996. Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free have pioneered their own sound that blends dub and electronica. Pitch Black's first… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.UK sound artist Jon Hopkins draws inspiration from Ecuadorian caves and Edinburgh ice rinks to stages across the globe, drawing inspiration for his music from these diverse environments. Hopkin's… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.When Chris White was part of Dire Straits in the mid-1980s they were massive - but there were "no big bust-ups, not like Oasis", he tells Music 101. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.New Zealand music pioneer Doug Hood died earlier this week after a long illness. He had a distinguished career in New Zealand music as an engineer, manager and later a promoter for local and… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Tony Stamp looks back at three albums turning 30 this year, in the third of a six-part series. Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest today picking the music is David Walliams, one of Britain's best-loved children's authors and some would say, their most controversial comedian. Walliams came to fame alongside Matt Lucas on… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Georgia Gets By, the project of New Zealand's Georgia Nott, has released a new EP Split Lip. Georgia is one half of the Nelson duo Broods, the electronic project she started with her brother over a… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Tony Stamp looks back at three albums turning 30 this year, in the second of a six-part series. This week R.E.M, Weezer and Oasis get a replay on The Sampler.  Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.This week marks 50 years of music therapy in Aotearoa. Chris O'Connor, drummer for The Phoenix Foundation, joins Charlotte Ryan in studio to talk about his new career as a music therapist and the… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Tami Neilson, the Canadian born/ NZ-based country singer, has broken new ground for Kiwi country music - she has been welcomed into Willie Nelson's tribe. Last year we heard the beautiful duet she… Read more Video, Audio

4:15 PM.Elliott Childs reviews Jack White's latest album, No-Name, noting that it marks a return to the bluesy rock sound that originally endeared him to fans of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead… Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Our guest picking the music today is one of the most powerful voices in the music industry. New York-based music journalist Puja Patel was the editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, a hugely influential music… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Teremoana Rapley speaks to TAHI presenter So'omalo Iteni Schwalger at the Pacific Music Awards after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.American Songwriter Bill Callahan has been writing music under the name Smog and his own name since the early 1990s. His distinctive baritone voice and melancholy songs often sound like poems set to… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.In 1988 New Zealand was riding the wave of 80s pop culture, and at the forefront was Rikki Morris. His hit 'Nobody Else', produced by his late brother Ian Morris, topped the charts here. Rikki has won… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Tony Stamp looks back at three albums turning 30 this year, in the first of a six-part series. Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.The poet's job description is "keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in," David Merritt says. Read more Video, Audio