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1:00 PM.Hopetoun Brown drop by Music 101 to perform a few songs. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Lily Allen has dealt with fame since she was 21. In an interview promoting her upcoming New Zealand show she addresses both the up and downsides to fame, the rawness of her new album, toxic internet… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.For Suffrage 125 a group of NZ women composers were asked to set poems and lyrics of the 1890s to song for a concert put on by the NZ School Of Music. French For Rabbit's Brooke Singer, along with… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Twenty years on from the release of his debut album 2b S.Pacific, we speak to Che Fu about how getting kicked out of Supergroove lit a fire that helped him create his landmark album and become the… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition, Reb Fountain shares a new song in her live session, Kirsten Johnstone speaks with Connan Mockasin about the many new things in his life and The Members' JC Carroll… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Six60 are the first New Zealand band in history to sell out Western Springs, filling the whopping 50,000-capacity venue four months before their February 2019 show. Lead singer Matiu Walters joins us… Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Philadelphia fret-flayer Kurt Vile has a new album out and is heading to New Zealand in April. He tells RNZ Music’s Francis Cook about his love of the South Island and his awe for Cass McCombs.  Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.English Music Journalist Neil Spencer once wrote that The Members were always the thinking punks band of choice: angry but intelligent, a suss reggae sensibility, and songs that resonated in the… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Introducing Christchurch singer Ashy. Read more Audio

2:00 PM.The premise of Connan Mockasin's new album and video series is disturbing. It's about a music teacher falling for his student, who he's mistaken for a girl. The cult-favourite musician speaks to RNZ… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Reb Fountain joins Alex Behan on Music 101 to perform a few as-yet unreleased tracks. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger appreciates the verbal virtuosity of Chicago rapper Noname. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.After more the four decades of Kiwi rock'n'roll, Hello Sailor guitarist Harry Lyon makes a solo album. Nick Bollinger listens. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Divide and Dissolve are a Melbourne duo whose politically-charged music focuses on issues like de-colonisation and fighting white supremacy. With instrumental doom metal as their foundation, they've… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Wellington composer Rhian Sheehan talks about his evocative, cinematic new work A Quiet Divide, which he's currently performing as a multimedia spectacular around the land. He speaks to Kirsten… Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.The Upbeats have been influential in the local Drum and Bass scene for going on fifteen years. The last five have seen their international reputation blossom and they sit down with RNZ's Alex Behan to… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Marlon Williams has won the 2018 APRA Silver Scroll Award for his poignant ballad ‘Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore’. The award was presented at a ceremony at Auckland's Spark Arena. Read more Video, Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger eavesdrops on Prince's private piano party. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Godfrey De Grut lectures in popular music at University of Auckland. The composer, saxophonist won the 2002 Silver Scroll for co-writing Che Fu's 'Misty Frequencies', and has played keys for Kanye… Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Silver Scroll nominated ‘Hunnybee’ had its beginnings as a lullaby for Ruban Nielson’s daughter. Here he lays out the struggle of writing an earnest love song for our… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Trevor Reekie talks to Dudley Benson about his eight-years-in-the-making album Zealandia. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Chelsea Jade describes her Silver Scroll nominated single Laugh it Off as being close to the epitome of what she wants to be as an artist. Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Wolf Alice just won the 2018 Mercury Prize for their album Visions of a Life and are all set to play the final show of their world tour at Auckland's Powerstation. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Makaira Berry and Hamiora Tuari speak about their new project Te Kākano which fuses soul, pop, R&B and most importantly te reo into an exciting new album. Read more Audio

10:00 AM.To celebrate the release of her new album Personal Best, Chelsea Jade arranged a very special collaboration with the St Mary's College choir and RNZ Music. This is the astonishing result. Read more Video, Audio