Recent Music Stories
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Music Critic: Brad Warrington
23 Jun 2022Brad Warrington aka DJ Sticky Fingaz reviews Christchurch hip hop artist Big Sima's 'The Student', and Beyoncé's "Break my soul". Audio
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Dunedin Youth Orchestra Audrey Reid Composition Competition
22 Jun 2022Composer Anthony Ritchie joins us to announce the winners of this years Dunedin Youth Orchestra Audrey Reid Composition Competition. Audio
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Shining a light on misogyny and hate in country music
22 Jun 2022It's no secret that country music is full of misogyny, racism and homophobia. There's bro country and then there's her country says veteran music journalist Marissa R. Ross. Audio
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Matariki musical extravaganza on TVNZ+
22 Jun 2022Aotearoa's biggest music stars are performing at Purapura Whetū - Stars of Matariki on Friday. Audio
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Diabetes and Me: A well-paced playlist strikes right notes for a stellar treadmill workout
22 Jun 2022Action - like belting out a Taylor Swift song on a treadmill - leads to motivation, as Megan Whelan finds out during her journey.
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Music feature: Lexus song quest with Clarissa Dunn
21 Jun 2022After a four year hiatus, the much anticipated Lexus Song Quest will showcase some of Aotearoa's best young vocal talent. Clarissa Dunn from RNZ Concert, who will be hosting this year's semis and… Audio
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Music From The Crates
20 Jun 2022Ben James from Herb's Mobile Record Store is back again to pick some more tracks - tonight he plays muic from bands he's seen live and been blown away by. Audio
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Music Alive: NZSQ National Tour "2021" - Programme 1
The first of two programmes from the NZSQ's National Tour, intended to be performed in 2021 but delayed until April 2022. They give us a programme of Haydn, Ligeti, and Dvorak with Gareth Farr's Te… Audio
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Andrew Bird's Inside Problems
19 Jun 2022William Dart looks at Andrew Bird's new album Inside Problems. Audio
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The story of the birth of pop music
19 Jun 2022In his new book, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop, Bob Stanley, who is a member of English indie/dance crossover band Saint Etienne, tells the definitive story of the birth of Pop music, from 1900… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 June 2022
19 Jun 2022When Sister Suzanne Toolan wrote I am the Bread of Life in the 1960s she almost threw the song away, thinking it wasn’t very good. Since then, it’s been sung all over the world in many denominations… Audio
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Nashville Babylon 18 June 2022
18 Jun 2022On this week’s Nashville Babylon Mark has birthday tunes for Paul McCartney and Nick Drake, soul from Dusty Springfield and Etta James, more from Steve Earle’s latest album 'Jerry Jeff' plus a trio of… Audio
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Mixtape: Hollie Smith
18 Jun 2022Prominent NZ musician Hollie Smith has been writing and releasing music for over 20 years. Her 4th solo album Coming From the Dark charted number 1 on the New Zealand charts last year, and shes about… Audio
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The Sampler: Nilüfer Yanya, Popstrangers, Yves Jarvis
18 Jun 2022Tony Stamp is enamoured by London singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya's second album, checks out the return of noisy expats Popstrangers, and and grapples with Canadian weirdo Yves Jarvis. Audio
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Daffodils Theo Salmon on their new EP- Stay the Night
18 Jun 2022Daffodils are a four piece alt indie band from Auckland.
Many moons ago they had great success in the Smokefree Rockquest so we have been keeping an eye on them here at Music 101.
They have just… Audio
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Worlds of Music 18 June, 2022
18 Jun 2022Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie. Audio
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Jenny Mitchell wins the 2022 APRA Best Country Music Song Award
18 Jun 2022On Saturday 18th June, the highly-anticipated APRA Best Country Music Song Award was announced live on RNZ's Music 101.
Taking out the title this year is the ever-moving masterpiece ‘Trouble Finds A… Audio
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Trouble Finds a Girl wins APRA's Best Country Music song award
18 Jun 2022The song Trouble Finds a Girl - written by a team of four during a writing camp - has won APRA's Best Country Music song award. Video
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Alec Bathgate on Tall Dwarfs Announce 'Unravelled: 1981–2002' Box Set
18 Jun 2022NZ Band Tall Dwarfs is the dup of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate - former members of the NZ punk bands Toy Love and The Enemy - who were signed to Flying Nun records and for the first time their full… Audio
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Playing Favourites with Professor Rangi Matamua
Rangi Matamua has been helping people rediscover the connection that we all have to the cosmos, leading to what has been a dream for him: New Zealand celebrating Matariki as a public holiday, Friday… Video, Audio
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Gerry Paul: getting good ‘n greasy with the T-Bone band
18 Jun 2022Local bluegrass band T-Bone is releasing their debut album Good 'n Greasy this week, which will be followed by a jaunt around the North Island kicking off at the end of the month. Gerry Paul… Video, Audio
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Mary Gaitskill: the writer unafraid of unpopular opinions
American writer Mary Gaitskill traverses a lot of ground in her new collection of provocative essays, Oppositions. Compelling and oddly cohesive, the essays see Gaitskill put her sharp writing style… Audio
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Music 101: Charlotte Ryan
17 Jun 2022Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101 here on RNZ each Saturday afternoon from 1pm talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because… Audio
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