This is the final Music 101 for 2014. To celebrate, these are a few of our favorite (musical) things from 2014.

But fear not! Summer Music 101 is a happening thing until late January.

Join Melody Thomas with music news, festival reviews, and features including great live music performances, A History of Student Radio, Farfetch with Sam Scott, Anatomy of a SongStages and the MixTape

Summer Music 101, here and on air, each summer Saturday from the earlier time of midday. Yay!

2–3pm

D’Angelo - Black Messiah
After a 14-year absence, D’Angelo – the great soul vocalist and multi-instrumentalist music critic Robert Christgau dubbed “R&B Jesus” – is finally back on the scene with Black Messiah, an album that dropped with little warning this week. With only a handful of days to digest its soul, funk and R&B contents, drummer, beatmaker and D’Angelo-phile Riki Gooch talks to Emma Smith about the significance of this Second Coming.

D Angelo Greg Harris
D'Angelo / Photo by Greg Harris

The Sampler wrap up 2014
Nick Bollinger presents his favourite New Zealand music releases of 2014.

Introducing: Taste Nasa

Taste Nasa Maddie North
Taste Nasa / Photo by Maddie North

3–4pm

Johnny Thunders
Johnny Thunders, who died in 1991 aged 38, was the iconic guitarist for the New York Dolls and later the Heartbreakers, bands that would influence the English punk movement and a score of LA hair metal bands - despite being marginalised by the industry.
Trevor Reekie talks to Nina Antonia, long-time friend of Thunders and author of Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood, about the life and hard times of a rock ’n’ roll icon.

Johnny Thunders and Nina Antonia courtesy of Nina Antonia
Johnny Thunders and Nina Antonia in 1986 / Photo courtesy of Nina Antonia

Anatomy Of A Song – Lawrence Arabia, ‘Apple Pie Bed’
RDU’s Spanky Moore gets inside contemporary New Zealand hit tunes – this week he takes a scalpel to Lawrence Arabia’s Silver Scroll Award-winning ‘Apple Pie Bed’.

Mongo Skato
From hardcore to experimental house, Mongo Skato talks us through his musical progression.

Gig Guide

4–5pm

Music 101’s Top Tracks of 2014
It’s that time of year when music fiends are making lists and checking them twice, assessing the year in music that was. In the spirit of the season, Music 101 tasks a selection of our favourite music minds to come up with - and riff on - their favourite song of 2014.

Music played in this show

2-3pm

Artist: J Dilla
Song: So Far To Go
Composer: Yancey
Album: The Shining Instrumentals
Label: BBE

 

Riki Gooch on D'Angelo's Black Messiah
Artist: D'Angelo
Song: Ain't That Easy, 1000 Deaths,
Composer:D'Angelo
Song:Charade, Another Life
Composer: D'Angelo, Questlove
Album: Black Messiah
Label:

 

The Sampler: Best NZ Releases of 2014
Artist: Electric Wire Hustle
Songs: If These Are The Last Days, Loveless, Bye and Bye
Composer: Electric Wire Hustle
Album: Love Can Prevail
Label: Okayplayer

Artist: Grayson Gilmour
Songs: Tunnel Vision, Lichtung, Pareidolia
Composer: Gilmour
Album: Infinite Life!
Label: Flying Nun

Artist: Tami Neilson
Songs: Come Over, Dynamite!
Composer: Neilson/Davidson
Songs: Cry Over You, You Lie
Album: Neilson
Label: Southbound

 

Introducing: Taste Nasa
Artist: Taste Nasa
Song: I'd Like To Be Your Girl
Composer: Clampitt
Album: Single
Label: Self Released

 

3- 4pm

Johnny Thunders- Interview with Nina Antonia

Artist: New York Dolls
Song: Trash
Comp:Johansen,Sylvain
Album: New York Dolls
Label:Mercury Records

Artist: New York Dolls
Song:Pills
Comp:Bo Diddley
Album: New York Dolls
Label:Mercury Records

Artist: New York Dolls
Song: Personality Crisis
Comp:Johansen,Thunders
Album: New York Dolls
Label:Mercury Records

Artist: New York Dolls
Song: Looking For A Kiss
Comp:Johansen,Thunders
Album: New York Dolls
Label:Mercury Records

Artist: New York Dolls
Song: (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
Comp:Gamble, Huff
Album:Too Much Too Soon
Label:Island Records . Def jam Music group

Artist:Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Song: Born To Lose
Comp: Johnny Thunders
Album:L.A.M.F (the lost 77 mixes)
Label:Jungle Records

Artist: Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Song:Chinese Rocks
Comp:Nolan, Thunders, Hell, Dee Dee Ramone
Album:L.A.M.F (the lost 77 mixes)
Label:Jungle Records

Artist: Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Song: It's Not Enough
Comp: Johnny Thunders
Album:L.A.M.F (the lost 77 mixes)
Label:Jungle Records

Artist: Johnny Thunders
Song: Leave Me Alone
Comp: Johnny Thunders
Album:So Alone
Label:Sire Records

Artist:Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin
Song: Two Time Loser
Comp:Thunders , Palladin
Album:Copy Cats
Label:Jungle Records

Artist: Johnny Thunders
Song: You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory
Comp: Johnny Thunders
Album:So Alone
Label:Sire Records

 

 

Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Dark Child
Composer: Tim Moore
Album:
Label:

 

Anatomy of a Song: Apple Pie Bed
Artist: Lawrence Arabia
Song: Apple Pie Bed
Composer: Milne/ Buda
Album: Chant Darling
Label: Honorary Bedouin

 

Artist: The Starlings
Song: That's I, You're In Trouble
Composer: Sheehan
Album: Valid
Label:

 

Mongo Skato
Artist: Mongo Skato
Song: Fela, Jobin, Flythrua
Composer: Richards
Album: I Don't Give It
Label: 1080p Collection

 

Gig Guide
Artist: Mastodon
Song: Thickening
Composer: Mastodon
Album: The Hunter
Label: Reprise

 

4-5pm

2014 Favourites
Artist: Prince/3rdEyeGirl
Song: funknroll
Composer: Prince.
Album: Art Official Age
Label: Warners

Artist: @Peace
Song: Where I Come From
Composer: Scott/L Tuiasau
Album: Single
Label: Self-Released

Artist: Trinity Roots
Song: Haiku
Composer: Maxwell/Hemopo
Album: Single
Label: Self Released

Artist: Diocletian
Song: Wretched Sons
Composer: Diocletian
Album: Gesundrian
Label: Osmose Productions

Artist: White Fence
Song: Like That
Composer: Presley
Album: For The Recently Found Innocent
Label: Drag City

Artist: Aldous Harding
Song: Hunter
Composer: H Harding
Album: Aldous Harding
Label: Lyttelton Records

Artist: Sun Kil Moon
Song: Clarissa
Composer: Kozelek
Album: Benji
Label: Caldo Verde

Artist: Sam Smith
Song: Money On My Mind
Composer: Sam Smith,Ben Ash
Album: In The Lonely Hour
Label: Capitol

Artist: Sia
Song: Chandelier
Composer: Sia Furler / Jesse Shatkin
Album: 1000 Forms Of Fear
Label: Inertia