Music 101 for Saturday 13 October 2018

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

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

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

2:30 PM.One man and two guitars, songs of acute emotion delivered without artifice or showmanship, with a quick and self-effacing humour between songs, and an ease when answering random questions from the… Read more Video

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

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

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