All episodes
Saturday, 2 March 2019
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Teresa Patterson
- 9:00 Interview: Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson on new album Eton Alive
- 2:20 INTERVIEW: Hollie Fullbrook of Tiny Ruins on new album Olympic Girls
- 2:40 Hilltop Hoods opening for a master
- 3:30 Isaiah B Brunt - Voodoo Blues Tour
- 7:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 224: Sleaford Mods/ Tiny Ruins/ Neko Case
- 2:10 Neko Case: Finding Beauty In Destruction
Saturday, 23 February 2019
- 8:00 New Alien Weaponry documentary follows the band’s European tour
- 2:06 Song Crush - EP 5: Aldous Harding, Chaka Khan, Weyes Blood
- 3:56 INTERVIEW: Mark Day of The Happy Mondays
- 1:00 Julia Jacklin live session
- 2:00 Auckland Festival put Waiata Māori at the heart of their program
- 2:30 Love And Hope Live in Session
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Garth Cartwright
- 7:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 223: Julia Jacklin/ Happy Mondays
Saturday, 16 February 2019
- 3:30 Introducing: The Butlers
- 1:00 Song Crush - EP 4: The Grammys, Kacey Musgraves, Nakhane
- 2:40 Aussie teens The Chats on going viral with 'Smoko', and touring with Josh Homme
- 1:17 INTERVIEW: Cate Le Bon on her new album
- 2:10 Al Park - Better Already
- 2:20 C.W. Stoneking talks collaboration and reinvention
- 3:20 Lydia Cole performs 'The Sacred' live
- 8:00 New Alien Weaponry documentary follows the band’s European tour
- 7:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 222: The Chats/ Al Park/ Lydia Cole
Saturday, 9 February 2019
- 1:15 Streaming R Kelly and Michael Jackson: can we still listen?
- 1:30 Song Crush EP 3 - Tiny Ruins, Methyl Ethel, Fatima
- 2:05 Mark de Clive Lowe plays his Heritage on new album
- 2:30 Jon Hopkins
- 3:00 Jorja Smith
- 3:20 The Specials - Ska'd For Life
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Sir Vere
- 7:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 221: Jon Hopkins/ The Specials
Saturday, 2 February 2019
- 3:45 Introducing: Blu Fish
- 9:00 Beirut's Zac Condon on his new album Gallipoli
- 1:20 Don't Feed The Pop Monster
- 1:30 Song Crush - EP 2: James Blake, Julia Jacklin
- 2:00 Pickle Darling's Lukas Mayo on his debut album Bigness
- 2:15 The Wooden Box Band Live In Session
- 3:30 TrapHouseJazz pioneer Masego on his debut album Lady lady
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Karl Steven
- 9:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 220: Beirut/ Masego/ Pickle Darling
Saturday, 26 January 2019
- 1:05 Gin Wigmore is opening a hotel in Palm Springs
- 2:10 Fire: the Minecraft music festival
- 5:38 The Mixtape: John Psathas
- 1:30 Song Crush - Ep 1: Sharon Van Etten/Lawrence Arabia
- 2:20 LIVE SESSION: Opal Ocean
- 2:30 Lontalius
- 3:15 Introducing: Bored Housewives
- 3:40 Church and AP
- 11:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 219: Gin Wigmore/ Church & AP
Saturday, 15 December 2018
- 9:46 Live session: L.A.B. perform songs from their new album
- 1:30 Beach House
- 2:30 Introducing: Corduroy.
- 2:30 Bene is on the rise
- 3:05 Orbital bring live show to NZ
- 4:00 RNZ Music's favourite international songs of 2018
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 217: Orbital/Drax Project
Saturday, 8 December 2018
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 216: UnchainedXL/Hooked on Bach
- 1:10 Matthew J Ruys on his new album Things Broken, Things Awoken
- 1:30 Church and AP "scarcity creates demand"
- 2:00 Defining 'Island Time' with Diggy Dupé
- 2:05 VIDEO: Unchained XL performs 'Weight on My Bars' live at RNZ
- 2:45 Sorrento: Pick Up
- 3:00 Groundbreaking Moog masterpiece Switched On Bach celebrates 50 years
- 3:30 Introducing: Paige
- 3:40 The Buzzcocks - Long lunches, no sound checks.
- 4:00 RNZ Music's favourite local songs of 2018
Saturday, 1 December 2018
- 1:10 Mojo Juju on 'Native Tongue' and being mixed race in Australia
- 1:30 Mel Parsons on her new album Glass Heart
- 2:05 Noah Slee on his short film 'And So, We Move to Otherlands'
- 2:40 Raiza Biza and Remi on their new EP Black Hole Sun
- 3:00 Leisure perform with the APO
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Jonathan Lemalu
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 215: Mojo Juju/Mel Parsons
- 12:00 The Sampler: I Need To Start A Garden by Haley Heynderickx
Saturday, 24 November 2018
- 9:00 Opiuo: Born on the Dance Floor
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 214: Melodownz/ Julia Holter
- 1:10 Ignite: Tiki Taane and Salmonella Dub reunite
- 1:30 Sweet! Bailey Wiley is back with Sugar
- 2:00 Julia Holter on her follow up to Have You In My Wilderness
- 3:05 Lisa Crawley 'Baby It's Fine'
- 3:30 Meer was rapping for years before she told her mum
Saturday, 17 November 2018
- 1:00 NZ Music Awards 2018 winners
- 2:00 Music producers Gil Norton, Sylvia Massy and Clint Murphy spill secrets of the craft
- 2:30 Luke Buda and Don McGlashan's new protest song to get kids off Nauru
- 2:30 Live session: Congress Of Animals
- 3:30 Aucklands new family rap ensemble - Fanau Spa: "I haven’t experienced anything like it."
- 3:45 Tami Neilson live at Auckland Town Hall
- 4:00 The Mixtape: DLT and MC B-Ware of Upper Hutt Posse
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 213: Fanau Spa/Congress of Animals
- 7:30 The Sampler: The White Album Turns 50
Saturday, 10 November 2018
- 3:43 The Mixtape: Princess Chelsea
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 212: Artisan Awards/ Yoko Zuna
- 1:00 Kaaterama Pou on her debut EP Shine Your Light
- 1:30 NZ Music Awards 2018 Artisan Award winners announced
- 2:00 LIVE SESSION: Yoko Zuna perform songs from their new album Voyager
- 2:30 Introducing: Fruit Juice Parade
- 2:40 Balu Brigada: New music - Old Love
Saturday, 3 November 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: To the Sea by Harry Lyon
- 1:20 Ōtara Music Arts Centre: celebrating a musical legacy
- 2:30 Dunedin alt-poppers Jaggers x Lines on dealing with trauma through dancefloor bangers
- 3:00 Orchestra of Spheres on their new album Mirror
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Harry Lyon
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 211: OMAC/Orchestra of Spheres
- 7:30 The Sampler: Teal by Julien Dyne
Saturday, 27 October 2018
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Parris Goebel
- 7:30 The Sampler : The Loneliest Girl by Princess Chelsea
- 1:10 Australian pop sensation Kira Puru on dancefloors, diversity and her Tainui roots
- 1:40 Tali returns to her drum and bass roots on Love and Migration
- 7:30 The Sampler: Broken Politics by Neneh Cherry
Saturday, 20 October 2018
- 2:00 Che Fu on his debut album 2b S.Pacific
- 1:00 Hopetoun Brown live @ RNZ
- 1:40 Trevor Reekie's WOMAD 2019 highlights
- 2:30 Bangkok-via-Hamilton musician Phum Viphurit on his newfound fame
- 3:00 Live session: High Hoops performs tracks from new album Seasons on Planet Earth
- 3:35 Thomston turns up after two long years to give us The Heights
- 4:00 RNZ Music Spring mixtape
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 209: Che Fu/Tiny Ruins
Saturday, 13 October 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: Piano and a Microphone by Prince
- 7:30 The Sampler: Room 25 by Noname
- 1:00 Reb Fountain visits Music 101
- 2:00 Connan Mockasin on new album Jassbusters
- 2:30 Live: Paul Kelly performs at Roundhead Studios
- 2:30 Introducing Ashy
- 3:00 JC Carroll of The Members on punky reggae sounds of the suburbs
- 3:30 Kurt Vile: 'I know my music is pretty weird'
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Six60
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 208: Reb Fountain/Connan Mockasin/J.C. Carroll
- 4:00 Brooke Singer's Suffrage Song 'An Obstacle'
Saturday, 6 October 2018
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Ria Hall
- 10:30 Marlon Williams wins the 2018 APRA Silver Scroll
- 10:54 All the performances from the 2018 APRA Silver Scrolls
- 2:20 VIDEO PREMIERE: 'Give It To Me' by Motte
- 2:40 The Upbeats take drum n bass to the world
- 3:00 Rhian Sheehan on his new album A Quiet Divide
- 3:30 Divide and Dissolve, the Melbourne duo fighting racism through doom metal
- 2:00 Lily Allen on getting back her smile
Saturday, 29 September 2018
- 1:10 The kaupapa behind the Te Kākano album
- 2:05 2018 Mercury Music Prize winners: Wolf Alice
- 2:30 Anatomy of a Scroll: Chelsea Jade, 'Laugh it Off'
- 3:00 Dudley Benson on his epic album Zealandia
- 3:30 Anatomy of a Scroll: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, 'Hunnybee'
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Godfrey De Grut
Saturday, 22 September 2018
- 10:15 Laneway Auckland: 2019 lineup announced
- 11:22 From Beatles to Brockhampton - a short history of boybands
- 6:00 Anatomy of a Scroll: Troy Kingi, 'Aztechknowledgey'
- 1:15 Meet Rex Orange County
- 1:30 Jesus he was exceptional: remembering Darcy Clay
- 2:05 Veteran Aussie pub rockers The Johnnys are back on the road
- 2:05 Estere explains the demon behind her new song
- 2:45 Paul McLaney is the musical director of this year's WOW
- 3:05 Anatomy of a Scroll: The Beths, 'Future Me Hates Me'
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Adam McGrath
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 206: Darcy Clay/Troy Kingi/The Beths
- 7:30 The Sampler: Flow State by Tash Sultana
Saturday, 15 September 2018
- 1:38 Alayna Powley on her new EP Sweet Soul
- 11:00 Rob Ruha, Ria Hall and Alien Weaponry among winners at the Waiata Māori Music Awards
- 1:30 The Manurewa High band heading to the national finals of Smokefree Rockquest and Tangata Beats
- 2:00 Headquarters: The Beths
- 3:00 Introducing: Marlin's Dreaming
- 3:10 Mitch James
- 4:00 The Mixtape: 30 Years of Rockquest
- 7:30 The Sampler: Chills, snow, and the creative thawing of Martin Phillipps
Saturday, 8 September 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
- 1:10 Te Wiki o te Reo Māori: what role can music play?
- 1:30 Rob Ruha and Ria Hall to tour NZ in October
- 2:00 James Lavelle: The Man From Mo' Wax
- 2:45 RIP Mac Miller
- 3:00 Congress of Animals
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Don McGlashan
- 7:30 The Sampler: Negro Swan by Blood Orange
Saturday, 1 September 2018
- 7:30 The Sampler: The Record Man - A Tribute to Ron Kane
- 2:00 Blair Jollands on his new album 7 Blood
- 2:50 Introducing: Abby Wolfe
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Fiona McDonald
- 7:30 The Sampler: Lightsleeper by Neil and Liam Finn
Saturday, 25 August 2018
- 9:56 Christchurch musician Roy Montgomery on his latest album Suffuse
- 3:30 Pacific Heights' new album A Lost Light came to him in a dream
- 12:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 202: Pacific Heights/ Steven Wilson
- 1:35 Paul Banks on Interpol's sixth album Marauder
- 2:10 Steven Wilson: the king of progressive rock
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Julien Dyne
Saturday, 18 August 2018
- 3:00 Respect: the songs of Aretha Franklin
- 1:30 Avantdale Bowling Club: Track by track with Tom Scott
- 2:50 Introducing - Valle
- 3:00 LIVE SESSION: Emily Fairlight shines in highly awkward interview
- 3:40 Are Twitter bots promoting Wellington bands? The mystery of No Pictures Please.
- 4:00 The Mixtape: Devilskin
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 201: Chelsea Jade/Emily Fairlight
- 7:30 The Sampler: Invisible Lines by Ha The Unclear
- 7:30 The Sampler: Hive Mind by The Internet
- 10:00 Chelsea Jade performs 'Perfect Stranger' with the St Mary's School Choir
Saturday, 11 August 2018
- 2:00 Susan Rogers on her four intense years working for Prince
- 2:05 Live in session: Huia Hamon
- 5:00 The Mixtape: Some of the best tracks of 2018 (so far, in our opinion)
- 5:00 Music 101 Pocket Edition 200: Susan Rogers/Huia Hamon
- 7:30 The Sampler: A Dawn I Remember by Holly Arrowsmith
- 7:30 The Sampler: Avantdale Bowling Club by Tom Scott
- 7:30 Zealandia by Dudley Benson