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1:35 PM.Alex Behan speaks to first time Silver Scrollers Alien Weaponry. The teenagers were bright eyed and bushy tailed as they navigated the media room with a ginger beer in hand. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Alex Behan catches up with Chelsea Jade and Bic Runga back stage at the 2017 Silver Scrolls. Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Highlights from the 2017 Silver Scrolls awards held in Dunedin. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger investigates the roots of Australian electronica. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Andrew Dubber is a music technologist, author, broadcaster, and academic. Along with his partner Michela Magas he runs Music Tech Fest, and lives in Sweden with two big fluffy dogs. Back in NZ to… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Wellington band Zero Cool introduce themselves. Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Dubstep producer and DJ Optimus Gryme has been animating dancefloors around NZ for around 25 years now. He talked to Tony Stamp about why he's hanging up his headphones for good. Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Julia Stone talks about the remote location where her and her brother recorded their new album and talks about why there are so many references to getting wasted in their music. Read more Video, Audio

2:20 PM.Chelsea Jade Metcalf and Leroy Clampitt dissect their Silver Scroll-nominated song 'Life Of the Party'. Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Noel Woods, a nominee with his band Grove Roots at the 10th annual Waiata Māori Music Awards, reports back from the ceremony in Heretaunga and takes the pulse of Māori music. Read more Video, Audio

1:45 PM.Ella Yelich-O'Connor dissects her Silver Scroll-nominated song 'Green Light'.
Interview courtesy of thespinoff.co.nz / Henry Oliver. Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Bic Runga and Kody Nielson dissect their Silver Scroll-nominated song 'Close Your Eyes'. Read more Video, Audio

1:10 PM.The giveahome concert series took place in sixty different countries on September 20 with big artists like Ed Sheeran and The National playing in different cities. It's all to raise awareness for the… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Thea, Tiny Ruins and other big names in New Zealand music performed a special concert last night - at a house in Mt Albert. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger reviews an intricate and mature, yet anxious new set from The National. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem got the band back together because David Bowie told him to. Nick Bollinger has a listen to their new album and ponders Bowie's advice. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In this week's Pocket Edition, Kirsten Johnstone speaks with Shonen Knife's Naoko Yamato about Nirvana, ramen and rock; Leilana Momoisea introduces us to some new hip hop acts; and 15-year old pop… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Ten years after the release of her breakthrough album Long Player, homegrown soul singer Hollie Smith joins Alex Behan for an hour of her favourite tunes. Read more Audio

3:40 PM.Young Gho$t and Chronic Shnxman introduce their song Metallica. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.London Grammar have hurdeled the notoriously difficult second album and are on their way to New Zealand at the end of this month. Guitarist Dan Rothman spoke to Music 101's Alex Behan. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.There are exciting new hip hop artists from both New Zealand and Australia releasing their first songs this week and RNZ's Leilani Momoisea has been keeping a close eye on them. Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.In celebration of Te Wiki o te reo Maori, seven-piece soul, RnB roots band Grove Roots perform their waiata Maori in the M101 studios. Read more Video, Audio

2:20 PM.Since 1981 Naoko Yamano has been the leader of japanese rock n roll trio Shonen Knife. The band are playing in NZ in October. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.15 Year old Billie Eilish's debut is full of high drama storytelling, leaving listeners struggling to decipher fact from fiction. The Los Angeles native has just been in New Zealand, and will return… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Summer festivals are fast approaching and to help us sort the wheat from the chaff Aroha Harawira gives us an overview of the upcoming parties. Read more Video, Audio