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1:10 PM.RNZ's Leilani Momoisea, Katie Parker from The Wireless, comedian Alice Brine, and pop music reviewer Kate Robertson sat down with Music 101's Alex Behan for some hot takes on 'Melodrama'. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In the Music 101 Pocket Edition this week, we talk to Dunedin singer-songwriter Kane Strang about his remarkable international success, and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys about his new solo record. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger gets to grips with the glacial grooves of Icelandic quartet Vök. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Nick Bollinger discusses the solo debut of Berlin percussionist and electronicist Daniel Brandt Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Laughton Kora talks about his expansive career, from Kora to Kinetic. And about seven songs that have influenced him along the way. Read more Audio

3:40 PM.Combining elements of jazz, Afro-beat and electronica in a cosmic and apocalyptic brew, The Comet Is Coming are the Saturday night headliner at the 2017 Wellington Jazz Festival. Nick Bollinger caught… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Gold's top-flight musical instincts led him to record some of the most iconic names in world music. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Genre bending musician and composer Bill Frisell has been a leading light in jazz and experimental electric guitar playing since the 1980s. Here for the Wellington Jazz Festival this week, Frisell… Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Dan Auerbach has collaborated with the finest pedigree of Nashville musicians for his second solo album 'Waiting on a Song'. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Polish club are a Sydney duo whose blistering live performances are winning them fans across Australia. They're bringing their debut album tour to New Zealand for two shows at the end of June and… Read more Video, Audio

1:15 PM.Dunedin musician Kane Strang's second album 2 Hearts And No Brain is about to be released by American label Dead Oceans. Tony Stamp talked to a jet-lagged Kane the day after he got back from a… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.In this week's Music 101 Pocket Edition we talk to Stan Walker about his new song and stunning music video 'New Takeover, hear songs from a couple of the big winners at the Pacific Music Awards and… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Hollie Fullbrook (aka Tiny Ruins) is this week's mixtape guest. She shares the songs that move her with Melody Thomas.  Read more Video, Audio

3:40 PM.Volume is a special exhibition at Auckland Museum celebrating music making in Aotearoa. The museum has been collaborating with RNZ and three young producers on a series about different music scenes… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Denver McCarthy discusses the re-release of his 1998 techno masterpiece Inside A Quiet Mind, and his conversion to the Hare Krishna faith. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.The husky tones of Ben Ottewell (Gomez) are returning to New Zealand in support of his third solo album, A Man Apart. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.British singer-songwriter Beth Orton has just recorded her album Kidsticks. It's an album that sees her collaborating with an interesting line up of Indie musicians and features Beth playing synths… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Stan Walker says he 'wanted to go to war' in the video for his new song 'New Takeover', which is a powerful statement showcasing Māori as beautiful, composed and powerful. Read more Video, Audio

3:02 PM.Adding to the celebration of the 55th year of Samoan independence and Samoan language week, Samoan artists acknowledge their homelands with their accolades at the 13th Vodafone Pacific Music Awards. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is not just one of the biggest-selling albums in history; it might also be the most culturally significant. To mark the 50^th anniversary of The Beatles’ classic… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.In this week's Music 101 Pocket Edition we talk to Nic from dance-punk pioneers !!! about dancing in turbulent times, gus from alt-J about starting a restaurant in between albums, plus we have new… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Singer and songwriter Larry Morris was the frontman of the iconic pop band Larry's Rebels back in the swinging '60s. The band released seven Top 20 records and toured with high-profile international… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Music 101’s Alex Behan and RNZ Pacific’s Indira Stewart talk to three of this year's nominees about making music in the largest Polynesian city in the world. Read more Video, Audio

2:45 PM.Sal Valentine has dropped the Babyshakes moniker from his band name and has a new EP. The Church EP includes the track 'Just Another Lover', which Sal and his bandmates performed live for RNz Music. Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Chk Chk Chk are a dance- punk outfit who formed in California in 1996. 20 years later they've just released their 7th album Shake The Shudder, which is getting all sorts of love from the music press… Read more Audio