Music 101

Show Notes

13:10 Our favourite songs of 2025

We've enlisted a few musicians, as well as some RNZ presenters and staff members, to share their favourite musical discoveries of the year. Plus Kara and Tony chime in on theirs. 

Photo: Steven Marr

15:15 1995 Episode 4: Electronic Excursions

In the last of a four part series revisiting albums that turned 30 this year, Tony Stamp looks at the new forms of electronica taking shape around the globe, and an explosion of creativity in America's hip-hop scene.

Photo: bjork

15:35 The Sampler: Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover

Nick Bollinger looks at two folk musicians who are unlikely to become mainstream names, but whose new album will bring hope to everyone who wonders what happened to protest songs.

What Of Our Nature? by Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover (Fat Possum Records) Photo: Fat Possum Records

16:10 The Mixtape: Kara Rickard

Tony Stamp sits down with the host of Music101 to celebrate her six months in the role, learn more about her past, and hear six of her favourite songs.

Kara Rickard & Tony Stamp Photo: So'omālō Iteni Schwalger

Songs Played:

1pm - 2pm

• The Circling sun - Constellation

• Kokoroko - Da du Dah

• Mel Parsons - Post High Slide

• Mim Jensen - Past Life

• Lady Wray - Best for Us

• Georgia Knight - Mingle 

• Lucy Dacus - Best Guess

• Geneva AM - Tīpuna Rākau

• Jon Batiste - I Need You

• Annahstasia - Overflow

• Alex G - Afterlife

2pm - 3pm

• Dawson x Nathan Haines - Secrets

• There's a Tuesday - Margo

• Anna Coddington - Beams

• Royel Otis - Car

• Dijon - Yamaha

• Flock of Dimes - Keep Me In the Dark

• Willin’ by Little Feat

• Geese - Cobra

• Barry Can’t Swim - Like It’s Part of the Dance

• MĀ - Mahi

• Marlon Williams - Kei Te Mārama

• Te Wehi & Hori Shaw - Ready to Ride

• Emille O’Sullivan - The Ship Song

3pm - 4pm

• Nightmares on Wax - You Wish

• The Beths - Till my Heart Stops

• Early James and Sierra Ferrell - Real Lowdown Lonesome

• Leftfield - Original, Afro Left

• The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home, One Too Many Mornings

• Tupac - Dear Mama

• GZA - Liquid Swords

• The Roots - Mellow My Man

• D’Angelo - Lady

• Björk - Army of Me, Hyper-ballad

• Garbage - Stupid Girl

• Nightmares on Wax - Nights Introlude, Mission Venice

• Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm

• Gnonnas Pedro and his Dadjes Band - Dadge Von O Von Non "83"

• Hemi Hemingway - Oh My Albertine ft Vera Ellen

• Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover - Mr Marketer, Song For Alicia, In Bulosan’s Words, Fluorescent Light

• Womb - Only You

4pm - 5pm

• Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream

• Radiohead - Let Down

• Opensouls -  Falling In

• Disclosure - Latch

• Bon Iver - Perth

• Sampa the Great - Final Form