RNZ: Music 101

Peter Ruddell from Sulfate introduces their song 'Bush'.

Ayisha Jaffer phones in from an Alaskan nature reserve to tell us about her new EP as Skux.

Charlotte Ryan interviews frontman of English pop-rock group The 1975, Matty Healy.

The song crush team have sonic whiplash this week, veering from orchestral bombast to old-school hip-hop to scandi-avant-techno to Chinese opera meets Jamaican rocksteady.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Dianne Swann shares some of her favourite songs, and talks about her extensive career, with bands including When The Cats Away, Everything That Flies, The Julie Dolphin, and alt-country duo The Bads.

Christchurch rocker Adam Hattaway performs live @ RNZ and tells us about his Delaney Davidson-produced new album.

Bic Runga talks to Charlotte Ryan about the new album Waiata/ Anthems.

Septuagenarian Iggy Pop has a new set of jazz inflected songs - some silly, some profound; Octogenarian bluesman Bobby Rush gets frisky with 'Sweet Lizzy', SiR fills some sweet 'boudoir RnB' with the voice of Jill Scott and Kentucky folk singer Joan Shelley creates an oasis of calm.

As a kid growing up in Flaxmere, Tipene assumed his destiny was being a Mongrel Mob member, but music steered him on a different course. Kirsten Johnstone finds out about the long and winding path to his debut album Tautoko.

Auckland duo Crap Date introduce their song 'Ephemera'.