RNZ: Music 101

Lake South performs a few songs from his debut album before he heads over to France for some more Wellington Sea Shanty Society action.

Jon Toogood has called Melbourne home for the last 18 years, and it's here that he's readying his forthcoming Solo & Acoustic tour, a nine-date run that will see the Shihad frontman reduce and refine cuts from across his 10 album-strong back catalogue.

Nick Bollinger and Yadana Saw speak with Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Doug Wimbish ahead of their May concert at the Powerstation in Auckland

In this Pocket Edition, Yadana Saw and Nick Bollinger speak with one of Living Colour, Sam Wicks checks in with fellow ex-pat Melburnian Jon Toogood and Tony Stamp is on the phone to Future Islands' frontman Samuel Herring.

American synth-pop outfit Future Islands are about to release their 5th album The Far Field. Frontman Samuel Herring talked to Music 101 about his vast array of influences.

The small settlement of Te Mata, just south of Raglan in the Waikato, is the home of new label, Red Robin Records.  The label’s founders - Michael ‘Red Robin’ Robins and producer Naram - are using technology from the 80's to listeners back to when the dancehall and rub-a-dub genre was in its prime.

Fran/ Bar Group introduce their song 'Same Name'.

Spoon's new album Hot Thoughts is out almost twenty years after the band first started releasing their taut, tight pop songs. Alex Behan tiptoes through their back-catalogue with bass player Rob Pope.

Songbroker is a service streamlining access to New Zealand music for international producers of film and TV.

During the 1970s Barry Jenkin aka Dr. Rock was a champion of a free-spirited playlist that embraced music that defied commercial accessibility. For many music lovers, his radio broadcasts and time fronting Radio With Pictures was a beacon of taste that frequently saw him at odds with his producers. Barry Jenkin joins Trevor Reekie for his eclectic mixtape of songs that helped shape his career in NZ broadcasting.