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

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.

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

A fixture of Wellington's musical landscape, a pioneer in this country's experimental and jazz scenes, Drummer Anthony Donaldson comes armed with a clutch of rare records for the mixtape.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Aaron Short is a member of the Naked And Famous who now makes music with Maddie North and Sam McCarthy as Space Above.