RNZ: Music 101

Christchurch native and music industry veteran Charlotte Ryan is the new host of RNZ’s flagship music programme Music 101. She joined us on the RNZ Music Mixtape to select some of her favourite songs, and to share stories from her long and varied career in music.

Aussie provocateur Kirin J Callinan joined RNZ Music's Tony Stamp to perform some covers, and discuss indecent exposure.

Songs of love lost, frustration, and oxygen particles feature in Song Crush this week.

On this week's Pocket Edition we host a live session with Sons of Zion, celebrate 50 years since Woodstock, and chat with outlaw country artist Justin Townes Earle.

This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance and unofficial Minster of Flying Nun. He shares an exclusively Dunedin collection of tracks ahead of The Others Way Festival.

It's ten years since Sons of Zion released their debut album. Since then they've given up their day jobs, written some chart-topping summer vibing songs, gone on a world tour (with Katchafire) and played alongside Six60 to 50,000 people at Western Springs Stadium. They play their hits and speak with Kirsten Johnstone.

Some veterans of music are back in fine form, and The Song Crush team are here for it.

The Woodstock Festival took place between August 15 and 17 1969 attracting a crowd of over 400,000 people and wrote itself into the history of music. For Bobbi & Nick Ercoline Woodstock became a defining moment in their lives - They featured in an iconic photo taken by photographer Burk Uzzle which was included on the cover of the triple Woodstock album. Trevor Reekie talked to the couple 50 years after that iconic photo was taken.

Americana/roots musician Justin Townes Earle is visiting New Zealand next week. He talked guns, police and the POTUS with RNZ Music's Kirsten Johnstone.

Comedian, musician and former Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen brings his new show Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome, to Auckland in September. He spoke to Elliott Childs about the similarities and differences between comedy and music.