Nick Bollinger checks a fruitful collaboration between British/New Zealand band The Veils and U.S. hip-hop producer El-P.

Shayne P. Carter plays two of his new songs live on the baby grand piano at the James Cook Hotel restaurant in Wellington.

Songwriter and Greenpeace activist Steve Abel joins Nick Bollinger in the studio with his band to play a couple of songs from his new album Luck/Hope.

Unsanitary Napkin introduce their track 'Choade Crystal'.

Ebony Lamb of folk-country band Eb and Sparrow shares her C60 faves for The Mixtape.

New Brunswick's Screaming Females detail their D.I.Y. history ahead of a New Zealand tour.

Dave Weir, former bassist for New Gum Sarn gives us food for throught with his debut EP.

Nick Bollinger ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes.

Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down.

In this week's Music 101 Pocket Edition Arrested Development talk social activism, Australian sample heavy hip-hop trio The Avalanches on why it took 16 years to make an album, and a look back at The Reduction Agents,ten years on.