Asti-Loren, Maya Payne and Nakita. These three young women are changing the way New Zealand makes pop music, and they’re doing it one carefully crafted post and polished pop song at a time.

In our final New Zealand Music Month Mixtape, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, singer and songwriter Moana Maniapoto plays us her favourite tunes from Aotearoa.

This week, Trinity Roots talk business acumen and strategy; meet the new popstars following Lorde's footsteps, and we delve into Pacific Height's new LP.

This week's Introducing is only a week old. This is Merk.

Pacific Heights' Devin Abrams introduces Sam Wicks to a handful of cuts from The Stilness.

Sydneyside electronic dance trio Rüfüs tell Sam Wicks about their EDM wins in Australia and beyond.

This week's Music 101 Pocket Edition, Cherie Currie on her time fronting The Runaways, Bizzy Bone on overcoming his troubled past, Space Above introduce themselves and Cleve Cameron explores the Primal Digital.

On May 8th, genre-defying Oxfordshire quintet Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool. To explore its depths and details, Nick Bollinger has called a Sampler Summit with local musicians Dianne Swann, Sean Donnelly and Jol Mulholland.

For New Zealand Music Month we've invited our guests to make us a mixtape of their fave local release. This week David Benge of VICE New Zealand sits down with Zac Arnold.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's Bizzy Bone speaks with Sam Wicks about overcoming his troubled past.