RNZ: Music 101

Jamie and Violet, from Christchurch band Kool Aid introduce their song 'Family Portrait Revisited'

Concord Dawn are a drum n bass duo made up of Matt Harvey and Evan Short, who started making music in 1999, going on to great success in NZ and abroad.

To celebrate their twentieth anniversary they reunited for a Nationwide tour, released a new EP, and joined Tony Stamp to play some of their favourite tunes on The Mixtape.

On this week's Pocket Edition, Yadana Saw chats to Villainy about people mispronouncing their name and Elliott Childs talks to US band Warpaint backstage in Wellington.

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The 1969 film Easy Rider was a landmark counterculture film starring Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Not only was the film hugely popular, its soundtrack was groundbreaking, featuring pop and rock music instead of a traditional classical score, and thereby changing the film soundtrack forever.

Auckland five-piece Young Lyre introduce their new single 'Nobody Else'.

US band Warpaint were in New Zealand for two shows last week. Drummer Stella Mozgawa and Bass player Jenny Lee Lindberg spoke to Elliott Childs backstage at San Fran in Wellington.

Neill and Thom from Auckland rock band Villainy talk to Yadana Saw about people getting their name wrong, their current tour of NZ and which fictional criminal mastermind they relate to most.

Nadia shows us the places that mean the most to her, and takes a trip down memory lane, returning to the high school where she discovered her love of folk music and formed a bond with other musicians.

On this week's Song Crush we dabble in disco, flirt with funk, and indulge in some capital 'P' pop.

Paddy Free is one half of pioneering NZ electronic act Pitch Black. He's collaborated with top musicians including Moana Manipoto, Neil Finn and the NZ Symphony Orchestra, and produced some of this country's classic albums including Salmonella Dub's Inside The Dub Plates. Paddy joins RNZ Music to pick songs and share yarns for the Mixtape.