RNZ: Music 101

16 year old singer songwriter Grace Kelly talks to Yadana Saw about recording in Nashville, her viral hit 'San Jose' and being asked to open for country star Blake Shelton.

Make a cuppa, pull up the blankies, Kirsten Johnstone and the Song Crush team serve up toasty new tunes to warm you up. This week's show includes The Comet is Coming, Iron & Wine and Calexico and Jordan Rakei amongst others.

On this week's Pocket Edition Tony Stamp talks to a jetlagged Louis Baker, and Trevor Reekie encounters cult Auckland act Hallelujah Picassos.

Wellington’s Beastwars is perhaps New Zealand’s best-loved metal band, so when they broke up in 2016, fans were gutted. Worse news was to follow – a year later, the band’s frontman Matt Hyde was diagnosed with cancer. He tells RNZ Music’s Kirsten Johnstone how his fight back from illness got the band back together.

Founding member of the Mutton Birds David Long Joins Yadana Saw to discuss his work as a composer for film and TV as well as his time in one of New Zealand's best loved bands of the 1990s.

Auckland's Tei introduces us to her song 'Britney'.

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The Hallelujah Picassos were a bunch of happy musical misfits, resident in the Auckland CBD from 1988 til 1996. The Picassos mixed up genres with unabashed glee, slamming them together, often within the same song. Fast forward to 2019 and the release of their new album Voices of Exuberant Hellhounds finds the band in excellent form despite coming to terms with the passing of their much loved drummer and vocalist Bobbylon who contributed so much to the Picasso's unique sound. For Music 101 Peter McLennan, Darren Harkness (who engineered the album) and vocalist and principal songwriter Roland Rorschach came into the RNZ studio to take us on a quick tiki tour of their new album Voices of Exuberant Hellhounds. Absent was long-time collaborator Johnny Pain who played keyboards, bv's and designing the mighty fine vinyl cover art.

Up and coming jazz singer Lou'ana and her seven piece band joined Tony Stamp in the RNZ studio to perform.

The same day he flew back from the UK Louis Baker joined Tony Stamp in the RNZ studio to talk about his new album: Open.

The Song Crush team this week has new music ranging from scandipop to jazz. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by RNZ Afternoons producer Emile Donovan, Inside Out host Nick Tipping, and RNZ Music’s Tony Stamp.