In this week's Pocket Edition we have interviews with jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who just performed at Womad and Auckland Arts Festival, and Kim Deal, the veteran bass player, singer, guitarist and front-person for The Pixies and The Breeders.

Perfume Genius - performing name of American musician Mike Hadreas - is in New Zealand for festival shows in Wellington and Auckland. Nick Bollinger talked to him and caught one of his Wellington concerts.

Literate lyrics and memorable melodies define the second album by 22-year-old North American Lucy Dacus. Nick Bollinger discusses.

Nick Bollinger absorbs the guitar-soaked fantasias of Texan exoticists Khrungabin.

In this week's Pocket Edition, Kirsten Johnstone hosts Broods' Georgia Nott for a live session of her new material; Tony Stamp catches up with Pitch Black who are on their 21st anniversary tour and Trevor Reekie speaks to the inimitable Laurie Anderson.

The RNZ Music team talk about some of the best tunes of the summer (in their opinions).

World Champion DJ Spell who once dominated the turnabilism is now running his own global search for the world's best DJ. He and DJ Alphabethead give Yadana Saw a crash course in the art of scratching.

Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free of Pitch Black talk us through their collaboration with Phil Dadson's From Scratch project.

Laurie Anderson, pioneer of electronic music, inventor, visual artist, and wife of the late Lou Reed has just released an album with The Kronos Quartet, inspired by the objects she lost in Hurricane Sandy.

Broods frontwoman Georgia Nott released her new album on International Women’s Day. For The Venus Project, she has collaborated with an all women crew, from players to publicists.