RNZ: Music 101

Singer/songwriter Anthony Stretch aka Stretch has released his debut album called 'Bury All Horses' recorded at the Lab Studio with producer and drummer Wayne Bell. His musical journey includes playing in bands before setting out on his own as a one man band, touring Aotearoa, supporting Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, and meeting the late Joe Strummer from the Clash.

Dunedin band Soaked Oats introduce their song 'Avocado Aficionado'

Decades scrimped, saved, begged and borrowed to make their debut album with Shihad's Tom Larkin as producer and the reults are definitely worth it.

JessB is the first woman to appear on the David Dallas-curated 64 Bars series. Aroha Harawira spoke to the Auckland rapper about her burgeoning career.

Being Queer, Christian and from Memphis seems like an unlikely combination, but 21-year-old singer songwriter Julien Baker embraces all three with pride and ease. [audio_play] Julien says she feels completely at home within her community, her church faith and in her girlfriend's arms. "I just got to the point where I felt like that division of two very essential parts of my personality was not sustainable anymore and I could no longer support the idea that there was a god who could create me to be who I am and to persecute me for it." [image_crop:38067:full] Julien grew up in the thriving Memphis music scene and in a DIY punk community called Smith Seven. It was in these formative years she started her first band called The Star Killers which then became Forrister. In 2014 she recorded her first solo debut album Sprained ankle on 6131 records which gained critical acclaim, and caught the attention of Matador records, to whom she is signed to for her forthcoming sophomore album, rising up and joining the ranks with the likes of Cat Power, Kurt Vile and Perfume Genius. Julien Baker plays The Tuning Fork- Sunday 23rd July

Nick Bollinger discusses an intimate and international set of power pop from Dunedin’s Kane Strang.

Nick Bollinger reviews a homage to heroes and roots from well-travelled Auckland duo The Bads.

Aussie duo Polish Club are the self-proclaimed "sweatiest band in Sydney". Music 101 invited them into the RNZ studio to prove it.

Tony Stamp chats to Kirin J Callinan about his new album Bravado, and the lengths he's gone to for his art, including being covered in his own bodily fluids...

Former member of Canterbury rap duo Dark Tower Jody Lloyd is now based in Bali and going by the name Trillion. He talks about his talent for finishing things and how he could have been Moby.