Rnz: Music 101

The song crush team have sonic whiplash this week, veering from orchestral bombast to old-school hip-hop to scandi-avant-techno to Chinese opera meets Jamaican rocksteady.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Dianne Swann shares some of her favourite songs, and talks about her extensive career, with bands including When The Cats Away, Everything That Flies, The Julie Dolphin, and alt-country duo The Bads. 

Bic Runga talks to Charlotte Ryan about the new album Waiata/ Anthems.

Septuagenarian Iggy Pop has a new set of jazz inflected songs - some silly, some profound; Octogenarian bluesman Bobby Rush gets frisky with 'Sweet Lizzy', SiR fills some sweet 'boudoir RnB' with the voice of Jill Scott and Kentucky folk singer Joan Shelley creates an oasis of calm. 

As a kid growing up in Flaxmere, Tipene assumed his destiny was being a Mongrel Mob member, but music steered him on a different course. Kirsten Johnstone finds out about the long and winding path to his debut album Tautoko.

Auckland duo Crap Date introduce their song 'Ephemera'.

Up and coming pop/ punk band Miss June visit RNZ and speak to Charlotte Ryan.

Up and coming musician JessB performs live at RNZ and talks about her new EP.

Lana Del Rey releases her strongest songs ever five albums in, Lizzo hits the top of the charts with a song released two years ago, King Princess is riding a big gay wave of queer pop - here's the latest crop of song crushes from the RNZ Music team. 

The comedian and Snapchat dude joins Charlotte to talk about some of his most beloved songs.

Tony Stamp talks to five of the international speakers at this year's Going Global Music Summit.

Angus Stone joins Charlotte to discuss his side project Dope Lemon.

Nashville to K-Pop to K-Rd to DC Hardcore - Song Crush spans the global gamut this week. Hold on tight, it’s a bumpy ride. 

This week on Music 101 Pocket Edition, Jana Whitta talks to Corin Tucker of Sleater Kinney about the band's new album and Elliott Childs talks comedy and music with Portlandia star and comedian Fred Armisen.

Portland based Indie rock legends Sleater Kinney have just released their 9th studio album The Center Won't Hold. Jana Whitta spoke to Corin Tucker from the band about making the album and how world events influenced them.

Christchurch native and music industry veteran Charlotte Ryan is the new host of RNZ’s flagship music programme Music 101. She joined us on the RNZ Music Mixtape to select some of her favourite songs, and to share stories from her long and varied career in music. 

Aussie provocateur Kirin J Callinan joined RNZ Music's Tony Stamp to perform some covers, and discuss indecent exposure.

Songs of love lost, frustration, and oxygen particles feature in Song Crush this week. 

On this week's Pocket Edition we host a live session with Sons of Zion, celebrate 50 years since Woodstock, and chat with outlaw country artist Justin Townes Earle.

This week's RNZ Mixtape selector is Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance and unofficial Minster of Flying Nun. He shares an exclusively Dunedin collection of tracks ahead of The Others Way Festival.