Rnz: Music 101

The Song Crush team this week play some tracks you should listen to instead of the new Ed Sheeran record

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. [image:83455:full]

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.

On this week's Pocket Edition Stan Walker tells us about his new single, Milan Borich talks us through the reformation of Pluto, and we meet kiwi teen pop muso Benee.

Dunedin's Millie Lovelock plays in noisy rock duo Astro Children, but has just released a quiet, introspective album as Repulsive Woman. She talks to Kirsten Johnstone about how studying boy-band One Direction and the work of proto-feminist writer Djuna Barnes led to these songs.

RNZ News presenter and the voice of Midday Report, Nicola Wright joins Elliott Childs for the RNZ Mixtape.

Maimoa Music crew member Pere Wihongi has released his first solo song 'High on Ingoingo' to encourage and inspire rangatahi. Pere speaks to Yadana Saw about being the brightest thing out of Herekino.

Benee is a nineteen-year-old singer from Grey Lynn in Auckland, who recently signed a deal with Republic Records, home to some of the world's biggest pop stars.

Some songs can articulate an experience so well that it feels as if the writers have actually read your mind. The Song Crush team this week have a couple of those songs, from rapper NF, Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Yola and more.

On this week's Pocket Edition Beastwars' Matt Hyde tells us how a cancer scare brought his band back together, and sixteen year-old Grace Kelly performs her viral hit song 'San Jose'.

As Ardijah celebrates 40 years of making music, lead singer Betty-Anne Monga reflects on her life of waiata and whānau for the RNZ Mixtape.

English musician Nick Drake achieved little commercial success before his death in 1974 at the age of 26, but these days he’s considered an essential artist who’s influenced some of the biggest names in music. We spoke to friend and producer Joe Boyd on the 50th anniversary of Drake's debut album Five Leaves Left.