Rnz: Music 101

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'.

[image:199228:full] 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.

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.

On this week's Pocket Edition we meet American outsider artist Lonnie Holley, and learn about Girls Rock Camp Wellington.

Taken from his family as a toddler, Lonnie Holley had a traumatic childhood - neglect, abuse, being hit by a car, put in a prison camp, and living through the Civil Rights movement of mid-60s Alabama. Now 69, he's a celebrated visual artist and musician who turns his experiences into things of beauty and hope. 

The first Girls Rock Camp in Wellington is happening this July. Yadana Saw talks to the organiser Brooke Singer and student Holly Curtis about what people can expect from the week long programme.

Elliott Childs talks to Variety's Senior Music Editor Jem Aswad and NZ music expert Simon Grigg about the devastating archive fire that hit Universal Music in 2008 and what it means for New Zealand musicians who may have been signed to the label.

On this week's Pocket Edition we talk to sixteen year old pop savant Ruel, and Seth Haapu talks us through his new song 'All For You'.

Suzy Cato, anointed as Aotearoa's favourite babysitter, shares her mixtape of tunes and tales while dispensing her charming life advice to Yadana Saw.

16 year old singer/songwriter Ruel talks to Yadana Saw about his burgeoning career and the ups and downs of collaborative songwriting.

Nick Bollinger joins Yadana Saw in the RNZ studio to bid farewell to New Orleans music legend Dr John, who died this week at the age of 77.

Ōtautahi's Marley Sola introduces his new song 'Heaven'. 

The Song Crush team this week listens to Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker's evolution, new songs from Sleater-Kinney, Purple Pilgrims, Lower Dens and more. Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by Tony Stamp and Jana Whitta. 

It’s been 16 years since Scott Mannion released music with his duo The Tokey Tones. Now he's back with his first ever solo album, Loving Echoes. RNZ Music is stoked to the first to share his video for single ‘You Are the Substance That I Can't Live Without...’. We spoke to him about why it's taken so long. 

Once: The Musical has hit Auckland's Waterfront Theatre. Lead cast members Lisa Crawley and Adam Ogle swing by the RNZ Studio to perform the Academy Award winning song 'Falling Slowly'.