Rnz: Music 101

The slogan for NZ Music month this year is 'Discover New'. The RNZ Music crew bring this kaupapa to their mixtape, with some brand new exciting finds, and some old favourites too. 

Janelle Monae holds the Declaration of Independence to account in a funky and forthright new album. Nick Bollinger discusses.

In this week's Pocket Edition, Yadana Saw walks around Burning Up Years a new music exhibition that has opened at Wellington Museum. Alex Behan speaks with Parquet Court's Andrew Savage about their new work with pop producer Dangermouse and Auckland's Carb on Carb are in for a live session.

Sandy Mill is the voice heard on the albums of SJD, Neil Finn, and Placebo. After nearly three decades of the music business, she's finally released her own EP. She shares her mixtape of favourite songs that have influenced her.

Andrew Savage of New York indie-rockers Parquet Courts speaks about recording their album with pop producer Danger Mouse, and his connections to New Zealand band Opposite Sex.

Yadana Saw heads down to Wellington Museum for a sneak peak ahead of the opening of Burning Up Years - an exhibition showcasing New Zealand music made in 1960-78.

Nominees at this years Music Managers Award Paula Yeoman and James Southgate discuss the changing roles in managing artists and collaboration and support in the industry through the Music managers Forum (MMF).

A trio of up-and-coming NZ bands have a hoon in the RNZ studio, in celebration of their colaboration Corduroy Cape: A Persnickety Mixtape.

Nick Bollinger discusses the ascent - and intent - of chart-topping rapper Cardi B.

Kimbra strives for self-improvement on her third album. Nick Bollinger assesses the results.

Estère Dalton is a Wellington based producer who writes songs with an anthropologist's eye. Her new album My Design, On Other's Lives tackles subjects like digital overload, migration, guns, and the housing crisis, and then turns inward for some very personal songs about her own family and identity. 

Melbourne trio Camp Cope perform two songs from their second album How to Socialise & Make Friends, and have a yarn with Tony Stamp.

RnB singer Kehlani discusses staying true to herself, dealing with mental health publicly and being a little sweet, a little sexy and a little savage.

The Topp Twins: musicians, comedians, and courageous campaigners for the rights of women, gay and lesbian people, unions, and a nuclear-free New Zealand  Jools and Lynda tell some Topp tales as they turn 60.  

Nick Bollinger discusses a contemporary recording that recalls the golden age of Cuban dance music.

Nick Bollinger reports on the latest recordings of itinerant songster Delaney Davidson.

Tony Stamp assesses the latest sounds from Afro-Scottish trio Young Fathers.

To celebrate the 11th International Record Store Day, Slow Boat Records' Jeremy Taylor shares his stories and songs from life behind the record shop counter.

Garth Cartwright is a New Zealand-born, London-based music and arts writer. He has a new book - Going For A Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop, in which he traces the history of the record store through more than a century of unprecedented social, cultural and technological change.

Despite dying more than 10 years ago, Michael Jackson still has far-reaching influence. Everyone from Beyoncé to Justin Bieber has taken a page from the entertainer’s songbook. Perhaps more surprisingly though, Auckland garage-pop musician Roy Irwin has found artistic inspiration in the gloved one.