Rnz: Music 101

For the first time in four years St Jerome's Laneway Festival has returned to Auckland. Charlotte Ryan was on the field at Western Springs catching up with some of her favourite acts.

Auckland hip-hop artist Tom Scott says the release of a new album from his hip-hop group Home Brew last year came as a surprise even to him. He shares some beloved tracks that inspired Run It Back and chats to Charlotte Ryan about personal evolution, sobriety and why he walked out of a Kim Hill interview in 2016.

J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. chats to Charlotte about his decades of music making.

From big hitters like Laneway happening this week to Lyttleton's Port Noise, there are lots of excuses to be out and about in the festival spirit. Charlotte picks top tracks from artists in festival line-ups, and Christchurch musician Adam Hattaway phones in from Little River Festival.

Charlotte Ryan caught up with Calexico vocalist, guitarist and co-founder Joey Burns

DJ and producer Christopher Tubbs joins Maggie in the Wellington studio to discuss how he approaches long DJ sets and the influence that Balearic music has had on his own musical journey.

Sonya Waters is a musician and producer who has fronted three New Zealand bands - Fang, The Instigators and White Swan Black Swan. Having played in punk and shoegaze bands, she turned to ambient music as something she said was entirely her own. During the Covid lockdown, Sonya recorded her album The Sheltering Ranges as an ode to Wellingtons' ever-changing weather and striking landscapes. RNZ's name sake Sonya Ishimnikova visited Sonya's studio to reflect on her musical journey

Music 101's Charlotte Ryan meets the frontman of American Band Spoon. Shapeshifter's P Diggs reconnects with his Cook Island heritage through music. T.G Shand shares her glittering new EP Cinnamon. Maggie Tweedie reveals new songs from Eljé, Hummicide and Courtney Barnett.

NZ Music legend Don McGlashan is set to embark on a 18-date tour of Aotearoa across August, September & October. The Take It To The Bridge Tour will showcase McGlashan's extensive songbook in hand-picked intimate venues throughout the country. We speak to the Mutton Birds front man and much loved solo artist about the tour and his love for Bridges, both musical and physical.

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Port Noise is a brand new festival happening in Lyttelton next Saturday 11th March featuring a wide array of genres, from improv noise legends The Dead C, to hip hop from Phodiso, Voom, Womb and a whole lot more.

Te Matatini - Our national kapa haka competition has been held at Eden Park this week attracting teams from throughout Aotearoa. The finals are being held this afternoon - Shannon Haunui - Thompson our Tumu Maori ki RNZ - Joined us from the finals.

Judith Hill is on her way to New Zealand to perform at the Auckland Arts Festival and her show sounds like something you don't want to miss.

Turnstile are an American hardcore punk band from Baltimore, and have been playing together as a band since 2010. They have released 5 EPs and 3 studio albums- their latest earning them 3 Grammy Nominations. They are here in NZ - playing Laneway Festival on Monday - but also a Laneway Pre party 100 GECS and YARD ACT at the Powerstation Sunday night - all ages too.

Lead singer and songwriter for System Of A Down, Serj Tankian has released five studio albums, winning a GRAMMY Award in 2006 for “B.Y.O.B.” and selling over 40 million albums worldwide. Serj is also a prolific visual artist, a singer, a poet, a songwriter and composer.

The best of RNZ Music Saturday afternoon's Music 101.

A selection of highlights from Saturday's Music 101.

In this week's Pocket Edition, Charlotte Ryan highlights the best new music of the week and features Jerome Kavanagh and his new song written for Matariki & Diggy Dupe talks to Tony Stamp about his upcoming show celebrating the music of the Polynesian Panthers show.

Sibling duo Ersha Island introduce their new song 'Gut Feeling'.

With all the talk of streaming music and Spotify I was reading and I came across the concept of Streaming farms - did some more reading and had no idea how prevalent they are…talk to a journalist from Pigeons and Planes about it soon.