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Tony Stamp assesses the debut from an aurally-inventive American guitarist. Audio

Following the release of her acclaimed solo debut, Wellington musician Ebony Lamb is preparing for three shows with American indie band Calexico next month.  In the meantime, she says choosing songs… Video, Audio

Ahead of his appearance at the Laneway festival in Auckland, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman Ruban Neilson joins Kara & Mark from his home in Portland to talk D'Angelo,Cassette tapes and 90s Vampire… Audio

The Silver Scroll Awards Ceremony, celebrating the country's best songwriters, is about to get started in Auckland's Parnell in just over an hour's time. Singer-songwriter Marlon Williams is chasing a… Video, Audio

The winner of the prestigious Silver Scroll award will be announced Wednesday night.

Thousands of musicians who belong to the music rights management organisation, APRA, vote to select the best song… Audio

Ruban Nielson of UMO talks to Charlotte Ryan about life in Portland, and writing one of the Top 5 songs for this year's Silver Scroll Award - Layla Video, Audio

NZ Korean musician Hanbee is one of the many musicians set to play Laneway 2024 Video, Audio

Happy Record Store Day! Today on Music 101 we celebrate the record store! Audio

Tony Stamp reviews new music from Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Caroline Polachek, and local duo Surf Friends. Audio

The return of Portland based Kiwis Unknown Mortal Orchestra is an epic double album, another Jon Savage compiled collection from the post punk years, and soon-come tourist Kurt Vile. Audio

RNZ 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to look at the 40th anniversary of the U2 album war and play a track from Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Kiwi singer Ny Oh. Audio

New Zealanders ingenuity and number 8 wire mentality extends to local inventors and entrepreneurs, who have come up with some innovative gadgets to aid and inspire music makers in their creative… Audio

Leon Wadham, comedian, director and NZ star in of Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power picks his favourite songs on the Mixtape. Audio

Tony Stamp assesses an album of dubwise delights from Auckland DJ Stinky Jim, a pleasantly polite outing by UK five-piece Babeheaven, and a selection of snackable soul courtesy of NYC producer… Audio

We finish off 2021 with the RNZ Music team picking their favourite songs of the year! Video, Audio

nicholas Franchise (with a lower case n)  describes their sound as "pop-raunch rock". Their debut album Setup was recorded in Dunedin and released in 2018 while Nicholas was deep in the Portland… Video, Audio

Dunedin artist Juno Is shares her new jangle-pop single 'It's No Groover". Video, Audio

Over the past twenty years there has been a bumper crop of memorable and beautiful local albums that have found notable success. We are proud to offer you our top 21 albums of the twenty-first century… Audio

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… Video, Audio

Tom Scott’s Avantdale Bowling Club; Northland thrash metallers Alien Weaponry; trailblazing 90s group Moana and the Moahunters; and local singer/song writing legend Bernie Griffen were all honoured at… Video

This week's RNZ Mixtape selectors Broods share their favourite songs. Brother and sister Caleb and Georgia Nott talk about their musical family and unreal Los Angeles life with Yadana Saw. Audio

Independent Music NZ (IMNZ) has just announced the finalists for this year’s Taite Music Prize, which recognises outstanding creativity in an album. Previous winners include Lorde, Aldous Harding…

Nick Bollinger revisits some his favourite local sounds of 2018. Audio

Dunedin five-piece Six60 took home a total of five Tuis at the 2018 Vodafone NZ Music Awards, which took place at Auckland’s Spark Arena tonight. Video

Wellington has always been proud of its live music scene, but in the last few years it's seen a number of high profile venue closures and is often passed up by touring international acts. Jack Barlow…