Records

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

In his new book, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop, Bob Stanley, who is a member of English indie/dance crossover band Saint Etienne, tells the definitive story of the birth of Pop music, from 1900… Audio

AI is now being used to create 'deepfake' songs by deceased artists using data scraped from the internet. Music reviewer Graham Reid discusses the emerging world of fake singers, singing songs the… Audio

In his book, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, Kyle Devine examines the hidden or overlooked costs of online listening. Devine wants people to understand that there is no such thing as a… Audio

Tony Burrows, otherwise known as 'the man of 1000 voices', sang on around 100 top 20 hits during the 60s and 70s. But it was his novelty hit 'Gimme Dat Ding' with The Pipkins that made its way to the… Video, Audio

Kiwi music legend Dave Dobbyn has been using his lockdown time to pin down some new songs. He joins the show to discuss the beauty of limitations when writing music, the search for truth, and the… Audio

Lathe-cut records - handmade polycarbonate discs - have been a fixture of independent record labels for years, and they're still being produced. But as ever, in short runs - including one of the… Audio, Gallery

When Ken Perkins died, he left behind a collection of more than 80,000 records. It's thought to be one of the most extensive private collections in the world. Audio

When NASA realized that the Voyager space probes being launched in 1977 would eventually travel beyond the edge of our solar system, they decided to include some kind of message to any intelligent… Audio