Music 101 for Saturday 29 January 2011

2-3pm

One of the most overlooked artists in the history of Motor City music, Melvin Davis, is a singer, songwriter, drummer, producer, arranger and label owner who has recently resurrected his career. Trevor Reekie speaks to the Detroit Soul Ambassador for Access All Areas. Listen here

Aloe Blacc talks about the politics at the heart of his 21st century soul music. Listen here

New York based soul band Fredericks Brown - ex-pats Deva Mahal and Steph Brown - stop by to play songs live in the studio. Listen here

3-4pm

We hear from post-punks Colin Newman and Graham Lewis of Wire, who played here recently, at the release of their twelfth studio album 'Red Barked Tree'.

British rock group White Lies talk about the lazy comparisons made about them to Joy Division, and living the teenage dream...

and news of live music events on the horizon...

4-5pm

We assess Iron and Wine's new, more musically diverse, album 'Kiss Each Other Clean' and talk to the man behind the moniker, Sam Beam.

Nick Bollinger hears two new albums from Hamiltonians - The Shrugs write "wry missives from deepest suburbia", while The Sing-Songs, perform "pointed parodies of cultish religious fundamentalism". Listen here

Fredericks Brown, in the studio.