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Music 101 Interviews — 52 episodes

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Mokotron on music's role in decolonisation

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The game-changing soundtrack to Once Were Warriors returns

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Fazerdaze on new album: 'People forget there's a human at the heart of it'

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Moana & The Tribe's journey to capturing indigenous voices

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Moby on getting sober and healthy

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Salmonella Dub on writing in nature: ‘You could catch a kahawai from the mixing desk’

7

Horomona Horo on becoming an Arts Laureate: 'As an artist you can feel unseen'

8

Biographer on the Prince doco we won’t see

9

M. Ward: On the supernatural effect of songs

10

Remi Wolf phones in from a bathroom floor in Atlanta

11

Why Pearl Jam have become such a polarising band?

12

Jamie xx drops album of anthems: 'I'm so ready to be out there playing again'

13

Bret McKenzie: 'I was slightly obsessive about trying not to be funny'

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‘We’d run across pianos and things like that’: Saxophonist Chris White’s Dire Straits experience

15

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: Stargazing, Aliens & Looking back

16

Tami Neilson: ‘What’s more joyful than immersing yourself in Willie Nelson songs?’

17

'It's an other-worldly state': Bill Callahan talks songwriting

18

Rikki Morris on being an 80s popstar

19

Louisa Nicklin: Sausages, cicadas & Shayne P Carter

20

Fontaines D.C: ‘Romance lives between light and dark’

21

UB40: 'He left the band to go solo and has never spoken to any of us since'

22

Troy Kingi: On his journey into Joshua Tree desert to record latest album

23

Pixies: David Lovering on music, touring and his unusual hobbies

24

Nathan Haines: 'I’m just amazed I’m still here talking to you’

25

Run the Jewels: The soundtrack for a political uprising

26

Gary Hustwit: Digging into Brian Eno’s brain

27

R.I.P Martin Phillipps: On Life and Mortality

28

Rickie Lee Jones on ADHD: 'I have a terrible time concentrating and staying with anything'

29

The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘These days it's Jim and William Reid being themselves’

30

Fontaines D.C frontman: 'I have a constant need to create'

31

Anna Coddington: Retraining the voice from Long Covid

32

Florence and the Machine: "I feel like I can never quite get it right"

33

Indy Yelich: Your voice has to stand out on its own

34

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Getting lost in time

35

Tiki Taane and Arli Liberman: Composing emotion

36

Idles' Joe Talbot: On facing pain

37

84-year-old DJ Vika: “Those who dance never grow old”

38

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy: On being relevant... but not too relevant

39

C. Zukey: On creating music from grief

40

Neil Finn: On endurance and new Crowded House

41

Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years: Drama, anxiety, "and a ridiculous amount of good times”

42

Dame Hinewehi Mohi welcomed into the NZ Music Hall of Fame

43

Tom Scott on his most political album yet: TREES

44

Jordan Rakei: On work ethic and selling out

45

The Nomad: Behind the decks at NZ's famed 90s underground raves

46

Shepherds Reign: Polynesian heavy metal storytellers

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Delaney Davidson: Gets personal

48

Dolly Parton: Fashion, fame and imposter syndrome

49

The Topp Twins: On cancer and coming out raging

50

Stan Walker: On having a purpose

51

Lorde: On the power of self-belief

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