In 1988 Upper Hutt Posse released the kaupapa-driven single 'E Tu', a single that has the distinction of being Aotearoa's first rap record. Sam Wicks celebrates 'E Tu' by speaking to Te Kupu, the… Audio

This September, EMI Publishing took the step of declaring an amnesty for all sampling declarations from its extensive back catalogue. Trevor Reekie talks to Alex Black about how the amnesty aims to… Video, Audio

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, better known as Earl Sweatshirt, has one of the sharpest tongues of a new school of West Coast hip hop artists, and he's directed it towards a psychiatry checklist of neuroses… Audio

Honky Tonk, Gospel and Memphis R&B have all made it into the new album by Country music royalty Justin Townes Earle. Host of The Sampler Nick Bollinger talks to him about 'Nothing's Gonna Change The… Audio

Justin Townes Earle talks to Emma Smith and plays 'One More Night in Brooklyn'. Audio

Making the most of the trail blazed by The Veils and The Checks yet another assured band is emerging from Devonport on Auckland's North shore. The Earlybirds are in Radio New Zealand's Auckland… Audio

Founder of Seattle drone band Earth, Dylan Carlson, was a close friend to Kurt Cobain - and bought him the gun with which he shot himself. Emma Smith speaks with Carlson and fellow bandmate and wife… Audio

Seattle drone doom group Earth speak to Emma Smith about working with vocalists again on their new album Primative and Deadly, run-ins with fairies and surviving scary plane trips. Audio

Earthworm, with his debut song Magpie. banishedfromtheuniverse.com Audio

Southland duo The Eastern in the studio for a live Music 101 session. Audio

The Eastern are a folk trio from Lyttleton whose home is the famed Wunderbar. There, they "drink with the sailors, and remember songs shouted across the booth at Sun Studios, on stages in London, in… Audio

Seasoned resident club DJ and one half of bass outfit Eastern Bloc, Marek Peszynski speaks to Yadana Saw about juggling beats, babies and bands. Video, Audio

Lyttelton band The Eastern are officially on tour in Christchurch, offering to play wherever some musical relief is requested, be it backyards, town halls, fields, wherever. The Eastern join Kirsten… Audio

The Eastern play folk and country music and have been performing for free at barbecues and street parties all over the city. Katy Gosset caught up with them at one such gig on a suburban street… Audio

Big hearted road warriors The Eastern send us an audio postcard from their 'Territory' tour - this week from Stewart Island, where they meet the locals and find out what it means to be an Islander. Audio

Ebony Lamb from Eb & Sparrow with their song 'In The Harbour'. www.ebandsparrow.co.nz 23 March 2013 Audio

Echo and The Bunnymen were the most elusive band on the Laneway lineup. Fortunately, a rather rakish man asked Emma if she'd mind keeping an eye on his keyboard while he got a coffee. Audio

Wellington's Economy Record have released a string of solid releases with strong international flavours of late. Check out the liner notes and you'll see the players of Shogun Orchestra's Haitian… Audio

From Split Enz to Forenzics: Eddie Rayner talks with Sunday Night's Grant Walker and plays music that's inspired him over the decades. Audio

Eden Mulholland performs three tracks from his freshly-minted record Hunted Haunted in the Music 101 studio. Audio

On a difficult road to Street Chant's second album, Emily Edrosa overcame writer's block and internet addiction. She talks about her new self-recorded and self-released EP. Audio

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros are a large and sprawling troupe who were recently in town for the Big Day Out. You may have heard their hit 'Home' which has been licensed from here to eternity… Audio

El Schlong are a New Zealand band full of surprises. They fluctuate through metal and rock mutations in a zappa-esq fashion, all three members sing and growl, and they've just travelled half way… Audio

The National's Matt Berninger talks to Yadana Saw about his new band EL VY and the musical merits of Grease. Audio

The beat-making brains behind hip hop outfit @Peace and other projects, El' Truento also makes time to work on his own music -richly detailed instrumentals built from found sounds and samples - with… Audio

From his 1996 debut 'Funcrusher' with New York rap trio Company Flow through to his solo records, El-P has infused his music with a creeping paranoia. And on 'Cancer 4 Cure', his new solo release on… Audio

British band Elbow talk about their funk and prog-rock beginnings, how they came to write the theme music for the 2012 Olympic Games - and there's a taste of their first ever NZ gig at the… Audio

The Electric Confectionaires are yet another talented band out of Takapuna Grammar in Auckland. They follow in the footsteps of The Veils and the Checks, and other schoolmates were White Birds and… Audio

One of Camp A Low Hum's most memorable performances - 10 year old Louis Amos and his brother-in-law Troy Naumoff performing drone metal by the lagoon. Audio

Part Two of Stuart Grundy's deconstruction of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's classic third and final album. Audio

Stuart Grundy deconstructs the making of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's third and final studio release, Electric Ladyland. Released in 1968, it was Hendrix's only #1 album in the USA. He died two years… Audio

Melody Thomas reports from Tapapkanga Regional Park at the bottom of the Coromandel for Splore 2010. As well as being a music festival sporting both big name acts and hugely original underground ones… Audio

Electric Wire Hustle have got the good groove in their DNA - the Hustle's Mara TK, Myele Manzanza and Dave Wright have all got musical parents - Mara's dad, Billy TK even lends his 'Stoned Guitar' to… Audio

Keyboardist Dave Wright joins us in the Music 101 studio with tales of Scandinavian touring, big deals and new opportunities in New York, and a live track from the new album. Audio

Electric Wire Hustle return this week with Love Can Prevail, the follow-up to their 2009 eponymous debut. The band's nucleus Mara TK and Dave Wright talk to Sam Wicks about their evolving lineup and… Audio

Electric Wire Hustle return this week with Love Can Prevail, the follow-up to their 2009 eponymous debut. EWH's Mara TK and Dave Wright join us in studio to talk through a tasting plate of cuts from… Audio

Pacific Soul group Electric Wire Hustle with Melody Thomas at Rhythm and Vines 2011. Audio

Wellington electronic soul duo Electric Wire Hustle dropped a new EP late last month. Mara TK and Taay Ninh visit Music 101 to perform two cuts from Aeons. Audio

Eli Driftwood with the song 'Salvadore' http://elidriftwood.bandcamp.com March 22 2014 Audio

Karen Elson has already made a name for herself as one of the top fashion models on the planet. Five years ago she married The White Stipes' Jack White. Now she has her own album, produced by White… Audio

Zac Arnold heads to the annual Elvis In the Gardens festival to find out how six different tribute artists got all shook up. Audio

Auckland-bred instrumental band 'An Emerald City' has spent the best part of a couple of years living in the creative hub of Berlin. Since we last spoke to them, they've had a line-up shuffle. Long… Audio

Emeralds and Greenstone talk to Jody Lloyd for the Music Mix. Ariana Tikao first stepped onto NZ stages in 1993 with her group Pounamu, and she's been involved in the New Zealand music scene ever… Audio

Tommy Emmanuel has been voted best acoustic guitarist in the wolrd, more than once, in Guitar Player magazine. Audio

We talk to Empire of the Sun's Nick Littlemore about the strange mythology they've woven around their stadium-sized synthpop. Audio

End of the Alphabet Records has existed for less than a year, but the Auckland experimental music label already has a very high profile around the globe. Craig Hayes meets the crew at the label and… Audio

Eva Radich spoke to Brian Eno while he was in Sydney curating the Luminous Festival, which included high-resolution projection of slides onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Audio

The Enright House is the name that Christchurch based producer Mark V. Roberts makes music under. He's only been in New Zealand for two and a half years - he grew up with his American mother in… Audio

The Enright House performs Riding On A Bull Through A Marsh Filed With Tears, A Heart Made Of Cotton, Darkwave = MC2, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Audio

Music reviewer Nick Bollinger considers the recent digital release of a classic mid-60s New Zealand album 'Hold On Tight' by Jay Epae. Audio

On an environmentally-friendly run of just 500 CDs, Epsilon-Blue has followed up his 2002 release We Have A Responsibility To Our Shareholders with Are We There Yet?, a double album that again takes a… Audio

Fresh perspectives on experimental sound in New Zealand have been gathered together in the book 'Erewhon Calling', edited by Bruce Russell as part of Auckland's Now! Here! Festival. Bruce joins Music… Audio

The 13th Floor Elevators frontman talks with Nick Bollinger. Audio

13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson talks with Nick Bollinger ahead of his New Zealand show. From The Sampler, 28 February 2012 Audio

Former member of Otara Millionaires Club and Radio Backstab, Herman Loto Sakaria, aka Ermehn, is often referred to as the Godfather of South Auckland hip hop. During his solo career he could be seen… Audio

Recorded in London in 1969, these recordings provided classic material for Kiwi rockers The Human Instinct yet the originals remained largely unheard until their discovery and release in 2012. Nick… Audio

Goodshirt combined classic pop influences with a D.I.Y sensibility learned from Chris Knox, to make one of the essential New Zealand albums of the early 2000s. Nick Bollinger discusses Goodshirt's… Audio

When the single 'Like Water' hit the New Zealand top ten in early 2011 it established Ladi6 as this country's major R&B star. But that success was just one milestone in a long journey, and the song… Audio

Buffalo was the album that lifted the profile of Wellington band The Phoenix Foundation both here and internationally. It saw their collective approach reach new heights - in the sophistication of the… Audio

If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a… Audio

Hip-hop is a musical form invented by African Americans, and yet here is a version that could only have come from deep in the Pacific. It has a proud sense of place and yet it looks outward. To quote… Audio

One prodigy, one mentor, and 10 days of studio time. In October last year, Wellington soul singer Estere became the latest recipient of the Prodigy Project - an initiative that pairs new artists and… Audio

Musician Estère invites us into her bedroom studio to break down her writing process, which includes sampling sounds from her home and beyond, then layering them up with her MPC Lola. Audio

Yadana Saw at Auckland Museum's Volume exhibition with content and interpretation developer Esther Tobin. Audio

Wellington producer/ vocalist Estère Dalton and her MPC Lola share insights into their debut album Estère with Emma Smith. Audio

Nick Atkinson is at the opening of the first Folk Fortnight learning to Strip The Willow while finding out about two weeks-worth of folk events, both regular and special. Audio

Evermore are a band of brothers who burst onto the scene ten years ago as teenagers. Originally from Fielding but now calling Melbourne home, they're on to their fourth studio album. Audio

A band that first struck a chord with us thirty years ago, and have been doing so ever since. Audio

After an unfortunate knee injury during a Disasteradio set led Luke Rowell to create Eyeliner, a project in rooted vapourwave - a fledgling genre obsessed with nostalgia for 80s/90s capitalism and… Audio