Charlotte Ryan

09/02/2025

Seventeen years ago, I met the apple of my eye, my beautiful daughter Annie. I love her more every day & so grateful to have her in my💙

05/02/2025

I caught up with rising local band ELLIOT & VINCENT ahead of their huge moment—opening Laneway Festival NZ! 🚀✨
We talked about their journey, sound, & family ties...
Who’s heading to Laneway this year?

Elliot & Vincent (Elliot Finn and Vincent Cherry) join us in the Music 101 studio ahead of their Laneway set next week. The two piece rock 'n' roll band have been turning heads with their ability to create a huge primal sound with just drums, guitar and a microphone.

17/12/2024

A selection of my favourite Albums of 2024⚡️

What a year, thank f for excellent music 🤍

07/11/2024

Dreamy weekend away on Waiheke Island…

23/10/2024

A beautiful visit to Tītahi Bay to the whare of for delicious whitebait fritters - gifted by Iain from - We recorded an incredible live session with Louis playing, and then beautiful interview about love and all the good medicine 🌙 Full session on RNZ.co.nz

14/10/2024

LISTEN / WATCH the RNZ live session with Louis Baker we recorded in Titahi Bay, Wellington

Charlotte Ryan joined Louis at his house on the hill, overlooking the sea for a special live performance to celebrate the release of his new EP Medicine

10/10/2024

09/10/2024

It was such a treat to meet Dinah Lee at the Silver Scroll Awards last night.
She has incredible wit - and style - as expected ⚡️

05/10/2024

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04/10/2024

Marking 5 years of travelling in this lift / working at ! … & a bunch of of other great times featuring cat nip 🖤

01/10/2024

Very specials LIVE session with Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders

26/08/2024

This interview was so special - Shayne Carter & Louisa Nicklin speak about making sulky music - specifically Louisa's new album

Auckland musician Louisa Nicklin and producer Shayne Carter talk to Charlotte Ryan about their creative friendship, the upsides of getting older and hanging out in the Coromandel bush.

25/08/2024

Curly from Fontaines D.C. spoke to me about their new album & gave me hints we will see them sooner than you think..

Aftear years of trying to throw their sound "50 miles down the road", Fontaines D.C. have gone in a different direction with their fourth album, Romance.

10/08/2024

Nathan Haines, one of NZ's most loved and genre pushing musicians, has just released his 11th studio album Notes. It was an album that saw him team up once again with the legendary London-based producer Phil Asher, who worked with Nathan on the albums Squire For Hire and Sound Travels in the early 2...

05/08/2024

Loved this MIXTAPE with Kristine Crabb

Our guest picking the music over the next hour is designer Kristine Crabb, the fashion artist who dresses NZ' s most boundary pushing musicians…names like Lorde, Aldous Harding, Erny Belle, and Taite Prize winner Vera Ellen. Kristine started her 20 year career in fashion with the boutique shop Rip...

05/08/2024

An intimate filmed performance of Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto is set to screen as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. Ryuichi, who died in March 2023, left his audience a parting gift, his swansong, captured on camera by his son, Director Neo Sora...

02/08/2024

On Music 101 Saturday from 1pm We pay tribute to Martin Phillips The Chills, speak to the Director of the new Brian Eno documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一's son Neo shares the process about his fathers Swan Song screening at this years NZIFF.... and on the Mixtape Fashion rebel KRISTINE CRABB picks the music. Listen in for fun.

11/07/2024

I loved this interview - it caught me by surprise.
Also excited for the new Fontaines D.C. album out next month

In high anticipation of the new Fontaines D.C album out in August, Charlotte Ryan revisits her 2023 interview with the band's frontman Grian Chatten...and wonders if he is in love?