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Featuring Isthmus'n That with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson and Short Player thanks to NZOA Music - ICYMI on Rāhoroi, Hunter chatted to Mokotron about his new album WAEREA. Also an exciting announce that 95bFM is pleased to present Fazerdazeplaying her sophmore album Soft Power at the Powerstation next year!
Playlist
Sonic Youth - The Empty Page
Whyte Horses - The Best Of It (Ft. La Roux)
Shocking Blue - Send Me a Postcard
CAN - I Want More
The Soft Moon - Breathe The Fire
GIFT - Wish Me Away
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Simple Symmetry - Funeral of Past Affections
People Under the Stairs - Acid Raindrops
Baker - Stitch in Time
Mannequin Pussy - Perfect
Ladi6 - Alofa (Radio edit)
Deb5000 - 24/7 Mimosas
Melodownz, Caru & Hyan - MeloDub (828)
Rose City Band - Seeds of Light
Pure Colors - Ascension
Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks - Perfume
LONDON DRUGS - Tony Flags
Nadia Reid - Hotel Santa Cruz
Arc De Soleil - Slimmy Lemon
Amyl and the Sniffers - Me and The Girls
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Gravite - Red Horizon
Fazerdaze - So Easy
Tidiane Thiam - Neene Africa
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - City Slang (The Best Stuff You Havent Heard)
PhD student Ben Scrivener chats to Jonny about his research into functional neurological disorder (FND) in Aotearoa. Ben's research looks into patient experience and epidemiology, many people with FND do not recieve treatment due to a lack of research into the disorder. For more info on FND Ben recommends checking out FND Guide and FND Association NZ
This week's selections include Four Tet, Badbadnotgood and Ghostface Killa, plus to get in the mood for his shows at the beginning of next week - Jack White's album Entering Heaven Alive. Thanks to Southbound Records!
Jonny chats to Hayden about some of the gnarly substances coming through drug checking here in Tāmaki and further afield, the importance of getting your drugs checked, and how it works. Thanks to the New Zealand Drug Foundationand The Level.
Jonny chats to postdoctoral felllow Dr Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi about her research into the impact of disrupted sleep. We humans intimately understand how sleep deprivation impacts our wellbeing and especially our communication. However, Dr Gaviraghi Mussoi's research for the School of Biological sciences focuses on the extent to which disrupted sleep impacts the communication zebra finches. Birds use songs to mate, to defend territories and to warn others about predators. So if their song is impacted by lack of sleep, it could impact their chances of reproducing and surviving! Whakarongo mai nei.
Jonny catches up with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson about a new council policy that limits alcohol licensing so that liquor retailers now must stop selling by 9PM. The policy will be running for 12 months as a trial, and also places a two-year freeze on opening new off-license retailers in 23 suburbs. Read more about it here
This week Jonny gets some sci-fi fantasy summer reading recommendations from Suri. Including a new comic from the creator of Watchmen Alan Moore, Rebecca Yarros's new book Onyx Storm and more!
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