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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)
Cam's picks for today include tracks from Tami Neilson's forthcoming album Neon Cowgirl, The Circling Sun's Orbit, and Kokoroko's Tuff Times Never Last.
Dr Kirsten Zemke phones into the studio to have a yarn with Annabel and Callum about jazz scat vocals and is evolution this morning on Travelling Tunes!
Playlist: Dizzy Gillespie - Oop-Pop-A-Da (1947-1994 Remastered) Tania María - Yatra – Ta (1981) Mark Murphy - Bebop Lives (Boplicity) (2015)
David finally clocks the reference in the Political Commentary introduction and discusses how former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may be called in front of the Royal Commission investigating New Zealand's Covid-19 pandemic to give evidence on the government's response, as well as the discourse in the political and media sphere.
Dr Alicia Didsbury, a research fellow in the Faculty of Science, joins Hugh Sundae in the studio to chat about her research into cell and gene based therapies for Cancer treatment.
This week Penelope Noir phones in to delve into battle jackets and how the style evolved within subcultures, particularly Punk, from the '70s until today. Whakarongo mai nei!
This week Jenna reviews the new novel from Jamaican/U.K. author William Rayfet Hunter, Sunstruck. It's a sun-drenched yet turbulent novel and marks a bold debut for Hunter. Whakarongo mai nei!
Sam Harmony speaks with festival director Paolo Bertolin just after the announce of this year's programme and that 95bFM is veeeery stoked to be presenting Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival for 2025. It's a stacked programme, so whakarongo mai nei to Sam and Paolo's kōrero on this year's curation.