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Featuring an interview with The D4, plus Ready Steady Learn thanks to The University of Auckland. This week's Short Player features a snippet of Hunter's chat with Reb Fountain about her new album How Love Bends, which also happens to be the 95bFM Album of the Week this week!
Playlist
Andy Bell - pinball wanderer
Lake - Wonderful Sunlight
Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All
Red Project - Booty (Original Mix)
flypaper - cut it up
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
KARKARA - Anthropia
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Featuring Jazzy Vocals on Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Litia's telly review on Viewmaster, and track selections and recommendations from Cam on From The Crate thanks to Southbound Records!
Playlist
Casper Skulls - Dying in Eight Verses
KNEECAP - H.O.O.D 2025 mix
Peter Matson - Melancolía (feat. Pahua)
Abigail Lapell & Great Lake Swimmers - Wait Up (Acoustic)
Tom Lark - Rock & Roll Baby
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Serebii - Dime
billy strings - Home
The Veils - Melancholy Moon
Horsegirl - Frontrunner
CHAII - Safar
DvirNuns - Old School TB
Yamagucci & DvirNuns - First Choice
Sanoi, Boznich - Chill Bill
Judy Mowatt - Black Woman
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Delicious Light
Reb Fountain - He Commands You to Jump Into the Sea
It's a busy morning at the b! Jonny's packed show featured Political Commentary with David Slack and a chat with Sola Rosa and premiere of the new single The Sun Doesn't Shinefeaturing Joe Probert. Later, Jonny speaks with Florian Habicht, director of Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, about the film's ten year anniversary and special screening at The Hollywood. Plus, Hayden from The Drug Foundation chats cocaine, harm reduction and the importance of testing on What's The Buzz? brought to you by The Level.
This morning on What's Up? Jonny chats to Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins about special economic zones and a hot topic at the moment- school lunches. Listen back to the Aural Emporium and catch Jonny's interview with Sea Mouse about his upcoming gig at Cross Street plus gets the scoop from Lauren Whitney about the maaaassive programme for this year's NZ International Comedy Festival, check it out here.
Playlist
The Cars - Moving in stereo
Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks - Tin Can Man
Sébastien Léger - Lanarka
Antonio Barret & Nice Guys - On Edge
Voom - TROUBLE
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Sababa 5 & Sophia Solomon - Shehzadi - शहज़ादी
The Strokes - Machu Picchu
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Joey Valence & Brae - Ready Set
Jamie XX - F.U. (feat. Erykah Badu)
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - Creation
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Idiot Box
Sea Mouse - Six Whiskeys Deep
Rubi Du - Played Me
Laraaji - Joyous Dance '82
Tom Lark - Rock & Roll Baby
Shihad - Home Again
Soaked Oats - Perfect Song
Serebii - Verrans Corner (ft Leith Sye Towers)
Ahoribuzz - Turnaround
Kinski - Newport
Katy J Pearson - Take Back the Radio (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito Dub)
Whakarongo mai to hear the fortnightly catch up with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson on Isthmus'n That, a kōrero with the Ōtepoti-based Wax Mustang ahead of his Aotearoa tour, Short Player recap of Max's chat to CCTV about their new album Austerity Blues, plus talking about the just-launched Ingeniouspodcast on Ready Steady Learn with Nikki Maddow, thanks to the University of Auckland.
Featuring the announce of the finalists up for this year's Taite Music Prize, check out the list here! This week's book review on Loose Reads is Suri's take on the debut novel by Nussaibah Younis, Fundamentally - brought to you by Time Out Bookstore.
Playlist
Graham Central Station - The Jam
Orions Belte - The Carneddau
Soul Family Sensation - I Don't Even Know If I Should Call You Baby (Marshall Jefferson Symphony)
There's a Tuesday - Margo
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Morgan Nagler - Cradle The Pain
Womb - Angels
Waxahatchee - Mud
J-Live - Satisfied
Chris Joss - Rififi Rococo
School Fair - You only love me cause you want something
Shame - Angie
Ezra Collective - No One's Watching Me (feat. Olivia Dean)
Dr Thomas Gregory is the co-head of the Masters of Conflict and Terrorism Studies programme in the school of Political Science and International Relations. Dr Gregory spoke to Jonny about his research into civilian casualties during the two-decade spanning conflict and occupation of Afghanistan by the western coalition led by the U.S. This research has culminated in a book Weaponizing Civilian Protection recently published by the Oxford University Press.
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