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Featuring an interview with Peter Hobbs, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke discussing Yé-yé, Viewmaster with Litia and the Record Store Day special with Cam on From The Crate, thanks to our mates at Southbound Records.
Featuring Political Commentary with Tim Greene, an interview with Paddy of Pitch Black about their upcoming tour, Natural Ange and a first spin of Jazmine Mary's new single Memphis and kōrero about their forthcoming album.
Playlist
Paul Cathro - No Life On Mars
Byllie-jean - Hinekoukou
Saâda Bonaire - Woman
Durand Jones & The Indications - Been So Long
Memory Foam - Hangry (Sushi Train)
Arcane Allies - Cards
Speedometer - Kashmir
The Dave Pike Set - Mathar
Nino Nardini - Tropicola
New Candys - Night Surfer
The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Curse Of Lono - Think I'm Alright Now
JStar - Dorsey Star
Tom Lark - Live Wires
Leif Vollebekk - Long Blue Light
Japanese Breakfast - Picture Window
Marlon Williams - Rere Mai Nga Rau
MĀ - BIOTW
Fu Manchu - Boogie Van
Void Waves - Take me down
Voom - I Love You Girl
Pitch Black - Fragile Ladders (Module's Heavy Snakes Remix)
Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Heaven 7
TEEKS - If Only
Wet Leg - catch these fists
Black Country, New Road - New Road For the Cold Country
MĀ and The Fly Hunnies stop by the bFM lounge midway through their tour of Aotearoa to support MĀ's new album Blame It On The Weather for an early live set on a rainy Tāmaki morning. Whakarongo mai nei!
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.