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Featuring Political Commentary with David Slack and a guest interview with The D4 ahead of their nation-wide tour, plus What's The Buzz? brought to you by The Leveland The Drug Foundation Aotearoa.
Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Heather Maloney - Oh My Green
Peel Dream Magazine - Qi Velocity
Lilly Hiatt - Kwik-E-Mart
Queens Of The Stone Age - Mexicola
The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies
School Fair - You only love me cause you want something
bRave is back! Head along to The Mothership on 1 March for bRave III with yet-to-be-announced DJs. Listen back to hear Jonny's chat with Serena Stevenson about the Splore documentary Three Days in February, listen back for the Aural Emporium, and Billy Strings will be playing his debut Aotearoa show this July at Spark Arena.
ICYMI - Jonny chats to Tom of local punk legends Guardian Singles about their fundraiser gig to head to SXSW later in the year, plus Ready Steady Learn with Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens thanks to Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland, and a highlight of Hunter's kōrero with Finn from The Veils on Short Player.
Featuring a first spin of Marlon William's new waiata Aua Atu Rā of his forthcoming album Te Whare Tīwakawaka and an interview with Italian clown Andy Spigola ahead of the Auckland Buskers Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Dustin Lau - A Love Language
Emma Paki - System Virtue
Sampology - Ten Foot Flowers (Glass Beams Desert Flower Edition)
The Kinks - David Watts
The Liminanas - El Beach
Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice
Elroy - The Other
Hotline - Let's Merge
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
TE KAAHU - I Roto I Te Poo, I Roto I Te Ao
The Desert Sessions - Rickshaw
Misfits - TV Casualty
Misfits - Bullet
Calibre & DRS - Living For
Marlon Williams - Aua Atu Rā
Romi Wrights - Capsized
Joe Goddard - Progress
CHAII - Safar
TWEN - Damsel
Jack J - Wrong Again
Wax Eye - co-worker
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Ravyn Lenae - One Wish (feat. Childish Gambino)
Jaz Paterson & Junus Orca - Body Electric
New Candys - Everything's Fucking Boring feat. Bugo
Continuing on from last week's kōrero with Sam about Battle Jackets, Pennie joins Milly and Rosetta for a chat about the uniforms of various different fandoms and the subcultures that they create! The trio chat Turbojugend, Juggalos, Maggots and more - whakarongo mai nei!
Suri is up in the studio to chat about Mary McCarthy's 1957 memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: a witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written reflection on the author's 1920s upbringing. 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!