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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
Featuring an interview with Sweetpants ahead of Dirt Disco on Waiheke and Ready Steady Learn with Sam McKay thanks to the University of Auckland. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Muito Kaballa - Like A River
Split System - Alone Again
Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky
CHAII - Safar
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Heartless Bastards - Revolution
Manudigital - Don't Call Me Local (feat. Queen Omega)
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Jamie XX - All You Children (ft. The Avalanches)
Joe Kaptein - Unwavering
Japanese Breakfast - Orlando in Love
Papillon - Guylana
Roger Robinson - There's No Recession in a Rich Man's House
Featuring Fashun with Penelope Noir, a guest interview with UK comedian Jack Whitehall ahead of his (and his Dad's) Auckland show this weekend, and Loose Reads with Suri thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Royel Otis - Kool Aid
Shonen Knife - Catnip Dream
Waxahatchee - Right Back to it
Lovebirds - Want you in my soul
Ingrid and the Ministers - Lose It All
Grecco Romank - Asbestos Tarot
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Wooden Shjips - ruins
The Auras - Islands in the Sea
Jaz Paterson & Junus Orca - Body Electric
AJA - Kōpere
The Heavy Heavy - Feel
Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther
Electric Orange - erebus
Goat + MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Kelis - Hooch
Ezra Collective - No One's Watching Me (feat. Olivia Dean)
Alphabethead AKA David Morrison dials in for a kōrero with Milly and Rosetta about his new track 'I'm Lucy Lawless' - an epic launch of his latest electronic music collection, complete with a Xena: Warrior Princess war cry! The trio also catch up about Alphabethead joining the Sun Return whānau, and what we can expect from new music. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today on Ready Steady Learn, Rosetta and Milly are joined on air by Dr. Sereana Naepi, who is an associate Professor of Sociology at Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland. Sereana was an editor on the newly published book Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa - an unflinching examination of racism in NZ, featuring essays from 13 Pacific academics analysing racism across education, health, justice and society. 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!
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!
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)
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.
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.