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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)
Featuring a special announcement, Marlon Williams is about to embark on a nation-wide tour for his forthcoming album Te Whare Tīwekaweka! Check out all the info here. Plus the weekly Aural Emporium.
Playlist
Marlon Williams - Kahore He Mane E (featuring Lorde)
BARB - Leo
Nadia Reid - Send It Down The Line
Good Block - Dub 4 Joy
Lana del Rey - Blue Jeans (RAC remix)
Goat + MC Yallah - Nimerudi
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Ghost Woman - Street Meet
Hominid - You are not a wallflower
Sanoi, Boznich - Chill Bill
The Nomad - Betta Stand Up
Fontaines D.C. - Starburster
jasmine.4.t - Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation
Baby Cool - The Sea
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over And Over Again (Lost And Found)
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
Womb - Angels
Rattlesnake Milk - On the Road
Heavy Sentence - Give Yourself To The Night
Dirt - Dreams and Happiness
Earthboogie - Overground
NGARU - Uphill Battle
Jack Glacier - upb4thasun
CHAII - Safar
Six Figga Digga - C.O.C. Flow (feat. Stan Spit, McGruff & Big L)
We chat to Desley about how people can stand for the local elections coming up later in the year, as well as talking about the flood prone property buy up they are doing.
Milly and Tuva'a chat to Senior Engineering lecturer Dr Ashkan Hashemi about their research involving timber buildings and their response to earthquakes.
Jenna reviews the first two volumes from On The Calculation of Volumes by Solvej Balle. The first book in the septology by the Danish author has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
This week's brainbox is recent doctoral graduate and academic at the Business School Dr Farzana Adeel. Dr Adeel phones in to teach us about her thesis and research into the challenges that migrant entrepeneurs face, and how this impacts the ability of the job market in Aotearoa to attract immigrant entrepeneurs and business owners. To learn more, whakarongo mai nei or read more about Dr Adeel's research here.
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