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We've rolled around to the end of another week and to get you ready for the weekend, whakarongo mai nei for some Travelling Tunes with Dr. Zemke, Fable chatting about his brand new track Closer2Home, Viewmaster with Sam, and Mim Jensen on the line on the release day of the day of her debut single. Whakarongo mai nei!
The air? Brisk. Breakfast radio? Hot as hell. Whakarongo mai for a bit of Political Commentary with Pr. Jennifer Curtin, Breakfast Food with Kura Turuwhenua, Michael Llewellyn playing some acoustic tracks live in studio, and Mediabatt with Tim!
Playlist
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Burning
Violet French and The Horrible - Unchecked Baggage
It's Wednesday morning and we've Rob chatting about mammoths and time itself on The Mind Trench, a kōrero and Phoebe Rings moodboard mixtape courtesy of Crystal Choi, and a wee Word Salad with Amelia d'Screte. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Lael Neale - Hotline
Dummy - Pepsi Vacuum
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet - Korean version feat. So!YoON!
It's Tuesday morning at the bFM Studio and Breakfast's got some Second Guessing, a chat with David Correos about his show Haha Horror with Hamish Parkinson, Alice brings us some Stage Direction, and Dr Melani Anae has a kōrero on Ready Steady Learn! Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Gwenno - N.Y.C.A.W.
Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way
Baby Zionov - Different Ventures / Robot House
Anika - Godstar
La Luz - San Fernando Shadow Blues
Alan Dunham - Shameful Thing
Marlon Williams - River Rival
Whitney - Twirl
Jitwam - Stranger Danger (In The Streets Of Life)
Primal Scream - Loaded
lunavela - Next of Kin
U.S. Girls - So Typically Now
Freyja - Cinder Block
Eggy - Magic 8 Ball
Sampa The Great - Energy feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi
Eden Burns - Hand On the Chart (Pad Version)
Cass McCombs - Karaoke
Fazerdaze - Treading Lightly
T.G. Shand - Golden Hour
Sorry - Let The Lights On
Jenny Hval - Freedom
Kate NV - Sayonara
Mads Harrop - Contagious World
The Panthers - Welcome to CA feat. Diggy Dupé, choicevaughan & P. Smith
Theo Gold comes in with some sneaky first spins in tow. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about his upcoming album Thundering Prince of the Devil Bony Devil which is out late September! You can also catch him play at Wine Cellar on the 18th of August.
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.