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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)
Featuring a chat with Wazza from Westpac on how to better manage your moolah, avoid scams and how Kiwisaver actually works, plus Ready Steady Learn with Nusch Herman thanks to the University of Auckland. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring David Slack on Political Commentary, a special 95bFM announcement that legendary influential Punk rockers The Saints are playing at the Powerstation this Halloween, an interview with Buzz Moller of Voom about the just-announced forthcoming album Something Good Is Happening, and a chat with Tee – the organiser of this Saturday's bike rave on Māngere Bridge in collaboration with Auckland Transport Streets For People programme.
Playlist
Smile - Dressed For Success
Weird Owl - Interstellar Caterpillar
The Streets - On the Edge of a Cliff
Tim Heidecker - Say Yes
The Bemsha Swing - Kintsugi Kids
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
King Buzzo - Dark Brown Teeth
CCTV - austerity blues
The Saints - Know your product
Being Dead - Godzilla Rises
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Serebii - Verrans Corner (ft Leith Sye Towers)
Fontaines D.C. - Living In America
Beverly Kills - Eyes Wide Open
Rubi Du - Played Me
Caru & Brandn Shiraz - Back 2 Back
Half Hexagon - Shadow
School Fair - You only love me cause you want something
Listen back for Isthmus'n That with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, Short Player brought to you by NZOA Musicfeaturing Ripship and their latest album Crawling Chorus, and Ready Steady Learn with Dr Andrew Hall thanks to the University of Auckland.
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!