Whether you're stuck in traffic, on your bike, or just chilling on the couch, 95bFM Drive will get you where you wanna be! Brought to you by The Beer Spot.
Matthew has returned from his jaunt in Japan! Featuring That's The Spirit and a guest interview + live performance by Pōneke artist Eveline Breaker. Whakarongo mai nei ~
This Thursday, Milly takes you through a cruisy three hours featuring Chris from the Hempstore (and a masonry drill) for Marijuana Media, Rapley and Freddy come up to chat 1:12 Fest 2024, and Moon Goose join us to play some music and chat about Folk for Folk, a Tangata Tiriti-organised fundraiser in support of the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti. It's all good fun!
Featuring Spaced Out with Josh Aoraki thanks to The Stardome, an interview with Te-Whanganui-a-Tara band Mallgoth, and Rosetta chats to the one-and-only JessB about the upcoming album release tour for Feels Like Home - catch the Tāmaki show this weekend at Whammy!
Featuring a guest interview with Jonathan Oglivie, the director of HEAD SOUTH, and a quick chat between castmember Stella Bennett (Benee) and Kaitlyn at the film's premiere. Members of From Outside were up in the studio for Friday Live brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
Terrifying Thursday Drive has risen from the dead with the help of Milly the Monster!!! Get ready for some terrifying tunes, Hallo-weed with Chris Fowley, Scary Stories with DJ Matthew Creepy Crawly, Halloween potions with Nami Record Bar and two ghost come all the way from the 1960's production of Oliver Twist to tell us about Live Music Bar an online web series presented by UTR, and produced by Sports Team (who are definitely not the ghosts)! Jam packed and sure to scare the s*** out of you!
Featuring the weekly catchup for all things cinematic with Steve Newall on Flicks'n'That and What's Cooking with saxophonist Nathan Haines ahead of his show at The Powerstation this Rāhoroi. Thanks to The Beer Spot!
Playlist
Julian Lubin - Patience & Love
Kamasi Washington - Street Fighter Mas
Church - Same Thing
Shooless - Ignorant Bliss
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christoph el' truento - Drip feat. Ladi6
Letta Mbulu - Mahlalela
Van Morrison - You Gotta Make it through the world
Juno Is - Your Character Will Soon Unfold
BIRDPARTY - Motion Safety
Fazerdaze - A Thousand Years
The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam
Oceans Before Me - Carry On The Walk
Repairs - LYLAS
Al Masrieen - Sah
Boncana Maiga - Yala M'le
Jazmine Mary - In A Field
Sci-Clone - 1980 One
Kenny Sterling & Dylan Biscuit - What You Need Feat. JY Lee & Cory Champion
Featuring an interview with Telenova ahead of their show this Rāmere at Neck of the Woods, the members of cumgirl8 phone in from their tourbus whilst on the road in the U.S. to talk about their new EP the 8th cumming and on AudioCulture, Michael Brown talks about New Zealand's first internet-only label Crystal Magic, which put out the music of many bFM favourites such as P.H.F., disasteradio, Little Phnx and more. Read Michael's article on the noisey library of New Zealand to find out more about Crystal Magic - shout out to Iwi Waiata - AudioCulture for bringing us stories from the archive each fortnight.
Featuring a guest interview with the organisers of Outlier Festival 2024 and a roundtable with Ones to Watch artists Sam Cullen and CRYSTAL. Thanks to The Beer Spot!
Playlist
The Unfaithful Ways - Trouble I'm In
Koizilla - ...andonandon...
Kim Deal - A Good Time Pushed
Jim Nothing - Sundown Clown
Nathan Haines - Squire For Hire feat. Marlena Shaw
Ōtepoti band Pearly* were in town for the Eyegum Scenic Tour and made a pitstop in the bFM studio for a killer Friday Live set. Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to our mates at McLeod's Brewery.
Josh phones in to discuss a sednoid found in an outer solar system, the closest images ever captured by the Sun have just been released by NASA, and a long-standing mystery has just been solved after a discovery of a new star close to Betelgeuse. Thanks to the Stardome!
Chris discusses a large stash growing in a swamp belonging to a Waikato man, charges brought against a woman who shared cake edibles at a hospital, the proposed merger between Helius and Elysian continues after the Cannibas Clinic withdraws, plus upcoming premiere for The Weed Eaters at this year's NZIFF!
Arlo and Paddy of Wild Magic Tavern cook up an elixir for HALFQUEEN inspired by their DnD series Fury of the Small. Whakarongo mai nei and check out the series over on their substack.
Steve darkens our sunny winter day with a couple of heavy documentaries and dark comedies. Petra Costa's The Edge of Democracy and Apocalypse in the Tropics are both available on Netflix, which depict the current state of politics in Brazil.
Death Bells, originally from Sydney, now based in LA, jumped on a Drive to talk about their latest single, Landslide, produced by Sans Merit. With releases from all the way back in 2017, the band has seen many members and gone through several sonic shifts over their run. The trio talked about making music in LA and their most recent bout of writing and recording.
No Alice this week :( Still the theatre goodness even so! Matthew talks to Barnie Duncan and Pelenakeke Brown, Directors and producers of Siblings, to talk about their upcoming show run at Te Pou Theatre.