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.
Welcoming you to the weekend is Milly and Tuva'a with this weeks Friday drive! Featuring guest interview with The Hongi Slicker Troy Kingi, talking to Matt and Dylan from Mānuka Rec. To top it off, Mammalien joins us in the studio for a groovy Friday Live brought to you by Nz on Air Music and McLeod's Brewery!
Audio Visual Drop Kicks – Betterland
Hurray for the Riff Raff – Pyramid Scheme
Tropical Fuck Storm – Goon Show
Panda Bear – Anywhere but Here
Yurt Party – The Gambler
Horsegirl – Well I Know You’re Shy
Cross Street Music Festival
CHAII – South
Sea Mouse – Side B Tk 1
Caru and Brandn Shiraz – Back 2 Back
Rainy Day Projects w/ Finn Johansson
Roger Eno, Christian Badzura – Hymn
Marlon Williams, Lorde – Kāhore He Manu E
The Doors – Indian Summer
Patterson Hood, Waxahatchee – The Forks of Cypress
Monobloc – Irish Goodbye
fakemink – Easter Pink
Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards – Sing Me Back Home
babyMINT – ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ ▄︻┻┳━ ·.’.’.’.
Sonya Waters – See The Birds
HALFQUEEN's back for another fabulous Rāpare Drive. First up is Marijuana Media with Chris, thanks to The Hempstore. Later in the show, Ruby and Steph from LIPS make a tasty Moscow Mule on Cocktail Corner to get ya in the mood for Cross Street '25 the weekend after next. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today's guest host for Rāapa Drive is none other than Billy T nominated comedian Tim Batt! Featuring Flicks 'n' That with Steve Newall and What's Cooking guest selections by Arahi - plus the run down on his latest single Baby's Back!
Rosetta and Nick chat to Dave Borrie of Ōtepoti band L. Hotel about their latest single Dead Ends and on Audio Culture, Gareth Shute revisits the wide-spanning career and music of Stanley Manthyngand Fatal Jelly Space, as well as the newly launched NZ On Screen Rainbow Collection.
Woohoo! Friday is finally here, and it's the debut of our new co-hosts Milly and Tuva'a, the start of your weekend is in safe hands. Featuring a guest interview with DJ awesomechillguy25 and Dishwasher about their just released EP Papyrus, plus Sam Cullen is in the studio for an unplugged Friday Live brought to you by NZ On Air Music with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
Thanks to The Beer Spot!
Playlist
Michael Llewellyn - Down By The Packs
Sworn Virgins - Fifty Dollar Bills
Theophilius London, Tame Impala - Only You
Colter Carson - Tabu
Dishwasher & djawesomechillguy25 - How Do I Do The Funny Font (Curious Mix)
Featuring Marijuana Media with Chris thanks to The Hempstore, Cocktail Corner with Bassment Theatre, and celebrating the debut show of our new Thursday Drive show host HALFQUEEN!
Thanks to The Beer Spot!
Playlist
ngaru - Uphill Battle
Jamie XX - F.U. (feat. Erykah Badu)
Fontaines D.C. - Starburster
Ripship - CHROME
Sharon Van Etten - Jupiter 4
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Featuring Flicks 'n' That with Steve Newall, guest selections on What's Cooking with Ōtautahi postpunk doomnoise trioMoider Mother, and Joel of Radio Mother speaks to the founders of Nymphoabout the origins of their iconic clubnight (and now label), plus some of the exciting things they have planned for the future! This interview is part of our coverage of Auckland Pride 2025. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring a guest interview with Horsegirl about their new abum "Phonetics On and On", Josh Aoraki returns for Spaced Out thanks to the Stardome, and Maddy Hakaraia de Young phones in to talk about the massive 2025 programme for the Māoriland Film Festival!
Featuring a guest interview with Horsegirl about their new abum "Phonetics On and On", Josh Aoraki returns for Spaced Out thanks to the Stardome, and Maddy Hakaraia de Young phones in to talk about the massive 2025 programme for the Māoriland Film Festival!
The Nudge & Troy Kingi - He Ōrite
OutKast - Aquemini
CCTV - austerity blues
Sababa 5 & Sophia Solomon - Shehzadi - शहज़ादी
Jack Glacier - upb4thasun
Nubiyan Twist - Morning Light ft. Ria Moran
Louisa Williamson - In Tune (feat. MĀ)
Flea Miller - Letter Dog
LIPS - Heave Ho
Courtney Barnett - Lotta Love
Neive Strang - Gather Round
Marlon Williams - Aua Atu Rā
Womb - Angels
Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line
Blair Parkes - splendour
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Trouble
Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror
Blondshell - T&A
Mekons - Mudcrawlers
The D4 - Judgement Day
Joe Armon Jones - Mollison Dub
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Ezra Collective & Fela Kuti - Lady (Ezra Collective Version)
Former lead vocalist of The Instigators and Kiwi music stalwart - Sonya Waters, shared a number of alternative songs by Kiwi artists that you should know about.
Josh discusses the rescue mission underway for the astronauts stranded at the Tiangong space station, NASA's plans in early 2026 to send a space mission to the moon, and new images of the interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS.
Molly is joined in the studio by Toody Cole, the aptly dubbed 'Godmother of Rock n Roll'. Toody has returned to Aotearoa to play music from the catalogue of the infamous garage-rock pioneers Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows. Toody played bass and sung in both bands alongside her husband Fred Cole, who passed away in 2017. This time around, Toody's band is comprised of Pierced Arrows bandmate Kelly Haliburton, as well as Kelly's bandmate, Christopher March, from Jenny Don't & The Spurs. Toody plays Tāmaki tonight before heading across the country and then making a final stop back at Galatos for The Others Way 2025. Whakarongo mai nei!
Molly speaks with Craig Robertson, a professor in Media Studies at Northeastern University over in the U.S., former writer for Aotearoa’s longest running music mag Rip It Up, who's back in Aotearoa to tour his newly published book, Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly. Published via Auckland University Press, the biographry is a comprehensive account of Knox's life and career from Invercargill to current day. It's an honest account of an artist who's innumerable creative outputs since the '70s have cemented his place as behemoth in the musical landscape and cultural history of this country.
You'll be able to catch Craig in conversation with Russell Brown at Real Groovy from 6pm, alongside Don McGlashan and SJD, Groopchat and Gemma Gracewood.
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