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Another Rātu Drive with Nick and Rosetta in the bag! Today on the show, the duo catch up with Josh for your bi-weekly space news scoop on Spaced Out. There's also news, weather, surf, a recap of the ripping SRN Top 10, and plenty of music! Plus some yarns about what the texters are having for dinner, because who doesn't love a bit of kai inspo?
Featuring Stage Direction with Alice Canton and the team behind Prima Facae at Pumphouse Theatre, a kōrero with Geneva AM about her new single Urban Planning and forthcoming album PIKIPIKI, and a chat with Gussie of Earth Tongue about their show at Whammy this Rāhoroi and new music in the works.
Rosetta fills in for Milly and Tuva'a on a stacked Drive, featuring a double bill Friday Live brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery. Up first is Ōtepoti sludge-duo HŌHĀ, then Pōneke rockers Dropper, who are in town for Junk Vol II.
Hugh Sundae fills in for HALFQUEEN, featuring Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie, a chat with Campbell Smith about the Western Springs "Auckland Bowl" proposal (submit your support here before June 15), Jolisa Gracewood from Bike Pt Chev on this Saturday's twin events, and Mel Parsons phones in ahead of her show at the Tuning Fork Friday night.
Featuring Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie thanks to The Hempstore, discussions on the future of the Western Springs Speedway, and kōrero with Mel Parsons ahead of her album release show at The Tuning Fork on Friday.
Today on Drive, Nick has a kōrero with Pōneke based DJ/producer Benny Salvadorabout their upcoming Aunty Records gig on June 6 at Whammy Bar. For AudioCulture, Andrew Schmidt is up in the studio to chat with Nick and Rosetta about all things NZ Garage Rock. Plus prizes, news, weather, surf, and plenty of tunes. Whakarongo mai nei!
Join Milly and Tuva'a for a jam-packed show! Featuring a recap of thier jaunt to the Aotearoa Music Awards 2025 the night before plus interviews with nominees and winners at this year's ceremony. Later on in the show, we celebrate the last Friday Live with not one, but two sessions with Arahi and Tusekah! Thanks to NZ On Air Musicand McLeod's Breweryfor making Friday Live possible.
Steve joins Hugh Sundae in the studio to review the new Sly and The Family Stone doco Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a new addition to the Predator franchise Predator: Killer of Killers, and the new Pedro Pascal flick Materialists by Celine Song which is mostly rom and not so much com.
Rosetta and Nick catch up with your favourite space expert Josh to chat about what's happening out there in the cosmos this week! The trio cover everything from Japan’s Resilience lunar landers second failed landing, to a Chinese mission that has launched to one of Earth’s quasi-moons, and the distant future possibilities of galaxies coliding!
Oto interviewed Gussie from the Berlin-based Pōneke psychedelic doom-fuzz outfit, Earth Tongue, about their nationwide tour set to begin this week, and the secret opener joining them for their Tāmaki Makaurau show at Double Whammy on the 14th of June.
Oto had a kōrero with Geneva AM (Ngāti Ruapani mai Waikaremoana, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Aitutaki, Palmerston) to talk about her latest single 'Urban Planning,' an homage to her tīpuna and the second track off her forthcoming album 'Pikipiki'
Steve recommends a couple good series to hunker down with as Winter kicks-in. First up is the series Mind Menders with Sonia Grey which investigates psychedelic therapy for mental health treatments and tracks the recent LSD trial at the University of Auckland. Then, Steve talks Murderbot and why you should watch it on cold and rainy nights.
Tom of Tarndanya-based noise country band Twine calls in from Pōneke to select tracks for What's Cooking and chat about Junk Vol. II happening this weekend across both Whammys and Public Bar. Tom's track selections include:
The Drones - Jezebel
Allegra Krieger - A Place for It to Land
Pavement - Father to a Sister of Thought
Michael Hurley - I Stole the Right to Live
Twine - New Cleaner