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It's another stacked Tuesday Drive with Nick and Rosetta! Today on the show, Rosetta does a deep dive on AI streaming fraud, DUSTY and GHOS of MOKOMOKAI are up in studio to chat about their new album PONO!, and Gareth Shute comes up for a special tribute to Lorraine Barry for AudioCulture. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring Stage Direction with Alice chatting to the folks at Silo Theatre about their upcoming whānau-friendly show Taniwha, That's The Spirit with Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham and Matthew speaks with folk musicians Thalia Zedek and Ned Collette ahead of their show at the Auckland Unitarian Church this Wednesday.
Molly is joined in the host seat by one of bFM's awesome vollies, Huia! If you loved the show, Huia will be on-air more regularly very soon. Featuring debate on Britpop, great tune selections from Huia and a stunning Friday Live with Pōneke's Deva Mahal singing her new single South Coast - brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
Featuring Chris' recap of the last week of cannibas in the news on Marijuana Media thanks to The Hempstore, and Annie from Basement Theatre's recipe for a plum daquiri (The 'Annie, Are You Okay'?) plus the crew behind Live Reel are up for Cocktail Corner.
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.
Alice Canton spoke with actor and playwright Gideon Smith about Black Faggot - a black comedy production at Q Theatre telling the experiences of queer Pasifika in response to Destiny Church’s “Enough is Enough” march on Parliament in 2004 and the 2012 protests against the Marriage Equality bill.
Oto and Peter had a kōrero about Shia Islam, the differences between it and the more widely followed Sunni sect and it's role in Middle-Eastern geopolitics.
MELODOWNZ walks Tony Stamp through some of his favourite tracks and chats about his upcoming release MELO & BASS. Featuring the the following tracks:
Bone Thugs n Harmony - Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Skepta - Bullet From A Gun
The Isley Brothers - That Lady Pt. 1 & 2
MELODOWNZ - FEEL GOOD AURA w/ Caru feat. Romi Wrights
Naarm-based musician Paul Bender (Hiatus Kaiyote) has begun a tireless and nobel social media call to action, after his project The Sweet Enoughs had their streaming profiles hijacked by what appears to be AI-generated music. Turns out, it's becoming a really common issue; the low barriers for entry of digital distributors and lack of verification processes, combined with the speed and scale of AI content, making it harder for artists to protect their creative identities and autonomy across streaming. Rosetta decides to investigate, chatting with Paul, Dave Gibson from Elemeno P about a similar experience last year, Recorded Music NZ CEO Jo Oliver, and AI Music researcher Dr Fabio Morreale.
DUSTY and GHOS from MOKOMOKAI are up in the studio for a kōrero with Nick and Rosetta about the new record PONO!, the release of their debut self-titled record on vinyl, and their forthcoming tour! They're playing Double Whammy on July 19, tickets and more info from Madcap.
Today on Audio Culture we pay tribute to wāhine toa Lorraine Barry, who sadly passed over the weekend. Manager to Dave Dobbyn, Tom Scott and countless other artists, and an absolute force in the Aotearoa music scene - Gareth Shute came up to the studio to chat with Nick and Rosetta about Lorraine's impact. The trio chat about Lorraine's Northern Irish roots and involvement with global icons The Spice Girls, what brought her to Aotearoa, and her commitment to mentoring emerging industry professionals through organisations such as MMF. Lorraine features in AudioCulture's article Five Wāhine Toa of The Industry.
Matthew is joined in the studio by folk musicians Australian Ned Collette and American Thalia Zedek (on the phone) to chat about their upcoming show at the Auckland Unitarian Church this Wednesday. Whakarongo mai nei!
Peter Lineham phones in to catch up Crawley and us listeners about his recent travels to China and the ways in which religions are currently practiced in China.
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