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.
Featuring an interview with Moana Maiapoto and Friday Live with the enigmatic and eclectic Arthur Ahbez, brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to McLeod's Brewery.
This week on Thursday Drive, Milly chats all things green with Chris from The Hempstore, Womb's new track 'Sometimes', and 花溪 Flowerstream come up to chat Kiriata me Puoro where music meets animation. Many god tunes are played as well!
Catch up on Rosetta's chat to Ladyhawke, guest judge on the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under. For AudioCulture, Rosetta spoke to Nick Bollinger about the recent digital-release of The Underwater Melon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes and reminisced on the book and album's influence on Kiwis in the past 25 years since the CD was originally released. Thanks to 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!
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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