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Sof's covering i tēnei ata ! Dr Kirsten Zemke talks international shoegaze for Travelling Tunes, Litia recommends Materialists (2025) for Viewmaster, and Cam recommends us his vinyl of the week for From the Crate, thanks to Southbound Records!
Playlist
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
LT - Darien Gap
SALON MUSIC - nagisa nite
alex g - June Guitar
O & THE MO - Make Way For The Sun
Fazerdaze - Motorway
Saint Etienne, Pete Wiggs - Alone Together - Hove Lawns Sunset Mix
smerz - Roll the dice
ESG - Dance
School Fair - vexed
Happyness - Naked Patients
Salt Water Criminals - Staring at the Outstretched Hand
Featuring Fashun with Penelope Noir and the weekly book review with Jenna on Loose Reads, thanks to Time Out Bookstore and later Australian comedian Guy Montgomery is in the studio for a chat about his show this week!
Playlist
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES
Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain
Large Professor - I Juswanna Chill
Flying Lotus, Andreya Triana - Tea Leaf Dancers
Servi - Swingin' Both Ways
La Luz - Morning High
Na Noise - Bad Dreams
Nirvana - Dumb
Surf Friends - Good Thing
The Kinks - David Watts
Princess Chelsea - All The Stars
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Join Milly and Tuva'a for one interesting Tuesday, with some great tracks old and new! Featuring Ready Steady Learn with , thanks to the University of Auckland!
Playlist
DIIV - Return Of Youth (Radio Edit)
Michael Llewellyn - Stalin
Erny Belle - Hell Hole
Bosq, Kaleta - Wake Up
The Funkees - Abraka
The Go! Team, Monster Rally - Ladyflash (Monster Rally Remix)
Cam's picks for today include tracks from Tami Neilson's forthcoming album Neon Cowgirl, The Circling Sun's Orbit, and Kokoroko's Tuff Times Never Last.
Dr Kirsten Zemke phones into the studio to have a yarn with Annabel and Callum about jazz scat vocals and is evolution this morning on Travelling Tunes!
Playlist: Dizzy Gillespie - Oop-Pop-A-Da (1947-1994 Remastered) Tania María - Yatra – Ta (1981) Mark Murphy - Bebop Lives (Boplicity) (2015)
David finally clocks the reference in the Political Commentary introduction and discusses how former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may be called in front of the Royal Commission investigating New Zealand's Covid-19 pandemic to give evidence on the government's response, as well as the discourse in the political and media sphere.
Dr Alicia Didsbury, a research fellow in the Faculty of Science, joins Hugh Sundae in the studio to chat about her research into cell and gene based therapies for Cancer treatment.
This week Penelope Noir phones in to delve into battle jackets and how the style evolved within subcultures, particularly Punk, from the '70s until today. Whakarongo mai nei!
This week Jenna reviews the new novel from Jamaican/U.K. author William Rayfet Hunter, Sunstruck. It's a sun-drenched yet turbulent novel and marks a bold debut for Hunter. Whakarongo mai nei!
Sam Harmony speaks with festival director Paolo Bertolin just after the announce of this year's programme and that 95bFM is veeeery stoked to be presenting Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival for 2025. It's a stacked programme, so whakarongo mai nei to Sam and Paolo's kōrero on this year's curation.