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A packed to the gills morning for you. Starting off with Political Commentary with Dr Bryce Edwards. Later, two 95bFM special announcements, first Tāmaki Makaurau's most beloved multi-venue street festival The Other's Way is back for 2025, and Dave Dobbyn will be performing for one-show-only for the Winter Series. Love Square chat to Jonny about the upcoming first-ever K Road FAM festival, and then Downtown Days on the harbour. Hayden discusses mushrooms (just in time for Autumn) on What's The Buzz thanks to The Leveland the New Zealand Drug Foundation.
Playlist
Southside of Bombay - What's The Time, Mr Wolf?
The Ponsonby DCs - G'Day Mate
OMC - Land of Plenty
Snapper - Cause of You
Hemi Hemingway - (To Be) Without You
Moon Lander - Pseudoephedrine
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Wet Leg - catch these fists
An Emerald City - Ulica Bolslaw
Goat - Ouroboros
Jonathan Bree - You're So Cool
Perfume Genius - Clean Heart
Love Square - Layer
Love Square - Sonido Amazonico
Durand Jones & The Indications - Been So Long
Bon Iver - There s A Rhythmn
Yumi Zouma - Bashville on the Sugar
David Dobbyn - Blindman's Bend
Stereolab - Aerial Troubles
Grecco Romank - Don't Get Caught (Feat. Princess Chelsea)
Jessica Pratt - World on a String
Leif Vollebekk - Apalachee Plain
Liam Finn - The Howl
Elliot Dawson - I Don't Want to Have to Ask The Question
Featuring the Aural Emporium, a guest interview with Reb Fountain about her upcoming show at the Town Hall to celebrate her new album, and a chat with Car Seat Headrest about their brand new album The Scholars. It's CSH's thirteenth studio album and their foray into rock opera, it's ambitious and breaks new ground for the band - whakarongo mai nei to hear about the process behind it!
Playlist
Wallace - By the River
Mild Orange - Moonglade
US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Funk'n'SloCuts - esperando por ti
MĀ - BIOTW
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Sylvia Lily & Calm Canopy - Yukon Lost
The Muckers - Suspended
Voom - Crazy Feeling
Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang ft De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Q Tip, & Monie Love
dereck d.a.c. X KIANVSLIFE - dereckVSLIFE
Water From Your Eyes - Adeleine
Reb Fountain - How Bizarre
Reb Fountain - Memorial
Jamaica Moana - Tuggawar
Fèng - C-SAW (ruins)
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Angelo Outlaw - Time Traveler
Black Country, New Road - New Road For the Cold Country
Lola - Spirits
Joan As Police Woman - I Defy
Car Seat Headrest - Destroyed By Hippie Powers
Car Seat Headrest - CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)
Car Seat Headrest - CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)
Car Seat Headrest - The Catatrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
Featuring What's Up? with Labour Leader Chris Hipkins, Rhys Matthewson hops on for a chat about his show Time Trial at this years' Best Foods Comedy Festival, and Professor David Lines is on Ready Steady Learn, brought to you by the University of Auckland.
Playlist
Timewarp inc & Kaleya - Blind Day
Dreamwave - Clad Kings
Hemi Hemingway - (To Be) Without You
DOPE LEMON - Sugarcat
Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor - Kokiri
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Fèng - C-SAW (ruins)
Ghost Club - Sea Shaped Stone
Reb Fountain - Hawks & Doves [Tali Remix]
Drakkar Nowhere - How Could That Be Why
Ringlets - Heavenly Wheel
Jazmine Mary - Memphis
Casper Skulls - Dying in Eight Verses
Soundgarden - Outshined
Viagra Boys - Girls & Boys [Live - Shrimp Sessions 2]
Primal Scream - Trainspotting
Marlon Williams - Rere Mai Nga Rau
Leif Vollebekk & Angie McMahon - Take It to the Limit
Monday blues got you down? Tune into Breakfast for insight into Ghana's recycled clothing industry on Fashun with Penelope Noir, a review of ex-editor of Vanity Fair Graydon Carter's memoir on Loose Reads thanks to Time Out Bookstore, and an interview with Dope Lemon about his new album and upcoming tour of Aotearoa.
Playlist
Romare - Quiet Corners Of My Mind
Nick Weaver - Lamb Man
Dungen - Ingenting är sig likt
Kikagaku Moyo - Green Sugar
David Bowie - What In The World
Minami Deutsch - Terra Recipe
DOPE LEMON - Miami Baby
Angelo Outlaw - Time Traveler
Marlon Williams - Rere Mai Nga Rau
Mel Parsons - Post High Slide
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Space Food - Cama
The Liminanas - Tu viens Marie ? - Version Longue
Annabelle Chairlegs - Tolls (To See Me)
Elliot Dawson - I Don't Want to Have to Ask The Question
Serebii - Goji
Eli Winter - For a Fallen Rocket
Leif Vollebekk - Long Blue Light
Connor Jay Liess - Anything Could Happen (feat. Wes Schlag)
The Clean - Anything Could Happen
CRUSH - What if I wanted it
Heaters - Ara Pacis
Swallow the Rat - Face Unpopular
Troy Kingi - All Your Ships Have Sailed
Jenny Hval - The Artist Is Absent (89 Seconds Rewrite)
Featuring What's Up with Steve Abel of the Green Party and the bFM recap of this years' Taite Awards! Congratulations to all the winners and nominees, and thanks to Independent Music New Zealand for throwing a damn good party!
Playlist
Marlon Williams - Rere Mai Nga Rau
The Lahaar - Work Work Work
The Bats - Loline
Paul Cathro - No Life On Mars
Womb - Only You
Jessica Pratt - Back, Baby
Mel Parsons - Post High Slide
Jazmine Mary - Memphis
Phoebe Alice Lou - You and I
Byllie-jean - E moko feat. Marlon Williams
Bon Iver - There s A Rhythmn
Mokotron - ŌHĀKĪ
Mokotron - KO WAI KOE
Sola Rosa - The Sun Doesn't Shine feat. Joe Probert
Kokoroko - Sweetie
Hidden Spheres, Allysha Joy, Finn Rees, Joy Spheres Rees - Promised Me Love
Christian from eighthirty is up for our final kōrero of the year! This week, we're giving away the boujee new black label Colombian - Sebastian Ramirez beans, so make sure you text in throughout the week to win! Whakarongo mai nei.
It's our last Loose Reads for the year, and Suri's last Loose Reads ever! Rosetta and Milly chat with her about her favourite reads of 2025, whats in her summer reading pile, and her ins and outs for 2026 literature. Whakarongo mai nei!
The legendary Stinky Jim is your bosom selecta i tēnei rā! Catch his show Stinky Grooves (which has been running for almost 30 years!) every Tuesday from 7 - 10pm, or replayed 4 - 7am on Wednesdays. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly phone up our lovely mates down in Te Whanganui a Tara at Radio Active, Sunaina and Emma! They catch up on the Aotearoa Alternative Awards, and what's happening across the Capital and up in Tāmaki. Whakarongo mai nei!
For our last Travelling Tunes of the year, Kirsten is chatting with Rosetta and Milly about songs that 'tear you up inside' - let's all get in our feelings a little bit ahead of the festive season! Whakarongo mai nei.
Song selections:
Yusuf (Cat Stevens) - Father & Son (1970)
Chet Baker - I get along without you very well (1956)
Sarah McLachlan - When She Loved Me (Toy Story 2) (1999)
It's our last From The Crate of 2025! Cam joins Rosetta and Milly in the studio for a chat about all the wonderful new releases out on the shelves at Southbound today. Just in time for your Xmas shopping - because there's no better gift than some fresh wax! Whakarongo mai nei.
Song selections:
This is Lorelei - Holo Boy
A$AP Rocky - Both Eyes Closed
Viagra Boys - Call of the Wild
For our last catch up of the year, Rosetta and Milly have a kōrero with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson to chat about the newly announced Te Ara Urutau – Climate and Emergency Ready Fund. They also cover some of the Council's goals for the new year. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly are joined in the studio by the wonderful team behind In The Pitts (aka bFM alumni Rachel, Zoë, Annabel and Callum) - a visual podcast that launched this year to document the Aotearoa indie music scene. They're up in studio to chat about their 2025 Yearbook - which you can pick up in zine-format at Public Bar tonight! Whakarongo mai nei.
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