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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
Alphabethead AKA David Morrison dials in for a kōrero with Milly and Rosetta about his new track 'I'm Lucy Lawless' - an epic launch of his latest electronic music collection, complete with a Xena: Warrior Princess war cry! The trio also catch up about Alphabethead joining the Sun Return whānau, and what we can expect from new music. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today on Ready Steady Learn, Rosetta and Milly are joined on air by Dr. Sereana Naepi, who is an associate Professor of Sociology at Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland. Sereana was an editor on the newly published book Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa - an unflinching examination of racism in NZ, featuring essays from 13 Pacific academics analysing racism across education, health, justice and society. Whakarongo mai nei!
Suri is up in the studio to chat about Mary McCarthy's 1957 memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: a witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written reflection on the author's 1920s upbringing. Whakarongo mai nei!
Continuing on from last week's kōrero with Sam about Battle Jackets, Pennie joins Milly and Rosetta for a chat about the uniforms of various different fandoms and the subcultures that they create! The trio chat Turbojugend, Juggalos, Maggots and more - whakarongo mai nei!
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)
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.
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.
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