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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
Featuring an interview with Peter Hobbs, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke discussing Yé-yé, Viewmaster with Litia and the Record Store Day special with Cam on From The Crate, thanks to our mates at Southbound Records.
Featuring Political Commentary with Tim Greene, an interview with Paddy of Pitch Black about their upcoming tour, Natural Ange and a first spin of Jazmine Mary's new single Memphis and kōrero about their forthcoming album.
Playlist
Paul Cathro - No Life On Mars
Byllie-jean - Hinekoukou
Saâda Bonaire - Woman
Durand Jones & The Indications - Been So Long
Memory Foam - Hangry (Sushi Train)
Arcane Allies - Cards
Speedometer - Kashmir
The Dave Pike Set - Mathar
Nino Nardini - Tropicola
New Candys - Night Surfer
The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Curse Of Lono - Think I'm Alright Now
JStar - Dorsey Star
Tom Lark - Live Wires
Leif Vollebekk - Long Blue Light
Japanese Breakfast - Picture Window
Marlon Williams - Rere Mai Nga Rau
MĀ - BIOTW
Fu Manchu - Boogie Van
Void Waves - Take me down
Voom - I Love You Girl
Pitch Black - Fragile Ladders (Module's Heavy Snakes Remix)
Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Heaven 7
TEEKS - If Only
Wet Leg - catch these fists
Black Country, New Road - New Road For the Cold Country
MĀ and The Fly Hunnies stop by the bFM lounge midway through their tour of Aotearoa to support MĀ's new album Blame It On The Weather for an early live set on a rainy Tāmaki morning. Whakarongo mai nei!
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.