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Welcome to the mid-week show! The Mind Trench is back as per usual with the bees knees and elephant sneezes. Rachel speaks to Savina Fountain and Aubrie Mitchel from BIG FAN about their programme Ignite, a new initiative for rangatahi wanting to enter NZ music scene. Whakarongo mai nei!
I tēnei ata Rachel speaks with Jazmine Rose Philips about the Festival of Live Art, Adam Rohe talks 'Man Lessons' on Stage Direction with Alice, and Tim Hazeldine talks about Universal Basic Income on Ready Steady, Learn!
Playlist
Cole Pulice - City in a City
Ty Segall - Good Morning
Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
Mdou Moctar - Tala Tannam
Yaeji - For Granted
Soft Plastics - Disembody
deepState - Starfield
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Day
Hybrid Rose - Take Me Out (feat. Ryan The God) [Young Gho$t Flip]
It's a Thursday morning and today on the show we've got the Deputy Leader of the Opposition talking about the Auckland floods, the latest polls, and comments around inflation and the minimum wage on What's Up w/ Nicola Willis; Delaney's here for some great comfort baking recs on Breakfast Food, and Logan Collis aka Honey phones up for a kōrero about Cxnt Vol.1! Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Lachlan Denton - Lose
Yves Tumor - Echolalia
Church - Orange
Raiza Biza - Get Money
H. Hawkline - Plastic Man
ANDWAHN - GIVE IT UP 2 ME (JAZZ1E EDIT)
Glyders - High Time
Earth Tongue - Astonishing Comet
SBTRKT - FORWARD
Ezra Collective & Fela Kuti - Lady (Ezra Collective Version)
Terry - Gold Duck
Mainline Magic Orchestra - Tranchera
DJ Plead & Stain - Rent Request
Stereolab - French Disko
bar italia - Polly Armour
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
French Concession - Future Life
Yaeji - For Granted
SUEP - Domesticated Dream
Tiny Ruins - The Crab / Waterbaby
Theia - Pray 4 Me
The Chairman Dances - Small Comforts
Ty Segall - Night of the Vampire [Roky Erickson Cover]
Lawrence Arabia - The Developed World
Rubi Du - Guiding Star [Mokotron Remix]
Billy Bragg - There Is Power In a Union
Bria - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' [Loretta Lynn Cover]
The weather in Tāmaki Makaurau continues to be absolutely awful (we hope you're doing okay out there!) but the radio is here to keep you company. Today we've got some Political Commentary with Associate Professor Dr. Lara Greaves, Rob chats Mr. Blobby and black bears on The Mind Trench, Andwhan from The Big Fresh Collective is on the line to chat about his new EP, and Amelia's here for Word Salad! Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
pickle darling - Everything Is Flammable
Theia - Pray 4 Me
Julia Jacklin - Just To Be A Part [Bill Fay Cover]
LIPS - Heave Ho
Surf Friends - Something Real
Bill Callahan - So Long, Marianne
Blair Parkes - if you wanna forget
Ghost Woman - The End of a Gun
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - In the Image
Roy Irwin - Clover
The Specials - Gangsters
Hybrid Rose - Take Me Out (feat. Ryan The God) [Young Gho$t Flip]
Peaches - Lovertits
ANDWAHN - BLUFFIN (THINK FLIP)
ANDWAHN - GIVE IT UP 2 ME (JAZZ1E EDIT)
Television - Marquee Moon
The Courtneys - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Grateful
The Leonard Simpson Duo - My Inspiration
christoph el' truento - cloudy subtropical
Marlon Williams - Slipping Away (Max Merritt & The Meteors) [Live at 95bFM - 30/11/18]
Bic Runga - Belle
Belle & Sebastian - Talk To Me Talk To Me
Vagabon - Reason To Believe feat. Courtney Barnett [Karen Dalton Cover]
It's a damp Tuesday morning, and Rachel and Zoë take you through from 7 until 10 with a special edition of A Room of One's Own with Salene where she shares advice and help for renters who are struggling after the Auckland floods, the Creative Director of Auckland Pride Festival, Nathan Joe, is on the line for a kōrero, Janina Nana Yaa chats about their F.O.L.A. show on Stage Direction, and we learn about anauralia on Ready Steady Learn! Whakarongo mai nei, and sending out much aroha to everyone affected by the floods over the weekend xx
It's Thursday morning and on the Breakfast show we have Rod Oram on the line for some much needed Political Commentary, an early spin of the fantastic new Theia track 'Pray 4 Me' and a kōrero too, Jim's here for all your garden needs on Greening Out, and Roy Irwin chats about their new single 'Clover'. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
HUMMUCIDE - The Moon
Haz & Miloux - Three
Kate NV - meow chat
The Naenae Express - Sea Anemone
YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA - RYDEEN
Soft Plastics - Disembody
Lawrence Arabia - The Developed World
Dehd - Eggshells
Dead Famous People - So Many Flowers
The Beths - Change in the Weather
Goat - Chukua Pesa
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Savanne
Jim Nothing - Yellow House
Varda - Intrusive Thoughts & Late Nights
Santigold - Fall First
Body Beat Ritual - Disco Ghost
TE KAAHU - Pai Maarire
Theia - Pray 4 Me
Black Market Karma - Heady Ideas (Joakim Åhlund Remix)
Roidz - TRU LUV (i quit)
Les Big Byrd - I Gave It All Up For You
Neil MacLeod - Mouthshut (Proteins of Magic Remix)
Rozi Plain - Agreeing For Two feat. Alabaster DePlume
It's the hard launch of Breakfast 2023! Whakarongo mai nei for some Fashun with Penelope Noir, Loose Reads with Jenna, and all the tunes and chats your heart desires.
Playlist
Erny Belle - Island Time
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Recitals - The Pip (ABG Remix)
Bjork - Come To Me
Eggy - Upon Reflection [Traffik Island Remix]
Te KuraHuia - Uha
Decisive Pink - Haffmilch Holiday
Julien Dyne - Hours feat. Ladi6 (Lord Echo Remix)
Princess Chelsea - Time
Bored Lord - Turn Up Your Radio
The Courtneys - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
Buffalo Tom - Sunflower Suit
Leonard Charles - Nine Lives feat. Leroy Burgess
Bleeding Star - Why Do Parties Have to be so Loud
Ladi6 - Beffy
Young Fathers - I Saw
Borrowed cs - Selflessness
Gold Medal Famous - It's a waste of time
deepState - Butterfly
Hybrid Rose - Take Me Out (feat. Ryan The God) [Young Gho$t Flip]
Tiny Ruins - The Crab / Waterbaby
jackaltheblackal - WHITMAN FEVER
Opposite Sex - Combine Harvester
DUSTY & GHOS - NARCOS
Black Market Karma - Heady Ideas (Joakim Åhlund Remix)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1
Neil MacLeod - Mouthshut (Proteins of Magic 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.
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