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The perfect cure for midweek blues! Jonny chats to Fazerdaze ahead of her show this weekend at the Powerstation, then there was the weekly Aural Emporium, and indie icon Kristin Hersh phones in to chat about her return to Aotearoa for her shows at The Vic and The Tuning Fork.
Playlist
JJ Grey & Mofro - Turpentine
Shanghai Restoration Project - Dark Horse Reverve
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Partying at the Disco - Puff Puff Pass
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
The Chills - Steel Skies
Marina Zispin - Deep Blue
The Confederate Dead - Hal Ra'ayt Alnuwr - (You There)
Tom Lark - Fuselage
Annabelle Chairlegs - Brain Freeze
The Hongi Slicker - Falling Off [prod. Kenny Sterling]
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Lake - Wonderful Sunlight
Fazerdaze - Cherry Pie
CINDY - Best Part
Fazerdaze - Bedroom Talks
MELODOWNZ, Jappa & kingman Dewuro - REVOLUTION
Ripship - CHROME
Takeshi's Cashew - Serpentines (to Nikšić)
Waxahatchee - Mud
All Them Witches - Workhorse
Reb Fountain - How Bizarre
Lucy Dacus - Talk
Joan As Police Woman - The Magic
Throwing Muses - Summer of Love
Chris Cornell - Seasons
Kristin Hersh - Ms Haha
Mammalien - I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore
Featuring the fortnightly catch-up with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson on Isthmus'n That, an interview with Benedict from Scottish folk-trio Talisk ahead of their gig tonight as part of Auckland Arts Festival, and Ready Steady Learn thanks to the University of Auckland!
Playlist
Curse Of Lono - Think I'm Alright Now (Flying Mojito Bros - Refrito)
16 Underground - Chasing a Comfort
Wooden Shjips - Golden Flower
Voom - TROUBLE
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Body of Work - Secondhand Blues
Tom Lark - Fuselage
Zuke - Ice Bear
Marlon Williams - Kahore He Mane E (featuring Lorde)
New Candys - Regicide
CCTV - big wheels
Talisk - Maverick
Talisk - Abyss (Live at the Barrowlands)
Abigail Lapell & Great Lake Swimmers - Wait Up (Acoustic)
Jonny brings you three hours of music, features, opinion and probably-other-stuff-as-well to get Monday into gear. Featuring Fashun with Pennie Black and our weekly book review by Suri on Loose Reads, thanks to Time Out Bookstore.
Playlist
Naxatras - Numenia
Mandrake Handshake - Lorenzo's Desk
Franc Moody - Driving On The Wrong Side Of The Road
Orions Belte - The Carneddau
Erny Belle - Boudoir
Phoebe Rings - Drifting
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Sudan Archives - Glorious
Steakfry - thinking about yesterday
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Half Hexagon - Shadow
The Naenae Express - Go Out And Vote
The Psychedelic Shafferson Jetplane - Fender Madness Take 1
Stephen Malkmus - Xian Man
Tom Lark - Radio Blaster
Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All
Giraffage - Maybes (feat Japanese Breakfast - RAC mix)
Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Mammalien - I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore
Featuring Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Litia's telly review on Viewmaster, and track selections and recommendations thanks to Southbound Records! Plus, 95bFM News, Weather Report & The Progear Surf Report on the hour, every hour.
Playlist
Zuke - Hyperion (Piano Version - Rhian Sheehan Remix)
Featuring an interview with The D4, plus Ready Steady Learn thanks to The University of Auckland. This week's Short Player features a snippet of Hunter's chat with Reb Fountain about her new album How Love Bends, which also happens to be the 95bFM Album of the Week this week!
Playlist
Andy Bell - pinball wanderer
Lake - Wonderful Sunlight
Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All
Red Project - Booty (Original Mix)
flypaper - cut it up
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
KARKARA - Anthropia
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Featuring Jazzy Vocals on Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Litia's telly review on Viewmaster, and track selections and recommendations from Cam on From The Crate thanks to Southbound Records!
Playlist
Casper Skulls - Dying in Eight Verses
KNEECAP - H.O.O.D 2025 mix
Peter Matson - Melancolía (feat. Pahua)
Abigail Lapell & Great Lake Swimmers - Wait Up (Acoustic)
Tom Lark - Rock & Roll Baby
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
Serebii - Dime
Billy Strings - Home
The Veils - Melancholy Moon
Horsegirl - Frontrunner
CHAII - Safar
DvirNuns - Old School TB
Yamagucci & DvirNuns - First Choice
Sanoi, Boznich - Chill Bill
Judy Mowatt - Black Woman
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Delicious Light
Reb Fountain - He Commands You to Jump Into the Sea
It's a busy morning at the b! Jonny's packed show featured Political Commentary with David Slack and a chat with Sola Rosa and premiere of the new single The Sun Doesn't Shinefeaturing Joe Probert. Later, Jonny speaks with Florian Habicht, director of Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, about the film's ten year anniversary and special screening at The Hollywood. Plus, Hayden from The Drug Foundation chats cocaine, harm reduction and the importance of testing on What's The Buzz? brought to you by The Level.
Mainard Larkin and Shannon Fowler (Tom Lark) are in the studio, chatting about their brand new single 'Rattlesnake Boy' - and forthcoming album out May 22! Whakarongo mai nei!
Penelope Noir joins us for another epic Fashun, this week discussing the history of prison uniforms - kicking off a series of delving into the fashion of uniforms. Whakarongo mai nei!
Jim is back for another year of stellar gardening chats, on Greening Out! Today, he catches up with Milly and Rosetta on all the latest happenings in his garden, and what is means to 'garden by feeling'. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly tune in to Radio Active down in Pōneke, for a chat with their current brekkie host Nico! The trio catch up on all the latest gig-wise and new music, and we listen to a track selected by Nico. Whakarongo mai nei!
Hayden is back up in the studio for What's The Buzz, chatting with Rosetta and Milly about pressed MDMA pills and the risks involved. Whakarongo mai nei!
Co-creator of ANITO - an immersive theatre experience taking place this week as part of Auckland Pride Festival - Justin Shoulder, is up in the bFM studio for a chat with Rosetta and Milly! Catch ANITO at Q Theatre this week running from Feb 12-14th. Whakarongo mai nei!
For our monthly catch up with the Green Party, Rosetta and Milly chat with Steve Abel about what took place at Waitangi over the weekend, and the government's new plan for a liquefied natural gas import terminal. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly are joined by Dr Madeline Shelling for Ready Steady Learn today, talking about her research in food insecurity facing Māori, the factors that cause the issue, and food sovereignty as a solution. Whakarongo mai nei!
AJ Honeysuckle is blessing our ata with a guest mix and kōrero, ahead of the next Bass Rongoā gig this Rāhoroi - A Land of a Thousand Lovers at Whammy Bar with AJ Honeysuckle, DylanBiscuit, Leon Aoki, ilish, and Oscillation (UK). Whakarongo mai nei!
Nate is back up for Loose Reads, and today we're getting deep into questions of morality and mortality, with George Saunders' Vigil. Whakarongo mai nei!