Deb5000 are one of our Fancy New Bands playing tonight at Whammy Bar (for free!) and Jess and Ciara popped in for a chat. You can catch them live at 9.30pm, but come down early to see the full line-up: Fable, Ripship, Dharmarat, Crap Date and Elegant world! And if you can't make it in person, you can tune-in on the radio or watch the live stream on the 95bFM facebook page.
Dharmarat is one of our Fancy New Bands performing this friday at Whammy Bar. He popped into studio to chat to us about his record WLKNZ, what he's been up to over lockdown, and what to expect from his set on friday. Tune in, and come geg! (It's free!)
Courtney Marvin (The Courtneys) and Connor Mayer have a fuzzy new guitar band called Gum Country. The spoke with Rachel this morning livefrom L.A. about their brand new album 'Somewhere', catching coronavirus, and Black Lives Matter protests happening on their doorstep. Tune in!
Queen of mournful bangers, Phoebe Bridgers, is back with her sophmore album, 'Punisher', out now via Dead Oceans. Rachel caught up with the L.A. based musician to have a chat about making the new record, working with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus on boygenius, ol' coronavirus and more. Tune in!
Los Angeles musician Christian Lee Hutson has worked with many indie stalwarts including Boygenius, Better Oblivion Community Centre and Phoebe Bridgers. Now he is taking centre stage with his own debut record 'Beginners', out now via ANTI- records. Tune in to hear his chat with Rachel about making the album.
Diggy Dupé joins us on Breakfast for a special spin of his brand new track CT&T. Rach chats to Diggy Dupé about making music over lockdown, the forthcoming album and how this track came to be.
We're joined by Noah Slee in the studio to chat about his latest single 'Here For It All' featuring Mike Nasa. Noah catches up with Rach, post-lockdown, about everything going on around us and the importance of music bringing people together.
Dr. Melani Anae is a senior lecturer in Pacific Studies at The University of Auckland, and an original member of the Polynesian Panthers. Today marks 49 years since the Panthers began, and this morning Melani spoke to us about how the group came to be and some of her experiences as a member.
Sian Montgomery-Neutze is a Wellington based freelance artist, moko practitioner and writer/translator of Ngai Tara/Muaūpoko descent. Rachel spoke with her this morning about her involvement in Ruahine: Stories in Her Skin, an awesome documentary by Hinona Henare following two women through the process of recieving moko kauae. Tune in to find out more, and watch the documentary tonight via the Doc Edge festival.
Victoria Chellew (Bad Friend, Keeva), one of the Girls Rock Pōneke mentors, spoke with Rachel about how people can get involved with this year's online camp. It's free and it's mint and it's happening next month, so tune in to find out more!
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