Listen back to feature interviews and performances from the 95bFM Breakfast Show. Weekly features (such as Loose Reads or Travelling Tunes) all have their own feeds, so to listen or subscribe, pick and choose from the bCasts list on the right.
Featuring Political Commentary with Dr Bryce Edwards, Angela Haldene gives advice and answers your queries on Natural Ange, and then Ben from the New Zealand Drug Foundationchats Methamphetamine on What's The Buzz, brought to you by The Level! Plus fresh tunes like the new track from local band Ringlets, classic tunes, and much, much more.
Playlist
Juleah - Sommertraum
New Candys - Thrill Or Trip
New Candys - Silver Eyes Arise
Pond - Sweep Me Off My Feet
MĀ - DECAY
BlueMoonDisco - Bungle's Bungle
Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Lola - Above
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers Bend Towards The Sun
Ringlets - Heavenly Wheel
Miynt - Nothing personal
Tom Lark - Fuselage
Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Sorry I Am Late
Yaeji & E.Wata - Pondeggi
Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
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
As a little mid-week treat for you, Jenna is up in the studio chatting pukapuka for Loose Reads - after the long weekend! She chats with Rosetta and Milly about Lily King, who Jenna is chatting to at the Auckland Writers Festival on Sunday May 17! Whakarongo mai nei.
Gab Vincent joins Rosetta and Milly in the studio for a chat about some of her mahi with the Auckland Writers Festival this year - including Streetside and Plot Twist, the latest addition to the lineup on May 17 which features a takeover at Q Theatre aimed at rangatahi! Whakarongo mai nei!
Charlie is up in the studio again, this week chatting with Rosetta and Milly about the beautiful Papua New Guinean Kindeng single origin bean from eighthirty (which we're giving away on the show this week!) and testing Rosetta and Milly's tasting abilities. Whakarongo mai nei!
This week on Ready Steady Learn, Rosetta and Milly are joined in the study by PhD student at the School of Psychology Deborah Hill Cone, to chat about her research in indicators of toxic masculinity such as sexism, narcissism and attitudes toward preventing domestic violence. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rachel is back up in the studio, filling Rosetta and Milly in on what's going down at the NZ Music Month Summit this Saturday at The Tuning Fork! Listen back to hear about some of the awesome panels happening throughout the day, and register to head along for free via MMF. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly catch up with MELODOWNZ, to talk about his new album BRON - and his forthcoming tour! Catch him at Double Whammy on May 8. Whakarongo mai nei!
Penelope Noir joins Rosetta and Milly for a chat about the Black Carpet at the Taite Music Prize this year! See Pennie and all the stars at the NZICC next Wednesday April 29 - it's open to the public this year! Whakarongo mai nei.