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.
Eli Superflyy joins Breakfast to chat about his forthcoming album 'MOTOR' and his latest single 'Happy'. He also delves into the back story of the car he is giving away to one luck fan!
On What's Up with Marama Davidson, Rachel speaks to the co-leader of the Green Party about the recent Budget, the subsequent action day and the government's position on the situation in Rafah. The Bard of Bollix is in to guide us through The Mind Trench, and gifts us a cursed mash up. Liam K Swiggs chats about the 2024 Big Fresh Collective’s Footmahi and the his single, Skate Park featuring Young Ghost. Salene helps you out with your whack rental situations on A Room Of One's Own. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Anna Coddington - Moohou Raa
Goodnight My Darling - Ruby
Jess Cornelius - Laps in the Drugstore
Esy Tadesse - Buna
Habibi - Losing Control
clairo - Sexy to Someone
Guardian Singles - Midnight Swim
Cassandra Jenkins - Delphinium Blue
Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged Coda
The Bug - Skeng
Half Hexagon - The Method
Polaroids of Polarbears - The Day Of Frasers Birthday
We announce a delightful second tier of the Second Guessing prize, and Maria takes the win on today's level! Tessa from Mystery Waitress chats about their new single, Nightbug, out on Flying Nun. For Stage Direction, one of the presenters of The Gaza Dialogues, Rand Hazou, chats about the five-night mini-cultural festival fostering engagement with Palestine that begins tonight. Kendra Cox from the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work is on Ready Steady Learn in to discuss her masters research, a critical kaupapa Māori analysis of the pre-WWII child care and protection system. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Hominid - Stay With Me (Rework)
T.G. Shand - The Cheese
Hans. & hanbee - Warmer
Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly
Internn - Clammy Heart
Mount Kimbie - A Figure In The Surf
Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged Coda
Church - Fairytale
Mitski - Love Me More
Suede - Animal Nitrate
moktar - Haraka feat. Saad El Soghayar
K M T P - 2:45 (Getting Old)
Kindness - فلسطين
Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt - SASSY
Dad Jokes - JCVD
clairo - Sexy to Someone
Phoebe Rings - Mandarin Tree
Mystery Waitress - Baby
Mystery Waitress - Nightbug
Marlin's Dreaming - Earnestly feat. Erny Belle
Polaroids of Polarbears - The Day Of Frasers Birthday
Ninajirachi - Things I Never Nu
Samara Alofa - CEASEFIRE
Geneva AM - Pikipiki feat. Samara Alofa, Hawkins, Rewi McLay, Mara TK
We share the behind the scenes goss from the Aotearoa Music Awards last night! Listen back for chats with winners and nominees across the evening's celebration. Dr Kirsten Zemke chats about the lap steel on Travelling Tunes. Whakarongo mai nei!
Dr Lara Greaves gives us some Political Commentary about Budget day, and strike action across the motu. Jim chats winter planting on Greening Out. Emily Bateman is in the studio to chat about her new EP, Like I Always Do.
Playlist
Kurawai, Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, Te Kuru Dewes - Toitū Te Tiriti
Bob Dorough - The Magic Number
Internn - Bob's Bathroom
Reb Fountain - How Bizarre
The Cat's Miaow - It Might Never Happen
Tinariwen - Imidiwan Mahitinam
GUM and Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times
Big Sur - Lands
Hans Pucket - My Brain Is A Vacant Space
Mokotron - Decolonize Existence (Big Fat Raro Remix)
African Head Charge - Heading For Glory
Mystery Waitress - Nightbug
Church - Fairytale
Alec - Another Party
Sarah Mary Chadwick - I Felt Things In New Zealand - Live
Rob Bollix chats about aardwolves and lungless frogs on The Mind Trench. Semisi from Marlin’s Dreaming is in the studio to chat about the band’s new single with Erny Belle, Earnestly, out today with a music video to go along with it. Justine helps the listeners navigate employment and union questions on Red Dead Redemption. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
Joe Ghatt - Orange October
Warpaint - Undertow
King Loser - Morning Dew
Troy Kingi - Ocelli
Louisa Nicklin - Thick
Shy One - Gyallis Spiral
Anna Coddington - Kātuarehe
Internn - All The Knots Are Loose
christoph el' truento - Pīwari (Gumboot Joe Version)
Half Hexagon - The Method
Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja - Yasuharu Konishi Mix
Michelle takes out Second Guessing, catching a Dimmer track! Tender Moonlight dials in in to chat about his single release party this Friday 31st May at Whammy Bar w/ Baby Zionov, Magic Factory, Moppy and Roy Irwin. Stage Direction is with Vincent Andrew-Scammell, chat about how Bull Rush, the newest improv group in residency at Basement’s Friday night is going. On Ready Steady Learn, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biology Kristal Cain chats about how the Titipounamu is changing what we thought we knew about bird evolution. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Internn - Cada
Nap Eyes - Feline Wave Race
The Golden Awesome - A Thousand Nights and One Night
Warpaint - Undertow
beet-wix - mindblock
Night Lunch - 1 MILLION PINES
Sababa 5 - Bezani
Hans Pucket - You Must Chill
Alec - Another Party
Mystery Waitress - Night Bug
Lola - Portal
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Shitty Town - Live
Baby Zionov - Jeremy (The Magnetic Fields)
Tender Moonlight - Distant Memory of a Girl
Joe Ghatt - Orange October
The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On!
Mount Kimbie - A Figure In The Surf
Summer Flake - Nothing Lasts Forever
Kraus - Crystal Motors
hanbee - days months years
The Cat's Miaow - Faded (original cassette version)
Penelope Noir chats about the history of umbrellas on Fashun. Rohan Evans from Wine Cellar is in the studio chatting about the 20 year anniversary of the venue and the week of gigs to celebrate, starting this week. Jenna’s in to review All Fours from Miranda July on Loose Reads. HOMINID (Benny Jennings) from Te Whanganui a Tara is chatting about his new project INTROVERT/EXTROVERT. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
The Stereobus - Thank You
Summer Flake - Nothing Lasts Forever
Alex G - Election Night
Liam Finn - Purple Dress (RADIO EDIT)
Toro y Moi - Genius of Love feat. Brijean
moktar - Haraka feat. Saad El Soghayar
Kraus - Crystal Motors
The Lemon Twigs - In The Eyes Of The Girl
Voom - Everyone
Arthur Ahbez - Free as the Wind
FAHU - Get2gether - Gee Lane Remix
Alec - Another Party
JPSE - I Like Rain
Big Sur - Lands
Hans Pucket - You Must Chill
Fake Purr - Bear Wolf
Church - Interview with a Vampire
Louisa Nicklin - Slicing Through [Live at The Wine Cellar 19/12/20]
The Echo Ohs - The Crawl (Live at The Wine Cellar 26/04/19)
Dr Kirsten Zemke takes us through some old school Aotearoa hip hop on Travelling Tunes. Ringlets are in the studio talking about JUNK FEST and their new single. Our Viewmaster Litia Tuiburelevu reviews season two of Heartbreak High. Lilly Carron is in to talk about her EP, And The Clouds Came Undone, out today, as well as her performance this evening to celebrate on Drive Live. We share the final episodes of Industry Rider with The Beths, Lee Whall (Phys Ed Religious), and D.C. Maxwell. Whakarongo mai nei!
Listen back to Milly and Rosetta chatting with all the winners at the IMNZ Taite Music Prize 2026! They sat down after the awards with KOMMI on behalf of Marlon Williams, winner of the Taite Award for Te Whare Tīwekaweka, Geneva AM winner of Best Independent Debut for PIKIPIKI, Carmel Bennett winner of the Independent Spirit Award, and Newzician winners of the Outstanding Music Journalism award. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly catch up with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson to chat about changes to the legal loophole through which illegal boarding houses are operating in Tāmaki Makaurau, and the large amounts of reports of illegal dumping across the city. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly catch up with Penelope Noir after the Taite Awards last night - to chat about all the best looks from the evening! Whakarongo mai nei!
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!