Karyn's having a well deserved holiday, so old mate Rachel Ashby's back in the studio with a bunch of fresh tunes for your Saturday morning. Crack open the curtains, it's a beautiful day!
Playlist
Rahill - Sun
Eddie Chacon - Let The Devil In
Marlin's Dreaming - Every Single Time
Sarvi, Koji. - Hold On
Jane Weaver - Univers
Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Anastasia Coope - He is On His Way Home, We Don't Live Together
Mechanism - time I am...
Rubi Du - Back Up
Geoffrey O'Connor - Let's Make Love Feel Good Again
Fievel Is Glauque - As Above So Below
Tapeworms - Puzzle - Kate NV Remix
Molly Nilsson - The Beauty of The Duty
Kim Gordon - Trophies
Mokotron - KO WAI KOE
The Paragons - When The Lights Are Low
waxahatchee - Abandonned feat. MJ Lenderman (Lucinda Williams cover)
Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with bFM staff Kaitlyn and Molly chatting about the upcoming 95bFM Christmas Party happening this Friday, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn.
Playlist
Kim Deal – Are you Mine?
The Libertines – The Windmills of Your Mind (Reprise by La Blogotheque)
Tessa de Lyon – Offend You
3Ds – The Venus Trail
3Ds – The Young and the Restless
Beth Orton – She Cries Your Name
The Clash – Death or Glory
The Clash – Clampdown
Fontaines D.C. – Bug
Bunchy’s Big Score – Drone Baby on the Water
There’s a Tuesday – Water Baby
Bill Callahan, Smog – Jesus
Bill Callahan, Smog – Cold Discovery
Michael Kiwanuka – Four Long Years
Grinderman – Honey Bee (Let’s Fly to Mars)
Angie McMahon – Letting Go
Fred Again, Angie McMahon – light dark light
Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with the team at Whammy and newly formed Auckland All Ages Association, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
John Lennon – Tight A$ (remastered 2010)
Scribe – G.G.
Kendrick Lamar – squabble up
Serafina Steer – Drinking From the Pools of Night
Fazerdaze – City Glitters
Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Live at Newport)
English Teacher – The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
Tom Waits – (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
Yo La Tengo – Leaving Home
Garbage – Cities in Dust
The Cure – A Fragile Thing – Live Troxy London MMXXIV
Dick Move – Eyes For Christmas
Out of luck! – Reality
Tessa de Lyon – Theme Song
Ocean Beach – Tower of Babel
Clementine Valentine – All ¥esterday’s Flowers
Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Otis Redding – Pain In My Heart
Friko – Pride Trials
Greentea Peng – One Foot
Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with Reuben Bonner - one of the co-organisers of The Others Way, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Andy Shauf – Wasted on You
Joy – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Mary Lattimore, MIZU, Jamal Shakeri, Laraaji – Midnight Moon Pool
Blur – St Charles Square – Live at Wembley Stadium
Blur – The Narcissist – Live at Wembley Stadium
Dam Native – Behold My Kool Style
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Don’t Look At Me
The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho
KNEECAP with Grian Chatten – Better Way To Live
The Chills – If This World Was Made For Me
Alisa Xayalith – Ordinary Love
Half Hexagon – The Method
Horsegirl – 2468
Tom Lark – Brave Star
Throwing Muses – Drugstore Drastic
Galaxie 500 – Strange
Ela Minus – Upwards
A. Savage – Thawing Dawn
Featuring Lecture Me with University of Canterbury lecturer Dr Sharon McIver on the new summer school course CULT133 – Kia kaha / Say It Loud: The Rise of Aotearoa/NZ Music, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei.
Playlist
mary in the junkyard – this is my california Galaxie 500 – When Will You Come Home Nice Girl – My Feeling Diggy Dupe – We the City 070 Shake, Courtney Love – Song to the Siren (feat. Courtney Love) 070 Shake – Elephant The Cure – And Nothing is Forever Soft Plastics – Drown! Tin Kudos – Memory In The Well Tessa De Lyon – Honey – Live (Bonus Track) Benefits, Pete Doherty – Relentless Chastity Belt – That Guy HONESTY – TORMENTOR Bailter Space – Zero Return Dread Beat & Blood – Waitangi Afrikan Di Alien (feat Black Sherif) – Pa Salieu, Black Sherif Mogwai – Lion Rumpus Miley Cyrus featuring Johnzo West –You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When
You Go Dwight Yoakum – I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom
Boom) Adrianne Lenker – Feel Better Hayley Heynderickx – Mouth of a Flower
Mitski – Buffalo Replaced
Mitski – Coyote, My Little Brother
Katie Gavin, Mitski – As Good As It Gets
Shayne P. Carter – I Know Not Where I Stand
Ben Woods – Trace Reel
Sharon Van Etten – Afterlife
Avantdale Bowling Club – Friday Night @ the Liquor Store
070 Shake – Winter Baby/New Jersey Blues
Mt Eerie – I Spoke With A Fish
Mt Eerie – I Saw Another Bird
The Cure – Drone:Nodrone
Melanie – Hearing The News
The Beach Boys – Caroline, No
Laura Marling – Caroline
Porridge Radio – God of Everything Else
Ray Charles – In The Heat Of The Night
Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon
Quincy Jones – Soul Bossa Nova
Dean & Britta, Sonic Boom – Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
Lou Reed – Satellite of Love
Aztec Camera – The Bugle Sounds Again
Featuring Lecture Me with English BA student Beth thanks to Blue Hills Books, Implausible Deniability with Stella, and Finn finds solutions to our burning queries on Dear Finn.
Playlist
Willy Mav, Young Gho$t – Carbonara Te KuraHuia – PRETTY GAL CLUB T. G. Shand – The Cheese Keepsakes – Blink and Don’t Pay Sneaky Feelings – Waiting for Touchdown Jim Nothing – Hourglass Jaden Antonio – Black Mirror Casual Healing – Mauri Tau beet-wix – seventh heaven SKILAA – Bite Like That Mokotron – Tawhito - Caru Remix Mermaidens – Foolish Marlin’s Dreaming – Lucky Star Hannah Everingham – Mercury Tall Dwarfs – Sign the Dotted Line Fuemana – Deep Of The Night (Love & Bass) Beth Torrance (feat. Rigby) – Ankle Socks David Kilgour – Sept.98 Fouler – Nathan For You Death and the Maiden – Leanest Cut Christoph El Truento – Dubs From The Neighbourhood Yon Loader – Locked and Left Behind Carb on Carb – I Know The End2
This week's Saturday Spring features Political Science student Castor on Lecture Me, thanks to Blue Hills Books, as well as Implausible Deniability with Stella talking baby botox, and Finn helps alleviate our woes, including lactose intolerance, on Dear Finn.
Playlist
Kirsty MacColl – A New England
Sex Pistols Live at the Happy House/ Stockholm 1977 – Problems
Chuckyy – Need4Speed
Kim Gordon – Bangin On the Freeway
The Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into the Sun
The Libertines – Songs They Never Play On The Radio
Advance Base – The Year I Lived in Richmond
Advance Base – How You Got Your Picture On the Wall
Arthur Ahbez – Sister
Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek – Everything is Romantic
World Party – She’s The One
Goldenhorse – Northern Lights
Kirsten Morrell – Avignon
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
The Cure – A Fragile Thing
Being Dead – Godzilla Rises
Chinese American Bear – Kids Go Down
Franz Liszt, Lang Lang – Liebestraum No 3 in A-Flat Major
Featuring Lecture Me thanks to Blue Hills Books, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei.
Playlist
The Cure – A Fragile Thing Fazerdaze – A Thousand Years Daniel Johnston – Mother Mum Said
True Love Will Find You in the End – Music From The Motion Picture – Joaquin Pheonix Daniel Johnston, Kramer – Some Things Last A Long Time Daniel Johnston – All Good Children Got To Die Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Live Lead Belly – The Bourgeois Blues fakemint – Secret The Fall (live) – Rowche Rumble Cocteau Twins – Wax and Wane Astral Bakers – Cherry-coloured Funk Dick Move – The Letter Georgia Gets By – Not This Time Sanguine – Tumutumu Mauga Prince – Soft and Wet Prince – Jack U Off Body of Work – Maudlin to None Nirvana – You Know You’re Right Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman – Right Back To It Waxahatchee – Much Ado About Nothing
This Saturday Morning, Karyn and Lucia talk Modernist Fiction on Lecture Me thanks to Blue Hills Books, and on Implausible Deniability the topic of the day is brain power, and Finn is back to help solve our problems on Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei. ~
Playlist
cumgirl8 – ahhhh!hhhh! (I don’t wanna go)
cumgirl8 – karma police
Stevie Wonder – Too High
Homebrew – 80 Down Scenic
Hayley Heynderickx – Foxglove
Andrew Bird, Madison Cunningham – Crying In The Night
Thandii – Are You Gonna Find It
Montell Fish – It’s Gonna Cost You
Alexandra Richards, JAIKO – Feel You
Sivle Talk – Bottom Feeder
Arthur Ahbez & The Flaming Ahbez – A Simple Medication
The Quarry Men – In Spite Of All The Danger (Anthology 1 Version)
The Beatles – Love Me Do
Tom Waits – Get behind The Mule – Spiritual
Goldie Boutilier – The Ways I Punish Myself
The Cure – Alone
Porridge Radio – A Hole In the Ground
Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night
Our Demo God this week has tripped into Americana with Finn Johansson on the back of the horse. Lead singer and vocalist for Soft Bait Josh Hunter took up the challenge, twisted the prompts and surprised us all with his (as yet) untitled demo. Hear it here!
The very talented Joe Kaptein forgoes his morning coffee to head into 95bFM to tell us about his residency at the Upside Down Lounge at the Goblin Bar, cnr Ponsonby and Richmond Roads every Wednesday night. Joe plays in AIGHT and also Pool Sharks. “Loungey jazzy-y grooves” and perfect for a mid-week night out.
Our Demo God this week comes from a long line of bad backs. Lead singer and vocalist for Soft Bait Josh Hunter has taken up the challenge to collaborate with Finn in the van. No prompt has been chosen yet, but Finn suggests Josh try... a samba.
Street dancer and music producer MANFRD is in the studio to enlighten Karyn on everything from popping to krumping and the art of street dance. If you’re a dancer or just love watching the form, then find out more about the three day Base Street Dance Festival at the Basement Theatre and the Beatpad Dance Battle on Day 2 of the Festival Friday | 6 MAR | which is Battle night. Entries are open now!
Finn returns for Pt II of his first Demo God for 2026: comic artist, musician and teacher, Indira Neville. Indira chose “Recycling Only” as her prompt, and one Tuesday last week they cooked up the demo of the same name. Listen to it here!
Liam Hansen (Misheard presents) is in the studio with a rundown on the artists appearing at Queer Autumn 2, a now annual event celebrating "the intersections between alternative music and the rainbow/takatāpui community of Aotearoa. Queer Autumn returns to Whammy Bar on Sunday, the 22nd of February.
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