Shukthika Rajaguru joins Karyn for Lecture Me to talk about how sustainability policy is enacted in Government, thanks to Blue Hills Books. Stella chats about Doritos on Implausible Deniability, and Dear Finn answers all your queries.
Playlist
The Smashing Times – Ben Jimeny The Green Grocer
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (Day 1 Demo) (Take 1)
The Cure – Primary, Morgan Studios Out-Take 9/80
Amy Winehouse – Love is a Losing Game, Original Demo
Callahan & Witscher – Boiler Room
Fazerdaze – Cherry Pie
The Clean – Point That Thing Somewhere Else
Nala Sinephro – Continuum 1
Neil Young – Thrasher - Live at the Boarding House (from Archives Volume III)
The Innocence Mission – This Thread is a Green Street
Ocean Beach – Omnism
Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco – I Just Came To tell You That I’m Going
Serge Gainsbourg – Melody
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Are You Ready to be Heartbroken
Listen back to The Saturday Spring! Karyn discusses film with AUT student Liam, specifically cinematography and colours in Wong Kar-wai's film In 'The Mood For Love' on Lecture Me – thanks to Blue Hill Books. Stella joins Karyn for Implausible Deniability to discuss pheremones, and Finn hops on the mic to help answer your queries for Dear Finn.
Playlist
Cougar on a Meth Binge – Orbit
Dehd – Light On
Lykke Li – Midnight Shining
Cosme McMoon, Florence Foster Jenkins – The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night Aria
Tucker Zimmerman – The Wind Returns Into the Night
Tucker Zimmerman, Big Thief, Iji, Twain – Burial At Sea
English Teacher – Sideboob
English Teacher – Nearly Daffodils
Doechii – Boiled Peanuts
Melt-Banana – Code
Duster – Starting to Fall
Hannah Everingham – Giving Up The Dog
Wilbert Harrison – Let’s Stick Together
Bryan Ferry – Star
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control, The Factory, Manchester
Listen back to The Saturday Spring! Karyn talks to Sociology student Lily about Artificial Reproductive Technologies on Lecture Me, thanks to Blue Hill Books. Stella joins Karyn for Implausible Deniability to discuss sleep debt and whether it can be recouperated! Finn hops on the mic to help answer your queries for Dear Finn.
Playlist
Heems, Sid Vashi, and Navz-47 - FLOWERS
Georgia Gets By - Split Lip
The Hard Quartet - Rio’s Lips
Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
Song of the Week Yaeji - Booboo
2pac - Brenda’s Got A Baby
Blondshell - What’s Fair
Oasis - Married With Children
King Krule - Achtung!
Yu Ching - Love
Fontaines D.C - In the Modern World
The Last Dinner Party - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Listen back to The Saturday Spring! Karyn talks to student Jesper about Game Theory on Lecture Me, thanks to Blue Hill Books. Riwan hops Implausible Deniability on for a discussion about marine preservation, particularly in the Hauraki Gulf. Finn phones in from Pōneke to help answer your queries for Dear Finn.
Playlist
Borough Council - Prescribed
Crack Cloud - Blue Kite
berlioz - peace
Song of the Week Cindy - All Weekend
Eminem - Guilty Conscience 2
Fontaines D.C. - In the Modern World
Neil Young - Harvest
Midwife - Killdozer
Starflyer 59 - 1995
Nilüfer Yanya - Mutations
Anthony Green - Last Summer in America
Camille Saint-Saëns, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott - The Carnival of the Animals (the Swan)
Listen back to hear Karyn talk to Beth Torrance-Hetherington about folktales on Lecture Me - thanks to Blue Hills Second Hand Books. Stella Huggins joins us for Strictly Science to discuss lab grown meat; and Finn hops on the air to answer your prayers!
Playlist
The Raincoats - Lola
A$AP Rocky, Jessica Pratt - HIGHJACK
MJ Lenderman - Joker Lips
berlioz - peace
Television - Marquee Moon
Patti Smith - Break It Up (live)
Lael Neale - White T-shirt
Tall Dwarfs - For all the Walters in the World
Bill Callahan - Keep Some Steady Friends Around
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
Eli Superflyy - Motor
Gillian Welch, David Rawlings - Empty Trainload of Sky
Jim Nothing - The Present
Georgia Gets By - Some Kind of Angel
DoubleHappys - The Other’s Way
Adrianne Lenker - Once A Bunch
Dance Exponents - One Sad River
Being Dead - Van Goes
Song of the Week Chinese American Bear - Feelin’ Fuzzy
Here comes the latest edition of The Saturday Spring! Caeden is in for LectureMe, Stella debunks our science myths and Finn kindly answers all our burning queries!
Amamelia aka Amelia Berry beams in from Naarm (Melbourne) to get us in the mood for her joyously joyful The Joy Of Living Album Release Show, Friday 17th April at Whammy Bar.
Finn Johansson with the rundown on his latest Demo Gods. He’s rounded up a couple of members of Tamaki pop-punksters Club Ruby: lead singer, Jade Lewis and bassist Hon Manawangphiphat, who will be back in the studio next week with their creation.
Finn Johansson comes into the studio with his latest Demo God – Maebh McCurdy (formerly LEIGH) for an entertaining chat and the unveiling of the song that takes you to places you didn’t even know you wanted to go.
The prompt was “The Great Spectacle of Music” and the resulting demo is titled Traipsing Through the Swamp (Every Little Froggy Gotta Love).
Otis Mace comes into the studio with his guitar to talk up his Planet New Tron Star gig at the Audio Foundation March 27th billed as "a sci-fi song saga of trans-dimensional alien life”.
Finn Johansson introduces his latest Demo God – Maebh McCurdy (formerly LEIGH) who has chosen the prompt ’The Great Spectacle of Music”. Maebh will be joining Finn in the studio next week to unveil their musical extravaganza!
George D. Henderson with another A Song From Insane Times. This week George has chosen his "favourite record by a New Zealand band” – from 1991, Stepford 5 and Little Sisters of Satan.
We’re in Adelaide to talk with Alina Kuzma who sings and plays the bandura (a traditional stringed Ukrainian instrument) in the all-female ensemble Daughters of Donbas who are playing WomAdelaide on their way to Auckland for a concert at the St Heliers Church and Community Centre Thursday March 12th.
Daughters of Donbas are a music and human rights project highlighting the plight of “at least 20,000 Ukranian children abducted from occupied Ukraine and taken to Russia”. Alina is joined by Canadian journalist and record producer Daniel Rosenberg.
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!