This week Sam takes a look at American singer/songwriter Elliott Smith's 3rd studio album "Either/Or." Released in 1997, "Either/Or" is considered by many to be Smith's best album and a 90's classic.
Today on the jam-packed show, Ximena, Adam & Will look at some of the latest political hot topics of the week, including the Todd Barclay bugging scandal and NZ First’s call for a referendum on the ‘anti-smacking’ law. AUT’s Allan Blackman also joins them as usual in the studio for Dear Science, chatting about how researchers have developed a solar paint that can generate energy, as well as some recent controversy around a gene editing technology called CRISPR.
Bass player from Aussie punk legends the Hard-Ons, Ray Ahn, phones in to the studio ahead of their two NZ shows. Ray chats to Mike about the Hard-Ons' return as a newly minted four-piece; knowing your bandmates since primary school; and their love for ...organized sports? Hard out.
Rachael talked to Bianca Rocca and Toya Webb about their show 'Working Title', on at the George Fraser Gallery. Theo was in studio and played some Korean experimental music from the Bulgasari community. He also played some commentry from John Waters, the director of Multiple Maniacs.
The Fffuture Fffocused Art Prize is organised by Riff Raff, the collaborative artist duo comprised of Li-Ming Hu and Daphne Simons. They join us in the BFM studio for a korero. "The Hive Hums with Many Minds" is the new publication from Te Tuhi, documenting their show of the same name. It explores "how these vast global mechanisms shape the local reality in Aotearoa New Zealand."
This week Sam takes a look at the 4th studio album by British R&B group Sade. Although they were labeled "sophisti-pop," Sade was more a fusion group that blended jazz, R&B, soul and pop with exotic Latin and African rhythms and had mass crossover appeal between both commercial and alternative music fans.
Before they combine forces to help bring you Matariki on the Waterfront, SoccerPractise's Geneva Alexander-Marsters and the Puha & Pākehā food truck's Belinda and Jarrad pop into the studio with gifts: a spin of Geneva's new single and some bloody beautiful Kai Māori inspired food. Check them, and many other offerings, out this weekend at Silo Park.
AUT’s Allan Blackman brings his best chemistry banter game to the studio today for Dear Science. He tells Ximena & Adam about a new polymer worm that’s been designed to move when it reacts with light, how the current Qatar diplomatic crisis is impacting the world’s supply of helium, as well as about how chemists have recently explained the reason why humans don’t constantly spontaneously combust.
This week Sam takes a look at the debut studio album from American R&B singer Frank Ocean "Channel Orange." Released in 2012, "Channel Orange" is considered by many to be the best album released in 2012, as well as being an all-time 21st century classic album.
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