Dr Kirsten Zemke talks us through Bossa nova in modern pop songs on Travelling Tunes. Gussie from Mermaidens is dialling in to chat about the band’s self titled album, out today! Our Viewmaster Litia reviews TVNZ's new series, After the Party. Whakarongo mai nei!
Dr Kirsten Zemke celebrates 2023 by exploring songs that embody the new year, new me sentiment on Travelling Tunes. The country music love child of Jazmine Mary and Arahi, duo Pony Baby comes into the 95bFM studio to share a new single from their forthcoming album (with an accompanying music video), and treat us to a live acoustic version of one of the unreleased tracks from the record. Viewmaster Litia reviews the British romance series Smothered, which delves into the modern situationship. Whakarongo mai nei!
Professor Melinda Webber from the Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland talks to Jonny about Mātauranga Māori, the bodies of knowledge within Te Ao Māori, and modern health treatment. Professor Webber's new research looks specifically at Haora and how people's wellbeing is impacted and benefited by cultural practices and participation.
over under fed is the debut poetry collection by Amy Marguerite, out now via Auckland University Press.
In over under fed, Amy explores the peculiar loveliness and specific loneliness of the human condition. She writes from experiences with anorexia nervosa, limerence and a particularly tumultuous situationship. Her poems are confessional and seek to reconcile chaos and recovery.
Amy completed Te Kohinga Auaha, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Pōneke Wellington in 2022.
Beth caught up with Amy about over under fed and her creative process, and she performed a poem.
Campbell digs Japan, and he's just back from a ten day jaunt of well curated record stores, incredible food and many greetings of "Arigato gozaimasu!"
His set this month is full of raw, soulful heaters and cosmic jazz-funk that makes you screw your face up like you accidentally ate the ball of wasabi along with your sashimi. All time Swap Meet fave Garfield Fleming’s 'Don’t Send Me Away' still hits like heartbreak on vinyl, that pleading vocal over lush orchestration is pure modern soul gold. And then there’s Mystic Harmony’s Lovers Rock take on The Jones Girls' 'Nights Over Egypt' deep, spiritual, and epic. Add Freedom Suite 'Come Closer' to that category: a rare groove Trini disco dub with the kind of bassline that makes you look around the room for someone else who heard that. The funkier edges really pop off with Wild Fire 'The Dealer' another Trinidadian gem that’s psych-funk with fuzz guitar and heavy attitude.
Campbell keeps it moving with the glistening disco of Chantal Curtis ‘Get Another Love’ to Booker Newberry III’s ‘Love Town’, there’s that roller-skate-ready shimmer. Then off to Brasil with Alma Brasileira ‘Peixeiro’ a choro inflected samba and Dom Salvador’s ‘Barumba’, all syncopated rhythms and raw, earthy joy. On the modern tip, Cool Affair ‘Motoric Patterns (Kaidi Tatham Mix)’ slides in with some proper bruk energy: Kaidi doing what he does best. Mr Ngata has the jazzheads covered too - and we also gotta keep pumping current faves The Circling Sun!
The Future is an exhibition presenting new and recent work by Berlin-based artist Simon Denny, currently on at Michael Lett Gallery.
In channelling the spirit of aeropainting and Italian Futurism, Denny employs contemporary methods of making with today’s technology to create two new series of paintings whereby both mechanical and painterly qualities transpire, aiding in a recontextualisation of 20th-century modernism.
Sofia had a kōrero with Simon Denny about the show and his overall practice.
Equalise My Vocals is a new campaign set to address the New Zealand music scene's gender problems, brought to you by the lovely Coco Solid and Trixie Darko. Through a series of interviews and panel discussions with a diverse range of women, Coco and Trixie hope to shed light on the real issues this NZ Music Month. bFM reporter Jogai Bhatt speaks to Trixie to learn a little more, beginning with the question of how the project initially came about.
Reptiles At Dawn - We've Come To Play
Solid Gold Hell - Sugar Bag
The Johnnies - Govt Don't Care
The Aesthetics - 20
The Music Convention - Belly Bored Beat
The Raw Nerves - I'm Disgusting
Androidss - Mr Fish
Las Tetas - Estrangers
I Drink Your Blood! - Evading The Devine Philistine
The Body Electric - Pulsing
The Warners - Poke Your Eyes Out
Hi Tone Destroyers - No Way Son
The Blue Bloods - Slut On Junk
Brother Love & The Homebacon Gang - Open Sky
Desperate Measures - Death Wish
Snapper - Killzone 44
Magic Factory - Sorry For You Loss
Flesh Device - Hamburger II
The Cavemen - Satan Is Her Name
Mutation - Thick Hair Protrudes & Bursts Through Wet Skin
Drax - Back To The Lair
DHDFD's - Pessimist
Vincent H.L. - Golden Sun
NZ MUSIC MONTH SPECIAL || REPAIRS - Last Chances | PIN GROUP - Ambivalence | FAZERDAZE - Bedroom Talks | PICKLE DARLING - Rinse Spin Cycle / Nicolas Cage | THE BRUNETTES - Bestfriend Envy | TEAM DYNAMITE - Who? Ft. Diggy Dupe | ENO X DIRTY - Get That Cash | CHAIIN - Trouble | CHRISTOPH EL TRUENTO - Washed Ft Lui Lui | UNCHAINED XL - Learn To Shine | SISTERS UNDERGROUND - In The Neighbourhood | POPSTRANGERS - In Some Ways | MYELE MANZANZA - Judgement (For Andrew) | MANUEL DARQUART - It's A Dub | THOUSAND LIMBS - Mara | THE BETHS - Dying To Believe | STRANGELOVE - Tallulah | ELI DRIFTWOOD - One Of These Days | REB FOUNTAIN - Samson | DELANEY DAVIDSON - Down On Me | SO LAID BACK COUNTRY CHINA - Blood | SWALLOW THE RAT - Leaving Room | DIE! DIE! DIE! - Don't Try | STRAITJACKET FITS - Way | CICADA - Get Up | VANESSA WORM - In Heaven We Are | DOMINIC HOEY + MATT SHORT - Plague | KOIZILLA - Let's Go Camping | VERA ELLEN - World Emotion | FANAU SPA - Breakfast | DATELINE - Don't Know (What To Do With Me) | TRANSISTOR - All You Remember | DION LUNADON - Hanging By A Thread | SHOES THIS HIGH - The Nose One | THE SCAVENGERS - True Love | THE HAIRDOS - Jack My Hair Up | SHOCKING PINKS - It's Hard To Breathe | THE HEX WAVES - Witch On A Motorcycle | DOG POWER - Love Potion | NADIA REID - Best Thing | LION DIXON - Luv | TOTEMS - Stunt 151 | VIRTUAL SHADOW ENSEMBLE - Kanohi ki kanohi, In A Virtual World Ft. Julian Lubin | SHANNENGEORGIAPETERSEN - Die | RYAN HENDRIKS - Roundabout | JUNO IS - It's No Groover | COCO SOLID - ABC Ft. Eric Ultimate | MELTING FACES - Outlook For Thursday | THE SWINGERS - Certain Sound ||.
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