Frances Chan celebrates NZ Music Month, Mother’s Day and the birthdays of Carla Bley, Julian Joseph and Freddie Roach, plus the latest London sounds, an Italian guitar wunderkind and a tour to the Middle East to round out the show.
Setlist:
Clear Path Ensemble – Best Life
Carla Bley – Song Sung Long
Julian Joseph – The Other Side of Town
Freddie Roach – On Our Way Up
Etta James – Something’s Got a Hold of Me (live)
Charles Mingus – Track A – Solo Dancer
Mike Nock & Frank Gibson Jr – Phaedra’s Lullaby
Julian Joseph – Hard Cash
Carla Bley Trio – Life Goes On: and On
Brandi Younger ft. Ravi Coltrane – Soulris
Emma-Jean Thackray – Save Me
Joe Armon-Jones – The Citadel
Matteo Mancuso – Open Fields
Nautilus – La Ritournelle
Genevieve Artadi with the Norbotten Big Band – Life Exploder
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh – Always
Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
Although it seems as if US oil prices are back up again after the first negative prices in history, should we be relieved? US President Donald Trump is talking about it as if it is a technical and isolated blip. But economists say otherwise.
How can a price be negative? What is an "oil future"? How sustainable really is the oil industry, if it exists precariously from "bust to boom"? How integral is the continuous supply of oil to American society?
Rachel Simpson reports on the negative price of oil futures on this week's instalment of State of the States.
Should we all be heading to Cushing, Oklahoma with any container we can find to collect some oil and get paid for it? Unfortunately, that's not exactly how it works.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
A show with a vibe centred around a chat with Adam McGrath of the Eastern. Townes, Bob Dylan, Son Volt, Anna Tivel for some folkyness. Then new tunes from The Felons, Bohannons, Mary Battiata & Cory Brannan. A big chat with Adam about his current tour and show at the Tuning Fork on June 8th, and playing a bit of Upper Hutt Posse in his honour. ( That ain't no Hank WIlliams song ! ) And then tapering off with Some crazy old 70's rednecks, back on the protest vibe Billy Bragg and Wilco and heaps more in between.
Welcome to a packed show! Rachel discusses the teachers’ strike, the most recent IPCC report and government’s re prioritisation of policies on Political Commentary with Jennifer Curtin. Akiko Kurematsu comes into the studio for a spot of Breakfast Food to talk about her new book Mother Tongue. László from Ringlets dials in to chat about their single Sever released on Monday, and their upcoming debut album to be released April 3. Greening Out with Jim makes a triumphant return, and he tells us all about what do to to your garden in this autumnal period. AJA phones up from Pōneke to talk about her new single Feel It, that's just dropped today. Whakarongo mai nei!
The Philippines is a few days away from their presidential election, with issues such as the covid recovery and inequality defining the race.
The frontrunner is Ferdinand Marcos Jr, also known as Bongbong Marcos, who is the son of a former dictator well known for his corrupt leadership.
Marcos’ primary opponent is Leni Robredo, renowned for leading a ‘pink revolution’ towards gender equality
To learn more, Liam spoke to Janryll Frenandez, a New Zealand-based Filipino public relations professional and is currently a post graduate student of public management at Victoria University of Wellington.
Another solid set from Def Jim as he covers the stylistic gamut from contemporary guitar composition to 70's extended jams with brief tributes thrown in to recently departed heroes Jeff Beck and Wayne Shorter.