Border radio hand picking gems from all along the American Music timeline. From dodgy 70's Doobie Brothers attempt at folky CSNY vibes through to the beautiful brand new track from Sierra Ferrel, and newly discovered treats like Sunny War. As well as Neil, Skynyrd and Drive By Truckers.
Denzel takes over the late morning hours to liven up your Thursdays with an eclectic set of tunes accompanied by some stellar chat and good nostalgic vibrations as he delves into video game soundtrack history to bring everyone’s favorite radio spot ‘video game soundtrack gems.'
The Crate incorporates a lil' bit of Te Reo to celebrate Māori Language Week, with a couple of classics written by trailblazer, Ngoi Pēwhairangi, as well as some other jams. Fukumodo gives a rigorous review of the VR Hotel room he booked overnight and Nan tells us the key basics of maintaining healthy chickens.
Outsider Music showcases Art Paul Schlosser of Wisconsin and Clive Jenk has his Lifetime CD promoted once again.
Rachel is joined in the studio today by guest producer Rosetta, where they spoke to Dr. Kirsten Zemke about chanting in today's segment of Travelling Tunes. On bMovies, comedian Tom Sainsbury came in for a chat about his debut feature film "Loop Track", which debuts in the New Zealand International Film Festival tonight at the Civic. Florence Hartigan came in to review another film in the NZIFF, an art-horror coming-of-age piece "Tiger Stripes". Finally, Rachel spoke to musician Rodney Fisher about his newest project "Keeping Up Appearances". Whakarongo mai nei!
Another week's end, another show from Lucia. She plays some old favourites including a hark back to her first ever Morning Glory show, a Courtney Barnett version of Chastity Belt's Different Now, as well as some brand-new vinyl including Nina Simone's beautiful live album You've Got To Learn recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. Big Sur joins to play some folk songs carrying stories of Aotearoa's history complete with a banjo, clarinet, and double bass for Fancy New Band thanks to NZ on Air Music !
Today on your bFM Breakfast: Rachel and Tess are here to prepare you for a cosy weekend indoors with some wholesome Breakfast tunes; Fabian's got a few hot takes for all your cinematic desires; Dr. Kirsten Zemke's talking Romo, a genre that gets far too much negativity in our opinion; Alexandre Philippe has jumped off a plane and headed straight to the bFM studio's for a chat about his film in Doc Edge; and Zoë hits us with a few shows you can check out in this gruesome weather. A little rain never hurt anyone, right?
This week was a special one - We had Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick up for My Morning Mixtape ahead of their double headliner show tomorrow night with Roy Montgomery. We revisited live songs from Yuck at Laneway 2012 and played a ton of new songs including ones from Stef Chura, Sampa The Great & Flying Lotus.
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