Television extraordinaire and absolute nerd Sam Sinnott joins us in studio to discuss Marvel Comics' Legion, featuring Parks and Rec's Aubrey Plaza and Downton's dashing Dan Stevens. Rejoice! This one superhero thing is not only good, but it's so good you can watch twice. Delicious.
Early voting for the By-Election of the Northcote Electorate MP has opened! Laura Kvigstad has a quick chat with Associate Professor for Massey University and Political Commentator, Grant Duncan and then talks with National Party Candidate, Dan Bidois and grabs a quick snippet of audio from Labour Candidates, Shanan Halbert's campaign rally where the candidates discuss the priorities if they were elected.
Yacht Rock. The songs speak for themselves, Steely Dan's Peg, Players Baby Come Back and Daryl Hall & John Oates Kiss on My List. Dr. Kirsten Zemke has given Travelling Tunes life again as we dive into the weird and wonderful world of genre.
Andrew, Dan & Jason spin a mishmash of some crucial tunes from many regions - West Africa, South Asia & the Middle East, while talking to special guest Issac Oron from Earth Beat Festival 2019 | Mar 22-24
New music from Against All Logic, Little Dragon, Aesop Rock, Baby Zionoff, Louisa Nicklin, Dan Deacon and loads more. And on the Long Player, Danielle chats to Leonard Charles about his killer collab with Guilty Simpson, 'LSD'.
Matt Goody comes into the studio to chat about his book (10 years in the making), Needles and Plastic, a super indepth retrospective of the first decade of Flying Nun. There's also an event at Real Groovy tonight which you should head along to if this sounds like a bit of you. Whakarongo mai nei!
Frances Chan revels in 1973 – her favourite year in jazz. Essential jazz funk fusion celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year, plus a few newbies.
Setlist:
Billy Cobham – Spectrum
Gary Burton Quartet – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Flora Purim – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Donald Byrd – Black Byrd
Bobbi Humphrey – Blacks and Blues
Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson – Blues Etude (Live)
Kibrom Birhane – Merkato
Esperanza Spalding – Ponta de Areia
Sun Ra – Images
Deodato – Rhapsody in Blue
Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth
Roy Ayers – Red, Black & Green
Placebo – Only Nineteen
Jan Gabarek, Bobo Stenson Quartet – Witchi-Tai-To
Village of the Sun – First Light
Akusmi – Cogito
Herbie Hancock – Sly
Frances speaks to Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram about their new book ‘Urgent Moments’ on the story of public art curations in the cultural climate of the mid 2000’s, and with New Zealand fashion designer and wool enthusiast Liz Mitchell about her upcoming exhibition ‘This Raw Material’.
Liam speaks to artist and advocate Judy Darragh about the arts in the upcoming election and to Dan Arps about about his Nirvana Park exhibition at Micheal Lett Gallery 2.
And—of course—to round off the show, we take you through the art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.
Dan and Jordan of Khaki Department from Te Papaioea are dialling in to chat about their new single Boogie Boarding. On Loose Reads Jenna’s in the studio to talk about Vladivostok Circus, a new novel from Elisa Shua Dusapin. Whakarongo mai nei!
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