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It's time for Rātū Drive with Nicholas. On today's show, Nicholas is joined by Chris Cudby for Audioculture! The pair discuss Chris' illustrious musical career. Oh, and there is heaps of music as well!
Starting off with Stage Direction with Amber Curreen, director of Kōanga Festival. Later, Peter Lineham phones in for That's The Spirit. Crawley then makes a call down to Ōtautahi to chat with musician Adam Hattaway about his new album Hot Variety. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring a mix of hardcore punk, emoviolence and smooth jazz. Te Whanganui-a-Tara two-piece emo duo Park Flyers are in for Friday Live, brought to you by NZ on Air Music and our mates at McLeod's Brewery. Whakarongo mai nei to listen to their new single 'friends!'
Featuring Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie from The Hempstore. Later Theia phones into the studio for a korero about her gorgeous new waiata Patupaiarehe, and the maaassive announce of her debut album Girl, In A Savage World. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring Elle's interview with shoegaze legends Alison's Halo, Flicks 'n' That with Steve Newall, Sof's interview with James Krivchenia of Big Thief about their sixth studio album 'Double Infinity', and What's Cooking with Joel Field of Ōtepoti-based Pearly*.
Featuring Stage Direction with the castmembers of Mother Play showing next month at Silo Theatre, Baby Zionov and Brad of Créme Jéan phone in to yarn about their free show at Public Bar this Thursday and new music. Later, Peter Lineham phones in for your weekly dose of That's The Spirit, and then Em is in the studio for a yarn about new music and her just-released track Lucky Star.
Featuring some good punk and a touch of electroclash on Rāmere Drive. Punk quartet The Sourare in for Friday Live, brought to you by NZ on Air Musicand our mates at McLeod's Brewery. Whakarongo mai nei to catch a heavy set and get some insight into the band's origins as a Hole covergroup.
Featuring Marijuana Media with Chris, thanks to The Hempstore. John Minto appears in the bFM studio for a kōrero with HALFQUEEN about the maaassive Splore 2026 lineup (Sister Nancy and Nightmares on Wax?!). Later, a delicious tipple recipe courtesy of our mates at Stiffy.
On a stacked and packed day on Wednesday Drive, we unfortunately have no Flicks 'n' that as Steve was in absentia, instead, however, we listened back to Sofia's interview with Freak Slug.
Jim Nothing came in to chat about some absolutely stunning tracks for What's Cooking.
Finally, we listened back to Elle's interview with Flooding, an impressive noise rock trio, based out of Kansas.
Featuring AudioCulture with Martyn Pepperell discussing the career of Philippa McIntyre, also known as DJ Philippa, and more recently as Philippa. Check out Martyn's write-up on AudioCulture.
Space! Astronomer Josh Aoraki joins Smashton and Big J for another week, to talk about China's latest manned launch, the launch of SpaceX's Starship, and a successful fly-by of Mars.
We gave Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham a call for That’s The Spirit and boy did we chat! This week's topic was Buddhism and why it appeals to people disenchanted with traditional religion.
Elle spoke to Cate Le Bon on the emotional core of her latest album Michaelangelo Dying. Le Bon’s thematic arc of the album, an enigmatic take on the pit of heart break. Sonically dense and laden in synths Le Bon revels in the throes of heart ache, though her disarming and earnest narrative threads.
They spoke about the writing process of the album and adapting it for the live shows later in June.
Elle spoke to Tom Dowse (guitar) and Nick Buxton (drums), of Dry Cleaning, ahead of their show at the Hollywood Avondale, on 3 June. Their recently released third album Secret Love, explores the quintessential Dry Cleaning sound and pushes it a bridge further. With Florence Shaw’s characteristically level and restrained vocal delivery accompanied by a narratively driven world of synths, guitar riffs and at times a saxophone.
Heading into Strange Universe Winter season, Milly from the 95bFM Breakfast show had a brief chat with American indie-rock singer Cass McCombs, who will be playing live in Tāmaki Makaurau on the 26th this month at Double Whammy.
For the past 7 years, FromThePithas been an annual celebration of Aotearoa’s finest gig photographers, who each week muscle their way through bustling moshpits at venues across Aotearoa, tirelessly working to document our country's amazing music scene.
Smashton and Big J can speak from personal experience about their excitement of seeing photos from their own gigs pop up in these compilations. They chat to both curator and photographer Dave Simpson and photographer Jade Johnson.
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