This week on the Spring new music from zzzahara and a bonus track from Mitski from the 10th anniversary release of Puberty 2. Mitski covers Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. And Karyn dusts off Connector with three tracks that have something in common: the 1967 Grammy’s!
Karyn is back for Season 2 of The Saturday Spring, giving us the lowdown on everyone from RIP Magic to Paul McCartney's latest release. It’s an abundant supply of good things!
Season I of The Saturday Spring wraps up with a Demo Gods special. All the artists who have collaborated with Finn in the last three months: Indira Neville, Club Ruby, Maebh McCurdy, Josh Hunter, jackaltheblackal, and Karl Sölve Steven.
Plus new tracks from TOMORA, Kathryn Mohr, and Robert Smith of The Cure is more than a little impressed by the songwriting talents of Olivia Rodrigo.
It was Record Store Day around the world! Some live tracks from Toy Love from 1980 (Flying Nun Records have been running a RSD competition with a Toy Love prize pack) and the usual mix of old and new including My New Band Believe who played an instore at Rough Trade Records East London along with Eaves Wilder who was also on the bill to celebrate RDS in their neck of the woods.
Packed with chat and tunes this week including an interview with Richard Langston, author of the new biography on the band that helped launch the Dunedin Sound – “The Clean: In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul”. And Gorillaz with the late Mark E. Smith.
Another fulsome show this week with new tracks from Kathryn Mohr and Pulp, and a posthumous release from Lee “Scratch” Perry. And if you’re looking for a an authentic Bob Marley dreadlock, one is being auctioned this week in the UK, with a sale price expected of £25,000 sterling.
It’s a double up, a series of twosomes, one thing relates to the other kind of thing this week. Natalie Wildgoose from Yorkshire UK and Lily Seabird from Vermont USA. And new tracks from Willie Nelson born Abbot Texas in 1933 and, on the other side of the Atlantic, Paul McCartney b. Liverpool 1942.
Space is a bit of theme this week on The Saturday Spring and even Jimi Hendrix gets a look-in with Third Stone From the Sun. New music from Grace Ives and Danish band, Iceage, fronted by a regular on the Spring, Elias Ronnefelt.
Finn Johansson’s more than a little buzzed to unveil the song he'’s been working on with Amamelia for Demo Gods. The prompt was "The Fine Art of Restraint” and Amelia Berry joins us from Melbourne to talk about the process. Hear the demo here!
This week George reckons the early 2000s turned out to be far more mysterious than he expected, thanks in part to Lazy Lane and the track Strange Dreams.
Finn Johansson’s been busy over the break lining up his Demo Gods. Amamelia is his latest collaborator and she’s picked "The Fine Art of Restraint’ as the prompt. In Pt. I we check out a few gems from Amelia’s back catalogue.
On a rainy Tamaki day we’re transported to the islands of the Pacific with Sefa Inari, the Director of the Pacific Dance Festival – on this month and showcasing the finest dancers from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.
Finn Johansson Zooms in from Queenstown where he’s on tour with Fables, while this week’s Demo God Karl Sölve Steven joins Karyn in the studio. The prompt Karl chose was “BPM” and the resulting demo is titled Bad People Music.
Finn Johansson gives us a potted musical history of Karl Sölve Steven before unveiling the finished demo next week, with the prompt being “BPM”. Tracks from The Drab Doo-Riffs, Supergroove, Queen Neptune and one from Karl’s highly successful movie soundtrack work.
Karyn talks with author Richard Langston about his new biography on the band that helped launch the Dunedin Sound – “The Clean: In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul”. Richard’s in the middle of a short book tour which comes to Auckland Wednesday 15th April at Flying Nun Records. (spoiler alert: Clean live music included!)
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