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It’s NZ Music Month and to celebrate, the Hallertau NZ 95beerFM is back!

As part of NZ Music Month, this special show dives deep into the Tāmaki music scene to spotlight The Grow Room. The legendary St Kevin’s Arcade recording studio and creative refuge that became a home for a generation of young artists between 2015–2016.

We are joined by Dusty (Mokomokai) in the studio. Talking all things Grow Room.

Featuring co-founder Ethan King, and regulars Leon & Nicole, the show explores the community, creativity, and chaos that made the space so influential. Soundtracked entirely by music created by the camp, this is a tribute to a scene that helped shape a wave of underground talent in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Kia Ora,, for the third week of Aotearoa music month this evenings specialty show casts a full-length focus on ambient & noise // experimental leaning productions. These selected whispers from throughout the whenua are best experienced in solitude.. Allow for the travelling of thought ༄

(Shove it.)

Thanks Decibel Wines. (Get a discount on your order with code 95BFM.)

Pick yourself up with some sweet tunes brought to you by host Sofía Kent Padilla

Sofie and Jude are back in the studio, rounding off the week with some neat tracks and chat. Oui oui nos amies, this is a good one.

Allez allez allez! 

Audrey Goggin is a London-born Tāmaki-based artist whose primarily oil painting practice uses primary source research as an anchor for her exploration of identity and belonging in relation to her mixed heritage and immigrant background. 

Her current exhibition at Window Gallery, 馬上封侯, presents a beautiful large painting piece by Goggin on unstretched canvas. Using a photograph of her great aunt as a young child sitting on her family’s white horse as a starting point, the work sees the artist approaching the year of the horse through an exploration of her mixed Chinese-Pākehā heritage through the Chinese zodiac and its significance in Chinese culture.

With her great aunt being born in a Horse year, and herself a monkey year, the artist was reminded of the Chinese idiom, 馬上封侯, which literally translates to monkey sitting upon a horse, but can also take the inferred meaning of a quick advancement or rise in status. Connecting herself to the original image through this idiom, Goggin’s younger self takes the place of her great aunt’s position, now a monkey sitting upon a horse – in hopes of a prosperous year ahead of passion, ambition, and rapid change with her whakapapa supporting her as she seeks to better understand her equivocal identity.

Sof caught up with Audrey about the show.

Maya caught up with Hamish Coleman about his solo exhibition Whippersnapper on at Season Aotearoa.

And Sof caught up with Audrey Goggin about her solo exhibition at Window Gallery, 馬上封侯.

Whakarongo mai x