Ata mārie e te whānau! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show this morning: Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Parakuihi Pals with Radio Control, From The Crate with Cam, and plenty of awesome Friday tunes!! Whakarongo mai nei.

Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

The day has dawned on another beautiful Teenage Frequencies show, and with it has come special teen guest of the week: Ben Winks! Our first guest in the new studio, Ben brings some awesome tracks with some awesome knowledge and yarns in between.

Plus, a fond farewell to the wonderful Milly with some Primal Scream at the end of the show :')

Whakarongo mai nei, you don't want to miss this one!

Whakarongo mai, this morning WØMAN play three raucous tunes to drop kick us into the weekend. You can catch them live at their single release show āpopo at Acho's, and check out their new track 'Be My Afters' on Bandcamp. 

Thanks to NZOA Music 

one of these situations is a new group exhibition, currently on at Lett Thomas Gallery, bringing together the work of Diane Arbus, Chris Booth, Mike Hewson, and Kate Newby. Opening up the gallery space as this site of connectivity, the works appear to thread together as these quiet reflections on fringe or in-between spaces, ecological terrain, and environment. 

Included in one of these situations is Chris Booth’s Wave (1992/2026), a large-scale sculpture made of scoria and stainless steel cable formed to imitate that of its title. 

Chris Booth is a Kerikeri-based sculptor and practitioner, whose practice is interested in relationships with and between land, earth forms, and human history. Here, place, material, and history are inextricably intertwined, with research of the origins of land, itʼs flora and fauna, spirit, social history and use, in both its present and past, leading Booth’s process and direction. 

First exhibited in 1992 as part of his exhibition Earth Blankets at Gow Langsford Gallery, Wave is an example of these key conceptual underpinnings of Booth’s practice in form – a bringing together of the natural environment and its material into conversation. 

Sof caught up with Chris about Wave and his overall practice.

Huia is away this week, but will be back next Friday! We celebrate newsreader and Wire Producer Liam's skuxx, authentic GOLDEN French firefighter helmet with a Daft Punk track, and play an epic track recommendation from Huia by way of Glasshouse Red Spider Mite. To top it all off, this week's Fancy New Band, brought to you by NZ On Air Music, is punk outfit WØMAN, who absolutely shred. Listen back to the bCast if you missed out live, and check them out āpopo at Acho's on Karangahape Road.

Thanks to The Tuning Fork!

CINDY of West Auckland make a pit stop in the bFM studio ahead of their nationwide tour to celebrate the release of their debut album. The Way I Do is out now via Sunreturn and 1:12 Records, and you can check out all the dates for their tour over on Under The Radar. 

Thanks to NZ On Air Music

Cam is up sharing the latest wax on the shelves at Southbound! A 50th anniversary reiussue from Mort Garson, debut from Dahi, and a physical-exclusive reissue from Mos Def - get down there this weekend and pick up some goodies! Whakarongo mai nei.

Thanks to Southbound Records!

Rubes Prattley-Jones is a Tāmaki-based artist, primarily working in ceramics, found objects, and natural materials. Their queer identity sits at the forefront, as their practice explores environments surrounding bodies of water, positioning places with the body and materiality. 

Taarn Scott is a multidisciplinary artist from Ōtepoti, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their practice explores ideas around habitat, environmental concerns, and geographical histories, creating these tactile objects and forms informed by ornamentation and jewellery. 

Their collaborative exhibition currently on at Plomacy Gallery, salt crusted, places Scott and Prattley-Jones’ work in a beautiful dialogue around connection, place, and materiality. Developed out of six-weeks of trips to the Tāmaki Estuary, the exhibition draws on the artists’ shared love of collective making and beach fossicking – a love letter to searching, rummaging, and sifting to find rich natural material or nuggets of detritus to bring into their work. Here, the beach is not only the site of focus, but a third collaborator – its materials brought into form; its ridges and textures moulded and etched into new surfaces. 

Sof caught up with Rubes and Taarn about the show and their overall practices.

Rosetta and Milly catch up with Jordan from Radio Control, to hear all about what's happening down in Palmerston North! Whakarongo mai nei.