95bFM: Travelling Tunes

Today on Travelling Tunes, Rosetta and Milly chat with Kirsten Zemke about Children's Music! Whakarongo mai nei! Song selections:  Simple Plan - What's New Scooby Doo? (2022) The Muppets - Jungle Boogie (2015) Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff, the Magic Dragon (1962)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Rosetta and Milly chat with Dr Kirsten Zemke about all things New Jack Swing! Whakarongo mai nei! Song selections: Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison (1990) Jade - Don't Walk Away (1992) Another Bad Creation - Playground (1991)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke chats with Rosetta and Milly about the origins of the Women's Music Movement, a movement born in the early 70s through the advocacy of feminists and lesbians who formed their own record labels, centering women artists as well as women who worked in the non-musical roles (sound engineers, producers, label managers etc). Whakarongo mai nei! Song selections: Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (1989) Cris Williamson - Waterfall (1975) Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers (2005)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke is chatting with us about all things Ska!  Selections: Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero (1985) The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (1979) The Skatalites - Guns of Navarone (1985)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke is talking to Milly and Rosetta about songs with spoken word intros! Song selections: Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (1980) Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around (2002) The Tossers - Drinking In The Day (2005)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke is chatting with Milly and Rosetta about all things Butt-Rock! Track selections: 3 Doors Down - 'Kryptonite' (2000) Nickelback - 'Too Bad' (2001) Creed - 'Higher' (1999)

Today on Travelling Tunes, Milly and Rosetta are chatting with Dr. Kirsten Zemke about Family bands, and musicians that are siblings!  Song selections:  Cannonball - The Breeders (1993) Gallows - Coco Rosie (2010) We Are Family - Sister Sledge (1979)  

This week for Travelling Tunes Dr. Kirsten Zemke, dive into the world of tunes from Portland, Oregon!  

Dr Kirsten Zemke phones into the studio to have a yarn with Annabel and Callum about jazz scat vocals and is evolution this morning on Travelling Tunes!  Playlist: Dizzy Gillespie - Oop-Pop-A-Da (1947-1994 Remastered) Tania María - Yatra – Ta (1981) Mark Murphy - Bebop Lives (Boplicity) (2015)  

Milly and Tuva'a chatted to Kirsten about Global Village Coffee House music

This week Dr Kirsten Zemke chats about international shoegaze!

Travelling Tunes takes us to whichever musical motherland our resident ethnomusicologist, Dr Kirsten Zemke, sets course for. This week's topic is Yé-yé!

Travelling Tunes takes us to whichever musical motherland our resident ethnomusicologist, Dr Kirsten Zemke, sets course for. Every Friday at 8:15am.

Ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke leads us around the world on a new musical exploration each week. This week, Kirsten chats about the history of hyperpop!

Kirsten phones in to talk to Jonny about the history of the Rhodes piano (a.k.a. The Fender Rhodes) and their prominence through the seventies and beyond. Whakarongo mai nei!

Dr Kirsten Zemke traces the history indie, beginning with the cassette tape compilation C86  released by NME in 1986 the UK - the first use of 'indie' as a genre rather than independent release. Whakarongo mai nei!

Dr Kirsten Zemke chats Sapphic Love Songs on Travelling Tunes today. Whakarongo mai nei ~ Travelling Tunes Tracklist: Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window Tegan and Sara - Closer Young M.A - PettyWap Lilo - The Japanese House  

This week Dr Kirsten Zemke chats to Jonny about the genre of Jungle, it's variations and developments since it's inception from reggae and Jamaican music in the early '90s in the U.K. Whakarongo mai nei~

This week on Travelling Tunes, Kirsten chats to Jonny about songs of freedom and the use of music in civil rights and activism. Whakarongo mai nei!

Dr Kirsten Zemke is here to yarn about dark 'n dusty Gothic Country. Running through Jonny Cash to contemporary artists such as Sons of Predition, Gothic Country is all about tales of woe. Catch these sounds on soundtracks such as True Detective, Twin Peaks, Fargo and True Blood. 

Dr Kirsten Zemke chats to Jonny about the Caribbean genre Calypso on this week's Travelling Tunes!

Arrrrrrr - talkin' sea shanties aren't we? Ahoy to Drake Street Studios!

Kirsten breaks the cardinal rule of 95bFM (according to Jonny) and plays emo on-air. Kirsten runs us through the history of the emo genre and it's origin in the hardcore punk scene in D.C during the 1980s. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Drake Street Studios!

Kirsten and Jonny talk about hype man, rapper and radio DJ Fat Man Scoop and his discography in the wake of his passing this week. 

Dr Kirsten Zemke talks the genre of Phonk, including its origins in chopped and screwed '90s Memphis hip-hop and evolution into Drift Phonk and Brazillian Phonk. Thanks to Drake Street Studios.

Kirsten Zemke chats Californian "Souldies". Tracks include: The Altons “When You Go (That's When You'll Know)” 2020 Thee Sacred Souls “Can I Call You Rose?” 2020 Adrian Carmine “Listen To My Heart Speak” 2021

Kirsten Zemke on break dancing!

Dr Kirsten Zemke looks into the work of Adam Schlesinger! Songs include. Fountains of Wayne "Stacy's Mom" Care Bears On Fire “Barbie Eat A Sandwich” The Wonders “That Thing You Do!”

Dr Kirsten Zemke chats Japanese pop. The tracks included: "Plastic Love" Mariya Takeuchi 1984 “Say Goodbye”  Hiroshi Sato 1982 “4:00 A.M.” Taeko Onuki 1978 Thanks to Drake St Studios!

The excellent Amelia Berry takes care of Travelling Tunes in Dr Kirsten Zemke's absence, talking about twee (and setting the record straight). Thanks to Drake Street Studios!

This week on Travelling Tunes we chat to Dr Kirsten Zemke about all things Acapella - whakarongo mai nei!