Music 101 for Saturday 29 November 2025

Show Notes

13:15 Steph Brown on Spellodies

Spellodies is a family band made up of Steph Brown and Fen Ikner from the  Silver Scroll award-winning group Lips and their nine year old son Freddy. In 2024 the trio took home the APRA Children’s Award for Best Song for Primary-Age Kids for their waiata 'Because.' Steph joins Kara to discuss the new Spellodies album.

14:10 Saya Grey plays The Others Way tonight

A few days before she hopped on a plane to NZ, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist spoke with Kara about stepping into the spotlight after years of shepherding other people's projects, and her love for the Southern Hemisphere.

14:40 UK jazz septet Kokoroko backstage at The Powerstation

On Wednesday night in Auckland the London-based seven-piece played a sold-out show at The Powerstation. Made up of 1st generation Brits whose parents immigrated from West Africa and Ethiopia, they incorporate genres like funk and RnB but are known as a jazz group, part of a fertile scene that includes other acts like Ezra Collective. 

Tony Stamp visited the venue before the show and caught up with all seven members.

15:10 1995 episode one: The Battle of Britpop

In the first of a four part series revisiting albums that turned 30 this year, Tony Stamp looks back at ten British albums that were critical and/ or commercial successes.

15:30 The Sampler: Boy Soda

Guest reviewer So'omālō Iteni Schwalger checks out Australian-Samoan musician BOY SODA's debut album SOULSTAR.

16:10 The Mixtape: Kirsten Morrell

The Goldenhorse frontwoman and solo musician tells Kara about her new single 'Hoping and Wishing', and spotlights some tracks that have inspired her over the years.

Songs Played:

1pm-2pm

• Four Tet - Three Drums

• Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

• Troy Kingi & Delaney Davidson - Kārearea

• Spellodies - First Thirst, Again (Sight Word Song), Night Light

• Nightmares on Wax & Ladi6 - Holding On

• Jonathan Bree - Live to Dance

• Minnie Robberds - Turn That Stone

• Janelle Monae - Tightrope ft Big Boi

• Georgia Knight - Desire

2pm-3pm

• Timothy McNealy - Sagittarius Black

• Stone Roses - Waterfall

• Saya Grey - Lie Down, Thus is Why (I Don't Spring For Love)

• De La Soul - The Package

• Kokoroko - Sweetie, Ti De, Never Lost

• Arjuna Oaks - Blame

• MC Solaar - Nouveau Western

3pm-4pm

• Lack of Afro - Summer Nights

• Loyle Carner - Ottolenghi

• Jordan Rakei, Jaelan Ngonda - What it Gave Me

• Radiohead - Planet Telex, Just

• Supergrass - Alright, Caught by the Fuzz

• Elastica - Connection, Stutter

• Blur - Charmless Man, The Universal

• Black Grape - Kelly’s Heroes

• Pulp - Common People

• Slowdive - Rutti

• Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner, Aftermath

• PJ Harvey - Down by the Water, C’mon Billy

• Radiohead - Black Star

• Blur - Country House

• Boy Soda - Hit the Road, 4K ft. Dean Brady, Lil’ Obsession

• Goldenhorse - Riverhead 

•  Faithless - Insomnia

4pm-5pm

• Pharrell Williams - Happy

• Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

• Stranger Cole - Rough And Tough

• Pogo - Nicey Nicey

• Kirsten Morrell - Hoping and Wishing

• Sarah Vaughan - That Old Black Magic  

• Shankar Mahadevan, Vishal & Shekhar, Vishal Dadlani - Desi Girl