25 Jul 2025

New music with Grant Smithies

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 25 July 2025

Talking Heads' groundbreaking 1978 album More Songs About Buildings And Food gets an expanded global reissue today.

We'll hear two key tracks from the original LP today, followed by some hazy pop from New Brighton's Blair Parkes/ Miss Mercury and some Whanganui-meets-Jamaica dancehall from Naram and Tippa Lee.

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