The ongoing quest to reach the summit of popular music continues with another three hours spent traversing soulful music sounds old and new. Break out the scroggin and roll thru!
The marvellous two metre selector Matene @KarenaMatene at the controls with 180 mins of soulful bumps + grooves including @ONRAbeats @MakayaMcCraven @nubya_garcia @FullCratexMar @Zo3hree5ive @LiamBailey @JesseBoykins3rd. Press ze button
The hatchback has been backed up to the carpark in the drizzle, it's time for the Swap Meet - this week celebrating fifty years of The Commodores "Machine Gun" and Stevie Wonder "Fulfillingness First Finale". Roll up, roll up, bargains galore.
RIP @DAVID_LYNCH, Happy Birthday @caronwheeler of Soul II Soul (19th January), and we celebrate the anniversaries of @theroots major label debut "Do You Want More??!!!????" (30 years!), Tower Of Power's @OfficialTOPBand "Urban Renewal" (50 Years), @joeyBADASS "B4.DA.$$" (10 years). We also roll new material from The Pro-Teens's newie "MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed", and @parlorgreens, as well as the usual array of funky rarities from all over the globe. Enjoy!
Featuring heaps of good stuff! Matthew Crawley is away doing Matthew things so Kaitlyn steps in for a massive Monday Drive. Featuring kōrero with Jason Parker about their show Little Gay In as part of Basement Theatre's Pride 2025 programme - check out all the shows here. Later, Kaitlyn phones Americana folk legend Simon Joyner ahead of Port Noise 2025down in Ōhinehou (we have massive fomo) and they catch up on his recent tour of Aotearoa over the week just been. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Nick chat to Dave Borrie of Ōtepoti band L. Hotel about their latest single Dead Ends and on Audio Culture, Gareth Shute revisits the wide-spanning career and music of Stanley Manthyngand Fatal Jelly Space, as well as the newly launched NZ On Screen Rainbow Collection.