Grant Smithies
Music with Grant Smithies
Grant Smithies is having flashbacks to Aotearoa's early rave scene this week, playing a few dopamine-addled deep techno tunes from the new album by Wellington producer Borrowed CS. We'll also hear… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies
British music writer Jon Savage is in love with the 7'' inch vinyl 45, and who could blame him? He's compiled a double vinyl album, The High Sixties on 45, in which each of the four sides is devoted… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies
New Brighton's Blair Parkes has made another extraordinary album in his garden shed. Grant plays two tracks from that , alongside an early UK hip hop classic from Massive Attack, and some glorious… Audio
Music reviewer: Grant Smithies
After ten years performing live, Lyttelton musician Kate Owen releases her debut album today. We'll hear a track from that alongside gems from Afrobeat pioneer Ebo Taylor, early Washington garage band… Audio
Tame Impala's new album out. Five year wait over.
Music reviewer Grant Smithies joins Kathryn to sample some key tracks from Tame Impala's generously trippy fourth album The Slow Rush. He'll also have gems from Chicago soul act The Impressions and… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies - The Schizophonics
One of the most thrilling live bands working today, San Diego garage rock trio The Schizophonics is descending on Aotearoa next week for an extensive tour. We hear two songs from their second album… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies - Idris Elba & more...
Fresh back from a beach in Abel Tasman, Grant Smithies selects songs today that work well with sandy togs and a tan. We'll hear some righteous New York boogaloo from San Sebastian 152, a Jamaican… Video, Audio
Haere Ra 2019 (Part 2)
Te Radar, Gemma Gracewood and Grant Smithies say farewell to 2019, with live Christmas carols sung in studio by Nota Bene. Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for being with us this year. Audio
Haere Ra 2019 (Part 3)
Te Radar, Gemma Gracewood and Grant Smithies say farewell to 2019, with live Christmas carols sung in studio by Nota Bene. Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for being with us this year. Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
The best punk compilation ever to emerge from Aotearoa's shining shores, AK79 was released on Ripper Records in December, 1979. A spanking new 40th Anniversary edition was released last week. We'll… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
Two key songs from American songwriter Bill Callahan's Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest is a double LP meditation on domesticity and love, and not nearly as boring as that probably sounds. Plus a funk gem… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies - Stereolab & more
Anglo-French pop auteurs Stereolab are playing Aotearoa in March, for the first time in 10 years. Obsessive fan-boy Grant Smithies plays two of their classic tracks today, alongside a South African… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
Brace yourself for incoming bass as a new collection of early '80s Jamaican dancehall. We'll hear woofer-worrying tracks from singer Cornell Campbell and deejay Papa Tullo. After that, Auckland… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
A tasting platter of low-fat, high-protein sonic treats today from fuzzed-out Auckland surf-punks Echo Ohs, globetrotting local "dark Disney" pop maestro Jonathan Bree and rising Christchurch… Audio
Music with Grant Smithies
A couple of mighty fine reissues catch Grant Smithies' ear this week. We'll hear key tracks from Straitjacket Fits' second album, 1991's Melt, and a snarling punk pearler from Te Atatu's Dum Dum Boys… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
Born in Zambia, raised in Botswana and now based in Melbourne, singer/rapper Sampa The Great blew Grant Smithies' mind a few years back and still just keeps on getting better. Audio
New music with Grant Smithies !!!
Yes, their name looks like a typo, but Brooklyn dance-punks !!! (Chk Chk Chk) make a fine racket, so we'll be hearing two tracks from their new album Wallop. Also, a great new single from Wellington's… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies - Blam Blam Blam & more..
A full 38 years after their debut EP was released in 1981, Blam Blam Blam are about to hit the road for a national tour this month. Grant Smithies plays two Blams' classics, alongside melancholy… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
Homesick synth-pop, witchy indie folk addled psychedelia and dancefloor mayhem. It's all on today as we take a roadie around New Zealand for killer tunes from Lake South, Purple Pilgrims and Gary War… Audio
New music with Grant Smithies
Grant plays new songs from three deeply diverse acts from Aotearoa- Hallelujah Picassos, Louis Baker and Cookie Brooklyn & The Crumbs. Audio