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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Audio 17 May 2024The debut album from New York's Chanel Beads is a sad, hazy and marvellous thing. We'll hear two tracks from that today, followed by some jazz-addled funk from Melbourne's Hiatus Kaiyote and some… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Audio 3 May 2024British label Ace Records has just released a new series of genre compilations, and Grant Smithies says the funk collection in particular is a doozy. Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Audio 8 Mar 2024Marvellous Melbourne band Cool Sounds is touring Aotearoa during March. Grant Smithies has two of their wonky disco-pop tunes today, followed by long-awaited new work from Port Chalmers band Seafog… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) from Animal Collective and Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) from Spacemen 3 released a splendid psych-pop album called Reset last year. British dub producer Adrian Sherwood loved it… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Something of an indie "supergroup" containing past and present members of The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs and Toy Love, the Sundae Painters have just released a cracker debut LP. Grant Smithies… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Circle Of Friends is the ninth album from esteemed Auckland producer Christoph El Truento - a jazz record involving collaborations with a bunch of his favourite local singers/rappers/instrumentalists… Audio
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RNZ Music Pocket Edition: 25 October 2023
In Pocket Edition this week Nina Simone's daughter Lisa speaks with Kim Hill and Grant Smithies spins some new tunes. Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
In the early 90s, a number of bands exploring the daring side of guitar rock and pop started to emerge in the UK influenced by the legacy of post-punk, minimalism, 70s art rock and a growing… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Superb Scottish band Teenage Fanclub have just announced a tour, playing their first Auckland show in five years in March next year. We'll hear two key tracks from their 30-year career today, followed… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
All three artists in today's music session are from right here in Aotearoa, spanning the range from frazzled country to hectic garage punk to summery electronic daydreams. First up, a couple of… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
After a decade out of print, the ground-breaking Delta Swamp Rock double LP has just been reissued, showcasing artists who blended rock, soul and country together to create a new style of southern… Audio
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New music with Grant Smithies
Wellington indie singer/ songwriter Lontalius (Eddie Johnston) releases his fourth album this week, and it's a luxuriously sad delight. We'll hear two songs from that today, followed by an early track… Audio
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Record Store Day 2023: 'More titles than I've ever had before'
Happy Record Store Day! Today on Music 101 we celebrate the record store! Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Electrified is a spanking new double album of new and collected tracks by mighty French psych-rock duo, The Liminanas. We'll hear two tracks from that today, plus something from a new EP from… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Music reviewer Grant Smithies joins Susie with a selection of new music from Running Club a new collaboration between New Brighton musician Blair Parkes and Auckland's Stephen Reay and a new song from… Audio
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New music with Grant Smithies
Winter Of Discontent is a great new compilation of key singles from the early British DIY post-punk scene of the late 70s. We'll hear key tracks from Zounds and Scritti Politti today, alongside an… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Conceived as a loving tribute to trippy 60s pop, RESET is a collaboration between Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) from Animal Collective and Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) from Spacemen 3. We'll hear two key… Audio
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Music with Grant Smithies
One of the most influential garage bands to come out of America's Pacific Northwest in the late '80s and '90s, Dead Moon turned down shows playing with Nirvana to honour a prior commitment to tour New… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
One of the most adventurous bands of the 1970s, War blended soul, Latin, jazz, blues, reggae, and rock influences into an effortlessly funky whole. Five of their classic early albums have just been… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Audio 12 Aug 2022Wellington's ENJOY Contemporary Art Space hosts a show called Everybody Soundsystem over the coming weeks, inspired by Aotearoa's early underground dance party scene. Inspired by that project, Grant… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Freshly remastered and sounding better than ever, Safe As Milk was the first studio album by Californian musical auteur Captan Beefheart (Don Van Vliet). We'll hear two key tracks from that today… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies: The sound of young Sheffield!
Grant plays a couple of reissued classics today from influential South Yorkshire bands Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League (who David Bowie once famously called "the future of music!"). After that… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
The latest signing to Aotearoa's premier wonk-pop label Flying Nun is 7-piece Wellington, followed by a scalding new single from ex-pat Aucklander Dion Lunadon (The D4) and a classic from Nigerian… Audio
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Music with Grant Smithies
Audio 17 Jun 2022Today we'll hear two tracks from a killer collection spotlighting "The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul" Betty Harris, followed by raucous power pop action from Rangiora's Best Bets and some prime UK… Audio