Dubs Like Dirt

It's the monthly check-in from your f'uncle Campbell Ngata with those soulful essentials plus a spesh guest in the form of Matiu Te Maire, a digger and battle DJ, now resident in Te Tairāwhiti, his mix bristling with classics and sample cuts for Hip-Hop's golden era, he also tips his pōtae to new inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2024) A Tribe Called Quest, and Kool & the Gang. We hope that you will find our presentation precise, bass-heavy, and just right!

It's nearly Halloween! Time to chat trick or treating, halloween parties, ghosts, and goblins! Oh yes and pancakes...

Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!

Labour Weekend special - songs about work. Miners, farmers, drug dealers, mercenaries, cops, lawyers...

Frances Chan plays tunes celebrating their decade anniversaries from 1944 to 2014 – including bebop maestros Coleman Hawkins and Art Blakey, a soul jazz 70s classic and 80s Miles, an acid jazz throwback, Mulatu’s ethiovibes and experimental Flying Lotus plus 2024 releases from Kamasi, Nubya, Callum Allardice and Nathan Haines.

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This week's show featured new music from Sharon Van Etten, Michael Kiwanuka, Tyler, the Creator and more.

Jonny is joined by The Spinoff's senior writer Alex Casey and staff writer Tara Ward to countdown the remaining 20 of the Top 100 New Zealand TV shows. Alex and Tara have been covering television for The Spinoff for a decade now, and detail some of the tribulations the faced in curating the list such as a lack of proper archival of NZ's film media. If your favourite show didn't make the list you should head along to The Spinoff's live event on Thursday 31 October at Q Theatre, where Casey will be joined by Kura Forrester, Rhiannon McCall and other Spinoff writers to delve into the weird and wonderful (or forgotten) shows that missed out.