LIVE & LOCAL
Our first fresh group for 2022 and it kicked off with a bang! Five super keen rangatahi from MCS shared their diverse talents of rapping, singing, beatboxing, drawing dance and more. This was an all-star line up, with EDY providing the beat for an original composition with Sam V, Opeti, Langa, Paris, Shantel and Jon-Paul […]
Our 6# edition of Take It To The Street saw Murry Sweetpants take the helm for a Extra Special Needs on Friday Drive. A stacked lineup featuring a LIVE performance from the contemporary R&B, Brazilian rhythms artist Yvy Maraey. Producer dICE NZ took over the controls for a mini set, and Onternet a turntableist demonstrated […]
Jumping on broad with NZ Music Month were graced with the Auckland born, Sydney raised Lisi joined the Friday drive crew. He brought some serious Aussie flavour to the streets of Kingsland. Alongside Lisi we had Auckland based electro-pop band Krispy and the Pooch. They rolled through for a live performance of some of their […]
The latin-funk, soul & hiphop extortioners Latinaotearoa joined Ian Beatmaster Wright on the streets of Kingsland. We were lucky enough to have them premier their latest track “Cruisin”. Silas Futura also popped by for a cheeky performance and to chat about his latest double EP Rā and Pō. NZ Music Month is not up yet, […]
Base FM OG Bella Shanti joined Grassmouth for the first Friday instalment of our NZ music month special Take it to the streets. She jumped on the mic to perform an unreleased track ahead for her upcoming gig with Savage. Along with Bella, artist SASSY, and youth mentee KAU who put on a live performance […]
West Auckland native Midas Mind performed his latest track “Hourglass” on our first instalment of “Take it to the streets”. We had the big boss of our hosts Atomic Kingsland, Casey down for a chat to talk about his origins with Atomic and the splash of NZ coffee cultures development. Take it to the streets […]
When we turned over 5 young men to Kau, the West Coast beat mantis, we knew sparks would fly! Hunter, Fahu, Jadeal, Mohammed, Ramahn were eager to get stuck and take up the challenge, and were being the first group to not only write a rap verse, but produce an original beat composed in studio. […]
Aotearoa Music Awards’s celebrated the musicians that make the soundtracks to our lives at the 2021, this star studded evening took place at the Aotea Centre in Auckland. With the big smoke finally out of lockdown, it was time for New Zealand’s finest to walk the red carpet and celebrate an incredible year of Kiwi […]
For our first Youth Mentoring program of 2021 we teamed up with Mangere Central School once again. Rauinie, Rāhera, Elasha and Sarah stepped up and formed the “Loyalty Girls” for 5 weeks to write, produce and record an original song. The Loyalty girls raising up some important kōrero about how we treat each other at […]
Over five weeks, Joseph, Reggae, Amaira and Destiny poured their hearts and souls into live performing on air, interviewing, learning to DJ, and writing and performing their own original track. Once again in collaboration with Rei and Sassy, came a heartfelt tribute to those people in our lives that we love the most, even if […]