In The Mix: New Wave Friday Pt 2
When MTV switched on in America on 1 August 1981, it had a problem nobody had thought through: a channel
In The Mix
Power Pop Friday Vol 4
Nobody has ever managed to define power pop, and John Borack, who has written a book about it, says nobody
In The Mix: New Wave Friday Pt 1
Nobody set out to invent a genre called new wave. The phrase was already thirty years old and had belonged
How Awesome was 1971? Part Two
We couldn’t leave it at one show. When friend-of-the-station Jim Bricker first asked how awesome 1971 was, two hours barely
In The Mix: Power Pop Perfection Vol 3
Power pop got its name in an advert. In May 1967, promoting “Pictures Of Lily” to the NME, Pete Townshend said
In the Mix: Dolly Parton 1946 – 2026
Today at 4pm NZ time Dolly Parton died in Nashville on Tuesday at the age of eighty, and this week
In the Mix: Prog Rock Friday – In The Moog
The Moog synthesiser could only play one note at a time, and it went out of tune if somebody opened
In the Mix: New Music Highlights August 2026
Almost everything in this hour is younger than the month. In The Mix rounds up the new music highlights, and we open
In the Mix: Saturday 12″ Mix
This week the Saturday Night Party (Saturday at 8pm) stretches out after 9. No radio edits, no fading down at three minutes
In the Mix: UK Top 20 1966
Picture Britain in the first week of August 1966, because there has rarely been a giddier one. Seven days earlier,
