Every Saturday afternoon from 4pm-6pm is latest Australian release time on 88.3 with Ausmosis. Featuring the latest and best stuff from the unsigned/independent artists as well as some of the better new commercial releases. This Saturday we will having a listen to Abbe May, Jenny Biddle, The Vagrants, The Jezabels, Dakara Dirt, Jessica Paige, The Good Ship, Stonefield, Courtney Barnett
Read moreSaturdays edition of RGG sees us focusing on the significant break out tracks that started the legends. Some burned brightly but briefly after their amazing arrival (think The Knack, Asia, Thunderclap Newman, Procol Harum), whilst for others it was the beginning of a long stay at the top (think Dire Straits, America, REM, Frankie Goes To Hollywood). Horse with no
Read moreNo, we do not “see a little silhouette of a man”, we are just celebrating tunes about “wind”. Not the kind you have if you have eaten something spicy or gulped down an orange cordial too quickly, just the one that keeps us cool when it is hot and dries out our clothes on the clothes line. Hmmm…you say…can’t think
Read moreRadio Ga Ga is a program which features a different theme each week. Last week we played and discussed the opening track off 22 classic Australian albums. This week we go in search of the novelty track. Yes, those comedic and ‘different’ songs that actually cracked the charts. For those from the 60’s think artists such as Allen Sherman, Rolf
Read moreRadio Ga Ga goes retro Aussie this week as we take a look as well as have a listen to the songs that set the scene for some of the albums that sit comfortably in the top 50 of Australia’s greatest rock/pop albums. The opening track of any album is a key track and so often sets the whole tone
Read moreIn popular music a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song. Aah yes, the next two installments on Radio Ga Ga are going to feature the much maligned, sometimes rightly sometimes wrongly cover version. But its not all bad (or good), think of tunes such as “All along the
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