While I was in Helsinki, I was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National‘s Saturday Morning host Kim Hill. The pretext was that Finland had just been declared best country in the world to live in, and since I was a New Zealander who just happened to be there, I was on the radio for quarter [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio,Travel
I’ve decided to move my weekly ‘Sunday Jazz‘ Spotify playlist here to my personal blog. My life’s fragmented enough as it is, and I thought that one extra blog post a week wouldn’t clutter this already busy blog too much. If you haven’t come across this before, essentially the idea is that it’s like a [...]
Sadly, this is just a workaround until someone invents the real thing I teach music programming for radio. And while it’s true that music programming on broadcast radio is typically safe and boring, there are some very sensible and useful practices that understand how people make meaning from music, and how music fits into people’s [...]
Photo by hebedesign This is not an idea about radio as much as it is an idea for radio. And it’s a very simple idea about podcasting – but not one that I’m aware that radio stations have ever thought about or implemented. Before I tell you the idea, let me describe the issue it [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Idea,Radio,Technology
Tagged: podcast
This audio slideshow was edited from the full length documentary – and explores the musical influences on Zane growing up in New Zealand… Radio New Zealand has confirmed the following broadcast dates for “Urban Disturbance in Broadcasting House: The Zane Lowe Story”, produced by Sam Coley and presented by Andrew Dubber. Part One: 4:10 pm [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio
Our glamorous campus. Photo courtesy Birmingham City University Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research Research Studentship worth £16,680 Popular music and radio in the digital age The Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research is a rapidly developing centre of research excellence based at Birmingham City University with a community of over thirty academics [...]
Categories: Music,Radio,Technology,University
Tagged: application, culture, media, research
Sam Coley and I made a documentary about Zane. Coming soon…
Categories: Radio
Tagged: documentary, Radio, Zane Lowe
I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
