Every Friday from 12-2pm, join renowned New Zealand music connoisseur Mario for 'The Local'; two hours of nothing but the best releases from all around Aotearoa! Tune in for the freshest new tracks, fan favourites, and a few classics for good measure. It's as kiwi as Buzzy Bees and a steak and cheese!
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NZ on Air presents The Local
12pm - 2pm Friday with Mario
SATURDAY 26TH FEBRUARY 2022NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Jean Paul Sartre Experience - I Like Rain
Goodshirt - Blowing Dirt
Mestar (dn) - Shut the Squizwot Factories Down
Milk - Sugar Glider
Ben Woods - Romancy
Womb - Here We Bend (To Smell the Dirt)
Sulfate - Bottle It In
Princess Chelsea - Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Voom - We're So Lost
Crude (dn) - Blip
Crude (dn) - Dinner and a Movie
Electric Fence - Frostbite
The Clean (dn) - At The Bottom (live)
Frog Power - Hotel God Pigeon
Fazerdaze - Jennifer
Lips - I C U Wanna Know
Neive Strang (dn) - Ribbon
Best Bets - Olympic Sprinter
Night Lunch (dn) - Death Bulge 500
Disasteradio (dn) - Electric Blanket
The Waltham Home Organ Society - Rain
Wurld Series - Moat
Asta Rangu (dn) - Too-Zooma
Koizilla (dn) - Dead Ferns
Aldous Harding - Lawn
Seth Frightening - Into The Water
Chris Knox - One Fell Swoop
Kitsunegari - Jisats
SATURDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2022NZ on Air's The Local w. Ashley
SATURDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2022NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Belladonna - Hands
Merk - God
Belladonna - Coffin Linder
Human Susan (Dn)- Double Dutch
Night Lunch (Dn) - Lactic Fascist
Space Bats, Attack! (Dn) - Schrodingus
Frog Power (Dn) - Baby I Lost My Mind
PHF - Glue
Shihad - You Again
Opposite Sex - Combine Harvester
Dick Move - Dick Move
Silicon - Burning Sugar
PHF - White Cadillac
Thorn Dells - Bridge
Violet French - Miss Dumpty
Helper Theory (Dn) - Keepers (for Scott Walker)
Darcy Clay - Jesus I Was Evil
Cowboy Machine - Talk With Your Body
Joe Sampson - This Has Been An Issue For As Long As I Can Remember
Daniel Madill (Dn) - Nuremberg Cyborg
Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man
Ben Woods - Romancy
Ana Moser (Dn) - To A Place
Your Face (Dn) - Special Day
Voom - We're So Lost
Thomas Isbister - Eggs
Princess Chelsea - I Love My Boyfriend
The Clean (Dn) - In The Dream Life You Need A rubber Soul
The Communist Rainbow Relationship (Dn) - It's Only Tragic
The Blueness (Dn) - Lady Blue
The Mint Chicks - I Can't Stop Being Foolish
SATURDAY 22ND JANUARY 2022NZ on Air's The Local w. Ashley
Thorn Dells (Dn) - Fury
Thorn Dells (Dn) - Dark Taste
Hex (NZ) - The Moon
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (NZ) - Swim and Sleep Like a Shark
Human Susan (Dn) - Substandard Girls
Bailey Wiley (NZ) - Still On My Mind
Chelsea Jade (NZ) - Optimist
Mink (Dn) - Mr Creepy (Roll Over)
MĀ (NZ) - Hikoi
flip for garth (NZ) - gillyweed
Embb (Dn) - Calling All Ships
Lizard Prom (NZ) - Medusa
No Broadcast (NZ) - Lie In Orbit
Rackets (NZ) - Bed Sores
Koizilla (Dn) - Dead Ferns
Night Lunch (Dn) - Fence Song
Night Lunch (Dn) - Dad's House
Wax Chattels (NZ) - Mindfulness
Mousey (NZ) - The Bench
Lawrence Arabia (NZ) - A Lake
Hermann Doose (Dn) - Skate
Motte (NZ) - Give It To Me
Mermaidens (NZ) - Fade
I.E. Crazy (NZ) - As It Stands
Sojourn (NZ) - More
SATURDAY 8TH JANUARY 2022NZ on Air's The Local w. Ashley
SATURDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Tiny Pieces of Eight ft. Swampy (dud) - Xmas God
Princess Chelsea - I Miss My Man
Haunted Love (dud) - Aolonso Phellipe
The 3Ds (dud) - Evocation of WC Fields
Devilish Mary And The Holy Rollers - I'll Be Home For Christmas
The Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
The Mint Chicks - Red, White Or Blue
The Gordons - Machine Song
Best Bets - Whataworld
Tape Man - Crystal Planet
How Get - Te Tai Timu
Tall Dwarfs - Beauty
Scott J Mason (dud) - Preparation
Cecil Turbine (dud) - You Come
Motte - Opal Eye
Lisa Gerrard - They Came To Die
Johhn Fulstop Glass - Last Christmas
Dorkwave - Drunk as Hell Smashing Bells
PHF - Demo II
Contriva - Light (Chris Knox cover)
Breaks Co-Op - Question of Freedom
Whipping Cats - The Last Ditch Dance of the Cripple
Music Sucks - Cod's Knob (doof doof version)
Coin Laundry (dud) - Tron's Nissan Legacy
Double Happys (dud) - Needles and Plastic
Von Klap - Cold Hands
Wendyhouse - Santa's Lament
John Key - All I Want For Christmas
Music Sucks - With Markel
Cowboy Machine - Sand Dunes
Jonathan Bree ft. Clara Vinals - Say You Love Me Too
SATURDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Hans Pucket - I Don't Know What To Get You For Christmas (Do I Really Love You?)
Joe Sampson - Wedding Cake Decorator
Alec Bathgate - Your Heavy Dream (Won't Fly)
Dimmer - Backwards Is Backwards
The Shakin' Evil Hayride - Six Days on the Road
Connan and the Mockasins - Uuuu It's Teasy
Mousey - The Bench
Sin City - By The River
Merk - H.N.Y.B
David Kilgour - Living In Space
Mestar - Rock'n'Roll World
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill - Get A Little Closer
OPC - Kbeast
Voom - King Kong
The Sundae Painters - Hollow Ways
Subliminals - Uh-Oh
The Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
Chris Knox - Face of Fashion
James Duncan - My New Flumes
Princess Chelsea - No Church on Sunday
Erny Belle - Hell Hole
Adam Hattaway and the Haunters - Riding The River
The Clean - I Wait Around
Bailterspace - Splat
Stef Animal - One Two Three Four Five
Disasteradio - Electric Blanket
Shona Laing - Resurrectio
SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding cover)
Stef Animal - God Rest Ye Weary Gentlemen
PHF - Marlboro Man
Mestar - Shut the Squizwot Factories Down
Motte - Heavenly Creature
Marlon Williams, Paul Kelly and the Dhungala Children's Choir - Tapu te Po (O Holy Night)
Cecil Turbine (dud) - Sell More
Dogfish - War Dunce (live)
Cowboy Machine - Talk With Your Body
Che Fu - Misty Frequencies
Breaks Co-Op - Question of Freedom
The Scavengers - Mysterex
The Demi Whores - Title is Untitled
Princess Chelsea - We're So Lost (Voom Cover)
Feyodor - The Intoxicating Entrapment of Emotional Attachment
Dillastrate, Black Comet and Laughton Kora - Tāwara Ana
The Nudge and Troy Kingi - He Orite
Echo Ohs - Alien
Womb - Here We Bend (To Smell The Dirt)
Shona Laing - Resurrection
T54 - Return of the Worm
Bailter Space - Splat
Ben Woods - Romancy
High Dependency Unit - Schallblute
The Great Unwashed - Neck Of The Woods
Pumice - Eye Bath
Crude - Bender
OPC - Save The Babe
SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Miss Leading - Blonde
Miss Leading Interview
Miss Leading - Self Help
Coco Solid - ABC
Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
Che Fu - Fade Away
Jaggers x Lines - I Tried
PHF - Night Drive
Pickle Darling - Rinse Spin Cycle/Nicholas Cage
Introverted Dancefloor - Even If You Try (Bromelain Col and Lonely Remix)
Womb - Feeling Like Helium (demo)
Cake Kitchen - Ballad of Oxford Circus
David Kilgour - Today is Gonna Be Mine
Connan and the Mockasins - Hey Chocolate
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - American Guilt
Yesses - Short Love
Kody Nielson - Moebius' Birthday
Fetus Productions - What's Going On?
The Golden Awesome - Autumn
Shocking Pinks - Alice
Ounce - Satan II
3Ds - Outer Space
Pumice - Eye Bath
SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Best Bets - Crystal Mausoleum
Coolies - Phony
Violet French - Pop Pop Pop
Mousey - The Bench
Rackets - Colgate Kid
Nevernudes - Grade F Meat
Princess Chelsea - Respect The Labourers
Pickle Darling - Torn (Ednaswap cover)
Fetus Productions - What's Going On
Mestar - Angels
Froyo ft. Clairo & Aso - Froyo
Womb - Is It Cold In The Water
The Clean - Corridor
High Dependency Unit - Schallblute
Gordons - Machine Song
Cowboy Machine - Nine Lives
Death and the Maiden - Waratah
Males - Heavy Going
Fazed on a Pony - Fish
Alec Bathgate - Your Heavy Dream Won't Fly
Dog Power - Come Back To Paris
PHF - Comms
PHF - White Cadillac
Erny Belle - Burning Heaven
Herriot Row - Lesser Stars
Violet Hirst - Lay With Me In Barns
Chris Knox - Friday In The Ground (Alec Bathgate cover)
Solo Ono - Rattlesnake
Clear Licorice - O²
@Peace - Hug Your Mum (Boycrush New Age-Spiritual Mix)
Phoebe Rings - Lazy Universe
SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
30/10/21
Halloween Special
Ghost Club (dud) - Ghost Club Theme
3Ds (dud) - Spooky
Goblin Mix - Travelling Grave
Toy Love - Bride of Frankenstein
Stef Animal (dud) - The Ghost
Stef Animal (dud) - Lost in the Woods
The Chills (dud) - The Male Monster From The Id
Planet of the Tapes - Fish (Clean cover)
I Drink Your Blood - The Black Widower
Haunted Love (dud) - Warewolf
Thomas Isbister - Ghost In A Car
Night Lunch (dud) - Scary Car
Space Bats, Attack! (dud) - 90s
Misty & the Slug - Skeleton Man
D. Thomas Herkes - I Kill (trailer)
PHF - Demo II
Mi-Sex - Ice Cold Dead
Alphabethead - Welcome To Central High
Kool Aid - Dead Me
Cowboy Machine- Nine Lives
The Renderers - A Touch of Evil
Marlin's Dreaming - Monster
Double Happys - Moss Monster
Timberjack - Come To The Sabbat
Pro-Drag - Ghost of the Woodville Straights
Na Noise - Bad Dreams
Mink - Little Green Monster
Snapper - Demon
Double Ya D - Wolf Fight Tonight
Teenwolf - Bloxxx War
Boss Christ - Wolfman Won't Die
SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
NZ Surf Special
The Tape Men - Diamond Planet
Dobermen - Crude Dudes with Attitude
King Loser - Surf Lost
Piha Rescue - Do The Bumblebee Twist!
The Clean - At The Bottom
Opawa 45s - The Dance of the Great Bungholio
Sharkbait - Serial Heartbreak Kid
The Side Effects - Papatuanuku
Hawaiian Maiden - I'll Fight You in the Carpark
Ritchie Venus - Sunrise
The Damned Evangelist - Laa Maldicion Del Lobo
The Wendys - Dero Dave
Boss Christ - Swamp Wolf
Hollow Grinders - Piha Death Rip
Max Merritt and the Meteors - Soft Surfie
Pro Drag - Ghost of the Woodville Straights
Echo Ohs - The Gnarl
Bozo - Swim Down
Ray Columbus and the Invaders - Ku Pow
The Bob Paris Combo - Dragstrip
Gray Bartlett - Surf Rider
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill - Rumble in the Jungle
The Burgers - Puto Diablo
Celia Mancini - Caps Torpedo
The Drab Doo-Riffs - Superpotencia Mi
Surfing USSR - Wipe Out
Na Noise - Bad Dreams
The Users - Arsefull Of Fist
October and the Eyes - Ramble
Don Kings - Jack The Ripper
Pro Drag - Hot Dog
The Admiral - Hangin' Around
The Shakin' Evil Hay Ride - Mary Lu
Gaytime - I'm Only 28 but I've Got Lots of Problems
Tigers of the Sea - From The Sky
Crude - Dinner and a Movie
Ounce - Electric Eye
SATURDAY 9TH OCTOBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Sheep Dog and Wolf - Glare
Sam Wave - Ocean Low
Connan Mockasin - Flipping Poles
Silicon - Buring Sugar
Hollie Smit ft. Raiza Biza - What About
Fanfickk - Feel Better
Carb on Carb - Be My Mirror
The Beths - Whatever
Repulsive Woman - Soft Borders
Indi - Demeter
Pesk - When The Heavies Come
The Golden Awesome - High Life
Fetus Productions - What's Going On?
Miss Leading - Woke
Casper Thomson - Doctrine
Princess Chelsea - Respect the Labourers
Girlboss - Body Con
I.E. Crazy - As It Stands
A.C. Freazy - Freemason Song
P.H.F ft. Emily Edrosa - I Was A Kid
Jonathan Bree - 69
Adelaide Cara - Radiant
The Clean - Platypus (live)
The Terminals - Uncoffined
Look Blue Go Purple - Circumspect Penelope
Mestar - Love Song
3Ds - Mamma Mia (Abba Cover)
Best Bets - It Happens Every Day
David Mitchell and Denise Roughan
SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
"Darkspace: A Fundraiser to Help Fill the Void" Special
Get the compilation here: https://chchdarkspace.bandcamp.com/
DVD Kings - You Wouldn't Steal a Quarry
Joe Sampson and Friends - Now We Are Nothing
Bad Sav - Stallone
Hex Waves - The Wait
Opawa 45s - The Dance of the Great Bungholio
Dark Matter - The Darkroom
Interview with Violet French
Kool Aid - Lumbo Run
Shaft - Downhill Racer (live)
King Loser - New Age Power
The Dark Beaks - In A Coalmine
TV2 - What Now
Polyester - Honey
Lucy Hunter - Tolouse (demo)
Tiny Pieces of Eight - Dreaming of Pluto
Tacoma Mould - Hobo
Minisnap - Hedge
Ryan Fisherman - Unsure
Shaun Malloch - Curiosity
The Waltham Home Organ Society - Rain
Bediquette - That's All
No Broadcast - No Broadcast
Martin Sagadin - November
Laura Lee Lovely - All The Time In The World
Delaney Davidson - You'll Never Walk Alone
SATURDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Song of a Young Country - NZ Folksongs Special
Neil Colquhoun - John Smith A.B
Tommy Wood - Soon May the Wellerman Come
Tamburlaine - Blood Red Roses
Barbie Colquhoun - Little Tommy Pinkerton
Barbie and Neil Colquhoun - Altered Days
Bruce Hall - Black Velvet Band
Barbie and Neil Colquhoun - Rise Out Your Bed
Phil Garland - Banks of the Waikato
Bill Taylor - Dugout in the True
Bill Taylor - The Mill
Jonathan and David Flaws - Song of the Digger
Dave Calder - Black Swans
Dave Skinner - As the Black Billy Boils
Dave Calder - Tuapeka Gold
Tamburlaine - Wakamarina
Tamburlaine - Murderers Rock
Rudy Sunde - McKenzie and his Dog
Barbie, Neil Megan and Simon - Te Kooti E Ha
Tommy and Margaret Wood - Rerenga's Wool
Marilyn Bennett - My Man's Gone
Neil Colquhoun - Talking Swag
Grawlixes - City Across The Bay
Barbie Colquhoun - The Sweater
Bruce Hall - Run For Your Life
Phil Garland - The Day The Pub Burned Down
Driving Creek - Cargo Workers
Marilyn Bennett - Railway Bill
Barbie and Neil Colquhoun - Down In The Brunner Mine
Bill Taylor - Hundred and Fifty-One Days
Dave Calder - Gutboard Blues
Don McGlashen - Toy Factory Fire
SATURDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Sulfate - There You Are!
Na Noise - Sun Stone Air
Scarlett Lashes - Culture and Wellbeing Committee
IE Crazy - Weird Weather
Amamelia - The F in FM stands for Flute (Eyeliner Remix)
DJ Oboe - School Hollandaise
Power Nap - Club Dinos
Borrowed CS - Jazz Clap
deepState - Verum MMXXI
N T Honey - High Tide
Dimmer - Case (acoustic)
Sin City - Things I Left Behind
Delaney Davidson - Movin On
Violet French - Flesh
Cowboy Machine - Tell Me Why
Connan Mockasin - Faking Jazz Together
TrinityRoots - The Dream
Breaks Co-Op - Question of Freedom
Milk - Sugar Glider
P.H.F - Saskatchewan
Shocking Pinks - Alice
Bang! Bang! Eche! - You're A Jerk
The Mint Chicks - Opium of the People
The Subliminals - Uh-Oh
Thomas Isbister - Amazing Brains
Dateline - Dumb For My Age
SATURDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into The Snat
Chris Knox & The Nothing - Those Great Big Puppy Eyes
The Gordons - Spik and Span
The Puddle - Southern Man
The Nudge vs. Troy Kingi - He Orite
Horn - Greedy Bitch
Alphabethead - Leather/Peddler
The Mint Chicks - The Perfect Machine
PHF - Sad and Blue
Ounce - Satan II
The Don Kings - Gypsy Grapple
The Hasselhoff Experiment - The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Tall Dwarfs cover)
Snapper - Gentle Hour
Womb - Feeling Like Helium (demo)
Stef Animal - Owl (Fowland MT-32)
Disasteradio - Electric Blanket
Sulfate - Crossing
Shona Laing - Resurrection
Gloria Vale - It Is Your Destiny
Shocking Pinks - Alice
Lips - Your Deodorant Doesn’t Work
Adelaide Cara - Paranoia
The Great Unwashed - Neck of the Woods
The Garbage and the Flowers - Love Comes Slowly
Yesses - Short Love
Toy Love - Squeeze
Split Enz - Shark Attack
Space Bats, Attack! - 90s
SATURDAY 14TH AUGUST 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Bressa Creeting Cake - Billy Two (Clean cover)
The Clean - Tally Ho
@Peace - Hug Your Mum
French For Rabbits - Ouija Board
Pesk - Tyranny
Tall Dwarfs - The Slide
Violet French - I Want The Sky To Be Crying
Ben Woods - Indulge
Thomas Isbister - Eggs
Joe Sampson - Neil Levene
Roy Irwin - The Comedian
Sheep Dog & Wolf - Perisephence
Carnivorous Plant Society - My Mum is Proud of Me
Rackets - Bed Sores
Chris Knox - Yesterday Was (Clean cover)
Psychosis - Hotel God Pigeon
Darcy Clay - And It Was Easy
Ed Gains - Shit Magnet
Mood Smiles - I Have You and You Have Me
Music Sucks - With Markel
Dan Madill - New England Drag (live)
The Nudge vs Troy Kingi - Ha Orite
Guardian Singles - Can't Stop Moving
Sheep - The Government Can't Take My Benny
Freddy Fudd Pucker - Black Honey
Phoebe Rings - Spissky
Grawlixes - City Across The Bay
Connan Mockasin - I'm The Man That Will Find You
SATURDAY 31ST JULY 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
SATURDAY 24TH JULY 2021NZ on Air's The Local w. Spencer
Unsanitary Napkin - Terf War
PHF - I Hate Myself
Chris Knox - The Woman Inside of Me
Death and the Maiden - Wisteria
Ov Pain - Excess and Expenditure
Night Lunch - Scary Car
T54 - Return of the Worm
Stefanimal - Owl
Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes
Salmonella Dub - Sprang It
The Terminals - Uncoffined
Ben Woods - Good 2 Be Sleeping
Jonathan Bree - Weird Harcore
Merk - HNYB
Fazerdaze - Take It Slow
Thomas Isbister - Eggs
Subliminals - Freedom Form
The Bats - Afternoon in Bed
Robert Scott - Harmonic Deluxe
Pin Group - Ambivalence
Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway
Pickle Darling - Bicycle Weather
Bored Housewives Club - Personfriend
The Trendees - Motorcycle (Makes Loud Noise)
King Loser - Surfarama
Tape Wolves - Taniwha
Connie Benson & Chris Heazelwood - Crazy Pan
Dobermen - Crude Dudes with Attitude
X-Ray Charles - One Lady Owner
Ben Dodd & His Organ - Heavy Fast (X-Ray Charles cover)
Trick Mammoth - Pinker Sea