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03.09.25

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A Conversation with Midori Goto on Muscle Memory

07.08.25

Muscle Memory is a gentle journey, with each piece a tactile manifestation of moments and places that have been passed through.

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Introducing Soundwaves

29.05.25

A new sound pedagogy series by fbi.radio

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Playing the blues: An ecosystem of underground hip-hop in 'Australia' - Part 3

19.02.25

“It has morphed into this chimerical, mongrel thing...It speaks to this feeling of being an outsider. Of the rest of your immediate society looking down their nose on you. And there comes a point where you go f**k it. I'm not going to be ashamed about it anymore."

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Playing the blues: An ecosystem of underground hip-hop in 'Australia' - Part 2

18.02.25

"And then we'd get up on stage and it'd just be like “who the f**k are these guys? What the f**k is this music?” People just staring at us."

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Playing the blues: An ecosystem of underground hip-hop in 'Australia' - Part 1

17.02.25

"The weirdo outskirts of first and second gen migrants…Working class. Maybe a bit mentally ill. Maybe a bit nerdy. Not very tough."

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fbi.radio's Most Played Songs of 2024

23.12.24

The top 100 most played songs on fbi.radio in 2024!!

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Snack Time: 4 stalls you should check out at Powerhouse Lane

11.10.24

Snack Time's Shiv and Ann sit down with 4 chefs from Powerhouse Lane.

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A "second phase of life" for Cymande

07.02.24

51 years after their first release, Cymande is touring Australia for the first time ever. Hannah Galvin sat down with the group on Solstice to discuss their legacy and ongoing impact as one of Britain’s greatest but perhaps most underground funk bands.

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Watermelon JUICE, a cypher for Palestine

29.01.24

Three artists come together live on Juice with Nazty Gurl for a powerful display of solidarity.

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Mess Around – Daisypicker

12.09.25

As if the band spilled their guts onto a platter, carefully arranged them and then presented it to me.

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Ŋurru Wäŋa – Hand To Earth

05.09.25

Swelling sea of sound, a gentle veil of ambient and glowing orchestral light.

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The Passionate Ones – Nourished By Time

29.08.25

The Passionate Ones slashes through the clouds, sky still dark but heart now more enriched and determined.

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Baby – Dijon

22.08.25

Through corridors of burning passion, walls are adorned with twangy metallic guitar and industrious, glitchy textures; with vines of rich gospel-esque ballads, nostalgic RnB and country cadences.

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BLACK STAR – Amaarae

16.08.25

Your clothes are sweated through, and the person next to you has the remnants of your lip liner on their face, along with an irresistible look that yearns for more kinetic chemistry.

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I Love My Computer – Ninajirachi

08.08.25

I Love My Computer comes from a place of genuine love and passion for electronic dance music. Not only in all of the forms it has taken over the last couple decades, but with a determination to keep it evolving.

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mycriesfallondeafears – mycriesfallondeafears

01.08.25

Intricate and thrashy guitar parts, sincerity, and threats to the integrity of the Goodspace floorboards.

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Edits – Chuquimamani-Condori

25.07.25

“i think i'll start a new life” / “godspeed to us”

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Oque as Mulheres Querem – d.silvestre

18.07.25

A string of lethal mp3s, designed to dispense red signal peaking wavelengths on busted CDJs.

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NAPALM-Muzik – Mona Mule

11.07.25

NAPALM-Muzik is like tuning a radio, surfing channels, walking through an arcade, the sounds that seep through the cracks in the wall when you walk past rehearsal rooms.

Independent Artist of the Week

S.C.U.M

18.09.25

A bad omen of primordial darkness

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Aarti Jadu

11.09.25

“Every single pure part of us wants to resonate with the beauty and the devotion that someone else wants to give. That communal experience was so normal for me and that’s where my voice was found. I knew that’s how I could move people.”

Independent Artist of the Week