xradiostage.com is an interactive fast growing online web radio site, where you can listen to great undiscovered music from all over the globe. (and it is all for free)!

Sounds of Africa and Naija Top Ten are two separate radio programmes on UNILAG 103.1 FM in Lagos, Nigeria. The station is the first and only university radio station in Nigeria at the moment, owned by University of Lagos. It is being received loud and clear by 10 million radio listeners in Lagos, Nigeria.

To kick off this new year, also known as the eleventh year in the life of Africanhiphop.com, we are back with an extra long show from the headquarters. The presenting team of Drew & Juma4 is expanded with two new members who already contributed extensively to the African hip hop stable: GMB and dj 360.

The oldest Community Station in South Africa, Cape Town’s Bush Radio, features the two meanest Hip Hop shows in the area. Listen to Headwarmaz every Friday between 10 pm and 1 am. Debate around the art form, freestyling, interviews and banging Hip Hop – lot of it local! On Saturday afternoons, between 2 and 3 pm, Welfare State of Mind, an international Hip Hop show featuring music from New Zealand to South America and South Africa to Scandinavia. Listen to the shows on 89.5 in Cape Town and www.bushradio.co.za worldwide. Send your music, feedback or contact the producers through the MySpace sites www.myspace.com/headwarmaz and www.myspace.com/welfarestateofmind.

Ghetto Radio will start in April 2007 in Nairobi. The radio station is a Dutch initiative for, by and with young African people. Radio is the medium of the ghettos and to inform the Western audience a documentary about rappers from the slums of the Kenyan capital is made. The title is Noise is my voice. Thursday the 14th of September will be the official start of Ghetto Radio and will be the presentation of the documentary in Amsterdam.

Singer songwriter and street activist Brown has secured his own bi-weekly radio show, “Sidewalk Talk With Brown”, every alternate Wednesday at 21h30 on CCFM Radio 107.5. Co-hosted by Lynwen & Brown, the show kicks off on Wednesday, 23 August 2006, and focuses on South Africa’s youth, their challenges, the dangers they face and finding their place in the New South Africa.

Today marks the debut of StreetandIndustry.com, the brand new website that takes the general public, entertainment, business and cultural media deep inside the underexplored world of Urban music, and Black talk radio. Focusing on Hip-Hop and R&B record labels, Urban music and Black talk radio format stations – on AM, FM and satellite radio – StreetandIndustry.com breaks news heard first and only on the streets, and Wall Street; analyzes radio ratings, record sales and spins; and removes the veil that hides who brokers power, what’s next in popular demand, and how business models and politics collide in the world of music and broadcasting.

If you haven’t had the chance to catch them on Bay FM (Port Elizabeth) on Sunday afternoon’s from 3pm I’d urge you to check out the radio show if you in the area or online via the live streaming facility. We’ve been receiving a lot of positive feedback from this particular radio show especially w.r.t. their emphasis in giving local artists exposure. Click here to view the newspaper article.

WorldSpace, Inc., (NASDAQ:WRSP), one of the world leaders in satellite-based digital radio services, today announced that it has officially launched Flava, the first 24- hour, commercial-free channel delivering the hottest globally focused hip hop and urban music, entertainment and top celebrity news on the planet. Available to WorldSpace subscribers at no additional cost, Flava is the first satellite-radio channel of its kind to celebrate hip hop’s universal appeal while bringing the latest in U.S. hits to international hip hop and urban music lovers around the world…

Be sure to catch J-Bux and Rush every Sunday between 15:00 pm and 18:00 pm South African Time on Bay FM (Port Elizabeth) as they showcase the best in local and global Hip Hop. The show also features live telephonic interviews and next week they will be having an exclusive interview with Crazy Legs.  For those who do not live in the Port Elizabeth area you can catch the show live on the net by visting www.bayfm.co.za.