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[24 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

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)!

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[19 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[7 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[19 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[15 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[17 Aug 2006 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[14 Dec 2005 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[19 Nov 2005 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[19 Nov 2005 | No Comment | ]

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…

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[30 Oct 2005 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[30 Oct 2005 | No Comment | ]

The Hiphocalypse Radio show is going global with 2 downloadable web-cast sessions available on the Hiphocalypse website www.hiphocalypse.co.nr as well as www.africasgateway.com. Hiphocalypse Shortcuts is a twenty-minute long downloadable MP3 which is produced to coincide with the Hiphocalypse show every Saturday night. Shortcuts is hosted by Hiphocalypse DJs Rob One and Mmabatho, and is designed to showcase the top tracks from each show. Shortcuts will include at least one track from the legendary Hiphocalypse Special or album premier of the night, as well as any exclusives and interviews that find their way onto the show. So if you want a piece of one of the top hip-hop radio shows in Africa, make sure you download Hiphocalypse Shortcuts, every Saturday night…

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[19 Oct 2005 | No Comment | ]

Nigerian-born, London-based JJC, frontman of Afropean hip-hop outfit JJC & 419 Squad and producer to UK R’n’B stars Jamelia, Liberty X, Big Brovaz and Lemar, looks at the rise and rise of African hip-hop in this four-part documentary, Afropop from Wednesday, 2 November 2005 on BBC 1Xtra, broadcast as part of the TXU programme, 2 – 4pm GMT…

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[29 Sep 2005 | No Comment | ]

XM Satellite Radio, the nation’s leading satellite radio service with more than 5 million subscribers, today announced GRAMMY(R)-nominated multi-platinum- selling artist Ludacris will host a weekly music show exclusively for XM. “Disturbing Tha Peace Presents Ludacris’ Open Mic” will feature music hand- selected by the artist, including songs from Ludacris’ vast personal music collection, as well as special guests and interviews with other artists. The show will debut in January 2006 on XM’s uncut hip-hop channel RAW (XM channel 66).

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[25 Sep 2005 | No Comment | ]

YFM, Gauteng’s leading youth music station, has partnered with the Go Open Source campaign, and Creative commons to launch the ‘Mad Half Hour Open Source Mixes’ competition. The competition is open to all YFM listeners, and will highlight awareness of both Creative Commons licensed music, and open source software…

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[21 Aug 2005 | No Comment | ]

RadioPalmwine.com™ is a public community radio program, arts and cultural web site. It’s also an international musical archive for Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora playing Afro-beat Fuji Gospel Highlife Juju and Makossa music live 24/7. RadioPalmwine.com™ also has an artist section and record promotion for new and upcoming artists where artists can upload their songs, sell CD’s T-shirts etc and where listeners can download new artist mp3. You can also make live request of songs in the playlist which will be played immediately in realtime. Check us out now on www.radiopalmwine.com