A Sonic Youth

Oliver plays favourites from Boston-based neo-psych/shoegaze band Magic Shoppe. Plus, music from two of the greatest and most influential alternative rock bands. One of whom is gearing up to release their next album. The other has just announced a bunch of exciting New Zealand live dates. Tracklist: 1. Magic Shoppe - Blowup 2. Magic Shoppe - Trip Inside This House 3. Magic Shoppe - Something's Wro...

Israel Nash's 'Rain Plans' is one of Oliver's favourite albums, a perfect blend of folky Americana and psych rock. Recently, we received a deluxe reissue featuring demos and cut tracks, and it lives up to the original. Then, new music from This Is Lorelei, and tracks from Bristol-based punk-rockers Langkamer and their latest album 'No'. Tracklist: 1. Israel Nash - Who in Time 2. Israel Nash - Wich...

Oliver looks at EIGHT indie new releases. We start with NZ's Office Dog, playing tracks from their new LP 'Prime Corner'. Also, Canadian neo-psych band Elephant Stone, Aussie indie from Julia Jacklin, Dutch indie rock from Pip Blom, and another great new song from Wild Pink. Then two new bands, one from Brighton, one from Montana, and their awesome sounding new indie rock releases. Tracklist: 1. O...

Some 243 episodes later, Oliver looks back at the album that started it all! It's Nada Surf's punky 1996 debut 'High/Low' on its 30th birthday. Led by the iconic 'Popular', this is an album which Oliver thinks strikes a middle ground between the brands of noise rock heard from Pixies and Husker Du. Plus, a tribute to one of the most iconic neo-psych songs, released on the same day as 'High/Low' in...

Oliver plays tracks from his favourite neo-psych album on its tenth birthday, Psychic Ills' 'Inner Journey Out'. Plus, loud indie rock from Ty Segall and Jackal Onassis. Then, a look at The Minus 5, including a cover of a Neil Young and Crazy Horse classic. Tracklist: Psychic Ills - I Don't Mind Psychic Ills - Baby Ty Segall - Black Paint Jackal Onassis - Runty Little Puppy The Minus 5 - Let the R...

Oliver checks out 'Philadelphia's been good to me', the new record from one of his favourite indie artists, Kurt Vile. Oliver reckons it's Kurt's best since his golden period in the early 2010s. Tune in to hear favourites from another hazed-out classic from Philly's constant hitmaker. Also, favourites from the now10-year old tribute album 'Day of the Dead'. It features legendary indie rock artists...

Oliver checks out a host of the best new indie rock singles. There's the disortion-drenched Americana indie of Wild Pink, surfy indie from Surf Trash, and jangly psych-rock from levitation room. Plus, new music from NZ's Office Dog and two songs from 'Piper Oz the Hound', an album by folk-rock oddity Art Lown. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This show is part of the Free FM 89.0...

Oliver celebrates New Zealand Music Month with a collection of his favourite alt-rock tracks from Aotearoa. Including a classic 'genre forerunner' from The Clean and two great slices of guitar led indie from bands on Christchurch's Melted Ice Cream label. Then, a track from one of Hamilton's leading bands and a modern release from an 80s Flying Nun group. Tracklist: 1. The Clean - Point That Thing...

Oliver looks at another spaced-out indie gem from Kurt Vile's upcoming record. Also, new music from U.S. shoegazers The Asteroid No.4. Then, a song from U.K. post-punkers Cola's new record 'Cost of Living Adjustment'. Tracklist: 1. Kurt Vile - Fo Sho 2. Kurt Vile - Zoom 97 3. The Asteroid No.4 - Protostar 4. The Asteroid No.4 - Wicked Wire 5. The Asteroid No.4 - Shadowed 6. Cola - Hedgesitting Fol...

Oliver looks at 'I'm People', the great new album of sunny Americana from Hiss Golden Messenger. Also, Oliver's favourite Neil Young album 20 years after its release. 'Living with War' was a fiesty anti-war and anti-bush protest record, backed up by plenty of that inconic Neil Young guitar noise. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This show is part of the Free FM 89.0 YOUTH ZONE. Ma...

Oliver looks at the new record from Californian psych rock and alt-folk musician Tim Presley's project White Fence. Also, a look at one of the great albums by alt-country group The Jayhawks ten years after its release. Plus, a taste of Oliver's Free FM 'De-Tour Du Jour', an hour long music show tangential to the usual sounds heard on A Sonic Youth. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook....

Oliver checks out the newly reissued early Pavement release 'Perfect Sound Forever'. It's Pavement at their most abrasively rock 'n' roll. Plus, a great new cover by Deer Tick and a live performance of a favourite from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Finally, a look at the super deluxe reissue of This Is Lorelei's enduringly brilliant 'Box for Buddy, Box for Star'. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Ins...

UK-based alt-country band Brown Horse released Oliver's favourite album of 2025. Now they're back with 'Total Dive', the group's third LP. Oliver checks out what is another great record. It evolves the Americana sound of Jason Molina, Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, and places the band firmly among contemporaries Wednesday and MJ Lenderman. Plus, Waxahatchee's cover of a favourite from This is Lorelei's a...

Oliver checks out the much anticipated new single from the upcoming Kurt Vile album 'Philadelphia's Been Good To Me'. Also, favourites from 'Waking on A Pretty Daze' on its 13th birthday. Then, covers of favourites by Father John Misty, Songs: Ohia and Bruce Springsteen. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This show is part of the Free FM 89.0 YOUTH ZONE. Made with support of NZ on A...

Oliver checks out 'Ricochet', the highly anticpated third record from Snail Mail. Their early releases are some of Oliver's favourite modern indie rock albums, so what does he think of the latest batch? Plus, a new single from the upcoming record 'I'm People' from North Carolina's Hiss Golden Messenger, and a track from Courtney Barnett's new album. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook...

Oliver plays up and coming alt-country artist Brennan Wedl, including a great new cover also featuring Waxahatchee. Then, a track from Courtney Barnett's new album and the next single from Canadian post-punkers Cola. Closing off is Drive-By Truckers with one of the great rock 'n' roll tribute songs, 30-years after the death of its subject matter, musician Gregory 'Dean' Smalley. Follow @asonicyout...

Oliver looks at some of his favourite songs about sport. Including two great tracks about 🏏cricket, one detailing the career of the greatest to ever play, and another a Flying Nun influenced rocker about an iconic NZ test win. Also, Drive-By Truckers telling a Southern story about 🏎️ motor racing and the supergroup ⚾ The Baseball Project. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This sh...

Oliver looks at the fascinating story of Saharan desert blues collective Tinariwen, including playing a track from their new album and one from their back catalog featuring Kurt Vile and Matt Sweeney. Also, favourites from the predicted setlist when The Brian Jonestown Massacre play in NZ next week. Then, a look at legendary hardcore group Hüsker Dü's 'Candy Apple Grey' on its 40th birthday. Follo...

Oliver checks out a favourite indie rock album on it's tenth birthday, Nada Surf's 'You Know Who You Are'. It's an album he thinks finds a perfect middle ground between the band's grungy early sound and their more pop-based indie sound. Then, a look at a reissue of the first studio release by Americana legend Jason Molina's band Magnolia Electric Co.. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebo...

Modern indie rock figureheads Snail Mail are gearing up to release a highly anticipated new album. Oliver checks out the latest pre-release single 'My Maker', and plays favourites from the iconic 2018 record 'Lush'. Then, another great new single from the upcoming Brown Horse record, this one with some shoegaze influences, and a look at Canadian post-punk group Cola. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on...

Oliver checks out alt/americana group Hiss Golden Messenger, including a brilliant new single from a recently announced album. Plus, Philly punk rockers Remember Sports' pre-release single 'Across The Line' from their new album 'The Refrigerator' was one of Oliver's tracks of 2025. Now the full album has been released. Oliver checks out another favourite from it and plays a favourite piece of 'ind...

Oliver checks out Canadian/Belgian neo-psych band GHOSTWOMAN, a brilliant group that he admits he's been late to the party on. Then, some indie rock 'sonic coincidences', great tracks with some uncanny sonic brothers, which means they're great tracks too. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This show is part of the Free FM 89.0 YOUTH ZONE. Made with support of NZ on Air.

Oliver checks out his favourite album across all of Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus' projects, his 2001 debut 'Stephen Malkmus' 25 years after it was released. It's an album which carries a strong sonic ancestry from Pavement, but also sees Malkmus experimenting with more instrumentation and involving folk and Americana sounds. Plus, a look at favourites from the 'Psych Box' compilation by two l...

U.K Americana group Brown Horse released Oliver's record of the year in 2025, and now they're back already with the first single 'Twisters' from their next project 'Total Dive'. Oliver plays favourites from 'All The Right Weaknesses' and then checks out the new single. Plus, pre-release singles from the much-anticipated new albums from Snail Mail and Courtney Barnett, then a new song from Cut Worm...

The new collaboration record 'Destination Heaven' by American alt rockers Euphoria Again & Dogwood Tales. Plus, a lively garage rocker from 90s Japanese alt rock legends Yura Yura Teikoku and a beautiful cover by MJ Lenderman performed live and solo at the Chateau Marmont. Follow @asonicyouthpodcast on Insta and Facebook. This show is part of the Free FM 89.0 YOUTH ZONE. Made with support of NZ on...