The reason this station exists. The block is reserved for tracks sent through the submissions form, nothing in it is bumped for a bigger name, and no artist can pay a way into it. Send us something that fits the station and this is where you will hear yourself on the radio.
Every song on this station is Australian.
Rock, country, hip hop, folk, soul, electronic and pop, playing 24 hours a day from Melbourne, with the dial tilted hard towards new and independent acts you have not heard yet.
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Radio Aussie
Home grown, all day, every day.
This station is not streaming yet. The schedule below is what is planned, and this player starts working the moment the stream goes live.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern. The stream runs 24 hours.
Wake Up AustralianBright, singable, home grown. The songs everyone already knows, mixed with the ones they are about to, at a volume the household can survive.
ScheduledThe Demo BinThe block set aside for music that comes in through the submissions form: unsigned, self released, mixed in a bedroom or recorded in a shed out the back. Nothing in it can be bought and nothing in it needs a label behind it. If a track fits the station, this is the block where it goes first.
ScheduledCoast to CoastA deliberate tour of the country: every state and territory, capital cities and regional towns, because a scene does not stop at the edge of the tram network.
ScheduledDirt RoadsAustralian country, folk, roots and everything that grew out of them, from pedal steel to a single voice and an acoustic guitar.
ScheduledHome TimeThe drive block. Bigger choruses, faster hands, and the loudest run a new Australian single gets in daylight, sequenced for a car that is not moving as fast as you would like.
ScheduledLoudGuitars, and the people who hit things behind them. Australian rock, punk, hardcore and metal, played at the volume the bands intended.
ScheduledAfter DarkAustralian hip hop, soul, RnB and electronic music, mixed long so it works for the room you are in rather than the clock on the wall.
ScheduledNight ShiftNo presenter, no links, just the deep end of the Australian catalogue: album tracks, instrumentals, the long slow builds and the songs that were never anybody's single. It runs until the sun comes back.
ScheduledProgrammes
Two hours built to cross the country rather than circle one postcode. Every state and territory gets played, regional acts get the same treatment as inner city ones, and the presenter says where each band is actually from.
Australian heavy music given a proper run: new singles, pub rock that never left, and the sort of album track that only makes sense when it follows the one before it. Requests welcome, apologies not offered.
Debut releases only. First singles, first EPs, first albums, from artists releasing music into the world for the first time. It is the least predictable programme on the station and that is entirely the point.
The slow end of the week. Australian songwriting at its quietest, with the stories behind the songs told properly instead of trimmed to fit a link.
Ways to listen
In your browserPress play anywhere on this site and you are in, live. No account, no app, no download, and nothing between you and the next Australian song.
On your phoneThe stream runs in a mobile browser and keeps going in the background, and the now playing line travels with it. When something you have never heard stops you halfway down the street, you can find out who it was before you forget.
On a smart speakerSet the stream up once and Australian music becomes the default sound of the kitchen, the shed or the studio, without anyone having to pick a playlist or argue about whose turn it is.
In the carThe stream goes through the car speakers the same way your own music does. Pair the phone the way you already do, press play once, and the drive is covered, with the now playing line naming whoever it was that just made you turn it up.
About
Radio Aussie plays Australian music and nothing else. Not a quota, not an hour on a Thursday night, not a token local track between imports. Every song, every hour, 24 hours a day, is home grown.
The second half of the policy matters just as much: the station leans towards new and independent artists. Plenty of stations will play an Australian act once it has already been proven somewhere else. We would rather be the place where a song gets its first spin, which means unsigned bands, self released singles, regional acts a long way from a capital city, and artists whose entire catalogue currently lives on one hard drive. Established Australian music still gets played, because the new stuff came from somewhere, but it does not get to crowd out the rest.
We cover the whole range, deliberately. Rock, country, folk, hip hop, soul, RnB, electronic, pop and punk, First Nations music from communities right across the country, the records made here in languages other than English, and the things happening at the edges of all of them. Australian music has never been one sound, and a station that plays only one of them is not really an Australian music station, it is a genre station wearing a flag.
Australian, for our purposes, means the artist is based here or is an Australian working overseas. Where a record was mastered does not decide it. If you are unsure whether you qualify, send it anyway and we will listen.
Artists never pay to be played. There is no fee for submission, no fee for rotation, and no arrangement in which money moves a song up the list. The submissions form goes to the people who build the playlists, and every track sent to us will be listened to by a person.
Radio Aussie is owned and operated by SUKH SANDHU PTY LTD (ACN 679 292 392, ABN 49 679 292 392), an independent online broadcaster based in Melbourne, Australia. The schedule runs to Australian Eastern time.
Questions
How do I get my music played on Radio Aussie?
Use the submissions form on the site and send a link to the track along with where you are based and anything you want the presenter to know. A person will listen to everything that comes in. If it fits the station you will hear it, and we will tell you when it goes into rotation.
Does it cost anything to submit music, or to be played?
No, and it never will. There is no submission fee, no rotation fee and no paid placement of any kind. Nothing an artist pays us can move a song onto the playlist, because the moment that becomes possible the station stops being worth listening to.
What counts as Australian?
The artist is based in Australia, or is an Australian working overseas. We are not fussed about where a track was recorded, mixed or released, and we treat a band from a regional town exactly the way we treat one from a capital city. If you are genuinely unsure, send it through and we will make the call.
Do you only play unsigned and brand new artists?
The bias is towards new and independent acts, but the station is not limited to them. Established Australian music runs across the schedule too, particularly in the drive and overnight blocks. What we will not do is fill the day with the same familiar handful of songs and call it an Australian music station.