Gen X songs, Raglan weather, real-life radio.
Ms Gen X mixes two-song music sets with casual stories, live studio mishaps, and the odd weather check from Raglan and Whangaroa. Its sweet spot is Gen X memory: 80s icons, movie jams, artist facts, rugby league song moments, and songs with a few good facts attached.
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Ms Gen X is a loose, affectionate music-and-community show shaped by Raglan radio habits and Gen X memory. It is built around records, soundtracks, artist facts, and the kind of local detail that would be lost in a more polished programme. The show often opens with direct warmth for Whangaroa, Raglan and beyond. Then life walks in. A late arrival can become a laundromat story. A microphone problem can become part of the morning. A planned interview can turn into a comic negotiation with landline cables, speakers, and whatever the studio setup will allow. The music is the anchor, but not in a museum-piece way. 2 for Tuesday episodes move through movie jams, 80s icons, synth pop, stadium rock, and songs attached to memory rather than strict genre lanes. The presence is casual and associative, following a thought from Grease casting trivia to Olivia Newton-John, from The Big Chill to Kevin Costner, or from Tina Turner to rugby league’s attempt to soften its public image. Facts arrive in clusters. Some are chart facts. Some are film facts. Some are the sort of remembered cultural footnotes that make an old song feel newly alive. Friday morning episodes widen the frame. They bring in local interviews, community recycling work, collections teams, film festival chatter, a diabetes project, weather warnings, and everyday goodwill. The show can be funny without trying too hard. It can also turn sincere quickly, especially around community work, health, volunteering, and fairness. Its best moments feel less like segments than conversations overheard in a working local station. The pacing is leisurely, but not empty. There is always another song, errand, name, moon phase, weather change, or memory tugging the show forward. It suits people who like music radio with scuffed edges, real place names, and a voice that does not hide the machinery of being live. Ms Gen X stands apart because its nostalgia is practical and present-tense. The old songs are not escape routes. They are ways to talk about families, films, sport, work, town life, and the small things that keep a community in motion.
Made for: For listeners who like Gen X music mixes with human texture: soundtrack memories, artist backstories, local notices, and local-radio warmth. It especially suits people who prefer relaxed, lived-in broadcasting over tightly packaged music commentary.
What sets it apart: Ms Gen X folds music trivia into the ordinary business of a local day, from laundry and studio troubleshooting to recycling interviews and blood moon reminders. The result feels specific to Raglan and Whangaroa rather than interchangeable playlist radio.
Nau mai, haere mai! Join me for a two for Tuesday afternoon. I'll jam anything and everything from the 60's into the new millennium - funk, techno, reggae, grunge, rock, disco...whatever I've enjoyed on my generation X journey. I'll throw in a few fun facts about the artists we're listening to, and welcome any interesting feedback or fun facts you have about them too. Nga mihi nui, Ms Gen X.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ms Gen X connects familiar songs to film stories, sporting culture, local history and an unmistakably personal sense of taste.
Ms Gen X turns themed music radio into a running conversation, pairing songs with personal reactions and the stories attached to them. Movie-focused editions move through Grease, The Big Chill and Kevin Costner's cut role, while other shows connect Tina Turner to rugby league or…
Ms Gen X can turn a laundromat delay into your next Grease rabbit hole.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm Friday broadcast where weather talk gives way to a grounded conversation about recycling and local grit.
This Friday morning program opens with greetings to Whangaroa, Raglan, and beyond, then moves into weather talk and the unsettled conditions left behind by heavy rain.
Grease trivia and easy radio ramble make this Tuesday's movie-jams episode feel pleasantly homemade.
Ms Gen X uses this Tuesday as another pass through movie-jam digging, with soundtrack trivia sitting beside the ordinary business of being late, doing washing, and getting the studio going.
Loose, friendly soundtrack chat with film trivia and an easy, affectionate tone.
The segment settles into a warm, rambling stretch of movie soundtrack memories, with the host sounding glad to be back after a week away. It has the feel of live radio in the best way: local greetings, a quick sound check, a bit of housekeeping, then a long run of soundtrack…
A blood-moon show that folds Tina Turner and rugby league into a warm Tuesday ramble.
The piece gives Ms Gen X a loose, easy rhythm, turning a Tuesday afternoon into a warm lead-up to the year’s only total lunar eclipse. It keeps the practical moonwatching notes for Raglan in view, then wanders through Tina Turner, rugby league, and family reminiscence without…
A warm community radio morning show that mixes local welcome, music history, space trivia, and a loose live feel.
Ms Gen X Morning Show 2-3 feels like a warm Raglan Radio wake-up, shaped by International Women's Day week and carried by a calm, unhurried rhythm.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
Friday the 17th of April opens wet and local.
The washing was still winning.
Movie jams are back.
A radio host introduces a themed episode playing two songs from each movie soundtrack.
A radio show host plays 80s music, focusing on Nick Kershaw, and shares trivia about his chart success and music video.
A Gen X host shares personal anecdotes and trivia about musicians Joni Mitchell and Dionne Warwick, including family connections and humanitarian work.
The host discusses preparing for a radio interview about a diabetes project and shares thoughts on a recent interview with Phil McCabe.
Ms Gen X opens with a warm hello to listeners in Raglan, Whangaroa, and beyond.
Raglan Radio starts early, with the host clearing space for a 9am International Women's Day podcast series while still giving Whaingaroa Raglan and beyond a proper morning hello.
Ms Gen X hosts a 'Two for Tuesday' Kiwi music show on Raglan Community Radio, playing songs by the Topp Twins, Sir Dave Dobbin, Anika Moa, Split Enz, Brooke Fraser, Dee Dee Smash, Sharon O'Neill and Nesian Mystic.
Host interviews the Barleyshakes about their origins and promotes their upcoming acoustic show at the Old School Arts Centre.
A radio segment playing iconic New Zealand bands for a Two for Tuesday feature.
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