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Radio Festival Daily Prize Winners

Mon 15 May 2023 to Sun 28 May 2023

PBS News

Join or renew your PBS Membership between May 15 and 28 to be in the draw for a daily prize pack.

Top Tracks of the Week

Mon 15 May 2023 to Sun 21 May 2023

Feature Sounds

Check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week! Our soundtrack while we are packing memberships and prize packs for this year's Radio Festival from May 15 - 28!

Check out the exclusive live performance by neo-bush balladeer Watty Thompson for PBS Studio 5 Live! Join Watty and explore themes of inward and outward love, togetherness, and a desire to strive and live beyond the material.

Watch Watty Thompson perform 'Jenny' live in Studio 5:

Brown Spirits - Solitary Transmissions

Mon 8 May 2023 to Sun 14 May 2023

Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Solitary Transmissions by Brown Spirits, the local trio inspired by 1970s krautrock, psych, free-jazz and deep funk.

Vale Broderick Smith

Thu 4 May 2023

PBS News

PBS is saddened to learn of the passing of Broderick Smith earlier this week.

Radio Festival 2023 Major Prize Winners Announced

Mon 1 May 2023 to Fri 30 Jun 2023

PBS News

The 2023 Radio Festival Major Prize winners are:

Alfa Mist - Variables

Mon 1 May 2023 to Sun 7 May 2023

Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Variables by Alfa Mist, the highly anticipated new album and second release via Anti-. The East London artist, producer and label founder achieves his most fully-realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation.

El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game

Mon 24 Apr 2023 to Sun 30 Apr 2023

Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Glorious Game by El Michels Affair & Black Thought, out via Big Crown Records. On it, Michels provides his bottom-heavy, soul-tinged production for Black Thought who gives us some of the more personal and transparent verses we've ever heard from him.