29/08/2025
This is what 150 Tasmanian releases looks like.
150 quality albums and singles by Tasmanian artists.
Did you know that less than 5% of the pictured releases have been played on our national broadcaster, despite them having three active radio stations and a whole arm dedicated to unsigned and "undiscovered" music?
Meanwhile, 100% of these have been played on Definitely No Relation, right here in Launceston, on your local community radio station, City Park Radio.
This image is messy, but you can't post our talent into a neat box.
It has to be messy.
If you're talking Tasmanian music, you're talking punk, trip-hop, pop, death metal, EDM, indie folk, rap, experimental, rock and roll, funk, post-punk, atmospheric black metal, electronica, psych-rock, comedy, ambient, country, shoegaze, hip-hop, grindcore, chiptune, and even j-pop; again, all pictured here.
Tasmanian musicians need resources like City Park Radio.
Community radio is integral to our music scene here in this beautiful state. It warms my entire life to receive messages from bands being so excited about having their music played on the radio for the first time; sometimes the fourth, fifth, even tenth times. In this age of technology, of the foreboding and misguided monopoly on music distribution - of streaming - it is still a dream, a bucket list item for some, to get FM radio airplay. I remember being played on the radio for the first time, I just about cried. It is an amazing feeling to both play and be played.
You all deserve more, though. I want CPR to be your springboard, launching you through your creative careers.
It is my personal aim to see 100% of these releases played on other programs on City Park Radio, ensure 100% of these get played on other community stations around the state, and even push as much of it as I can toward that aforementioned national broadcaster, just to see what sticks.
That's all I want for you all. I want you to be heard, no matter what you're making. You deserve that, and I'm going to make sure you good and damn well get it, no matter what.
And that is what community radio is about; our community. You. Your voices.
Love yas.
