As far as ones to watch for 2023 I give you Nuha Ruby Ra.

I closed out my 2022 Music Discovery shows on Soho Radio with her as my live guest. Last year Nuha had an incredible year of support slots touring with the likes of Warmduscher, Wu Lu, Yard Act and more. In our conversation we get into how going to art school helped her music-making process, her early band experiences with Arrows of Love, what music she consumed in her early and teenage years, the making of her new EP Machine Like Me which is due out in March 2023 and about never being boxed in. She's the coolest and I loved chatting to her.

Listen back to past shows at my Mixcloud. The latest shows featured Cubicolor, All Them Witches, Jacana People and Elkka. Watch the videos with previous guests Warmduscher, Sofia Kourtesis, Wet Leg, Plastic Mermaids, Falle Nioke, Joel Culpepper and more over on my You Tube channel.

I'll be back on air for January's programme on Tuesday 17th January from Midday-2pm on www.sohoradiolondon.com

Hey guys. So this month on Music Discovery on Soho Radio Cubicolor return with their third studio album on Anjunadeep Records, titled Sometime Not Now. During the week of release Tim Digby-Bell, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the British-Dutch trio popped by the studio in Soho to chat all about the new album. A previous guest on the show around their second effort Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night we talked about the time in between, the dreaded Covid times, revisiting their previously scrapped album, getting Richard Spaven to add some hypnotic drums and getting back out live.

Watch the interview below... or listen to the programme below that.

Next month on 20th December I have live guest Nuha Ruby Ra.

Elkka returned with a phenomenal new single titled I Just Want To Love You. I've loved her music for the past few years since I became aware of her when Foundation FM started and she and I were both doing shows on there. Her output has been consistently excellent and this summer she's taken the festival circuit by storm as well. It samples the legendary artist John Martyn and there was actually a lovely story as to how they were able to secure the rights to his widow's favourite song. She checked in with me on Music Discovery on Soho Radio via voice note to explain the origins of this beautiful take on love. 

Listen to the show... the Elkka feature is at 36 minutes in... 

While All Them Witches were on their UK tour I brought singer and bassist Charles Michael Parks Jr and drummer Robby Staebler into The Great Frog in Soho to have a look around and record an interview for my Music Discovery programme on Soho Radio. Fun fact, I gave the band their first national UK radio play ever when I was a DJ on XFM around eight years ago and I've been a champion of their music ever since. Quite honestly, everyone I've told about them has gone on to love them! This time around their visit to London included playing a smasher of a show at Electric Ballroom in Camden and the band is no stranger to sold out tours here previously playing the Roundhouse, Koko, Scala and The Lexington. Here, Parks and Robby discuss everything from waiting for two years to tour their last studio album Nothing As The Ideal, snake wrangling, Prince's telephone habits, the Baker's Dozen project for which they've been releasing a track a month and what's next for ATW. Enjoy!

Presented and edited by Georgie Rogers
Filmed by James Garside
With special thanks to All Them Witches and The Great Frog.

Music tracks: Silver To Rust and L'hotel Serein by All Them Witches

In my latest Music Discovery programme on Soho Radio I had the brilliant Joy Anonymous join me in the studio for chats with Henry and Louis. We spoke about their music fast rising out of the global pandemic lockdowns, album number two, their friendship and collaborations with Fred Again, FaceSoul,  tour plans and we shared some Iceland anecdotes and a mutual appreciation of Celine Dion.

Listen back to past shows... https://www.mixcloud.com/GeorgieRogers/stream/ Meanwhile over on my You Tube channel you can watch videos with previous guests Warmduscher, Sofia Kourtesis, Wet Leg, Plastic Mermaids, Julia-Sophie, Falle Nioke, Joel Culpepper, Jacana People, All Them Witches and more. Hit subscribe while you are there if you like :)

For my latest Soho Radio #musicdiscovery show I had the London producer Hagan check in via voicenotes to talk about his upcoming debut studio album. He’s an artist and producer I’ve followed for a while now and we met a few years back when he came into the studio on my Foundation Fm show. Well, he’s back with new tracks Pray For Me and Sise Ntweni from the upcoming project and here he is discussing those. Cheers Brendan for the update, can’t wait for the album ✨✨✨

Listen below to the whole show which also featured live studio guests Henry and Louis from Joy Anonymous.

For this month's Music Discovery programme on Soho Radio I welcomed Aaron and Rob of Jacana People into the studio for chats as they were about to release their Myna Cycles collaborative EP with the very talented composer and pianist Neil Cowley.

The music of electronic duo Jacana People was first brought to my attention during the global pandemic lockdowns so it was great to finally get together face to face to find out about working with Neil, live plans and next Jacana projects in the works. Watch the video below and/or listen to the full programme.

Tune in to my next Soho Radio show = Tuesday 30th August 2022 between Midday and 2pm with live guests Joy Anonymous. Going to be a good one!

For my latest Music Discovery programme on Soho Radio I had the absolute pleasure of being joined by Clams Baker frontman of the band Warmduscher.

They were quite literally FRESH off tour wrapping a massive UK run in Brighton the night before off the back of their fourth studio album At The Hotspot, out the week before.

Warmduscher are one of the most exciting bands around right now, evident at their massive smasher of a sold-out Kentish Town Forum show on the recent tour. Here we hear all about inspiration for the new record, switching up the label, look and producers working this time with Al Doyle and Joe Goddard from Hot Chip. The band are off to Europe next and then have a summer of festivals including Glastonbury's Park Stage in June.

Listen to the show below (second hour for the action) and watch the video of us in the studio.

GEORGIE ROGERS' MUSIC DISCOVERY TRACKLISTING APRIL 2022

FLOATING POINTS - VOCODER
STEVE MONITE - THINGS FALL APART
HIATUS KAIYOTE - GET SUN (GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW REMIX)
NUHA RUBY RA - MY VOICE
WET LEG - I DON'T WANNA GO OUT
POLICA - ALIVE
ORCHESTRE MASSAKO - BOUNGOUMOUNE (FEAT. MACK-JOSS)
SHANE COOPER & MABUTA - FINISH THE SUN
IBEYI - LAVENDER & RED ROSES FEAT. JORJA SMITH
JASPER TYGNER - BLUSH
BARRY CAN'T SWIM FEAT. TAITE IMOGEN - GOD IS THE SPACE BETWEEN US
KAYLA PAINTER - BALLOONS IN THE ARCADE
LYKKE LI - NO HOTEL
ALDOUS HARDING - FEVER
FRANC MOODY - MASS APPEAL
ALL THEM WITCHES - SILVER TO RUST
WARMDUSCHER LIVE STUDIO INTERVIEW
WARMDUSCHER - WILD FLOWERS
WARMDUSCHER - TWITCHIN IN THE KITCHEN
WARMDUSCHER - BABY TOE JOE
WARMDUSCHER - GREASIN' UP JESUS 

Julia-Sophie is a french-electronic artist based in Oxford that I connected with in the first pandemic lockdown and instantly fell in love with her music. She's back with a brand new EP, her third titled It Feels Like Thunder and it marks the first in a trilogy of work which she plans to share throughout the rest of the year. The EP came out recently on Anna Prior of Metronomy fame's Beat Palace Records. Here we chat all about it and what's next.... Listen to the programme from Soho Radio or watch our catch up over Zoom.

Joining me live in the studio recently was the pianist and composer James Heather. He's back with his second studio album Invisible Forces out on April 22nd on Ahead Of Our Time records. For this album the artists re-invested in his home studio and played a refurbished Bosendorfer 200 grand piano.

It follows last year's acclaimed Modulations: EP2, which I loved. Thematically his new collection muses on themes of personal connection.

Listen back to the programme in which he joined me live in the second hour to play some tracks off the new record and inspiration tracks by Pixies and Rachel Grimes.