How we checked badradio.nz - 24/7 PHONK
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
badradio is an independent, ad-free internet station run single-handedly from New Zealand by Paul Grey, streaming 24/7 phonk, trap, hip hop and chill - OG phonk, drift, Memphis and niche-scene underground tracks. Every track in its rotation of roughly 9,700 songs from over 950 artists was sent directly by the artist who made it, with no ads, no labels and no algorithm, and it reports over 500,000 monthly listeners across more than 50 countries.
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badradio | 2026 |
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Artists
ROLAND JONES, SOUDIERE, DJ YUNG VAMP, Lil' Rocketman
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badradio | 2026 |
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Contact route
a dedicated song-request page on the station's own domain where a listener searches for a track and requests it, carrying alongside it a Telegram link in the operator's own first-person words offering to be contacted there for anything needed; plus an email address as a live mailto on the operator's own domain in the footer of every page, a named operator credited in that footer, a community page, and official YouTube, Instagram, X, SoundCloud, Facebook and Telegram accounts
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BADRADIO | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.badradio.nz/requests
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BADRADIO | 2026 |
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Era
Contemporary
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badradio | 2026 |
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Music
Phonk - OG phonk, drift phonk, Memphis - plus trap, hip hop and chill
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badradio | 2026 |
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Language
English
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badradio | 2026 |
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Kind
Studio recordings by independent underground producers, submitted directly by the artists
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badradio | 2026 |
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Where
no place is stated on its own site; its own RadioStation markup gives broadcastFrequency as Internet and areaServed as Worldwide, and the page describes 24/7 underground radio with a listener map rather than any coverage area
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badradio | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
|---|---|
| the operator's email address | the sweep rule forbids copying an actual email address into this file
source |
| the footer's Contact link points at that mailto rather than a page | I also tried /contact directly and it returns the site's own 404, so the requests page is the live contact URL
source |
| a New Zealand base read off the .nz domain | a domain is not a statement, and the site itself names no city or country
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: https://badradio.nz/ - 24/7 PHONK — listed via Radio Browser · https://badradio.nz/