Episodes
Olivia Bartley writes, records, and performs music under the name Olympia. She released her new Love For One EP yesterday, which she will be launching with three solo shows, starting May 30 in Melbourne. Details at olympiamusic.com.au.
Published 05/17/24
The classic Underground Lovers album Dream It Down turns 30 next month, and to mark the occasion, there is a new double-disc vinyl reissue out, as well as shows in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Find out more at linktr.ee/UndergroundLovers
Published 05/10/24
Quan Yeomans is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter from Australian art pop legends Regurgitator, who released their tenth album Invader last week, and are about to embark on a massive tour of the country. Get tickets and buy the record from regurgitator.net.
Published 05/03/24
Caiti Baker is an award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, vocal engineer, graphic designer, and artist from Darwin. She was one-half of soul group Sietta, has recorded and released a number of great solo records, co-wrote and sung on A.B. Original's landmark album Reclaim Australia, and won an ARIA for creating the artwork on Dr G. Yunupingu's final album. Her new single Stay Down is out now - find out more at caitibaker.com.
Published 04/26/24
Mark Seymour released his eleventh solo album yesterday, The Boxer, his fifth to be credited to Mark Seymour and the Undertow. Add nine Hunters & Collectors albums to the mix, and that's a lot of music. Mark is touring currently, get tickets and check tour dates at markseymour.com.au.
Published 04/19/24
Cameron Baines is the lead singer and guitarist of Bodyjar, one of Australia's best-ever punk rock bands.
Published 04/12/24
James Baker is a legend of Australian music. He played on the classic Hoodoo Gurus debut Stoneage Romeos, wrote The Victims' legendary punk single Television Addict, co-wrote and played on the early Scientists' records, and drums for the Beasts of Bourbon - and, at the age of 70, he has just released his debut album, Born To Rock. The Beasts are touring right now. Buy tickets to that from texperkins.com, and buy James' album through strangeworldrecords.com.au.
Published 04/04/24
Nic Cester is the lead singer of Australian rock group Jet, whose 2003 debut album Get Born sold over four million copies. Jet are touring in May, where they'll play the record in full. Get tickets at jetofficial.com.
Published 03/29/24
Jim Reid is the lead singer of Scottish legends The Jesus and Mary Chain, who released their eighth album Glasgow Eyes yesterday.
Published 03/22/24
Rob Younger is the lead singer and co-founder of legendary Australian band Radio Birdman, who are touring this year in honour of their 50th anniversary.
Published 03/15/24
Chris Robinson is the lead singer of The Black Crowes, who release their ninth studio album Happiness Bastards on Friday. It's their first studio record for 15 years.
Published 03/08/24
Kim Salmon is a founding member of Beasts of Bourbon, who are heading out on tour next month, forty years after their blistering debut album The Axeman's Jazz. He was also the driving force behind The Scientists, and the amazing art-rock band The Surrealists. He is also said to have invented grunge. For tickets to the Beasts tour, visit texperkins.com.
Published 03/01/24
Andrew Cox is singer and guitarist for The Fauves, who have written classic Australian tunes such as Dogs Are The Best People, Bigger Than Tina, Celebrate The Failure, Self Abuser, Everybody's Getting A Three Piece Together, Surf City Limits, and The Charles Atlas Way.
Published 02/23/24
Graham Nash founded 1960s UK beat group The Hollies with his best friend and enjoyed a dozen top ten hits. Then, Nash decided to quit the group, and move to America. Here, he discusses meeting and falling in love with Joni Mitchell, the first time he sang with David Crosby and Steven Stills, meeting Neil Young over breakfast, and recounts writing hits like Teach Your Children, Our House, Marrakesh Express. He also recalls the morning Paul McCartney called him up to come to the 'All You Need...
Published 02/16/24
Lydia Lunch is a singer, songwriter, poet, artist, author, and long-time musical collaborator of both Thurston Moore and Rowland S Howard. She fronted influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (produced by Brian Eno), and co-wrote and sung the epic Sonic Youth track Death Valley '69. She is touring Australia next month - get tickets at lydia-lunch.net/shows, and listen to some of her vast discography at https://lydialunch.bandcamp.com.
Published 02/09/24
Sally Seltmann is a solo artist, songwriter, and producer, who previously recorded under the name New Buffalo. She's also one-third of Seeker Lover Keeper, with Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko, and wrote Feist's hit single '1234', which hit the top 10 in the US and the UK - and even made it onto Sesame Street. She also provided vocals on The Avalanches' debut album Since I Left You. Buy her music at sallyseltmann.com.
Published 02/02/24
Brendan B. Brown is the frontman, singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, and engineer of Wheatus, the man behind hits such as Teenage Dirtbag, Leroy, and a sterling cover of Erasure's A Little Respect. On this episode, Brendan talks about his breakthrough single, his love of production, and how he recorded a hit album in three weeks in his mother's basement. Brendan is touring Australia from February 1 with last week's Listen Carefully guest, Art Alexakis from Everclear - to buy tickets,...
Published 01/26/24
Art Alexakis is the singer, guitarist, songwriter, and driving force behind Everclear, one of the most successful rock bands of the past thirty years. Everclear had a slew of hit singles in the 1990s, including Santa Monica, Father of Mine, Heroin Girl, Everything to Everyone, I Will Buy You A New Life, You Make Me Feel Like A Whore, Heartspark Dollarsign, and Local God. Art is touring Australia from February 1 - to buy tickets visit everclearmusic.com.
Published 01/19/24
Brian Ritchie is the bass player and founding member of Violent Femmes, a folksy, punky, Milwaukee band whose 1983 self-titled debut album sold over three million copies and spawned countless indie imitators.
Published 01/12/24
James Reyne is hitting the road over the next six months in celebration of the 40th anniversary reissue of Crawl File, the greatest hits collection from legendary 1980s band Australian Crawl. We discuss his time with the band, as well as his solo career (including his huge '90s hit Way Out West). To buy tickets or the vinyl reissue, visit jamesreyne.com.au.
Published 01/05/24
Billy Birmingham is The Twelfth Man. He is also Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry, Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, and dozens of other characters across a series of insanely popular 12th Man records. Between 1984 and 2006, all seven 12th Man albums, plus two singles, landed at #1 on the ARIA chart. It's quite a feat. Here, Billy goes through the recording process for his albums, does a ton of impersonations (Barnesy, Farnesy, Richie) and shows off his new talking stubby holders. This interview was done in...
Published 12/29/23
Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou are two-thirds of indefinitely hibernating rock band Silverchair, and co-authors of Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and outside Silverchair, which you can buy here.
Published 12/22/23
Chris Ballew is the singer and guitarist from 1990s legends The Presidents of the United States of America, and writer of hit singles Lump, Kitty, Mach 5, Peaches, Dune Buggy, and Volcano. His work can be listened to and purchased at chrisballew.org.
Published 12/15/23
Ashley Naylor is the frontman for Even, as well as guitarist for the Paul Kelly band, The Church, The Stems, the Rockwiz band, Vika and Linda's band, and The Ronson Hangup. His latest album is Soundtracks Volume 2 - which can be bought (along with his other records) from ashleynaylor.bandcamp.com.
Published 12/11/23