Episode 113: Josh Law & Ben Sadler – Getdown Services
As far back as I remember, I’ve never been someone to really find myself attracted to bands that generate a lot of ‘buzz’. I mean, I remember realising as a kid that I had to listen to a song numerous...
Mixtape, Vol. 5
I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not particularly a huge fan of the artwork to this mixtape. I think at the time I was working on this one, I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel...
Episode 112: Harvey Geraghty, Leon Karagic & Itay Shachar – The Lazy Eyes
It’s always really fun watching artists catch on quickly and suddenly seeing their popularity skyrocketing as folks catch on and pay deep attention to them. That’s pretty much what happened with Sydney outfit The Lazy Eyes when they first formed...
Episode 111: Everlast
It’s always fascinating to see how songs can catch on and – in some cases – become emblematic of an entire era. For many, the early ’90s hip-hop scene is typified by songs like ‘Jump Around’, the debut single from...
Episode 110: Juan Alban – Epicure
Cast your mind back to the early-to-mid-’00s, and it was pretty hard to escape Epicure. That is, if you were listening to triple j, the Ballarat outfit were a hot commodity. Having formed in the mid-’90s, a few formative releases...
Mixtape, Vol. 4
I think anyone would agree that inadvertently doing a good job is pretty great. That’s probably why I enjoy revisiting the fourth volume of my Mixtape series so often. According to my wife, when I gave her these original mixes,...
Episode 109: Eric Michener – Fishboy
When I first started this podcast, I made a wishlist of people I wanted to chat to. I’ve still not achieved my most-wanted artist (but I came close earlier this year!), but one of those first names I put on...
Mixtape, Vol. 3
It’s a little fascinating to go back and revisit these mixtapes because it offers an opportunity for me to not only look at these playlists that I made back at the time, but to also re-experience how my artistic capabilities...
Episode 108: Pinky Beecroft – Machine Gun Fellatio
Has there ever been a musician harder to categorise than Pinky Beecroft? (Okay, for those saying Frank Zappa or Ween, that was more of a rhetorical question, so please hold onto your opinions for the end.) For the vast majority...
Bonus Episode 8: Luka Kilgariff-Johnson, Thea Martin, Allan McBean, Jay Eliot Mee & Sam Wilson – Any Young Mechanic
I say this a lot, but as a former Adelaidean, I really do enjoy listening and chatting to musicians from South Australia. If you’re someone whose finger has firmly been on the pulse of the City of Churches’ music scene,...