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Tune in to Underground Love as Mparntwe-based folk-pop singer Elsie Lange joins Jordan Oakley. Having just released her new album 'The Normal Discontents of Living', she'll be launching the record at Northcote Social Club this Wednesday. ​Listen in to hear Elsie Lange perform a few live, acoustic songs from 3.30pm. 

'Weather Report' is the third album from local group, Hobson's Bay Coast Guard (HBCG). The 14 track LP is a comically cynical ode to this dying planet, with each song presenting a different natural disaster and its physical and metaphorical relationship to the human experience. Tune in to Underground Love as Jordan catches up with Chris and Erik from the band about their show at The John Curtin Hotel on Saturday, November 29.

Passionate punk rock group The Antics will tomorrow drop their new single 'Ripped', with a launch show happening at Bell City Takeaway on November 29 with support from Lothario, Blue Communications and Ozzie and the Hair. Their longest track yet, ‘Ripped’ strips The Antics back from their usual turbo punk sound down to something more vulnerable through the raw simplicity of vocals and build up of instrumentation. Tune in to Firewater as Alannah catches up with the band. 

Music label Bird’s Robe will wrap up their 15th anniversary celebrations in Melbourne with a massive show at Max Watts on Saturday, December 13. Headlining the last of three Melbourne events are post-rock band sleepmakeswaves, playing their first shows of 2025, alongside USA alternative rock icons …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, returning to Australia for the first time in over a decade. Tune in to hear Chris catch up with the label founder Mike Solo.

Tumbleweed founder and frontman Richie Weed will be joining Chris Pearson on Pojama People this Tuesday. Stepping into a bold new territory with his debut solo album 'Strays', the album captures raw honesty and spirit, marking a powerful new chapter in his career. Tune in to hear about his upcoming shows in Melbourne, including George Lane on November 28, and The Tote on November 30.

One of Australia's longest-running black metal bands, Pestilential Shadows have been building a towering canon of work since 2003. Whereas many of their native land's extreme metal exports either tend toward the chaotic or too clean, the shadowy collective led by founding vocalist / guitarist Balam consistently create compelling swathes of drama and darkness, all-enveloping emotion and regal-yet-gritty grandeur. Tune in to Burning Bitumen to hear about their new album ‘Wretch’.

Mork was created by Thomas Eriksen in the town of Halden in Norway during 2004. Both then and now, the band functions as a one-man-band, much like many others within the black metal-genre. Primarily a side-project for Eriksen from the inception until the debut album was made in 2013, Mork are coming over to Australia next year for a nationwide tour. Burning Bitumen catch up with Thomas Eriksen, tune in to hear about Mork's show in Melbourne on January 22 at Central Club.

'The Fate Of All Life' sees local band IRREPARABLE weave together industrial black metal, goth and darkwave to create a sound that is both haunting and cathartic. The album is a monument to the reality of the human condition, exploring themes of cyclical suffering and death. Kene catches up with the band, tune in to hear about their new album, along with their show at The Leadbeater Hotel on November 29.