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For nearly three decades, Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black Culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature, and film with almost militant consistency - to use art as a culturally transformative device. Named after his leap year birthday, Saul's new album 'Leap Life' arrives not like a conventional studio record - but a gathering of spirits, histories, frequencies and unfinished revolutions. Tune in this morning as Mike catches up with Saul Williams.

‘Cha Cha Slide’ is the new single from Bristol’s Getdown Services, released ahead of their anticipated debut album, 'Massive Champion'. An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, 'Massive Champion' finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years. This Tuesday on Underground Love, Jordan catches up with Getdown Services to chat about their new music. 

Returning to the Melbourne stage for the first time since coming home from Europe, Seedy Jeezus will also be playing at Lulie Tavern on September 4 alongside Junkyard Wizards. Joining Chris Pearson on Pojama People to chat about it, tune in to hear about the latest vinyl reissue of their 2015 self-titled debut album - the third pressing of the record that started it all.

Joining Chris tonight for a chat and a live performance is 4-piece psych/prog/stoner rock group Junkyard Wizards. Their album 'The Sky As We Know It' came out end of last year, and follows the physical and psychological journey of a group of wizards as they encounter an ancient malevolent being. Tune in to hear about their show at Lulie Tavern on September 4.

Vegan deathcore firestarters To The Grave will be joining Ryan on the show tonight, chatting about their headline tour with No Cure, veganism and the Australian deathcore scene. Tune in from 10pm to hear from vocalist Dane Evans and guitarist Nic Webb, along with tracks from their upcoming fourth full length album 'Liberation Front', which will be out on October 2 via BLKIIBLK.

Jazz and experimental clarinetist, improviser, composer and budding empresario Olivia Jones joins Cas to discuss 'Art Seed', a new Melbourne collective centered on providing gathering spaces for creative music in our beautiful city. Olivia runs regular curated gigs featuring emerging and well-known experimental jazz and improvising musicians on the Melbourne scene. Tune in to hear about Art Seed launching a label with Sydney Road Studios, to further support the local industry.

One of Australia’s foremost blues writers and performers, Marlene Cummins knows the blues from an Aboriginal woman’s perspective. Deeply influenced by her people's story, Marlene tells this through her art, lyrics, onstage performance as both an actress and singer, and more recently, through documentary filmmaking. Tune in for a live performance from Marlene, and to hear about her 'A Kindred People' exclusive performance happening at The Counts that day. 

Hyper Primate is a parkour first-person-shooter game developed by Sydney-based indie team Totem Softproducts. With the goal of chaining movement, weapons, artifacts, and nerve into perfect runs, players dash, grapple, blast, and slam through obstacle courses built for speed, mastery, and score attack obsession. Totem Softproducts developers Edan Woodward and Jake Hodgson chat with Matt on Game Jams about how this game and soundtrack came together over the last four years.