Interviews

Progressive post rock outfit Mushroom Giant will grace the stage at The Bendigo Hotel on August 7 for a night of hard 'n heavy rock n' roll and live visual projections. Tune in to Pojama People to hear Chris Pearson chat with Mushroom Giant as well as Melbourne gunge-doom collective Lamassu who will be on support duties on the night.

This year, the AIR Awards, which recognises, promotes and celebrates the success of Australia's Independent Music sector, will be going ahead as a live streamed show on YouTube on August 5th, and involving performances from Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, Wolf & Cub and DMAs. Indie-Con will also be going ahead as a completely online conference from the 4-6th August. AIR CEO, Maria Amato, chats to Lyndelle about how these events have managed to come together in spite of constant changes.

Melbourne drummer Tommy McEwan, calls in to Roots of Rhythm to chat about 1950's Birth of Rock 'n' Roll show with an all star band happening at Carnegie Hall ( Carnegie RSL) on August 14.

Annika’s special guest will be the extraordinary Australian visual artist Patricia Piccinini. Piccinini’s exhibition and installation ‘A Miracle Constantly Repeated’ is currently open at the Flinders St Station Ballroom as part of the RISING Festival.

Bass only, guitarless, slamming deathgrind band 12Gauge Rampage have a new album coming out and a tour planned. Tune in to Burning Bitumen to hear them chat with Kene.

Band booker Brit Wynne calls in to Garageland to discuss the next 'Bin Night' event at it's new location at the Curtin and the current challenges of being a music booker.

Freakscene is Philipp Reichenheim’s explosive documentary tracing Dinosaur Jr.’s turbulent story back to where it all began. Screened as part of this year's Melbourne International Film Festival, Freakscene is one of many music-based films in the program. Tune in to Firewater this week as Claire jumps on a Zoom call with director Philipp Reichenheim ahead of the screening.

Described as a Melbourne super-group, comprising of Tim Maxwell (Apart From This/Grim Rhythm), Chris Cowburn (The Smith Street Band) and Craig Selak (The Bennies) call in to Firewater to discuss the upccoming album launch.

Recorded during the final stages of singer/songwriter Dan Pash's hearing loss, the new Reality Instructors EP, titled 'The Timeless Threat Of...', is timely, jangly post-punk of the highest calibre. Tune in to Underground Love to hear more from Dan.

Local pysch jazz fusion quartet Proto Moro's debut album ‘PROTOSYNTHESIS’ is now out! They call in on Mystic Brew to tell Mike Gurrieri all about it.

Christopher Port's "Ritual Remixes", the companion to his 2020 work "Ritual Music", is out now. Port has enlisted some of the finest local minds to re-interpret selections from the original which saw him embrace his jazz and improvisation background as a drummer. Tune in to Mystic Brew to hear more.

Now in its 12th year, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne returns this August to celebrate diversity in storytelling and filmmaking. Festival Director Mitu Bhowmick Lange chats to Xan on Sound & Vision about the program.

Jazz guitarist James Sherlock and MSO bassist Ben Hanlon call into Impressions to talk about their second album 'Stravinsky.' With shared backgrounds in classical music and jazz, the duo is focused on the potential of arranging orchestral works for improvising, and here they take on iconoclastic Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s canonical works The Rite Of Spring and Petrushka alongside compositions by Gershwin and Debussy.

JAZZPARTY's new album 'Nobody Gets Away' is out now and getting much love as this week's PBS Feature Album and is due for official launch at The Corner Hotel on Saturday 7 August (COVID-permitting). Supreme diva Loretta Miller joins Lyndelle on The Afterglow to chat about the album and the launch.

Saxophonist and vocalist of the Shuffle Club, Ash Gaudion rings in to Roots of Rhythm to talk about The Three Louis' concert at Oakleigh/Carnegie RSL 31 July.

This week on State of the Art, Annika chats to director Danny Cohen about his Courtney Barnett documentary ‘Anonymous Club’ which will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Guitarist & Vocalist for British alternate band calls in to Firewater to chat about the band's new single 'The Falling.'

Melbourne jazz legend Barney McAll rings in to Mystic Brew to chat about the release of his new record 'Transitive Cycles', out via Heavy Machinery Records on August 6th.

KiTA joins Jazz on Spaces Within Space to chat about their debut title ‘Lucent,’ released on new Naarm label ‘Companion.’

To celebrate the release of their new EP Intertidal Zone via Wax'o Paradiso Recordings, Melbourne electronic duo OK EG have gifted PBS a special mix. Tune in to The Breakfast Spread to hear the entire thing.