Interviews

Speak Percussion commissioned three composers to create Scream Star, a remarkable live music performance collision of sound and screen with mashed-up projection and percussion. Scream Star marks the first collaboration between the compositional voices of Matthew Shlomowitz, Johannes Kreidler and Jessie Marino, who have an impressive track record of integrating screen based media into live performances. Speak Percussion Assistant Artistic Director Kaylie talks to Annika on State of the Art.

One of Australia's loudest and most aggressive frontmen, Wayniac from Creep Diets and Religious Observance as well as many more comes in for a special guest program to warm up your night.

Legendary Melbourne melodic death metal band Be'lakor call in to talk about their national tour for their 2021 album 'Coherence,' which was named best melo-death album of 2021.

Melbourne progressive rockers Acolyte join Perth metal outfit Voyager on their east coast tour this month. Ahead of the Melbourne show at The Evelyn on August 20, Acolyte vocalist Morgan-Leigh Brown drops in for a chat with Chris Pearson on Pojama People.

Get ready to freak out because Paul Kidney Experience are taking over the entirety of The Tote to launch their new T-shirt design. Joining them in this extravaganza will be Brown Spirits, Elizaband, Heavy Amber and New Estate. Paul Kidney and Brown Spirits' Tim Wold drop in on Pojama People for a good ol' yarn with Chris Pearson.

Fresh from returning from their tour of EU/UK, Vintage Crop's frontman Jack calls up Underground Love to fill Jordan in on their new record 'Kibitzer' and Australian tour plans.

Ahead of the release of his anticipated new album, In These Times, Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven has already dropped a couple of singles to wide acclaim. Tune in to Mystic Brew to hear him chat with fill-in announcer Greg Sher about the new album and how McCraven manages to collapse space, destroy borders and blend past, present, and future into progressive arrangements of post-genre, jazz-rooted contemporary instrumental music.

Slacker indie outfit LOOBS are set to release their second full-length album, Word To The Wise. Songwriter and guitarist Alex Pink will pop in to Homebrew to let us know how to get our hands on it.

Bass wizard and founding member of Dianas, Nathalie Pavlovic has released her surprise debut solo album, 'You Can't Take It When You're Gone.' To celebrate, Nat drops by Homebrew to chat with Kurt and play a song or two live to air.

As revered Eora/Sydney songwriter Laura Jean gears up to release her new album 'Amateurs' in November, she drops in to PBS to play an intimate acoustic set on The Breakfast Spread. Tune in early on Monday morning to hear teasers from the forthcoming album.

'Lost in Bandura' sees Melbourne Lithuanian faux folk fantasms The Lost Clog and Adelaide’s Ukrainian buoyant bandura bundle Yellow Blue Bus team up to bring you a collaboration to get your vishyvanka vobbling. Stepas Levickis from The Lost Clog calls by the studio to tell listeners about this trans Baltic-Slavic auditory round trip happening at the Brunswick Ballroom August 20.

Kentucky-based singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon calls in to 5ft High & Rising to talk about her new record 'No Regular Dog.' Which was produced by Shooter Jennings and will be out on Oh Boy Records August 12.

Naarm/Melbourne-based selector and producer FOURA's latest single ‘Power’ is a steady display of the artist's wide-range expertise in dance music. The single traverses a diverse range of energetic, yet emotional UKG-inspired electronic, breakbeat and house music. FOURA rolls in on Friday morning to chat with Milo about the single and to play a mix on the Wheels of Steel.

Taking over the entirety of The Gasometer Hotel SmashFest VI brings another day of banging tunes and debauchery. Uniting some of Melbourne's best punk, rock and party bands for you all to flail about. Festival organiser Smash talks to Ruari about who's on the line up.

Multifaceted, multi award winning musician, writer, performer and artist Dan Sultan calls in to PBS to talk about his shows at Brunswick Ballroom August 12 & 13.

Sin City are a pair of bar-crawling crooners who found themselves quarantined in a sleazy flat in Alicante, Spain with only a guitar and piano. In a haze of beer, gin, rum, red wine and hamburgers they wrote and recorded a vast collection of songs. Tune in to Swinging Doors to hear the duo play a couple of tunes and talk about their gig at the Labour in Vain.

The past 6 months has seen Liz Stringer performing in the Midnight Oil band, playing guitar, keyboards and backing vocals across Australia, North America and Europe for the band's final ever tour. She now gears up for a string of shows across Victoria and NSW to perform songs from her most recent, and critically acclaimed album, First Time Really Feeling, as well as favourites from her celebrated catalogue. Tune in to Radio City to hear Liz play a couple of her songs live in-studio.

'Solar' is the ninth studio album from Cam Butler. Combining lush soundscapes and a live-in-studio fourteen-piece string orchestra to build a re-occurring musical theme that is developed and presented across eight various musical settings. Listen in to Radio City to hear Cam talk about his latest musical adventure.

Workhorse is the dreamy vision of Adelaide musician Harriet Fraser-Barbour whose upcoming debut album 'No Photographs' is influenced by vast Australian landscapes, queer western films, apocalyptic dreams and the sounds of Julee Cruise, Chris Isaak and Mazzy Star. Harriet calls Milo to chat about the album and to play a round of Musical Chairs. Tune in to The Breakfast Spread to hear more.

Richard Crawley’s passion for cinema was so ardent that he recorded his young family’s every moment and milestone on video. To pay the bills, he channelled this love for the lens into music photography, snapping some of music's biggest names but tragedy struck, snuffing out Richard’s creative and parental fire. Now, his adult son James attempts to understand Richard’s inner turmoil in his documentary 'Volcano Man.' Tune in to hear James and Richard talk to Annika on State of the Art.