Interviews

Jen Cloher returns with their first album in five years ‘I Am the River, The River Is Me.’ Inspired by Jen’s powerful matrilineal line of wāhine Māori, 'I Am The River, The River Is Me' is not urgent or hurried, but it is vital, made with the care and ease of someone who knows that their past began before birth, and will continue long after they’re gone. Jen calls in to Underground Love to talk to Jordan about ‘I Am the River, The River Is Me’ and their performance at Meadow 31 March - 2 April.

The Rookies' fourth album, Feed The Fire, was written collaboratively, first online bouncing ideas back and forth, and then in the rehearsal room. Listening to this record is as much a journey as we imagine writing it to have been. This is one of the reasons we picked it as a PBS Feature Album. As the band prepares to launch the album in April, members Greg Sher and Joel Trigg chat to Mike Gurrieri about what inspired the making of this album.

NO ZU are calling it a day. To celebrate their otherworldly, bold and beautiful sound one last time, the band is putting on a farewell show at The Night Cat on March 24th. Ahead of the show, Nic and Cayn drop in to PBS to reflect on a decade of debaucherous musical evolution. Tune in to The Breakfast Spread to hear more.

Following a critically acclaimed tour of the UK last year, The Three Seas embark on an extensive Australian tour throughout March and April. The international, cross-cultural ensemble fuses West Bengal and Himalayan folk song with contemporary sounds from Sydney and Kolkata. Soaring Baul vocals and majestic sounds from North India intertwine with Bengali beats and deep grooves combine into an energetic electro-dub, funk and Hindustani music. Saxophonist Matt Keegan calls by PBS for a chat.

Acclaimed bass hero Victor Wooten returns to Australia for a run of headline shows in May and June. In an Australian first, Victor will be performing with his band of (literal) brothers, The Wooten Brothers. Tune in to Black Wax to hear Adam chat to Victor about his already illustrious career of working with such celebrated artists as Béla Fleck, Bootsy Collins, Branford Marsalis, Keb Mo and Chic Corea, to name just a few.

Prepare to be silent, lifted up, tremble in the chaos and beauty, trip out and dance deep inside. Musician and instrument inventor Colin Offord is joined by seven visionary musicians from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to help explore songs and soundscapes, heartbeats, skin beats, mouth music and animal howls, drones and harmonic delirium using traditional and invented instruments. Colin calls by the Global Village to talk about 'Time Distance Music' at Fuse Festival March 25 - 26.

Songs from Mermaid Avenue celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic album by Billy Bragg and Wilco, which set new music to previously unheard lyrics folk icon Woody Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue provides an intriguing into the persona of Guthrie, revealing him to be a joker, lover, boozer that spawned the classics ‘California Stars’ and ‘Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key.' Michael, Craig and Bek stop by PBS to talk about performing this material at The Lomond Hotel March 19 and play a couple tunes.

Singer-songwriter Stefanie Duzel calls by 5ft High & Rising to talk about a triple album launch at MEMO March 26. Billed as 'The Good, The Bad & The Lonely' it'll feature herself alongside country, roots and Americana artists Matt Joe Gow & The Dead Leaves and Duncan Phillips with MC Kerryn Fields.

The Inner Varnika crew drops in to PBS for a Tomorrowland takeover ahead of Inner Varnika X. Tune in on Friday from 1pm.

Melbourne-based Bogotá natives Lay Down The Groove take care of the Wheels of Steel. Tune in to Breakfast this Friday for some seriously groovy party sounds.

Vocalist Liela Moss releases her third solo album 'Internal Working Model.' 'Internal Working Model' bristles with frustration at our disconnected culture but also crucially burns with a desire to reconnect. Liela spoke to Michael about the album and her career. Tune in to Junkyard to hear their conversation.

Dream-pop shoegaze outfit Flyying Colours have just released their new album, You Never Know, which is this week's PBS Feature Album. To chat more about the album, songwriter and guitarist Brodie Brümmer drops in to PBS and plays a round of Musical Chairs with Milo.

The Jackson Combo are bring their New Orleans Blues Quartet to PBS for a live-in-studio set on Jumpin The Blues. Tune to hear them play some new tunes and chat with Tom about all things New Orleans and swing blues, Hammond organs, gigs, events, festival appearances and Bar303 Hammond nights.

Blues Arcadia are releasing their second full-length studio album 'Now Or Never' and introducing it to this great southern land they are blasting off on their biggest ever interstate tour. Vocalist Al Boyle and guitarist Chris Harvey drop by Roots of Rhythm to talk about the band's shows across Victoria.

This year, RISING Festival's expansive program of 185 events will feature more than 400 artists, including 35 commissions and 12 world premieres, and is set to ignite the heart of Melbourne from 7—18 June. Co-artistic directors Hannah Fox chats to Annika Priest about the program.

Jeddah-born, Dublin-based producer and DJ Moving Still catches up with PBS' DJ Matab for a chat about his recent EP 'Kalam Hub.'

American crossover thrash band Enforced have a new album coming out in April titled 'War Remains.' In a PBS exclusive ahead of the album's release, Kene chats with lead singer Knox about the scene in the band's hometown of Richmond, Virginia and how Enforced are a rising star in the metal world.

When wrestler Snuff Daddy Gore isn't hitting people with chairs or throwing people around or watching horror, he is listening to extreme metal and he's coming to guest program on Burning Bitumen. Expect to hear some nasty death, black and thrash metal to get you ready to pick up a chair and smash someone yourself. (Burning Bitumen does not condone smashing people with chairs or any other inanimate objects.)

For the past couple of years Ben Salter has been a musician in residence at Museum of Old & New Art in Nipaluna, where he's written and recorded over 200 songs, on top of the 250 odd he's already written. To celebration the release of his latest single 'STATS' Ben has announced a national tour across all Eastern states. Ahead of his Melbourne show at the Gem Bar on March 14 Ben rings in to Firewater for a chat.

Off the back of their 2022 EP 'Same Boat,' NSW blues duo Hussy Hicks are currently touring around the country. Leesa Gentz and Julz Parker stopped by the station whilst in Melbourne to play some tunes and chat.