A Q&A with moving alt-folk maven Julien Baker
Following on from the sparse, percussion-less beauty of 2017’s Turn Out The Lights comes...
Category: MUSIC INTERVIEWS
Hands up for Detroit: A chat with Alice Cooper
“He’s a villain, but he’s funny. And he’s very arrogant, but at the same time he can slip on a...
Track-by-track: Sheppard on the pop pearls of ‘Kaleidoscope Eyes’
Navigating dicey vocal surgery, rage at love’s pain, appreciation for extraordinary...
Tash Sultana: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Sky
Combining technically brilliant practice with dreamy sonic ideas that seem to span the...
Luca Brasi chat the bittersweet punk of new LP ‘Everything Is Tenuous’
Life’s bittersweetness refracts through melodic punk on Everything Is Tenuous; frontman Tyler...
John Carpenter on delivering the creeps with ‘Lost Themes III’
Auteur director, score composer and deadset creative genius John Carpenter talks evoking the...
Kate Ceberano on the relief in unravelling and ‘Sweet Inspiration’
The effervescent Kate Ceberano talks conjuring candour, singing for the times, the relief in...
The Foos: Fighting Fit
Sitting about staring at their completed record gathering cobwebs, Foo Fighters decided the usual...
Jarryd James chinwags fresh electro-soul album ‘P.M.’
From the (literal) primeval jungle to the most elite studio of LA, Jarryd James traipsed many...
4 extra-juicy quotes from The Avalanches
If you’ve already read our album review of The Avalanches’ third record We Will Always...
Alison Mosshart on The Kills’ shockingly good new LP of rarities
Duo of swamp-garage delight The Kills are about to release a shockingly good album of B-sides and...
The Avalanches chat cosmic cacophony of brand new record
From sticking his phone out the window to record the ringing of Northcote church bells to sampling...
Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on space, spirits, and new album ‘Cyr’
Having always stuck to a “We are the weirdos, mister” kind of ownership over their...
Blake Scott on the fever dream of solo album ‘Niscitam’
In his first collection of solo material, Blake Scott – the sarcastic-Banjo-Paterson frontman of...
Chowing on ‘Breakfast for Pathetics’ with Sophie Hopes (Tired Lion)
Lush grunge guitars, bright yet burnt vocals, and a certain kind of slacker grace: Tired...
Getting away with murder: The vision of Tim Minchin
As chockers with brisk wit as sudden, frank truths, Tim Minchin discusses his new album Apart...
Something for Kate – worth the wait (a Q&A with Paul Dempsey)
On The Modern Medieval, Something For Kate reach the zenith of their considerable talents,...
Electric by name, almighty by nature: AC/DC’s Angus Young
We talk gremlin vocals, favourite vinyl, how to keep Bryan Adams out of his own studio, where to...
Kate Miller-Heidke on extra-verbal communication, new album
Replete with fine detail and all the wonder you’ve come to expect from this voice of voices,...
“Don’t put your cat on it”: Turntable advice with The Avalanches
The Avalanches’ Robbie Chater chats slipmats and turntables ahead of the release of the...
Shooting the (extended) breeze with Tommy Lee on ‘Andro’
Of all the outrageous truths about the life and personhood of Tommy Lee, apparently the one that...
Beabadoobee talks spells, singing, debut LP
Legions of fans already adored Beabadoobee before a sample of her song Coffee cannoned the young...
Matt Berninger on his favourite loafers, first solo album
On his first ever album of solo material, Serpentine Prison, the venerated voice of Grammy-winning...
Sam Herring on real love, new Future Islands LP
Samuel T. Herring gives us the low-down on the beautiful new album from his post-wave wizards of...
Sporty dishes us the spice about solo dance album, ‘Melanie C’
In this Australian-exclusive interview, Melanie C explains that a certain Spicy manifesto –...
Music as a Mobius strip: A chat with Hen Ogledd
Harpist Rhodri Davies talks the experiment-soaked but pop-positioned elixir that is Hen...
A. Swayze on platform, profit, and why his wife’s the bigger punk
Devotees of A. Swayze and the Ghosts’ smart, pummelling styles are rewarded this month with...
Music from the Home Front triple-vinyl is here, with a dollop of Gudinski
Koalas and Kiwis, it’s finally arrived! The gobsmacking Music From The Home Front event – which...
We chinwag puns and pints with Private Function
Meet Private Function, five lively cats who are poised to rip Oz rock’s pantaloons to pieces...
Alicia Bognanno (Bully) talks the sublime ‘SUGAREGG’
Buoyant, blithe, and typically serrated, SUGAREGG is the new album from Alicia Bognanno’s...
