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...
Category: MUSIC INTERVIEWS
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...
Washington on her bouquet of ‘Batflowers’
Multi-hyphenate creative powerhouse Megan Washington has ideas. Lots of them. In conversation we...
Dave Bayley (Glass Animals) talks nostalgia, nunchucks, new album
On third album Dreamland, Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley combs through the entire beautiful...
We’re not in Harlem any more: A Q&A with Baauer
Crossover dance rediscovers its spirit in the phenomenal new record from decorated producer and...
Rufus Wainwright on Joni, Judy, and the journey to ‘Unfollow The Rules’
“When you step onto the good ship Rufus, you sail into a timeless world, a wondrous land...
Alice Ivy on the weirdness of timing, new album ‘Don’t Sleep’
Annika Schmarsel AKA Alice Ivy talks the extraordinary importance of timing – and trusting its...
Lime Cordiale on new album ’14 Steps to a Better You’
There are several devices in the menagerie of musical instruments which effortlessly communicate...
The Beths on vocal boundaries, cryptic art, new LP ‘Jump Rope Gazers’
Auckland foursome The Beths today release the beautiful ball of melodic fire that is Jump Rope...
Tommy O’Dell talks DMA’s bright new LP, ‘The Glow’
Vocalist Tommy O’Dell explains that an electronic heart has always been pulsing somewhere...
Capturing grief, beauty, and atmosphere with Gordi
Sophie Payten (AKA Gordi) talks highlighting the grief behind aural beauty, experimentation in...
Gabbing with Mitch Galbraith about Ocean Alley’s ‘Lonely Diamond’
A constant terror with phone interviews is that your spesh recording app will fail to work – a...
A Q&A with R&B-pop maven Bruno Major
British singer-songwriter and guitarist Bruno Major has just released To Let A Good Thing Die, his...
GUM (Jay Watson) chats turning “gibberish” into gold
Following his superb 2018 effort The Underdog, GUM (Jay Watson) returns with Out In The World: a...
The McClymonts on mayhem, madness, motherhood, music
The title of The McClymonts’ sixth studio album, Mayhem To Madness, is something of a modified...
Rolling Blackouts C.F. talk tour life, home life and new album
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Joe White explains how he and his Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever...
Donny Benét talks terrible singing, brilliant basslines, new album ‘Mr Experience’
The smooth-as-oiled-silk Donny Benét has just gifted us his fifth album, Mr Experience. We spoke...
“D’you know wha’ I mean?”: A chat with Sleaford Mods
Bryget Chrisfield got herself a faceful of remorselessly candid and cosy recollections when she...
JoJo talks feeling awful, feeling delicious, and new album ‘Good to Know’
When her debut single Leave (Get Out) tore the world’s charts into shreds in 2004, JoJo was just...
Birds of Tokyo’s Ian Kenny talks gold sequins and ‘Human Design’
Birds Of Tokyo’s Ian Kenny tells us how the band stumbled into the very real narrative arc of...
Chewing the feral fat with Romy Vager (RVG)
Romy Vager talks scream therapy, holding grudges, and how many drill sounds is the correct number...
Music Talk with Kaila Buchanan (JB Armadale, WA)
Kaila Buchanan is your cut-and-dried music fiend – a lover of all genres, and also exactly the...
Violent Soho explain that billboard, and new LP ‘Everything Is A-OK’
After 16+ years as a band, James Tidswell is super-stoked to hear that Violent Soho‘s new album...
Second helping: We talk ISOL-AID Vol. 2 with co-founder Emily Ulman
ISOL-AID continues to go off like a Hot Wings-crammed Falcon 9, with its second outing planned for...
No apology necessary: Sorry talk debut LP ‘925’
It was allegedly Louis O’Bryen‘s “cool haircut” that first drew Asha Lorenz to...
A chat with The Chats on the new album High Risk Behaviour
Fasten your seat belts for The Chats’ upcoming debut album High Risk Behaviour, which crams 14...
A chat with Cable Ties’ Jenny and Shauna (on fresh LP ‘Far Enough’)
When STACK does coffee with Jenny McKechnie and Shauna Boyle from Cable Ties, they discuss...
Adam Lambert chats lustrous new album ‘Velvet’
Adam Lambert’s second album was the first by an openly gay artist to top the U.S. Billboard...
