Ben Lee on hidden meanings of art-chat, getting older and weirder, new LP
Prince of positivity Ben Lee has crafted a rather astonishing guide to life in his musical...
Category: MUSIC INTERVIEWS
King Stingray on playing “the hits from the ’50s and 60 thousand years ago”
You can tell there’s something special about King Stingray long before you learn of their...
Dune Rats’ BC on cowbell, Shania Twain, ace new LP ‘Real Rare Whale’
Rocketing out of the surf in a spray of lager comes Dune Rats’ fourth album Real Rare Whale,...
Ground control to Alex the Astronaut: a (space) probing interview
Alex the Astronaut’s music has always been about the simple belief that empathy is a gift...
Beabadoobee on crying at her own songs, red pandas, ‘Beatopia’
Two years after her debut LP, Beabadoobee returns with a sophomore record on which hazy guitar...
Revealing David McComb: an interview with director Jonathan Alley
Seventeen years in the making, the debut feature film and passion project from director Jonathan...
Chris Cheney on liberation, confrontation, debut LP ‘The Storm Before the Calm’
From the salad days of schoolyard adventures to the gnawing anxiety of an LA night stretched...
Vance Joy on P!nk’s impressive energy, Latin rhythms, lyrics with teeth
Propelled by that softly marching percussion which always somehow slots into time with your own...
“Sound can create movement in all directions”: a Q&A with Angel Olsen
New love and new grief wrap like a cadeuceus around Chicago alt-rock-folk artist Angel...
Eliza & the Delusionals on 5 tracks which inspired anthemic debut LP ‘Now and Then’
Surging with indie esprit, Eliza & the Delusionals’ debut album Now and Then sees...
Harvey Sutherland on 5 tracks which inspired electronic funk-fest ‘Boy’
Meshing the squidgiest of funk with deliciously juice-choked beats which your booty will be...
Charlie Collins on the joys of smashing furniture, fresh LP ‘Undone’
This month, Charlie Collins welcomes us into the pages of a startlingly sincere new chapter in her...
Wet Leg are pulling (and patting) your leg
Besties-turned-bandmates Wet Leg have been concurrently hailed as guitar music’s saviour,...
Stefan Babcock (PUP) on how actual bat sh-t may have influenced new LP
Saying ‘yes’ to whatever (literal) batsh-t idea bubbled to the surface of their minds...
Janet Planet and Sugar Bones (Confidence Man) on ‘TILT’
Four years after their debut Confident Music for Confident People, Confidence Man are stepping out...
Tobias Forge (Ghost) on how a song is like a joke, new LP ‘Impera’
Bathed in the thurible-smoke of history and glinting with the reflected horror of present day,...
Dave Faulkner of Hoodoo Gurus chats “the dark heart underneath”
Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner gave STACK the skinny on singing from an “awful” character’s...
“Vulnerability is a strength”: Andy Golledge talks debut LP
The grooves of traditional masculinity are deeply-trodden within the country music genre, but Andy...
Nilüfer Yanya on live panic, lyrical layers, new LP ‘Painless’
On her second album Painless, English guitarist-singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya tips her basket of...
The youth is father of the man: Gang of Youths chat third LP
Vibrant with the kinds of scalpel-precise profundities for which lyricist and frontman Dave...
Slash explains the “orgasmic experience” of recording new album ‘4’
Rock titan and everlasting icon Slash spoke to STACK about how he links the souls of voice and...
Oil on troubled waters: an interview with Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst
Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst talks Murray-Darling River madness, his musical kinship with the...
Broods’ Georgia Nott on triggering texts, scuba sweat, new LP ‘Space Island’
Built around Farfisa organ, Nigerian-influenced rhythms, glinting field recordings, siren-esque...
Alt-J on song-midwifery, ice cream van samples, new LP ‘The Dream’
Mercury Prize-winning trio Alt-J return with fourth album The Dream, a record of sublimely...
William Crighton talks truth, choice, new LP ‘Water and Dust’
Aural storyteller William Crighton has delivered another collection of gorgeously vivid, roughhewn...
The story of a music man: Michael Hohnen on Gurrumul
In the four years since the passing of Dr. Gurrumul Yunupingu, the world’s ears have only...
“My work is love”: Q&A with Beach Boy and songwriting icon Brian Wilson
Through the early to mid-sixties, Brian Wilson was the most prolific songwriter in popular music....
Saying the things you wish you were hearing, with Courtney Barnett
Royal of relatability Courtney Barnett returns with her third album, the beautifully contemplative...
RÜFÜS DU SOL on the “dreamlike” live experience, new LP
RÜFÜS DU SOL are following their three previous top-two albums with a record which implores us to...
Duran Duran’s ace of bass John Taylor on new LP ‘Future Past’
When we admit Duran Duran’s John Taylor into our Zoom meeting, he materialises wearing a (frankly...
