Danny Elfman on body-grotesquery and new album ‘Big Mess’
The decorated composer-singer-songwriter is as delightfully playful in conversation as his new...
Category: MUSIC INTERVIEWS
Liz Phair on Laurie Anderson, rancid perfume, and new album ‘Soberish’
Immediately heralded as femme-indie-rock’s poster-girl upon the release of her acclaimed...
The Dream House: an interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House
Neil Finn leads Crowded House into a freshly fam-focused era with the band’s truly...
Delta Goodrem on live recording, falsetto sweeps, dreamy new album
On her sixth studio album, Delta Goodrem’s diamond-cut voice serves as keyhole to her soul –...
Julia Stone on Boiler Room memories, St. Vincent, new album ‘Sixty Summers’
Sixty Summers may be Julia Stone’s third solo album away from the Angus & Julia...
Sharknado 2: Amy Shark takes her second bite
Amy Shark’s sophomore album is finally emerging onto shore; we spoke to the humble and...
London Grammar’s Hannah Reid takes the conch in convo with STACK
Ambient and celestial, the music of London Grammar has always found its anchor in the blissfully...
The Offspring’s Dexter and Noodles talk doomsday prep, new album
True to their irrepressible nature, The Offspring burst right out of the gate on their 10th studio...
Middle Kids’ Hannah Joy on sublime new LP ‘Today We’re the Greatest’
On the follow-up to beloved 2018 debut Lost Friends, Sydney alt-rock trio Middle Kids find the...
Nashville royalty Kings of Leon on their beautiful eighth album
Working with Grammy-winning producer Markus Dravs for the second time, Kings Of Leon are ready to...
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...
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...
