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With vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honesty, folk artist Leah Senior returns with her new single ‘People Pleaser’. Written during an online workshop with Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief), the song is a call to step away from external pressures and noise, to come back to your own small world. Tune in to The Breakfast Spread as Claire Dickson is joined by Leah Senior for an intimate, acoustic performance, and to hear about Leah's upcoming new album.

Improvising multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and educator SOLUNE (Selene Messinis) is the recipient of the prestigious Melbourne International Jazz Festival Take Note initiative. A major outcome of this initiative is the performance of a brand new suite of works at the 2025 festival, and PBS was there to record this world premiere. Tune in to Black Wax this Monday to re-live MAD VANTAGE at the Night Cat and to hear Selene chat to Adam about this major work.

Tune in to Underground Love as Mparntwe-based folk-pop singer Elsie Lange joins Jordan Oakley. Having just released her new album 'The Normal Discontents of Living', she'll be launching the record at Northcote Social Club this Wednesday. ​Listen in to hear Elsie Lange perform a few live, acoustic songs from 3.30pm. 

'Weather Report' is the third album from local group, Hobson's Bay Coast Guard (HBCG). The 14 track LP is a comically cynical ode to this dying planet, with each song presenting a different natural disaster and its physical and metaphorical relationship to the human experience. Tune in to Underground Love as Jordan catches up with Chris and Erik from the band about their show at The John Curtin Hotel on Saturday, November 29.

Music label Bird’s Robe will wrap up their 15th anniversary celebrations in Melbourne with a massive show at Max Watts on Saturday, December 13. Headlining the last of three Melbourne events are post-rock band sleepmakeswaves, playing their first shows of 2025, alongside USA alternative rock icons …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, returning to Australia for the first time in over a decade. Tune in to hear Chris catch up with the label founder Mike Solo.

Tumbleweed founder and frontman Richie Weed will be joining Chris Pearson on Pojama People this Tuesday. Stepping into a bold new territory with his debut solo album 'Strays', the album captures raw honesty and spirit, marking a powerful new chapter in his career. Tune in to hear about his upcoming shows in Melbourne, including George Lane on November 28, and The Tote on November 30.

Mork was created by Thomas Eriksen in the town of Halden in Norway during 2004. Both then and now, the band functions as a one-man-band, much like many others within the black metal-genre. Primarily a side-project for Eriksen from the inception until the debut album was made in 2013, Mork are coming over to Australia next year for a nationwide tour. Burning Bitumen catch up with Thomas Eriksen, tune in to hear about Mork's show in Melbourne on January 22 at Central Club.

One of Australia's longest-running black metal bands, Pestilential Shadows have been building a towering canon of work since 2003. Whereas many of their native land's extreme metal exports either tend toward the chaotic or too clean, the shadowy collective led by founding vocalist / guitarist Balam consistently create compelling swathes of drama and darkness, all-enveloping emotion and regal-yet-gritty grandeur. Tune in to Burning Bitumen to hear about their new album ‘Wretch’.