Interviews

For nearly three decades, Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black Culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature, and film with almost militant consistency - to use art as a culturally transformative device. Named after his leap year birthday, Saul's new album 'Leap Life' arrives not like a conventional studio record - but a gathering of spirits, histories, frequencies and unfinished revolutions. Tune in this morning as Mike catches up with Saul Williams.

‘Cha Cha Slide’ is the new single from Bristol’s Getdown Services, released ahead of their anticipated debut album, 'Massive Champion'. An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, 'Massive Champion' finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years. This Tuesday on Underground Love, Jordan catches up with Getdown Services to chat about their new music. 

Returning to the Melbourne stage for the first time since coming home from Europe, Seedy Jeezus will also be playing at Lulie Tavern on September 4 alongside Junkyard Wizards. Joining Chris Pearson on Pojama People to chat about it, tune in to hear about the latest vinyl reissue of their 2015 self-titled debut album - the third pressing of the record that started it all.

Joining Chris tonight for a chat and a live performance is 4-piece psych/prog/stoner rock group Junkyard Wizards. Their album 'The Sky As We Know It' came out end of last year, and follows the physical and psychological journey of a group of wizards as they encounter an ancient malevolent being. Tune in to hear about their show at Lulie Tavern on September 4.

Vegan deathcore firestarters To The Grave will be joining Ryan on the show tonight, chatting about their headline tour with No Cure, veganism and the Australian deathcore scene. Tune in from 10pm to hear from vocalist Dane Evans and guitarist Nic Webb, along with tracks from their upcoming fourth full length album 'Liberation Front', which will be out on October 2 via BLKIIBLK.

Jazz and experimental clarinetist, improviser, composer and budding empresario Olivia Jones joins Cas to discuss 'Art Seed', a new Melbourne collective centered on providing gathering spaces for creative music in our beautiful city. Olivia runs regular curated gigs featuring emerging and well-known experimental jazz and improvising musicians on the Melbourne scene. Tune in to hear about Art Seed launching a label with Sydney Road Studios, to further support the local industry.

One of Australia’s foremost blues writers and performers, Marlene Cummins knows the blues from an Aboriginal woman’s perspective. Deeply influenced by her people's story, Marlene tells this through her art, lyrics, onstage performance as both an actress and singer, and more recently, through documentary filmmaking. Tune in for a live performance from Marlene, and to hear about her 'A Kindred People' exclusive performance happening at The Counts that day. 

'Diúlfhiacla' (baby teeth) is a collection of nine songs from Jojo Blakeney - a proud queer, non-binary artist of the Irish diaspora, born on Wurundjeri Country. Their work intertwines a long-standing practice of creating ambient music for meditation with traditional Gaelic folk music, gentle carrying intimate poems through both. This morning on Down By The River, Jojo joins Lauren Plant for an intimate live performance from 10am.

Joining Michael Mulholland for this episode of Junkyard is Guy Blackman from Chapter Music. He'll be chatting about the second instalment of Chapter’s acclaimed Australian post- punk compilation series 'Can’t Stop It!', originally released in 2007. Tune in to hear about this rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time.

To kick the show off, Kene Lightfoot catches up with Sam Bean about his black metal project Faustian. Featuring members from extreme metal groups like Werewolves, The Berzerker, and Psycroptic, the local band play dark, riff-heavy music. Find out more about Faustian's new album, on this episode of Burning Bitumen. 

For the second half of Burning Bitumen, Kene chats with Norwegian musician Ice Dale, aka Arve Isdal. Best known for his work in black metal band Enslaved, Ice Dale will be chatting about his heavy rock project Audrey Horne, as well as his projects I and Demonaz. Tune in to hear about his new music releases. 

Joining Saúl on Fiesta Jazz after their Studio 5 Live session, is Cuban-born pianist, composer, arranger and educator Romy Hernandez Carbo. Classically trained in Havana, she discovered her passion for composition, jazz and improvisation after moving to Australia over a decade ago, becoming deeply connected to the country’s vibrant contemporary music scene. Tune in to hear this incredible Studio 5 Live performance from the Romy Hernandez Trio, followed by an interview.

Stopping by Pojama People tonight is local heavy southern rock group, Rosewood. Made up of Gabriel Phillips on guitar and vocals, Regan Batley on guitar, James Barwick on drums and Matt Berg on bass, they'll be chatting with Chris Pearson about their upcoming single launch 'Down The Line', which is taking place at Lulie Tavern on September 11.

This week on the show, Ryan will be chatting with Karl Spiessl on Tyrannocoreus, the vocalist for Gippsland metalcore group Ocean Sleeper. He'll be sharing the story of Ocean Sleeper's rise to fame, including signing with RISE Records. Find out more about their debut full length album 'Peace When I'm Dead', and their headline show at the Forum on September 12.

Sydney’s indie rock/blues artist Nathan Cavaleri is coming to town for his show 'Growing Pains - The Nathan Cavaleri Story', playing at Memo Music Hall on September 10. From child prodigy to cancer survivor, from global stages to mental health collapse, Nathan has quite the story to tell. Joining Lauren Plant on Down By The River ahead of his show that night, tune in for a live performance from Nathan. 

The second album from DC Maxwell called 'The Singer' came out in May, and today on Radio City, DC Maxwell and his band will be joining Crispi to perform tracks from the album, live in Studio 3. Inspired from 90s rock bangers to tenderly written ballads with legendary US songwriter Bonnie “Prince” Billy, 'The Singer' is an album for the current moment, interrogating what it means to make and enjoy art in an age where death looms over our every breath. Tune in for this live performance.

Ahead of his show at Memo Music Hall on September 11, Pinky Beecroft will be stopping by Swinging Doors to catch up with Ernie on the show. Launching his new album 'Lonesome Wolf' - his first studio album in more than a decade, Pinky was also the singer songwriter and frontman of Machine Gun Fellatio, a band known for legendary live shows, extreme shenanigans and a string of radio hits. Tune in after 3pm to hear Pinky Beecroft live in the studio.

'Psychedelia in White', the third album from former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey and longtime collaborator Amanda Acevedo, is a natural evolution from their 2023 duet debut, 'Phantasmagoria in Blue'. Tonight on Junkyard, Mick drops by the show to chat with Michael Mulholland about their new record, which explores themes of mysticism, mythology, love, and loss. 

Joining Kene on Burning Bitumen tonight is Greg from UK gothic doom band Paradise Lost. Formed in Halifax in 1988, Paradise Lost carved out their legacy as pioneers of gothic metal; a brooding fusion of crushing heaviness and shadow‑drenched melody. Never content to remain static, the band has spent decades fearlessly exploring every corner of the dark‑music spectrum.  Tune in to hear about their forthcoming tour in Australia, playing at Max Watt's on October 20.