Rock Indie

Local and international, new and used indie, garage, swamp rock and the latest Aussie and International releases are all represented on a wide range of Indie programs on PBS.

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Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice

Mon 6 May 2024 to Sun 12 May 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Funeral For Justice, the new album by Mdou Moctar.

Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, Funeral For Justice captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down.

Audrey Powne - From The Fire

Mon 29 Apr 2024 to Sun 5 May 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is From The Fire, the debut album by Audrey Powne.

Embracing all evolutions as a musician and composer, Audrey Powne releases From The Fire via independent UK record label BBE. Cover to cover telling her story of recovery, persistence, and survival, the album is one complete body of work, drawing from experiences in her own life and watching the world around her. 

Watch: Drunk Mums Studio 5 Live

Thu 25 Apr 2024
Studio 5 Live

Formed in 2011, Drunk Mums have released three albums and three EPs across their teenage lifespan, totaling over 50 original releases and clocking over 30 million streams. 

Their fourth studio album Beer Baby arrives just in time as they prepare to embark on a huge UK/European tour before returning home to play their biggest Australian shows yet in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.  

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - Total Reality

Mon 22 Apr 2024 to Sun 28 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Total Reality, the third full-length album by Dr Sure’s Unusual 
Practice.

Watch: Party Pest Studio 5 Live

Thu 18 Apr 2024
Studio 5 Live

Unpredictable and chaotic, Party Pest channel post-punk irreverence, blending discordant melodies, jangly guitar hooks, wild primal drumbeats, big bold bass grooves and synthesised sonic mayhem into a celebration of life as they know it.

Anything can and does happen when Party Pest play, so strap in for a wild ride and hear the band on Radio City for a special Studio 5 Live performance.

Check out Party Pest performing 'I Can Do Better' live in Studio 5 below:

Charm of Finches - Marlinchen in the Snow

Mon 15 Apr 2024 to Sun 21 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Marlinchen in the Snow, the fourth full-length album by Charm of Finches.

Recorded in the depths of winter in the woods of Nova Scotia with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, The Once, Oh Pep!) after five months of touring across Australia, UK and Europe, Marlinchen in the Snow is inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape in which it was created. The album reflects on Mabel and Ivy’s transient life on the road, belonging and the idea of home, along with the fragility of relationships.

 

Grace Cummings - Ramona

Mon 8 Apr 2024 to Sun 14 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Ramona, the third release by Australian singer/songwriter Grace Cummings. 

Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

Mon 1 Apr 2024 to Sun 7 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Trail of Flowers, the latest release from singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sierra Ferrell.

Sierra Ferrell brings a dose of beautifully strange magic to everything she touches. On her new album, she expands her sound while deepening the urgency of her songs, often revealing a wealth of wisdom within her wildly imaginative storytelling.

 

Ausecuma Beats - Dakar Bamako

Mon 25 Mar 2024 to Sun 31 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Dakar Bamako, the third studio album by Ausecuma Beats.

Dakar Bamako features a total of fourteen musicians from three cities around the world, coming together in a true cross-cultural collaboration that celebrates stories of migration, cooperation and the unifying power of music and dance as a force to bring humanity together.

Kim Gordon - The Collective

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Sun 24 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Collective, the second solo album by legendary multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon.

Recorded in Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez.