All My Friends Are in Bar Bands
196 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★ - 6 ratingsAcross over ten years of going to shows, I've met countless fascinating people that are joined together by the fact I love their music. This is a medium in which I look to find out the bigger picture, the extended story and the journey that brought them to where they are. No genre or topic is off limits. I'm David James Young - and all my friends are in bar bands.
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Episode 95: My Friends AJJ
December 22, 2017 08:17 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBThey started out as Andrew Jackson Jihad in 2004 - two friends in Arizona, taking on the weird and wonderful world of folk-punk. In the ensuing years, vocalist/guitarist Sean Bonnette and bassist Ben Gallaty have created some cult-classic LPs, toured the world and found themselves in a variety of peculiar situations. While in Australia on a headlining tour, the duo warmed up for their Newcastle date by telling stories about everything from Fieldy from Korn's solo album right up to playing in ...
Episode 94: My Friend Lauren Denitzio (Worriers/The Measure [SA])
December 22, 2017 08:03 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBGrowing up as an awkward music nerd in New Jersey, Lauren Denitzio never saw themselves fronting a band or playing punk rock. In 2017, they've done it twice - first as part of the crucially-underrated outfit The Measure [SA], whose album Notes was twice as good as most punk albums released in the 2010s and got half the recognition. In their second act, Worriers, Denitzio has further explored the semantics of the genre. With a slew of friends along for the ride, Denitzio has turned Worriers in...
Episode 93: My Friend Alex Lahey
November 30, 2017 21:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBFor many music listeners, Alex Lahey arrived on their doorstep with no note and no explanation - just a twangy guitar and a brilliant pop song. For those that had been paying attention, though, the ascent of this underdog was a few years in the making . Having forged a name as one-seventh of Animeaux, Lahey was a seasoned performer and songwriter well before people thought they didn't like people like her. In the midst of a massive year - sell-out tours, festival appearances and the release o...
Episode 92: My Friend Sarah Thompson (Camp Cope/Poison City Records)
November 23, 2017 21:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBIt's amazing to have any time at all with Sarah Louise Thompson. Better known among friends as Thomo, the beanie-toting Melburnian divides her time between affairs of Poison City Records and bringing up the rear of the beloved Camp Cope. Still, miraculously, a window was found in which to share Thomo's story - which, prior to Camp Cope's formation in 2015, hadn't involved her playing music for over half a decade. From a Hole-obsessed kid in Kiama to Skinny's in Brisbane and everywhere in-betw...
Episode 91: My Friends WAAX
November 16, 2017 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThings went from 0 to 100 in 2017 for Brisbane band WAAX. They've become festival favourites, sold out shows in their own right and rocked some massive venues alongside Dune Rats - all off the back of their killer EP, . We went on a blind date of sorts with three-fifths of the band - Chris, Maz and Tom - to learn a little more about where the band got their initial start and their surefire ascent over the last year. Among other things, we also get into north coast hardcore, the logistics of b...
Episode 90: My Friend Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz/Sad13)
November 09, 2017 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBShe sings. She shreds. She slays. She's not taking your shit. She's Sadie Dupuis, AKA Sad13 - and if you're not already across her work, it's time to get thoroughly acquainted. Rising to an international profile through her work with Speedy Ortiz, Dupuis has been surrounded by music for as long as she can remember and been playing it for almost as long. It's taken her from the inner workings of the DIY scene in New York to the stages of Bigsound in Australia, which brought her here for the fi...
Episode 89: My Friend Caiti Baker
October 13, 2017 08:09 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBCaiti Baker is one of the most powerful voices in Australian music - and that is absolutely not a figure of speech. Tumbling through blues, soul, hip-hop and back, Baker is a striking and assertive vocalist that cut her teeth at the helm of Elefant Traks underdogs Sietta. Upon its dissolution, Baker turned her attention to a solo career; traversing the entire country and playing across a myriad of bars, cafes and holes in the wall. She's finally released her debut album, and is currently on t...
Episode 88: My Friends at Yours & Owls Festival 2017
October 05, 2017 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBWe're back, baby! Once again, we're thrilled to take you backstage at Wollongong's amazing Yours & Owls festival; in which we get a moment to discuss first, worst and best gig experiences with some of the absolute legends floating around the festivities. This year, our guests are Ali Barter, Brad Heald (The Vines, Red Riders, Ruby Fields), Izzy Manfredi (The Preatures), Marcus and Josh from Northlane, Max and Kurt from Easy Life, Teri Gender Bender from Le Butcherettes, Montaigne and Sorority...
Episode 87: My Friend Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré)
September 28, 2017 22:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBDon't go into a Touché Amoré show expecting a gentle, easy listening experience. It's going to be emotionally quite brutal - both on and off the stage. Truth be told, fans of the band wouldn't have it any other way. It's due in no small part to vocalist Jeremy Bolm, who lays it all bare through the band's introspective, intense collection of songs. He's the kind of lyricist that people get tattoos of and the kind of frontman that will have people screaming in his face - so it's almost a surpr...
Episode 86: My Friends Jonathan Boulet and Kirsty Tickle (Party Dozen, Exhibitionist, Parades, Little Scout et al).
September 22, 2017 04:23 - 1 hour - 57 MBThe 2010s are not over yet and the nostalgia seems to have already started. In the spirit of that, here's a chat with two Australian artists that originally came to prominence at the start of the decade - one as an indie-pop darling getting reblogged by Kanye West, the other as an up-and-coming Brisbane keyboardist in a band adored by Camera Obscura and The New Pornographers alike. When Jonathan Boulet and Kirsty Tickle first crossed paths on tour with Parades and Little Scout, respectively, ...
Episode 85: My Friends Japandroids
August 17, 2017 17:41 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBWith only one guitar, one drum-kit and two full-throated voices, Vancouver's Japandroids made a quick ascent to the top of the indie-rock heap with loud, love-in live shows and anthems designed to be screamed in arms with your best friends. Then.... nothing. For three years. It was around this time last year, however, that guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse made their very welcome return, immediately making up for lost time and dropping their third album at the start of 2017. Befor...
Episode 84: My Friend Lincoln Le Fevre
August 03, 2017 13:38 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB"I should warn you," prefaces Lincoln Le Fevre of Lincoln Le Fevre and the Insiders at the start of his third album, Come Undone: "I'm not built to last." Still, if his two decades and change of playing music prove anything, it's the complete opposite. Whether rousing a pub full of punks with his sing-alongs or playing hardcore punk in Outright, Le Fevre has constantly found new ways to keep his musical endeavours interesting and engaging. His journey takes him from the school hall to the bar...
Episode 83: My Friend Jordan Hudkins (Rozwell Kid)
July 12, 2017 18:47 - 34 minutes - 32 MBMars ain't no place to raise a kid, and West Virginia ain't no place to rock & roll - or, at least, so you'd be lead to believe. Enter Rozwell Kid, whose love of big riffs and old-school powerpop has endeared them to audiences on a global scale. They've just released their fourth album, Precious Art, but back in September 2016 the Kid visited Australia for the very first time as a part of Poison City Weekender. Before another sweaty, show-stopping set as a part of I Love Life at Sydney's Mann...
Episode 82: My Friend A.W.
June 15, 2017 03:46 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBFor years, Georgia's A.W. would write, record and play music in their bedroom; completely unaware of the impact their songs and albums were having on the world outside. The magic of the internet meant their unique, earnest and catchy music was heard across the world; and it's brought her a surefire cult fanbase along the way. In May, A.W. and their backing band toured Australia for the very first time in support of lifetime friends of the show The Smith Street Band. We were able to steal A.W....
Episode 81: My Friend Adam Gibson (The Ark-Ark Birds, Modern Giant, The Aerial Maps)
May 24, 2017 22:16 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBSome were born to sing. Some were born to shred. Adam Gibson was born to speak - his art is poetry and spoken word; matched up to everything from jangly indie-pop to dark and atmospheric rock. His love of storytelling and yarns matched up with his love of punk rock got him an early and unique start in the world of music, and it's one he's held onto for decades. Now at the helm of the collective Adam Gibson & The Ark-Ark Birds, he continues to share stories of love, loss and the land to this v...
Episode 80: My Friend Amy Shark
April 27, 2017 17:26 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBWhat do you do when you live on the Gold Coast and you've already visited the various amusement parks? If you're Amy Billings - aka Amy Shark - you take to learning guitar, working your way up to singing and eventually giving the whole singer-songwriter thing a go. After building up a sure but certain following, Billings went for gold with last year's "Adore." What she ended up with, however, was double platinum and the #2 spot in the Triple J Hottest 100. So, who is this out-of-nowhere upsta...
Episode 79: My Friend David Liebe Hart
April 16, 2017 13:25 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBDavid Liebe Hart has done a remarkable amount with his near-70 years on the planet. He's a singer, songwriter, visual artist, puppeteer, actor, punk rocker and one of the most celebrated outsider artists in the world. Best known for his time as a part of Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Hart is filled with unique stories, ideas and songs. In Australia for the third time, he shared some of his wisdom in a non-stop interview recorded in Wicks Park in the north of Marrickville. From ibises to ...
Episode 78: My Friends Rolo Tomassi
March 09, 2017 16:29 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBAs angsty teens breaking out of a village near Sheffield in England, Rolo Tomassi always knew they'd have to stand out among the pack. 12 years on, they're adults with four albums under their belts and a handful of world tours completed. That rage has been maintained, however; and they still put on one of the best live shows in all of post-hardcore. The band were in Australia for the fourth time this past October for a headlining tour, and the band's founding members - siblings Eva and James ...
Episode 77: My Friends The Dirty Nil
February 22, 2017 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBIt's time to rock and roll with some of our neighbours to the north. The Dirty Nil are loud and proud, straight out of Hamilton, Ontario with a game plan to kick arse and chew bubblegum. It's taken them from high school burnouts to touring the world with the likes of Alexisonfire and Billy Talent, and a killer live reputation to boot. While guitarist/vocalist Luke Bentham and drummer Kyle Fisher were taking in the massive surrounds of the Hordern Pavilion, just hours before opening for the af...
Episode 76: My Friends Jason Aalon Butler (letlive.) And Andy Williams (Every Time I Die)
February 15, 2017 16:18 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBOne's a fearless frontman, at the helm of one of the liveliest and most exciting bands in post-hardcore, letlive. The other is a shredder of the highest order, having served as a sturdy sideman in Every Time I Die for nearly 20 years. Their respective bands teamed up for a co-headlining run in January of 2017 around the second annual Unify festival - and just before they played to a packed Metro Theatre in Sydney, Jason Aalon Butler and Andy Williams took Bar Bands on a dinner date; figurativ...
Episode 75: My Friends Horror My Friend
February 02, 2017 16:29 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAdelaide's Horror My Friend may have put out "Stay In, Do Nothing" at the start of 2016; but they spent most of the year doing exactly the opposite. As one of the most exciting and promising rock bands in the country right now, the trio have undergone a touring regime that has seen them play with the likes of Camp Cope, Pity Sex and Hockey Dad among many more. This episode sees the band joking about and reminiscing in the back alleys of Darlinghurst before a show at the Oxford Art Factory bac...
The Best Of 2016
February 01, 2017 11:25 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBThe votes are in, and here some clips from the best episodes of 2016 as voted for by YOU! 10. Meridian 9. Modern Baseball 8. Jeff Rosenstock 7. Frank Iero 6. Mere Women 5. PUP 4. Cayetana 3. Chris Farren 2. Jacob 1. Courtney Barnett Thanks to all who voted, thanks to all of our guests and thank YOU for listening. We're back, baby! Follow Bar Bands on Twitter: @BarBandsPod Support David on Patreon: http://patreon.com/davidjamesyoung See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 74: My Friends PUP
December 26, 2016 14:25 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBYou can't stop PUP. You can barely hope to contain them. Hundreds of shows a year? Bring it on. Destroyed vocal cords? 'Tis but a flesh wound. These Toronto natives have navigated the entire globe with their raw, authentic take on rousing melodic punk. With their 2016 album, The Dream is Over, PUP took up the mantel of Canada's most vital rock act - and anyone who's seen them live this year will testify to that very fact. Before a sold-out show at Sydney's Oxford Art Factory, guitarist Steve ...
Episode 73: My Friends Sleepmakeswaves
December 26, 2016 14:09 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBFrom a whisper to a shout, Sydney band sleepmakeswaves have spent the last decade building up their name as perhaps our finest post-rock export. Theirs is a journey fulll of left-of-centre victories - sold-out shows, top-40 album chart positions and world tours are naming but a few - that are all completely unbecoming of a band that's never done things in a conventional manner from a stylistic standpoint. Their self-described "love songs about delay pedals" have carved out a niche so sharp an...
Episode 72: My Friends The Pinheads
December 22, 2016 19:41 - 37 minutes - 34 MBTo do battle against boring live shows, Wollongong recruited seven loose units with attitude and gave birth to The Pinheads. It's only been a short period of time, but the gang have already traversed the east coast and gotten wild with a slew of great bands, from Totally Unicorn to Hockey Dad. Five of them huddled into a back table at Wollongong's Little Prince and explained how surf movies, metal moshpits and shitty sound-guys have made them who they are today. The Pinheads' single "Wildfir...
Episode 71: My Friends Mere Women
November 27, 2016 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBFrom the leisure coast to the inner west, Amy Wilson and Flyn Mckinnirey have come a long way - and we're not just talking Bulli Pass here. Through early individual projects like Ohana and Little a, the two musicians developed a taste for truly alternative music and have continued to pursue it further down the rabbit hole through their band Mere Women. Now, they are one of the single most impressive indie bands in the country, with an enviable live show and a powerful string of songs. Before ...
Episode 70: My Friends Cayetana
November 17, 2016 16:03 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBCayetana are a divine sisterhood from the city of brotherly love. In only a few years together, they have assembled a cult global fanbase for their honest and heartfelt take on indie-punk and played with everyone from PUP to Billy Idol. In September, the trio - Augusta on vocals and guitar, Allegra on bass and Kelly on drums - made their debut in Australia as a part of the Poison City Weekender and on a co-headlining tour with friends-of-the-show Camp Cope. Gathered around the floor of the Ne...
Episode 69: My Friends Jacob
November 10, 2016 12:33 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBMetallica. Slayer. Iron Maiden. Black Sabbath. AC/DC. These are just some of the many bands that Jacob has not played with. Still, don't get it twisted - this rock band is doing just fine for itself, with or without the support of Lars Ulrich. In what is unquestionably the most ridiculous episode of the podcast to date, we go four-on-one (and occasionally five-on-one) with the Wollongong/Newcastle hybrid in the first-ever unsanctioned and uncut episode. Everything you hear is live to tape, an...
Episode 68: My Friends Drowning Pool
November 03, 2016 11:43 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBIt's been 15 years since Drowning Pool - primitively-heavy by design and southern by the grace of God - first let the bodies hit the proverbial floor. A myriad of changes have faced them and the world around them since then - the tragic loss of their original singer, the decline of their genre's movement - but the truth is that Drowning Pool have never gone anywhere. They've stuck to their guns defiantly as one of nu-metal's truest survivors - and, with a new lead singer at the helm, they've ...
Episode 67: My Friend James Alex (Beach Slang/Weston)
October 20, 2016 15:40 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBRock & roll is a world that rarely gives second chances - so, when James Alex decided to give it another go-around, few could have predicted that he'd immediately strike gold with Beach Slang; who have gone on to become one of the most hyped indie-rock bands on the planet. It came some 20 years after Alex originally broke into the world of music with Weston, a cult pop-punk outfit for which he played guitar - and yet, their worlds are completely different, yet more closely aligned than you mi...
Episode 66: My Friends Clowns
October 13, 2016 15:29 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBLet's get something straight - Melbourne's Clowns have been out terrorising unsuspecting victims in the dead of night long before any of these other posers. The Melbourne band are one of the country's most in-demand touring bands, having shared stages this year alone with previous guests The Bennies and The Sword as well as knocking headlining shows out of the park both her and abroad. Recorded while the band were in Wollongong on their tour supporting the aforementioned Bennies, vocalist Ste...
Episode 65: My Friends At Yours & Owls Festival 2016
October 06, 2016 15:26 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBSlap on your sunscreen and flash your laminate pass like you're in Wayne's World - this week, we're taking you backstage at one of the biggest festivals of the year, Yours & Owls' birthday bash in Wollongong. Across two days, we spoke to eight different acts about the highs and lows of their own gig experiences. Amy and Sarah from Stonefield, REMI, Rob Lind from The Sonics, Hayley and Sam from The Jezabels, Alex Upton from The Hard Aches, Little May, Hermitude and Bleached all shared their st...
Episode 64: My Friend Tom Lyngcoln (The Nation Blue, Harmony, Pale Heads Et Al.)
September 29, 2016 17:32 - 45 minutes - 42 MBYou may know Tom Lyngcoln for his years of service at the helm of The Nation Blue, one of the most high-octane and zero-bullshit rock bands this country has perhaps ever seen. You may know him from Harmony, the heaven-and-hell garage-blues monstrosity that simultaneously inspires and terrifies. In more recent years, you may have also seen him fronting Pale Heads with mates from The Drones and Batpiss. Hell, you just might know him as the guy that bled on you at a show once and then stuck his ...
Episode 63: My Friends Cub Sport
September 22, 2016 21:49 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB2016 has been a huge year for Brisbane's Cub Sport: They've released their long-awaited debut album This is Our Vice, played two huge shows with The 1975 and completed a totally sold-out national tour. It's a long way removed from when Tim Nelson originally recruited Zoe Davis, Sam Netterfield and Dan Puusaari to play music together - and although the group are still in their early twenties, their inter-connected history runs deeper than what you might expect. Recorded in Sydney at the Warren...
Episode 62: My Friends Philadelphia Grand Jury
September 07, 2016 13:37 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBBack when the colour spectrum of Australian music held the likes of Purple Sneakers and Yves Klein Blue, Philadelphia Grand Jury - aka the Philly Jays - reigned supreme as one of the most exciting and energetic bands on the scene. It all imploded some years back, but serendipity and happenstance eventually drew the classic line-up of Simon "Berkfinger" Berckelman, Joel "MC Bad Genius" Beeson and Dan "Dan W. Sweat" Williams back together. Though the nostalgia was fun, it's now shifted back int...
Episode 61: My Friend Brad Fulton (Outright/The Gun Runners)
September 04, 2016 14:27 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBYou can't keep Brad Fulton too far from a stage. The Melbourne native cut his teeth at the helm of a triple-pronged guitar attack in The Gun Runners before becoming a member of feminist hardcore renegades Outright. He's also subbed in as lead guitarist for Ceres, worshipped one of the dark lords of rock & roll with The Glenn Danzing Tapdanzig Extravadanzig and has most recently spent time as a stage-hand and guitar tech for the likes of The Smith Street Band, Luca Brasi and Violent Soho. In-b...
Episode 60: My Friends Basement
August 04, 2016 13:47 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIpswich, Suffolk natives Basement are all about breaking down barriers. Across three studio albums, they've blended their love of second-wave emo, grunge, alternative rock and punk rock into some of the sharpest rock music to emerge from the UK in the 2010s. Then, there's also the literal aspect of things - at one of the band's shows, the surge of the crowd was so powerful that the crowd barrier caved in. This is the kind of passionate response that has come to define Basement's live show - s...
Episode 59: My Friends Turnover
July 28, 2016 16:52 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBAustin and Casey Getz are one half of pop-punk hopefuls turned dream-pop delights Turnover. Born in New Orleans and now living in Virginia Beach, the Getz brothers have lived their lives through music together. In the half-decade and change that Turnover has been a part of their world, they've managed to live a hundred lives more than some bands twice their lifespan - taking in world tours, critical acclaim and a fluid genre shift that has lead to one of 2015's most talked-about albums, Perip...
Episode 58: My Friends DZ Deathrays
July 21, 2016 14:38 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBFor awhile there, every man and his dog were in a two-piece band. Let the record show, however, that Brisbane-via-Sydney-via-Bundaberg's DZ Deathrays were making it cool before that shit was cool. Over nearly a decade on the scene, Shane Parsons and Simon Radley have rocked every fathomable stage there is both nationally and internationally - from house parties to stadiums; sell-out theatres to SXSW riots. The duo had a window of time before taking to the stage in support of Violent Soho at S...
Episode 57: My Friend Tom Lanyon (Ceres)
July 13, 2016 02:59 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBFor most of his life, music was kept strictly behind closed doors for Tom Lanyon. These days, it's his life. As the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and chief lyricist of Melbourne upstarts Ceres, Lanyon has found a home on stage with three of his best mates; resulting in packed-out shows both as headliners in their native city and in support of artists like Violent Soho, The Hotelier and Against Me!. This was recorded last December at Black Wire Records, while the band were touring as national ...
Episode 56: My Friends Fear Like Us
July 07, 2016 16:28 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBFear Like Us are a shining example of a Newcastle band: They're raw and passionate, the music is direct from the heart and they all now live in Melbourne. Although a band technically now for going on 12 years, it's taken the band a fair bit of their sweet-arse time to push beyond semi-activity. Before a ripper headlining show at Black Wire Records with friends of the show Run Squirrel, Canine and previous guests Burlap, we spoke with founding member Kim Wall and long-serving bassist Babor "Ba...
Episode 55: My Friends Tired Lion
July 01, 2016 16:13 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBG'day from WA! Perth upstarts Tired Lion have been at it for only a couple of years, but in that time they've been able to grace stages nationally and pack out rooms with their sharp and shredding take on alt-rock. From touring with Spiderbait to opening Splendour, it's been a pretty huge run for the band between their first visit to Newtown Social Club last March, opening for Luca Brasi, and here at their headlining show with The Hard Aches. Ethan and Nick from the band (with extra input fro...
Episode 54: My Friend Joel Martorana (Endless Heights)
June 23, 2016 15:11 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBEver since Joel Martorana was a kid, he's had the music in him - he spent formative years singing in the choir and as part of an opera troupe. That was never going to be where he wound up, however - as the frontman for Endless Heights, he's channelled all of his passion and emotion into one of the most consistently-engaging and energetic live bands in Australia. It's lead them to shows with artists like Refused and Title Fight, as well as packed-out headlining shows in support of all of their...
Episode 53: My Friends The Gooch Palms
June 19, 2016 17:15 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBFrom the Cambridge Hotel to the Corner Hotel, Leroy Macqueen and Kat Friend - better known as The Gooch Palms - have laid waste to stage after stage with their stupidly-simple and seriously sensational take on garage rock. They have just completed a national tour in support of Violent Soho, playing some of their biggest shows to date; and this week saw them release their second studio album, Introverted Extroverts. But how did these two Novocastrian weirdos make it onto a national stage with ...
Episode 52: My Friend Jeremy Neale
June 09, 2016 13:58 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBYou might know him as the head of the Velociraptor. You might know him as the Sega Dreamboat. You might know him as the space cowboy, the gangster of love, Maurice, the joker or the southern dandy. You might just know him for bein' a plain old sweetheart of Australian independent music. However you've come across Brisbane's Jeremy Neale, he's made a lasting impression - and it's not hard to see why. Oozing charisma and energy, the multi-instrumentalist has built up a solid CV of rock & roll g...
Episode 51: My Friends Meridian
May 26, 2016 17:26 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBMore like Signals Mid-best! The adorable and charming Stern brothers - Max (Signals Midwest, The Skatastrophes) and Jake (Same, The Otis Wolves) - are in session this week. Having both gotten into guitar, piano and singing from an early age, the two share a history of high-school kick-arounds and DIY touring; all of which comes together on their emo-indie-folk project Meridian. On their final night in Sydney, prior to a barbeque and a park show, the Sterns shared stories from Ohio to Australi...
Episode 50: My Friends Modern Baseball
May 19, 2016 14:37 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBTheir union may have been one of pure circumstance and coincidence, but these days Modern Baseball are the four best friends that anyone could have. Over the course of three albums and just a few years, the band have become a mouthpiece for the awkward, the disenfranchised and the anxious through their motor-mouthed, anthemic pop-punk. In April, the band finally arrived in Australia after having to unfortunately cancel their September tour plans. In the aftermath of a completely sold-out run,...
Episode 49: My Friend Heath Anthony
May 12, 2016 19:42 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBAfter a handful of false starts, Adelaide dad(elaide) Heath Anthony began forging his way as a solo artist in the early 2010s. Since then, he's racked up a bunch of shows around the country, made a bunch of friends for life and expressed himself in the only way he knows how - one voice, one guitar and zero bullshit. Before the final show on his national tour with Newcastle's Jack Lundie, Heath had a quick chat about the story so far - from grunge kid to hardcore reject all the way up to his f...
Episode 48: My Friends Die! Die! Die!
May 05, 2016 17:16 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBFrom the indie haven of Dunedin, New Zealand comes Die! Die! Die!, a (literally) in-your-face post-punk outfit that have laid claim to some of the wildest and most high-energy shows throughout Australasia and beyond over the past decade and change. Put simply, if you don't leave a Die! Die! Die! show sweaty, torn and hoarse... you weren't at a Die! Die! Die! show. With 'new guy' Rory Attwell (Test Icicles, Balls) in tow, founding members Andrew Wilson and Michael Prain talked about the band's...
Episode 47: My Friend Jeff Rosenstock
April 28, 2016 22:51 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBJeff Rosenstock lives and breathes DIY. He was formerly the lead singer of a band that anyone could be in, Bomb the Music Industry!, and you can download literally every piece of music he has ever worked on for free. The New York native and multi-instrumentalist has been at it since his teenage years, and shows no signs of slowing down following the release of one of 2015's best albums, We Cool? The former music-industry bomber and arrogant son-of-a-bitch undertook an Australian tour in March...