After a big week at Bigsound, Max sounds like a bag of rocks, and Sam's carrying the team. Alongside their favourite new music, the boys chat the first week of the ARIA chart's new rules, some tour news from two big female voices, and do a quick recap of the best of Bigsound.

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Max finishes out our Bigsound 2025 interviews as he sits down for a chat with RAGEFLOWER. It's a deep dive on balancing a desk job and a passion project, the revitalisation of the Sydney scene, and a little bit of Bigsound weather reporting thrown in for good measure.

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Max catches up with one of the coolest up-and-coming young artists in Australia, Theeth. They cover her brand new EP, brainstorm her fanbase's name, and put it out to Everton for a new club song.

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Max joins the Chor Bazaar crew to chat about their unique and exciting place in the music scene. They cover the huge range of genres that CB play in, how they balance their creative input across six artists, and how, after a recent tour to India, they saw how international audiences lean into different sounds.

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Sam sits down with Mel Blue ahead of the release of their second full-length album, "nomorejacketsplease". They cover how London's sound surprised them, the key differences between the European and Australian dance music scenes, and whether Phil Collins was an inspiration.

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Max sits down with one of the biggest names in Australian music Briggs to discuss his new heavy project, Big Noter. They cover where Briggs got his start in music, why Tom Morello's shirt has a target on it, and how he splits out the material he drops for each of his artistic outlets.

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As Day 2 of Bigsound dawned, Sam caught up with Jet Walker, a 23-year-old country artist from Gympie. They chat about some surprising influences on his music taste, a big tick of approval from one of the best alt-pop artists of the last few decades, and how his very first live show went just a few hours before we hit record.

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Next in our series live from Bigsound, we're chatting with Polish Club. It's a chaotic deep dive into their hectic release schedule, how they've felt going indie has been for the band, and why they didn't last long enough for a car battery in a German sex club.

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Starting our recap of the week that's been here on-ground at Bigsound, we're catching up with one of the best artists to break out of Brisbane over the last few years, Wafia. We chat her debut record, life in L.A., and why Garden City is the place to be in Brisbane.

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While Sam and Max spend the week at Bigsound, in Something New, it's big pop times across the board for both of the lads. In the news, a fan-favourite music venue in Brisbane is getting a facelift, and Apple Music is actively hunting disaffected Spotify users, and, over in the suitcase, we unpack which acts we're expecting to see as future headliners.

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