Matt Sorum joined Guns N'Roses in time to play on their 1991 Use Your Illusion albums. At that point they were the biggest rock band in the world, and though Matt had experienced fame before with The Cult, stepping into Guns N'Roses was another level altogether.

Combine the unresolved issues from his childhood with the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll that went hand in hand with being in the world's most dangerous rock band, and you had a fiery cocktail that took Matt down a very extreme path of excess.

He writes about it all in his new memoir, Double Talkin' Jive. From his upbringing to his move to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune, from his time with Guns N'Roses, The Cult and Velvet Revolver to the lessons he's learned along the way, there's a lot to unpack, as he reveals in this episode.

Keli Holiday is a fictious character created by Peking Duk's Adam Hyde to channel a different side of his musical personality.

While Peking Duk deal in high energy, partystarting electronic music that regularly goes platinum and tops the charts in Australia, Keli Holiday is informed more by emotional introspection and the music of Joy Division and New Order.

The idea for the project came to Adam at the end of a two-month US tour with Peking Duk, and once he committed to it the music just poured out. That music is available on Keli Holiday's debut album KELI, and while Adam might have released the record under that name, this music is Adam Hyde at his rawest and most vulnerable, as he explains here…

The name Skylar Grey might not be instantly recognisable, but you'll definitely know the songs she's co-written: "Love The Way You Lie" by Eminem, "Clarity" by Zedd, "I Need A Doctor" by Dr. Dre and "Last One Standing" from the Venom: Let There Be Carnage soundtrack are just some of her hits.

Skylar sung the chorus hook on "Glorious" by Macklemore and "Coming Home" by Diddy; she's a long-time collaborator with Eminem, as a performer, songwriter and producer; and she is also a solo artist in her own right.

In fact from the moment she started performing as a kid, being the main artist was Skylar's goal. But as you're about to find out there have been many detours along the way, with both incredible highs and soul crushing lows.

It was during one of those lows that Skylar wrote, performed and produced her new self-titled solo album.

We talk about it all in this interview.

Tex Perkins is one of the finest and fiercest frontmen ever to stalk a stage, and the very definition of an artist who follows his instincts wherever they take him.

He first made his name in Sydney in the '80s when he formed the primal rock band The Beasts Of Bourbon, but he had his greatest commercial success with The Cruel Sea, who for a while in the early to mid-'90s were one of Australia's biggest bands.

Since then he's released many great albums with multiple projects, the latest being The Fat Rubber Band.

This interview is a lot of fun and contains stories of rioting crowds, police run-ins, and the conclusion of a decades-long saga involving an ARIA Award, a bin, and a man named Ernie.

Midlake recently released their fifth studio album, For the Sake of Bethel Woods.

It's their first album since 2013's Antiphon, and the second to feature guitarist Eric Pulido on vocals after founding frontman Tim Smith left the band in 2012.

Having gone on hiatus at the end of the Antiphon touring cycle, the idea of making new music was first floated in 2019. The deal was sealed when keyboardist/flautist Jesse Chandler had a dream in which he was visited by his father, who'd recently passed away. In that dream his dad said it was time to get the band back together.

Jesse's dad Dave is on the cover of For the Sake of Bethel Woods, captured at the age of 16 at Woodstock, and we talk about that image in this interview, as well as that dream.

We also talk about the themes around the new record, the band's hiatus, Eric's upbringing and path into Midlake and more.

Shamir's new album Heterosexuality is an intensely personal record.

While in the past Shamir has sung about his identity as a queer, non-binary person, he says this is the first time he's really tackled his relationship as a queer person with the binary, heterosexual world. (I should point out that I spoke with Shamir about which pronouns he's comfortable with me using, and he replied that he/his/him is fine.)

Heterosexuality is Shamir's eighth full-length record, but the path to this point has been anything but linear. After signing to British indie label XL at the age of 19 and releasing acclaimed debut album Ratchet in 2015, Shamir then split with the label due to creative differences and released his second album, Hope, on SoundCloud for free.

After recovering from a psychotic episode Shamir immersed himself in the Philadelphia indie scene and released five DIY albums in less than three and a half years, following his creative muse wherever it took him.

We talk about that journey in this interview, as well as Shamir's upbringing in the Nation of Islam, the label he founded, Accidental Popstar Records, his new LP Heterosexuality, and more.

As the daughter of two visual artists, art has always played a central role in Nilüfer Yanya's life.

Discovered at 20 after uploading demos to SoundCloud, she quickly released a series of EPs for which she was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2018, followed by her 2019 debut album, Miss Universe.

As well as playing music, Nilüfer co-founded an organisation called Artists In Transit, which delivers art workshops to communities in times of hardship.

We talk about Artists In Transit in this interview as well as Nilüfer's upbringing and path into music, and her new album Painless.

New Zealand indie-pop superstar BENEE recently released her latest EP, Lychee. It's the follow-up to her 2020 debut album Hey u x, which exploded around the world on the back of the hit single 'Supalonely'. BENEE, though, had to watch all that unfold from Auckland due to COVID restrictions.

That finally changed late in 2021 when she travelled to the US to work with songwriters and producers like Greg Kurstin and Rostam. Alongside collaborations with her longtime producer Josh Fountain, her work with Greg and Rostam features on her new EP, which we talk about in this interview. We also talk about BENEE's upbringing and path into music, her earliest musical experiences, meeting Elton John, and much more.

Midnight Oil recently released their 13th studio album, Resist.

It's the Oils' first full-length since 2002's Capricornia, after which they disbanded and singer Peter Garrett pursued a career in politics.

They reunited for 2017's Great Circle comeback tour, which saw the band play 77 shows around the globe – although sadly, Midnight Oil gigs are soon going to be a thing of the past, with the group announcing that the tour in support of Resist will be their last.

In this interview Peter Garrett and multi-instrumentalist Jim Moginie discuss that decision, as well as the making of Resist and their long, storied career as a band.

Foxes – AKA British singer-songwriter Louisa Rose Allen – recently released her third album, The Kick.

It's her first full-length in six years, and follows a period out of the spotlight during which she took stock of her career and found a new team and label.

The period leading up to that hiatus had been a non-stop whirlwind of activity that kicked off when Foxes' featured on Zedd's gigantic 2012 hit, "Clarity". From there she released two well received albums and collaborated with artists like Fall Out Boy and Rudimental, all while touring the world with Pharrell and Coldplay and as a headliner in her own right.

But somewhere along the way Foxes felt like she was losing the core of who she was as an artist, so she decided to take time out and re-evaluate her career.

We talk about that journey in this interview as well as Foxes' upbringing in the UK, her path into music, her new album 'The Kick', and loads more.