When Amyl and the Sniffers came together in 2016, they didn't so much form as they did fall together. They were sharing a house in Melbourne and had a jam one afternoon, and ended up writing and recording four songs in the space of a few hours. They uploaded them to Bandcamp the next day, called the EP Giddy Up, and just like that, Amyl and the Sniffers were born.

Since then the band's mix of raw punk and fiery rock'n'roll has earned rave reviews, they've played some of the world's biggest festival stages, and they've achieved all this without changing or doing anything to court the mainstream.

Vocalist Amy Taylor talks about her upbringing in this interview, as well as Amyl and the Sniffers' unlikely success, the steep learning curve that came with it, their latest album 'Comfort To Me', and more!

Matthew E. White's new album, K Bay, is a wildly diverse record that has no regard for current trends. But then that's how Matthew has run his career from day one.

Not only is he a musician, he is also the founder of the Spacebomb music company, which has released albums by artists like Natalie Prass, Bedouine and Nadia Reid, and become one of the most well regarded independent music companies around.

We talk about that whole ride in this interview, as well as Matthew's upbringing in the Philippines and Japan, his path into music, and much, much more.

Ilan Rubin has established himself as one of the top session musicians in the world, playing with artists such as Paramore, Beck and Angels & Airwaves, the project founded by former blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge.

In 2020 he became the youngest person ever inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame for his work with Nine Inch Nails.

It's testament to the drive and talent of a man who started playing drums as a young child, and by 11 had already played the Warped Tour and the 1999 Woodstock Festival with the band F.O.N.

But Ilan plays more than just drums – as a solo artist he plays every instrument, as well as singing.

We explore Ilan's entire career in this interview.

Nick Murphy recently released a new Chet Faker album called Hotel Surrender. It's the first Chet Faker record since 2014's Built On Glass, although Nick has released a couple of albums under his own name in between, most recently the instrumental album Music For Silence.

As Nick explains in this interview, he surprised even himself by making another Chet Faker album – in his eyes he'd effectively killed that project several years earlier as he struggled to deal with the success of Built On Glass and his first EP, Thinking In Textures, which featured a cover of Blackstreet's "No Diggity".

While taking time away to re-evaluate his place in the world and release music under his own name, he learned tools that helped him find joy in the concept of Chet Faker, instead of dread. We talk about that whole journey.

2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Soundgarden's landmark album, Badmotorfinger. When they released that record the band were on the verge of exploding, with Seattle quickly becoming the epicentre of the music universe, with Pearl Jam releasing Ten and Nirvana releasing Nevermind that same year.

But as Kim explains in this interview, from the day in 1984 when he formed Soundgarden with bassist Hiro Yamamoto and vocalist Chris Cornell, who was also playing drums at that point, they were never willing to bend towards the mainstream – instead they'd make it come to them. And come it did.

We talk about the band's formation and rise in this interview, what life was like in Seattle as the scene was exploding, the tragic moment Kim heard of Kurt Cobain's passing, and Kim's memories of Chris Cornell, who we lost in 2017.

How many interviews have you listened to where an artist has said they picked up an instrument as a kid, and they knew from that moment that they wanted a career in music? Well, that is not Joshua Radin's story.

Joshua didn't pick up a guitar until he was 30, having spent his 20s trying to make a living as a painter and scriptwriter. But from the moment he started strumming on a guitar, things started to happen very quickly.

Within a few months he'd written his first song, "Winter", and not long after it was used in a key scene in an episode of the TV show Scrubs. And just like that, Joshua's music career was off and running.

Fast forward to 2021 and Joshua's just released his ninth studio album, The Ghost and the Wall, and has spent the past 15 years touring the world and racking up more than one billion streams.

We talk about his life and career in this interview.

Gary Kemp was the driving force behind Spandau Ballet's rise in the '80s, penning their biggest hits such as 'True', 'Gold', 'To Cut A Long Story Short', 'Through The Barricades' and more.

He's just released his first solo album in 26 years, INSOLO, which mixes the classic pop melodies you'd expect of Gary while flirting with elements of progressive rock.

We talk about the creation of that record in this interview, as well as Gary's upbringing and path into music, the rise of Spandau Ballet and his experiences with fame and success, and much more.

When Nick Littlemore was a teenager, his life changed when he discovered Sydney's underground dance scene.

Alongside school friend Peter Mayes he formed the electronic band PNAU, who've gone on to become one of Australia's biggest acts. But he's a man of many interests – in addition to founding his record label, Lab78, he's also a prodigious collaborator, working with everyone from Beyoncé to Sir Elton John.

In the mid-2000s he co-founded Empire Of The Sun with Luke Steele. But instead of going on the road with the band when they had a big hit with "Walking on A Dream", Nick opted to move to Montreal and spend years composing the music for the Cirque Du Soleil production of Zarkana.

We talk about all these experiences and more.

Since forming The Cult with vocalist Ian Astbury in 1983, Billy Duffy has proven himself to be one of those guitarists who can shapeshift musically, yet still sound like Billy Duffy. So whether you're listening to the more indie leaning sounds of 1985's Love, the AC/DC-styled rock of 1987's Electric or the arena rock bombast of 1989's Sonic Temple, it all sounds like the work of one guitarist.

When The Cult went on hiatus in 1995, Billy founded Coloursøund with Mike Peters from The Alarm. They released one self-titled album in 1999 before Billy returned to The Cult – but now, 22 years later, they've just released their new album, Coloursøund II!

We talk about the record in this interview, as well as Billy's upbringing in Northern England, his earliest experiences playing music with Johnny Marr and Morrissey before they went off to form The Smiths, the birth of The Cult and their late '80s success, and loads more.

In 2020, Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift released an album of Bob Dylan covers called Blonde On The Tracks.

She never intended to release the covers when she started recording them a few years ago, and only started to entertain the idea when COVID hit and her touring income dried up. The fact that the album has garnered Emma worldwide acclaim is just another twist in a career full of them.

In some ways that career began when she was a music-loving kid growing up in rural Australia, before she moved to Sydney and started played in pubs and clubs. In 2013 she moved again, this time to Nashville to pursue music full time, and she's been there ever since.

We talk about that journey in this interview, as well as Emma's love of Bob Dylan, her earliest musical memories and much more.