Episode 72 Purple Disturbance on Friday nights in Melbourne City, we're on location at a wine bar on Bourke St. Tom, Jess, Jed and Josh are in town for a gig at Cherry. The band is has a new EP coming out, their first, called Bugalugs. They sent me an email with the masters so i got a little pre listen. Amongst the general chaos on the city, the 86, the 96 and emergency services we the chat about the EP. We also talk about myki cards, foreign languages, not wearing shorts, rock n roll uniforms, headache rock, Circle Jerks, Leonard Cohen, Viagra Boys, Devo, Boney M, Johnny Rotten, Metal the Grinspoon roadie, Tim Rogers big head and subsequent big hat, Wheatus sound checks and playing in Taverns

BUGALUGS due out September 26th

Sloppy on weekendz in the studio with 3 quarters of the Sloppy Jalopies, we celebrate their debut album The Good, The Bad and The Sloppy, its fast, its catchy, its lose, its fun and its sloppy, we chat about the recording process, and also amognst all types of things, the Rocket Science sound, organs, harmonicas, playing with the Meanies, the trick to distribution, the unknown meaning of the songs, the acoustic Jalopie set, Steppenwolf and Wolfie and the Golden Plains band origin story

The Sloppy Jalopies album release party at the Tote this Saturday 13th June with support from Laura and the Hell Cutz, The Salmon Sisters and Persecution Blues 

Dead Ed on Weekendz in the studio on a Friday night we got the full band, Spinch, Emeline, Evan and Dom. We review their recent Gummo gig, their absolutely awesome EP Panto, their new songs and plans for the future. We also chat about Footscray train station, Courtney Barnett, Viagra Boys, ACDC, writing songs in drop D, flirting with drop C, jam songwriting, refusing to soundcheck, harmonica, swapping instruments, Kent Street Radio, recording in Spinchs room, jumping out windows and banned from Penny Black, denied by Last Chance for not rock 'n' roll enough and the Peach Fuzz connection, Sweden, farm rock, playing down the Ninch, Amyl covers, Psycho Killer, Mollys Chambers and playing at KFC 

Dead Ed are playing Saturday 25th July at Sound Bar on the Ninch

Go check out their debut EP Panto, its excellent

Handgrenade Hearts on weekends, a wild night at the Gem, i clean everything up and hide all the degenerates to welcome in Max and George for our interview. The boys come in to share what's happening with their upcoming releases, singles and an album in July, they are getting some sweet supports, stocks are on the rise, the feeling is good at Handgrenade Hearts headquarters. We also chat about King Gizzard, Buzzcocks, i buy a ticket to Fear at the Tote, Fear and antagonistic lead singers, X, Nah, we get Harry on the phone, the Damned and Cheese

Single release party at Cactus 26th June

Album release party at the Tote 19th July

No Turns On Weekends in the studio, Devon comes in to join me but Lucas cannot make because he is touring with Sweet Boy, we chat about that and tik tok but we quickly move on to the reason why we are all here, to discuss the new No Turns single coming next Thursday May 14th, its called Get Off Your Knees and it is excellent. Devon let me have a sneak listen and its super impressive. It will be exciting. Its positive and you can work out to it. We also chat about Viagra Boys, Phoenix and the beauty of pop, the new band, the new sound, introducing keys to the band, LCD Soundsystem, RRR interviews vs Satan On Weekends interviews, Nocturnal music making, viral trends and not be boring, social media & Dads hang gliding videos, the disappearance of the taste makers, humiliation rituals and mashed potatoes 

Get Off Your Knees out next Thursday May 14th

Single Release party May 29th at Shotkickers with supports from the Antics and Lalu

Snailgun on weekends, Rhys has been in to the clean the floors so theyre cleaner than ever and now he's questioning the actual cleaners, the tables upstairs however are another story and one in particular still shows remnants of illicit times of past. Adam and Dan join me at said table where we discuss their sweet new album Glass Walls. Snailgun are a three piece who have put together a very cool, very tight little outfit, theyre specialising in a tasty post-punk noise rock explosive, they also have mastered the art of the long song, they good at 6mins, they are good at 8mins. They draw influence from Shellac, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Pixies and anyone else floating around in that noisy little pool. We chat about the album, the influences, the album release party at Cactus this Saturday, Black Flag My War, the incredible cover art and its back story, covering your own songs, Blood and Incantation, Going Swimming, country mini tours, a Chappell Roan cover and of course the Straight of Hormuz

Glass Walls out now - go listen

Album Release party Cactus Saturday May 2nd with supports from No Hoper, Waxman and Winternationale

Sprog Dog on Weekendz in the studio in Collingwood, ive got Nick at the desk, he is a really interesting guy and he has something very cool going on with his Sprog Dog project, the main thing that caught my attention that I needed to investigate further is the avalanche of creative output, how does this guy get so much done. I ask all the questions. We also chat about the v-line, Rza and Ghostface, that Ballarat shit, Fruity Loops and Ableton, samples, samples and more samples, the Bogalars, Damaged, Lauryn Hill, Eric B and Rakim, selling beats, making videos and sampling local tv ads from the 90's, finger drumming with Gnarly and of course how to invest in Ballarat and make your fortune.

Enola on Weekendz, here on the pod this week i catch up with Ruby from Enola. Im really drawn to Enola, i love the dream poppy post-punky sound, Ruby is a very talented song writer and puts together some excellent songs. We catch up to chat about the upcoming singles, the future EP due out this winter, as well as, All is Forgiven the first EP and both of our favourite song on EP , Miss you. It needs to be on a soundtrack, its beautiful. A special song. Big time we chat about the Fontaine's DC support, how that came about and how cool of an experience that was. Other bands Cigarettes After Sex, Mazzy Star, The Crying Nudes and Nilufer Yanya. To tour or not to tour, or make more sweet videos, how to capture an audience. Ruby makes sweet live recording videos, go check them out. Lil Kim is coming to Rising and she is cool but is she as cool as Ruby?

Next single Adore due out end of May

EP Nothing Lasts Forever out in late June

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JEANE on weekendz in the studio this week, Jazz and Luke come join us for a chat. I'm looking for the inside scoop on new music coming up, after 3 years of gigs all around Melbourne, we celebrate the new single Cash, hot of the press, with the follow up of a new EP incoming. We also review the Wild Life lemon tart Jazz brought to the show, we also review their recent Bergy Bandroom gig. Beck is a major influence and we explore that a little. Everyone plays in everyone's bands, and Butternut Sweetheart but mostly its friends playing music together. Also, there was a scraped EP maybe you didn't hear about that but there may also be a full length album out recorded later in the year. We talk about how your favourite bands might reach your ears, sex sells, fake cash, trains, ice skating, JEANE playing Golden Plains and there will be cash.

JEANE is playing their single release party for Cash at the Gem on Thursday April 2nd (Easter Eve) support by My Dog Satellite 

The new EP Sicko will be out May 21st

A tour will then take pace culminating in an EP release party back at Bergy sometime in the middle of winter

The Ians on Weekends, a band of pirates, drop in to join us in our Collingwood studios who are very good. So many singles will there ever be an album. I lecture the band about how they need to run their show. We chat about Laneway music and their surprisingly sharp algorithm  waterfall strategy for maximising Spotify streams, everything's working right now so who am i to ruin it. We also chat about all the guitarists in the band including one who disappeared and one who currently resides in Izmir, Three Phase Studios, Phoenix Bar in Canberra, Viagra Boys, Head Like A Hole, Nick Cavey, Osama bin Laden and Hank Williams, Health advice and Pro-Family, filming green screen videos in the living room, the life and times of being an Anti-NATO band, Smells like Teen Pirates, Victoria Bitter, secret hunches, the future angry industrial music, Headlopper and general angst in the community

The Ians are playing 14th of March at the Graveyard in North Coberg 

Go check out their Spotify, they have loads of great songs