Satan On Weekends

Welcome Slander Tongue to Australia, all the way from Berlin via Istanbul and Kuala Lauper. After arriving this morning at 9am at Tullamarine, this German power-pop 4-piece stop off for a quick pit stop at Aldi before the boys roll into the Gem to make their way to be sitting with me at the bar with a stack of Melbourne Bitter. Fun times. We caht about the upcoming tour, all the dates, and like always there are major digressions like, Jens the rock n roll pope, Horses and Public Holidays, Aldi(of course), Radio Birdman and the Saints, smoking joints with Rob Younger in Germany, smoking meth at Metallica shows in Perth, Hector couldn't make because he has a new job, Australian Beers(all beers are good beers), Kits quiche, Drunk Mums never stop, Leipzig rocks, a new album, friends with Black Lips, Trader Horne vs Motorhead, Berlin techno, kangaroo meat vs horse meat and Berghain(of course)

• Nov 5th The Tote, Melbourne, VIC
• Nov 6th Soundbar, Rosebud, VIC
• Nov 7th The Railyard, Tecoma, VIC
• Nov 8th Lazy Thinking, Sydney, NSW
• Nov 9th Enmore Hotel, Sydney, NSW
• Nov 13th The Metro, Adelaide, SA
• Nov 14th Soul Rebel, Adelaide, SA
• Nov 15th River Rocks, Geelong, VIC
• Nov 16th River Rocks Rehab, Geelong, VIC
• Nov 19th Last Chance Rock 'n' Roll Saloon, Melbourne, VIC
• Nov 20th The Espy, St Kilda, VIC
• Nov 21st Trash Cult, Bendigo, VIC
• Nov 22nd The MF Gem

Welcome to episode 56, we are engaging in a new format here, something special, Andy from day party rockers Helluva Ride brings along Jake from Alien Nosejob to have a chat about the third instalment of Helluva Ride coming up at Howler this weekend. We chat about Helluva Ride and Alien Nosejob in equal measure as well ENOLA (our other guest who unfortunately could not make it, go check out ENOLA if you haven't new song Time Will Make You Change out now and it's incredible). We also chat about Howler, Ping Pong, Wodonga, competing with Metallica, public pools, the drum riser a the Thornbury Bowls club, Punk Adjacent, accessing all music ever made instantly always, Parquet Courts, My space, Shinjuku and endless other will digressions.

If you find yourself at a loose end go check out Helluva Ride 3 at Howler this Saturday, November 8th, some of Melbournes coolest bands will be there:

• The States
• Dumb Punts
• Alien Nosejob
• Pollyman
• Loose Tooth
• Eggy
• The Vovos
• Npcede
• ENOLA
• Delivery DJ's, Drunk Mums DJ's, Brunswick City Radio DJ's
• Bodriggy
• Fitzroy Tattoo
• Howler

We finally have a sunny Saturday here at the studio, life is good, beers and fireball. This week we get a Grim Rhythm update, Tim Maxwell drops by to share some wisdom and stories with me. We chat about Grim Rhythm and their miraculous rebirth, a potential solo album and all of the big biz in the studio. We also talk about Weed, Sleep (the band not the stoner pastime), jamming on top of mountains, hating instrumental rock bands, what Dimebag used to drink, a European tour in '26, Flour supporting the Psychos, Earthless, melody is king, Backyard Business, Looch, Molly Rocket, annoying Private Function, love for Wombat, Suno AI, Kings of Leon vs Coldplay vs Nickelback, Sex Pistols, Geordie Greep and apparently Zeke suck.

Grim Rhythm are playing River Rocks Rehab with Zeke

The future of loco and the weekend is Satan, this week we're in the studio with Glauber and Alex from Killing Leaders chatting about their debut live album, Live at the Old Bar, a fun, dynamic and exciting, rock 'n' roll treat. We also find out about the origins, life before with the Trauma Dolls, where the train is heading and we find out why a young Melbourne band inspired by the MC5 and the Clash could not possible be better prepared for the journey ahead based purely on the love of these bands. We also talk about Stalin, Guillotines, Brazilian rock stars, The Forgotten Boys(give 'em a listen they're pretty good), Glaubers recording studio, First Take, Sloppy Kiss, the Lips gig, the B gig, touring, recording sweet videos, and i do my best to try hold it together through stormy seas of wild hangover.

Killing Leaders are playing Bar Open November 13th with Hounds and Lucy Disorder

Live at the Old Bar out now at any record store on High Steet

Teenage Rock 'n' Roll on Weekendz, we're in the studio with local high school rockers Hot Milk Machine, we learn some Italian, we learn jazz fundamentals and we learn how to win Battle of the Bands. Hot Milk Machine debut single Please (Let Me Get What I Want) came out in July(a split with Turge) and they have recently recorded demos for 8 new songs. We also talk about band practice, Jazz nerds, doing the dishes, Silverchair, recording at the Rezza community library, Synfest, Hole, Amyl, PF, C.O.F.F.I.N, Blonde Revolver, breaking guitars and buying cars, RRR, Grungegaze vs Math Rock, Dad roadies, exams suck and then Schools Out For Summer.

Hot Milk Machine playing the all ages Synfest at Bakehouse Studios this Saturday 12-4 with Daezy, W.O.M.B.A.T, Emma Yue, G string Nicotine

Play gigz with your idols on Weekendz, we're in the studio in Collingwood with Laura, Devon and Dylan from every big bands favourite supports Laura and the Hell Cutz. We mostly talk about how good they are at securing sick supports like their Idles gig at the Sydney Myer Music bowl earlier in the year, they played some shows with Mannequin Death Squad and have a couple shows with Regurgitator coming up later in the year. We get distracted and chat about a few others things like their debut single Porcelain Girl, their upcoming singles and ep's and everything, they are recording and have a bit coming up, also more distractions with grungegaze, love for Courtney, Hole and Nirvana are awesome, country bass strings, i keep reviewing every venue brought up in conversation, unlikeable bosses, when is a song really complete? the drummer from Queens of the Stone Age, the email from Live Nation, hitting the vape, Silverchair covers, DFA 1979 and learning how to headbang better

OCTOBER 4, FREE ENTRY show, w Kitty of the Valley, The Retreat 

OCTOBER 15, Battle of the Bands, The Bergy Bandroom

OCTOBER 18, w Vollie x No Questions, The Bendigo Hotel

NOVEMBER 8, Pretty Dead Festival, The Eveyln Hotel

NOVEMBER 22,23, Supporting Regurgitator, BUNDALAGUAH, Live at the Bundy 

Shambolic on weekends, we're in the studio in Collingwood with a young up and coming sound machine called The Reverie, part New York Dolls, part Baby Shambles, part your new favourite band. This 5 piece are super new, they have only played 2 shows, i just happened to catch their second and realised we need to catch up for a little discovery session. This is their first interview and we find out who and what is going on. Its chaos but we cover off a lot, including but not limited to, parents, email bombing clubs for gigs, Wunderhorse and Fontaines, stealing bass guitar from RMIT, Lauries biology degree, sick homemade rock posters, fake accents, performing for the people, Adult Cat, the north, Radio Free Alice and hoping one day they can play at the Nightcat

The guys have a few gigs coming up, you wanna check them out

Tomorrow night 25/09 at the Brunswick Artist Bar

Wednesday 15th October at The Tote with the Repores

Thursday 16th October at the Last Chance with the Mooners and Sloppy Jaloppies

Saturday 25th October at the Old Bar

This ones coming from the top rope, episode 50, we're in the studio in Collingwood on a Friday night, joined by rock queen Envy Marshall. We're chatting about Envy's up coming album, the waterfall release of singles and videos, going number one in Lithuania and Ukraine, we're looking good and feeling famous, songs on James Bonds soundtracks, the same next Bond film that features Margot Robbie, 100x push ups and 100x squats and the wild world of pro wrestling, did you know Envy used to wrestle, Rips Rogers and WWE, The Undertakers kangaroo court, Ric Flair loves Tom Petty, we also talk about ACDC, Baby Animals, the Angels, Lars Ulrich, Hinder, Envy's Dad being a legend and Envy's Mum being a bad ass proud mum, all that and a burger, whisky and diet coke.

Looking good and feeling famous will be the next single

Album due out when Envy feels like releasing it

Envy and band playing at the Corner November 2nd 

Alchemy on Weekendz, welcome to episode 49, Al Matcott joins us in the studio to chat about is upcoming album, Fake the Days Away, due out October 17th. It’s a solid folk rock effort packed back to back with soulful gems. We chat about the album but we continue to divagate with our conversation. I feel like we may have chatted more about books, concepts and ideas than the music, but it’s fun. It’s always fun. Here's a little collection of the distractions; Hey Hey its Saturday vs Harry Connick Jnr, Nick Cave Vs AI, Killer Whales, Casinos and Malls, I get confused and call Sega Daytona USA Need for Speed, haha i also dont know how to pronounce Sade (Shah-Day), very amateur music journalist i am, we chat about dystopian literature; Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Andreas Malm and the modern protest dynamic, The Ghost of Tom Joad and Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, King Crimson, Iggy rocks, discovering the Ramones, Blonde Redhead, learning Ableton, Black Mass, Nicholas Jaar(who has a new album out), Future Islands suck and Fred Again is sick

The next single will be released Thursday September 11th, this one is called All Night

There will be a single release party for the single at Lulie on September 26th

The album, Fake the Days Away, will be released October 17th through Cheer Squad Records

The album release will be November 14th at Stay Gold 

Chaos on Weekendz in the studio this week with Billy, Sammy and Spencer from LOUTS. The band has 7inch live ep being released this Friday (29th) called LOUTS Live '25. There will be a listening party at Loveless Tattoo on Johnston St Friday around night time hours. The live recording come from punk festival up in Pambula NSW called Pamb Jam. They also have started writing new songs for an upcoming album. We also chat about the temperature of beers, mostly CUB beers, breaking guitars, danger and chaos, sick art work, Tuff Cuff records, Fifis and Diver, Vixen Scream, Mongrel, Practice, Practice, Practice, saying sorry, i confuse Rose tattoos songs with Puff Daddy songs, apparently Billy likes Nelly but not R Kelly, Sammy likes NAS and Mobb Deep, as well as folk punk and collecting GG Allin merch, also GBH, Agent Orange, Dive Bombs and Grytt are all great bands.

LOUTS Live 25 out this Friday, Listening Party at Loveless from 7pm