The Sound of Now with Triana Butler and Alana Rosso

Triana and Alana refleect on one year of Alana’s time on The Sound of Now. Alana rescues a baby magpie. Triana loses her mind watching Coyote vs ACME. Triana introduces Alana to the one (1) season of American Song Contest.

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This week: Triana and Alana play new music from Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan, recap the Ninajirachi and Tame Impala gig at Rod Laver Arena, dive into new music from the GTA6 soundtrack, recount their visit to the audiovisual gallery single launch for Charly Oakley’s new single,  and play new music from Rachel Chinouriri, mikii, Joesef, and more.

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Wayne from Brisbane calls through. The gang fantasy-cast an Australian season of Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack. Triana struggles to tell the difference between ALIUS and Laius. Alana and Wayne debate the economics of scamming sandwich artists. The gang react to Troye Sivan’s explanation of the bush. Wayne explains his strategy for preserving vinyl records. Alana takes us behind the curtain of corporate upfronts. Macca wanders into the studio with baked goods provided by the Minister for Equality. The team explore the disappearance of Ronald McDonald. The gang play Let’s Make A Playlist with the theme “songs to party in the bush”. PJ shows off their first ever tattoo. Little Jase walks into the studio to chat tattoos. Wayne recaps the Kylie Minogue AFL Grand Final Pre-Match Entertainment.

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This week: Triana and Alana play new music from REDD. and Cat & Calmell and Becca Hatch. The team celebrate the return of Powderfinger, and reflect on Jaguar Jonze announcing she’s stepping back from social media.

Troye Sivan answers commercial radio calls to release a song where he sings rather than just talks, and provides them with a song that features eighteen F-bombs across three choruses.

Triana learns about photokeratitis. Sarah Saint James and Sampa The Great release new music. 

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After attending LÂLKA’s Super Niche EP Listening Party, Triana and Alana take a road trip back to the JOY office while reflecting on the listening party and the state of releasing music in 2026.

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This week: Triana and Alana play new music from Dom Dolla and Remi Wolf. The team react to the Laneway Festival 2027 lineup, and talk about LALKA’s Super Niche EP listening party. New music from Sugababes has somehow been released in 2026.

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This week: Triana raves about Coyote vs ACME. Triana and Alana recap the nominations for the 2026 ARIA Awards. Alana hypes up the lasers at the Dom Dolla show.

The team reveal the results of the 2026 The Sound of Nownlow Medal.

Scott Love joins the podcast to debrief after the Kylie Minogue AFL Grand Final Pre-Match Show. The gang recap the excitement of the Kylie Minogue co-branded coffee truck that showed up to the Victorian Pride Centre on Thursday.

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Out-and-proud Narrm/Melbourne artist Kaiyah Mercedes joins Triana Butler and Alana Rosso to talk through how their career has grown since their debut, the autistic baddie that inspired them, the discipline that comes with living the popstar life and how they navigate having POTS in the process, and their new EP What Comes Next.

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This week: Triana and Alana play new music from CHVRCHES. Out-and-proud Australian artist effie isobel drops the team a voice note to celebrate her new single Honey Drunk. Producer PJ joins the gang to react to the ARIA Award nominations. 

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This week: Brett Hibberd of JOY Breakfast joins Triana and Alana. The gang order KFC Picklecore delivery to the studio. Lofi Girl mysteriously disappears. Brett recaps the moment Alex Warren stacked it at his show at Rod Laver Arena.

The team play a Kylie Minogue edition of the Essentials Playlist Game in honour of her upcoming AFL Grand Final Pre-Match show. For the second time in as many weeks, one of our team suffers a chair malfunction.

Brett recaps his recent interview with Samantha Jade on JOY Breakfast. Brett and Alana swap favourite musicals. Triana wanders around Fitzroy Street. Troye Sivan releases a song with the words “party in the bush”. Brett watches the Veronicas performance of In My Blood from the 2026 ARIAs for the first time, and talks about how he missed it the first time around because he was working on a cruise ship at the time.

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