The Sound of Now with Triana Butler and Alana Rosso

In this week’s aftershow: Triana and Alana are joined by The Fabulous Adz, who talks through the new Madonna record and ranks her best albums. The gang speculate about Club Confessions. The Fabulous Adz details Madonna’s recent medical history. Alana brings up bbno$. Adz runs through some common trivia night team names. The team explore reasons as to why a certain major pop artists’ new single didn’t chart in the top 100 in any country worldwide. Alana and Adz learn about the album released by Katy Hudson. Taylor Swift is married.

This week’s Let’s Make A Playlist theme is: The Definitive Hits of Madonna.

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This week: Triana and Alana are joined by The Fabulous Adz to talk through Madonna’s new album, Confessions Pt II. Triana and Alana play new records by Triana invites Erin LeCount onto the show (again). Alana leans into her French immersion past with new music from Stromae. Triana suggests a localised version of Oliver Cronin’s new song, 7500 Miles. Questions are raised about whether Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and Kylie Minogue have met each other in real life.

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In this week’s aftershow: Triana and Alana reflect on a huge week of new music, enter Corrections Corner about the JoJo Siwa cruise, pick out songs for the Socceroos and recount SBS series Song For The Socceroos, react to the Ninajirachi x Porter Robinson popup B2B DJ set. Alana dives deep into Sam Smith’s new side project TikTok account and Instagram account. The team discuss the Forza Horizon franchise soundtracks. Triana brings up Rai Thistlethwayte’s incredible speech on writing a hit.

This week’s Let’s Make A Playlist theme is: Hits of 2014.

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This week: Triana and Alana react to new music from daine, Kita Alexander, Phoebe Bridgers, and MUSE’s collab with Ellie Goulding, celebrate the new FVNERAL EP, fangirl about Olivia Rodrigo’s new music festival, and uncover Sam Smith’s new side-project social account.

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In this week’s aftershow: Triana and Alana are heavily sleep deprived the day after the JOY Radiothon finale. Together, they chat about the effects of sleep deprivation, Alana teaches Triana about the JoJo Siwa Cruise, and Triana and Alana swap life hacks.

Shout outs to Mitch Churi, Abby Butler, Christian Hull, Chrissy50andCranky, and Mordred / Tyler Grenfell.

Listen to the fan-made Big Brother UK Underscore Theme Tune.

Listen to the Sims 1 Sountrack (sic).

In the Christian and Chrissy podcast feed, the Ultimate World Cruise episodes start at “PRE CRUISE: Let’s Go On A Cruise“, then roll through from “DAY 1: The Check In Disaster + Extremely Sea Sick” to “DAY 14: Drama In Manila + It’s Time To Say Goodbye“.

“We share two brain cells at this point” -Alana Rosso

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This week: Triana and Alana have Rebecca Black correspondent Poppy introduce the new Rebecca Black song, talk RARIA doing single promo in Italy, celebrate Olivia Rodrigo’s #1 album, let ISHAN shoot his shot, nerd out about PRS guitars, and explore Dungeons & Dragons character classes.

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This week: Triana and Alana help raise money for JOY Radiothon 2026, reflect on the power of JOY 94.9, and bargain with Demetra about the release of the Demetra Discovers ASMR video.

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This week: Triana and Alana chat about new music from Yorke, react to the new record-breaking Taylor Swift single from the Toy Story soundtrack, name the Holly Hebe fan club (see: episode title), check out new music from Ryan Beatty, and rank FIFA World Cup songs.

(Note: there’s no Aftershow episode this week, but standby for a JOY Radiothon special next week!)

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In this week’s aftershow: producer Poppy recalls the desperate sprint to the JOY studios to interview Rochelle Jordan, and Triana and Alana reflect on their trip to Sydney to see Zane Lowe (and Lucy Smith) as part of this year’s Vivid Festival.

Poppy shares their thoughts on the new Kim Petras record.

The interviewer Alana refers to is Nardwuar The Human Serviette. Check out his interviews with J Cole, Sabrina Carpenter, and Franz Ferdinand.

Shout outs to Maddy Rowe, Chris Holland, and Kayla Wilson.

“Every day in my life is a diva convention, because I wake up” -Alana Rosso

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This week: Triana and Alana chat about new music from Mia Wray, Kim Petras, and Aleksiah. Alana discusses the new record by sidney. Triana drops a rare Maisie Peters release. The gang recap seeing 2charm play The Night Cat in Melbourne.

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