The Pitch of Discontent
By The Pitch of Discontent
133 - Weekly Roundup (25/03/24)
Featuring The Story So Far, Necrot, King Stingray, and more. After a week of battling the dreaded influenza (and no, not the “other one”), Owen & Paige recap gigs and missed opportunities before jumping into a slew of new tunes. From North East Arnhem Land to (R)Adelaide, Ontario to Oakland, it’s nothing but hits and the lowest possible threshold of skips. (Close to zero, we swear.) Dive in, have fun, and get stoked. Let’s go.
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132 - Hit List feat. Danny Bonnici and Xavier Santilli (Play Drive)
Danny and Xavier from Play Drive drop into TPD HQ for this week’s guest episode, and the boys throw down a banger Hit List of Naarm/Melbourne’s heaviest hitters to celebrate. With the trio’s debut EP, ‘Desire Path,’ out now and their first show already locked in, we chat about band break-up grievance periods, overcoming imposter syndrome, finding inner strength through your mates, and how to make something familiar feel new again.
You can follow Play Drive and purchase tickets to the band’s first show (Saturday, 23 March, at The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar) here.
131 - Weekly Roundup (18/03/24)
Featuring La Dispute, Stateside, Going Off, and more. Pushing through weekend delirium with bleary eyes and strained vocal raspiness, Owen & Paige manage to get it together and run through another weekly crop of new alternative tracks. Tune in to hear such tangents as which Pokemon most resembles the sound of sludge metal, the crucial distinction between snotty versus bratty, and forty-year-old spoilers for Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Bless the Maker and his podcasting.
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130 - On the Record feat. Patrick Miranda (Movements)
After blowing the lid off their sold-out Melbourne headline show, Movements frontman Patrick Miranda joins the show to chat about all things New Bloom festival. We chat about their love for coming Down Under, the whirlwind success of their acclaimed third LP, ‘RUCKUS!,’ drawing creative inspiration from Bring Me The Horizon, and their bond with Canadian world-tourmates Softcult.
Grab tickets for the remaining New Bloom festival dates (Brisbane & Sydney only) here.
129 - Weekly Roundup (11/03/24)
Featuring Extortion, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Excide, and more. This week’s roundup finds Owen & Paige crisscrossing the Pacific in search of the alternative holy grail. Alt-rock and melodic hardcore veterans from the Carolinas. Powerviolence outbursts and soulful rock’n’roll from Down Under. Fizzy dream-pop from Michigan and skull-cracking Oi! from the concrete heart of Illinois. Texan desert riffs and San Diego Myspace cabaret. Strap in, and let’s rack up some sonic frequent flyer miles.
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128 - On the Record feat. Mercedes Arn-Horn (Softcult)
Mercedes Arn-Horn, one-half of Canadian riotgaze sensation Softcult, returns to the show in preparation for the band's Australian debut as part of the inaugural New Bloom festival (March 15-17). We talk about Softcult's whirlwind career rise, creative expression as both desire and catharsis, and the empowerment that comes from harnessing vulnerability.
Listen to our Hit List episode (#036) with Mercedes here.
Grab tickets for the remaining New Bloom festival dates (Brisbane & Sydney only) and Softcult's Australian tour in support of Movements here.
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127 - Weekly Roundup (04/03/24)
Featuring Knocked Loose, Thornhill, One Step Closer, and more. This week is all about the big themes, folks, so Owen & Paige have put in the work and completed the assigned reading. We’re talking Brexit; we’re talking epic fantasy. We’re talking religious hypocrisy; we’re talking rampant consumerism but also 'The Land Before Time' for some reason. Look, it doesn’t have to make sense, but we’ve got tracks from across the alternative spectrum, and rest assured: they all bang. Let’s get to it.
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126 - Hit List feat. Nazareth Tharratt (Heavensgate)
Owen teams up with vocalist Nazareth Tharratt from Naarm/Melbourne outfit Heavensgate to break in the new studio at TPD HQ for our first in-person guest episode! With a Hit List that spans 90s hip-hop deep cuts, visceral metalcore ragers and ambient mood pieces, Naz chats about forming the band during the pandemic, finding both love and aggression in unexpected places, and what fans can expect from new music in 2024.
Keep up to date with Heavensgate (hey, that rhymes!) here.
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125 - Weekly Roundup (26/02/24)
Featuring Roman Candle, Gatecreeper, Stand Still, and more.
It's another stacked roundup this week, and Owen and Paige are all too keen to get stuck right in. We've got screamo ragers from opposite ends of the Earth. We've got hardcore ass-beaters and high-energy sing-a-longs. We've got buzzsaw metal barn burners and slick progressive mood setters. It's all new, all fresh, and ready to roll right now. Get amongst it.
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124 - Hit List feat. Scottie Simpson (Alpha Wolf)
Hey kids, do you wanna join a cvlt? It’s officially CVLTFEST season, and Scottie Simpson, axe-man for Aussie heavy hitters Alpha Wolf, joins the show to get punters prepped and ready to rage. We run through select cuts from the festival line-up, along with some chit-chat about the band’s upcoming third album, how sick Japanese bands can be, and what it was like to spend a day with Detective Sergeant Tutuola (aka MF’ing Ice T). Run it up. LFG!
CVLTFEST is on Saturday, February 24th, at Eaton’s Hill Hotel in Brisbane, QLD. Grab tickets (if you still can) and pre-order/stream Half Living Things (out April 5th through Greyscale/SharpTone) here.
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123 - Weekly Roundup (19/02/24)
Featuring High On Fire, Wristmeetrazor, L.S. Dunes, and more.
Is it nothing but T-Swift this and Blink 182 that? Sure. Maybe. (Probably.) But it’s also Weekly Roundup time, baby! Owen & Paige put their need for discourse considerations aside and instead focus on what they know: handling the best crop of alternative tracks this side of last Sunday. So, if you’re looking for new tunes, then please, by all means, enquire within. We got you.
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122 - Hit List feat. Justin Fornof (Wristmeetrazor)
For Justin Fornof, vocalist for Wristmeetrazor, art is suffering. On their forthcoming third LP, ‘Degeneration,’ creative intensity and concentrated seclusion were the crucible required for the metal quintet to produce their heaviest and most confronting album to date. As we smash through Justin’s abrasive, groove-laden Hit List, we chat about crafting misanthropic anthems, the intrigue of maximal production choices, underrated metalcore acts lost to time, and the versatility of heavy textures.
Follow Wristmeetrazor and pre-order/stream 'Degeneration' (out March 29th through Prosthetic Records) here.
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121 - Weekly Roundup (12/02/24)
Featuring Restorations, Higher Power, Boundaries, and more.
It's mid-February, and Owen and Paige have been busy crushing the month and powering their pleasure (more on that later). It's yet another stacked roundup episode, chock full of new alternative sounds to wrap your ears around. Go on. Indulge yourself. We won't tell anyone.
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120 - On the Record feat. Jonathan Higgs (Everything Everything)
With the build-up to their seventh studio album well and truly underway, Jonathan Higgs, frontman for Manchester art-rockers Everything Everything, reflects on the band's back catalogue and his creative journey as a lyricist and performer. We chat about the farcical state of UK politics, drawing influence from late philosopher Mark Fisher, and how the freedom of creating alternate realities can bring the idiosyncrasies of our present moment into stark relief.
Pre-order 'Mountainhead' here (out March 1st) and grab tickets for Everything Everything's upcoming UK and Australia tour dates here.
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119 - Weekly Roundup (05/02/24)
Featuring Softcult, ERRA, Midnight, and more. Another week, another roundup. Spacey shoegaze and grungey anti-capitalist jams. Proggy groove metalcore and unruly black'n'roll firestarters. Dive bar rockers, ecstatic blackgaze divination, and much more. Owen & Paige crack on and serve up a new slew of alternative heaters, piping hot, fit for aural consumption.
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118 - On the Record feat. Connie Sgarbossa (SeeYouSpaceCowboy)
Owen hits the ground for an in-person chat with Connie Sgarbossa from San Diego chaos merchants SeeYouSpaceCowboy during the Melbourne show of their debut Australian tour supporting labelmates Stick To Your Guns. We talk about finally getting the chance to play Down Under, opening for seminal acts like Poison The Well and Hopesfall, working with super-producer Matt Squire, Connie’s love for 2000s indie sleaze, and the eclectic thematic vision behind the band’s forthcoming third album.
Follow SeeYouSpaceCowboy, stream/purchase their records, pick up some merch, and grab tickets for tour stops here.
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117 - Weekly Roundup (29/01/24)
Featuring SPACED, Alpha Wolf, Bilmuri, and more. With their new studio space finally (!) up and running, Owen and Paige are eager to kick things off with a stacked roundup episode. We’ve got new cuts from Aussie metalcore heavyweights with insane features. We’ve got crusty punk shredders and ambient alt-punk collaborators. We’ve got a gothic noise trio and whatever the hell a “twanger banger” is. (Trust us, it rules.) Tune in, and let’s rip it up.
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116 - Hit List feat. Peter Rono (Kaonashi)
Peter Rono, frontman for emo mathcore purveyors Kaonashi, jumps on the show to run through a Hit List of sonic and thematic inspirations for the band’s new EP, 'The 3 Faces Of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery' (out now through Equal Vision Records). We talk about bringing real-world issues to life through fiction, the cautionary narrative of Lemon House High, dummy hard breakdowns, and Peter’s undying love for the riotous pit calls of one Mr Vincent Bennett.
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115 - Weekly Roundup (22/01/24)
Featuring Heavy Temple, RUN, Many Eyes, and more. Taking a break from their vigilant shifts of puppy-watching, Owen & Paige come through with another stacked line-up of alternative hits for the week. Walls of post-rock noise meet glue-sniffing post-punk. Noodley sad-boi emo jams rub shoulders with Jimmy Eat World-worship. Hardcore all-stars with alt-rock hooks collide with blackened post-metalcore ragers. It’s loud, it’s fun, and you’d be barking mad to miss it.
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114 - Hit List feat. Thomas O'Malley (Crush++)
Thomas O’Malley from Crush++ joins the show for our first real-deal guest episode of 2024. Tom’s Hit List encompasses the full dynamic range of his self-confessed “weird” musical tastes. Myspace post-hardcore, glitchy hyper-pop, mid-2000s emo staples, and a smattering of “objectively” questionable deep cuts showcase the depth of influence at play on the group’s debut full-length, ‘Power Pleasure’ (due out on February 9th).
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113 - Weekly Roundup (15/01/24)
Featuring Pissed Jeans, King Yosef, Gouge Away, and more. Things are well and truly up and running for new releases, which means that Owen & Paige have an ample supply of bangers for the show. Doomgaze crushers, rowdy Oi rippers, disco rock crooners, post-punk aggravators, glitchy industrial meets metallic hardcore ragers—we've got it all, folks. LFG!
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112 - Ecstatic Ephemera - When We Weren't (So) Young
In the name of shameless nostalgia, Owen & Paige run through a bonus episode special composed of All-Aussie hits from the long, long ago of 2004: a distant and whimsical era of physical music magazines, merch table CD samplers, Myspace Top 8’s, bootleg Kazaa downloads, and Channel V’s Heavy Shi[f]t programming–all ripe entry points for teenage musical discovery. Come ride down Memory Lane!
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111 - Weekly Roundup (08/01/24)
Featuring Crush++, nightlife, Rejoice, and more. And... we're back! After an extended break and some much-needed R&R, Owen & Paige dive into their first episode of 2024 with a fresh batch of rollicking new tunes. It's all killer, no filler. LFG!
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110 - In Review - Top 10 Albums of 2023
Owen & Paige wrap up End-of-Year list season with a solid slew of honourable mentions before diving right into their Top 10 Albums of 2023. Oh, and it's the last episode of the year before a (much-needed and/or deserved) break. See you all in 2024!
Listen to the full album playlist here.
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109 - In Review - Top 10 EPs of 2023
It's End-of-Year list season once again! Owen & Paige kick off the show with a brief recap of Good Things in Melbourne before running through their choice selections for the Top 10 EPs of 2023.
Listen to the full EP playlist here.
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108 - On the Record feat. Greg Puciato (Better Lovers/Killer Be Killed/The Black Queen)
As a musical force unto himself, Greg Puciato cannot be confined. In our final guest episode for the year, Greg walks us through his Hero’s Journey of authentic self-discovery, detailing how learning to let go, steering into inspiration and passion, and embracing the freedom of limitation ultimately led him to the joy of deeply cathartic artistic expression. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Grab tickets for Greg's solo Australian 2024 tour (Jan 17-21) with King Yosef and Trace Amount here.
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107 - Weekly Roundup (27/11/23)
Featuring The Hope Conspiracy, Northlane, Iron Chic, and more. It’s our final roundup episode for the year, and we’re determined to finish strong. We’ve got two kinds of Aussie metalcore, some feral hardcore punk ragers and a few catchy singalongs. Dive in now for all that and more, plus an exclusive track premiere from bedroom synth lords New Miserable Experience–and it’s a shiny 90s cover to boot!
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106 - Ecstatic Ephemera - All The Good Things
It's déjà vu time, folks! Owen & Paige team up for yet another guest-less episode to run through a playlist primer for the 2023 edition of Good Things, including some catalogue deep cuts, headliner anthems, and old favourites.
Grab the remaining Good Things tickets (December 1-3) here.
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105 - Weekly Roundup (20/11/23)
Featuring Dear Seattle, Heriot, Better Lovers, and more. Despite the intense background noise conjured up by various neighbours, Owen & Paige soldier on like the consummate professionals they are and dive right into another weekly slew of new alternative tunes. We've got the heavies, some chill ones, random finds, and old staples. Let's go!
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104 - On the Record feat. Garrett Russell (Silent Planet)
This week's guest episode features Garrett Russell, vocalist for Cali metalcore purveyors Silent Planet. Following a horrific road accident last year, the group have opened up sonically and creatively on their stunning fifth full-length, ‘SUPERBLOOM’: a sci-fi concept album about a teenager who happens upon an extra-terrestrial encounter and goes missing. It's a dense record overflowing with heady ideas, and our chat with Garrett covers spiritual awakenings, remote viewing, theoretical physics and perceptions of time, UFO sightings, and the artistic dialogue between reality and fiction.
103 - Weekly Roundup (13/11/23)
Featuring Infant Island, Softcult, Upon Stone, and more. Owen & Paige decide to give the drummer some and run through a selection of tracks with exceptional rhythmic pedigree. Frosty melodeath, sweaty indie punk, and swirling shoegaze. Campy heavy metal, heartfelt emo, and galactic death-doom. Alternative bangers from home and abroad. It’s another jam-packed weekly roundup!
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102 - Hit List feat. Jason Brown (Sunk Loto)
With Gold Coast metallers Sunk Loto bursting back on stage after a long hiatus, frontman Jason Brown joins the show to run through his sprawling Hit List of eclectic heavy sounds. We chat about their current national tour run for the 20th anniversary of ‘Between Birth & Death’, show highlights from the 90s and 00s, the creative energy behind their comeback, and the bold potential of making new music.
Follow Sunk Loto and grab tickets for the remaining shows on the 'Between Birth & Death 20th Anniversary Tour' here.
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Theme music is taken from: "Less Is More" by Adolina (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
101 - Weekly Roundup (06/11/23)
Featuring Foreign Hands, Codeseven, Mother Mother, and more. It’s been another monster week for new releases. We’ve got Texan hardcore and Canadian alt-pop, Aussie black metal and Brooklyn emo. Metalcore ragers and comeback singles. It’s all here, it’s all happening, and Owen & Paige chat through it all. Are you ready?
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100 - Ecstatic Ephemera - The Centennial Special
Well, we did it, folks. We hit the century and put 100 of these bad boys in the can. Turns out this podcasting thing’s got legs, huh? It’s a guest-less bonus episode this week, as Owen & Paige stroll down memory lane and recap the Top 10 Most Listened episodes of the show’s first-year run. Don’t call it nostalgia; it’s pure, uncut reverence.
Check out our TPD // 2023 CUTS playlist for all the tracks featured in the main show this year (updated weekly).
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099 - Weekly Roundup (30/10/23)
Featuring Slim Krusty, Everything Everything, Home Front, and more. In our last episode in the double-digit realm, Owen & Paige dive into conceptual indie rock and glossy alt-pop bangers, cheeky Aussie "gutter folk" meets Russian blackened doom sludge, and various interpretations of post-punk/new wave revivalism.
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098 - On the Record feat. Rou Reynolds (Enter Shikari)
This week's guest episode features Rou Reynolds, vocalist, lyricist, and clinch-fisted comrade for rave-punk powerhouse Enter Shikari. With their seventh full-length, ‘A Kiss for the Whole World,’ netting them their first #1 record in the UK, the St Albans quartet are set to bring their unifying message to the sweaty masses. We chat with Rou about getting politically motivated through music, the pernicious dangers of tribalism and big tech, festival crowd-pleasers, and the delights of the cactus quesadilla.
Follow Enter Shikari and purchase 'A Kiss for the Whole World' here. Grab tickets to Good Things Festival (December 1-3) here.
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097 - Weekly Roundup (23/10/23)
Featuring Alkaline Trio, IDLES, Middle Kids, and more.
Do weeks of the year have themes? If so, this one is all about those bittersweet shades of blue. Euphoric highs, cosmic lows, and every danceable hue in between. Grab a drink, folks, and strap in for another alternative roundup. Let’s get it.
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096 - Deep Cuts: Eyehategod - 'Take As Needed for Pain' feat. Aaron Osborne (AGLO/Extortion/Burn the Hostages)
For our latest Deep Cuts episode, the affable Aaron Osborne joins the show to chat about the maniacal genius of NOLA legends Eyehategod and their unrelenting second studio album, ‘Take As Needed for Pain.’ As a fixture within Australia’s heavy underground for over 15 years, Aaron’s resume speaks for itself: I Exist, Oblivious Maximus, Mental Cavity, Burn the Hostages, Extortion, and AGLO. If it’s tuned low and moving slow, Aaron can play it already and likely knows more about it than you do. We chat about writing Trek-themed death-doom, his adolescent fascination with Pantera, getting the call-up to join powerviolence royalty, and how Eyehategod changed his life forever.
Follow AGLO and pre-order 'Build Fear' (out November 10th through Brilliant Emperor Records) here.
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095 - Weekly Roundup (16/10/23)
Featuring Spiritbox, Many Eyes, Thornhill, and more.
Well, we’re back again. New week, new roundup. We’ve got sexed-up rockers, metalcore ragers, and dance-ready indie-rock numbers in the pipe, along with a bunch of split EPs, collab album projects, and a shiny death metal debut. So, if you need new tunes, why not dive in?
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094 - On the Record feat. John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday/Straylight Run)
This week's guest episode features John Nolan, guitarist/vocalist for Taking Back Sunday and Straylight Run. With seven years between studio albums, Taking Back Sunday are primed for a spiritual rebirth and '152' (out October 27th through Fantasy Records) finds the group retooling the hooky, heart-on-sleeve songwriting that has defined their career for over two decades. John chats with us about weathering pandemic anxiety, jamming on cover songs, and unlikely collaborators in the form of Steve Aoki and producer Tushar Apte.
Follow Taking Back Sunday and pre-order '152' here. Grab tickets to Good Things Festival (December 1-3) here.
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093 - Weekly Roundup (09/10/23)
Featuring Press Club, SLIFT, Sunk Loto, and more.
After some heated fast-lane, shitty driver discourse, Owen & Paige dig into a new slew of alternative tracks for the week. We’ve got Aussie alt-metal and Aussie power-pop, Aussie metalcore and Aussie indie-punk. Are you noticing a theme here? (Don’t worry: there are other non-Aussie hits in the mix there, too.)
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092 - Hit List feat. Michael Meinecke (Knuckledragger/Burning Hammer Records/Phantoms)
Joining the show this week is Michael Meinecke, frontman for Brisbane/Meanjin heavy-hitters Knuckledragger, as they gear up to drop their debut LP, ‘Different Breed…’ through their own Burning Hammer Records later this month. Mick walks us through the band’s formation and the writing process behind their upcoming record before running through a Hit List of prime heaters covering hardcore, metal and all kinds of sonic weirdness in between. We chat about vocal intensity, the risks and rewards of music DVD discovery, and the difficulty of penning hardcore love songs.
Keep up to date with Knuckledragger here, and you can pre-order the 'Different Breed...' LP (out October 30th) over at Burning Hammer Records here.
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091 - Weekly Roundup (02/10/23)
Featuring Knuckledragger, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Racetraitor, and more.
It's another weekly roundup episode with more hits and absolutely zero skips. Owen & Paige recap their recent Victorian sojourn, chat about gigs, some cool records that dropped over the last week, along with the not-so-seminal Judd Apatow-produced film, 'Year One' (2009).
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090 - Wordsmiths feat. Patrick Galvin (Hollow Bones Studio)
For our latest Wordsmiths episode, we’re joined by graphic designer, bootleg wizard, and avid film buff Patrick Galvin. Pat takes us through his connection with heavy music and its various life-affirming tangents, all of which lead him to his creative work as the brains behind Hollow Bones Studio and his most recent venture, Gold St. Press. We talk about finding nu metal in Canberra, touring with his close mates, bucket list design projects, developing a love for hip-hop, reconnecting with hardcore, and finally settling down to become a full-blown movie night Dad.
Follow Patrick here to keep up to date with Hollow Bones Studio, Gold St. Press, and all of his creative projects.
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089 - Weekly Roundup (25/09/23)
Featuring Chelsea Wolfe, blink-182, Volatile Ways, and more.
Owen & Paige keep things fast and loose with another roundup of last week’s alternative hits. Cali metal and indie-punk mixed with Lonestar state post-hardcore. Aussie alt-rock slides up against devastating deathcore beatdown. A dark folk slowburn collides with a funky Swancore posse cut. Pop-punk royalty resurfaces while The National drop a surprise return to form.
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088 - Hit List feat. Bo Lueders (Harms Way/HardLore)
It’s going to be hard (get it?) for us to top this week’s guest with Harms Way axe-slinger, esteemed edgemen, and indomitable HardLore co-host Bo Lueders stopping by the show. Bo takes us through a pit-ready Hit List stacked with underrated and/or sleeper tracks from popular bands and records. Our conversation covers Harms Way’s remarkable new album, the importance of sequencing, post-pandemic anxieties, the difficulty of crafting epic closers, and the Wild West of the Napster years.
Follow Harm's Way, grab tickets for their upcoming tour dates, and pre-order 'Common Suffering' (out Sep 29th via Metal Blade Records) here.
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087 - Weekly Roundup (18/09/23)
Featuring It Dies Today, Don Broco, Tomb Mold, and more.
Another week and yes, believe it or not, another roundup. (It’s what we do here, folks.) Owen & Paige mince words over a new crop of heavy hitters, including metalcore comebacks, depressed indie dirges, roach-filled alt-metal, desert punk, and otherworldly death-doom. Live long and podcast.
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086 - Hit List feat. Mat Kerekes (Citizen/Krypt)
Who needs a DJ when Mat Kerekes is in the house? The Citizen frontman, Krypt skinsman, and Muay Thai monster stops by the show with a curated Hit List that offers a real-time glimpse into the whims and machinations of his almighty Spotify algorithm. We also chat about Mat’s many projects and the sense of rejuvenation in the Citizen camp as they prepare to release LP #5.
Follow Citizen, grab tickets for their upcoming tour dates, and pre-order 'Calling The Dogs' (out Oct 6th via Run For Cover Records) here.
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085 - Weekly Roundup (11/09/23)
Featuring Hotline TNT, Paint It Black, AGLO, and more.
More hits, no skips. Grab a beverage and strap in, folks. Owen & Paige are ready to dive into another stacked week of new tunes and alternative heaters. Listen, download, share, like, subscribe, etc. LFG.
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084 - Hit List feat. Candice Bankovacki (Crave Death)
Joining the pod this week is the affable Candice Bankovacki, vocalist and frontwoman for Brisbane/Gold Coast metallic hardcore outfit Crave Death. Candice is a fierce talent in the realm of heavy music, and our chat covers the reception to the band’s recent four-track ‘Die Slow’ EP, as well as Candice’s involvement in the upcoming Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA) later in the month, before rolling through a choice selection of local pit starters and hardcore classics.
Follow Crave Death here. The Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA) ceremony will take place at The Tivoli in Brisbane on September 26-27, and tickets are available here.
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