On today’s show we had a long chat with American singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet. Valerie joined us from Florida and we had lotsa new music.

Playlist

• Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Mansion on the Hill
• The Rolling Stones – Live with me
• David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes
• Teenage Halloween – Stationary
• Daniel Romano – How Ill Thy World Is Ordered
• Chuck Prophet – Marathon
• Chuck Prophet – Get off the stage
• Chuck Prophet – Willie and Nilli
• Chuck Prophet – Paying My Respects to the Train
• Kim Richey – Leaving Song
• John Prine – Angel from Montgomery
• Frecko – Good Times
• Helen Townsend – Devil’s Curse
• Rory Ellis – Inner Outlaw
• Ear Projector – The Invisible Man
• Ace Frehley – I’m Down
• Roy Buchanan – Green Onions

On this week’s show:

• Ned Alphabet of Sydney band Balkan Grill gives us a heads up on their streaming gig on Mosh Pit TV on Saturday night.
• Robin Fletcher from the Link Housing gives the lowdown on their annual art event. This year it goes online and on now. Catch it here.
• Valerie joins us from Florida to talk about the latest shenanigans in her neck of the woods and the growing defund the police movement.
• Plus lotsa new music from, including the title of the forthcoming James Willamson and Deniz Tek album.

Tracklist

• Pubert Brown Fridge Occurrence – Love is a virus
• Lachy Doley Group – Voodoo Chile
• Mike Elrington – It still burns
• Angus Ross – Canal
• Balkan Grill – Belgrade Girl
• Balkan Grill – Nebo
• James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Jet Pack
• Dodge Main – The Harder they Come
• Scott Morgan – Mississippi Delta
• Lunchbox – Gary of the academy
• Internet Friends – Nah
• Smokescreens – I love only you
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Theory of goat of yam
• Corey Legge – I’ve bitten of more than I can chew
• Miguel Rios – Narcissist
• Van Walker – The World Goes on without us
• Chuck Prophet – Nixonland
• Johnny Casino – Somewhere lost in time

On today’s show we have

• Van Walker on the line from Melbourne talking about his new album “Ghosting”.
• Elise Lange talking about her new EP “Talk to Me”
• Valerie joins us from Florida

Tracklist

• Bike Club – Heart Beating
• Godcaster – Even Your Blood is Electric
• Initiates – Voidless
• Deerhoof – Milk Man
• Johnny Winter – Parchment Farm (Alternative Mix)
• Johnny Winter – Avocado Green
• Van Walker – Nobody Knows
• Van Walker – The World Goes On Without Us
• Van Walker – Crystal Ball
• Kim Richey – Come Around
• Steep Canyon Rangers – Sunny Days
• Grant-Lee Phillips – Aint Done Yet
• Chuck Prophet – Best Shirt On
• Elsie Lange – Talk to Me
• Elsie Lange – Tulips
• Knot – Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

On today’s show we have:

• a long chat with Johnny Casino about his new album and other stuff
• an interview with Brisbane songstress Melody Moko
• US correspondent Valerie van de Panne talks about unschooling

You can read Valerie’s article on unschooling here.

Tracklist

• Partner – Hello and Welcome
• Leslie West – Here for the party
• Van Walker – Closing time
• Johnny Winter – Gangster of love
• Waxworks – Mission Bells
• Johnny Casino – I scare myself
• Johnny Casino – Wichita Lineman
• Johnny Casino – Hit the ground running
• Johnny Casino – Sundown
• Melody Moko – Last Cigarette
• Melody Moko – Benjamin
• Elsie Lange – Tulips
• Kush – Macarthur park

The Virtual Unreality crew sat in for Big Daddy K’s Sydney Sounds show.

Tracklist

• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Howlin’ Threads – Body Moving
• James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Stable
• Tshitaki – Work it out
• Bunt – Six and seven
• John Kennedy – Brisbane – Electrical Storm
• Peter Black – History Jack
• Sunnyboys – Show me some discpline
• X – Suck suck
• Johnny Casino – Cerca Pero Tan Lejos (a song for Sue)
• Johnny Casino – Dropping like flies
• Carrie Phillis And The Downtown 3 – Let’s go
• The Boobytraps – Be My Caveman
• Suburban Bukowskis – Living In Sin In Petersham
• The Smartfolk – One two three step four
• Lachy Doley Group – The Strut
• Imogen Clark – My own worst enemy
• Em George – Flight
• The New Christs – The Seeker
• The Lime Spiders – Sparks
• The On and Ons – Don’t want to talk
• Loose Pills – Not The Driver
• The Aints – Red Aces
• The Aints – Know your product
• Johnny Casino – Ghostships
• Johnny Casino – Wichita Lineman
• The Mismade – Man in the middle
• Glitoris – Trump Card

Lots on today’s show! Including:

• Damian McDonald, the curator of the Maton guitars exhibition on now at the Power House Museum.
• Valerie van de Panne gives us the low down on veeps and Kamala Harris.
• New tracks from Nick Love & Los Straitjackets, Chuck Prophet, Johnny Casino, Imogen Clark, Elsie Lange and Melody Moko.

Listen!

Tracklist

• Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Almost cut my hair
• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Howlin’ Threads – Body Moving
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Corporate Public Control Department (C.P.C.D.)
• The Kinks – You really got me
• Phil Manning – I Wish There Was a Way
• The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
• James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Stable
• Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets – Lay it on Me
• Los Straitjackets – Venus
• Imogen Clark – My Own Worst Enemy
• Jaguar Jonze – You Got Left Behind
• Melody Moko – Benjamin
• Elsie Lange – Talk to me
• Chuck Prophet – Get off the stage
• Johnny Casino – Cerca Pero Tan Lejos (a song for Sue)
• Johnny Casino – Sundown
• Chuck Prophet – High as Johnny Thunders
• Van Walker – Closing Time

On today’s show, we have Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus talking about their new single “Hung out to dry”. Hint – they’re angry.

Valerie joins us from Florida.

Tracklist

• Shotgun Mistress – Glorious Machine
• Fingerless – Truth
• Josh Orange – Little Miss America
• Angus Gill and the Seasons of Change – Three minute movie
• Em George – Flight
• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Hoodoo Gurus – What’s my scene?
• Hoodoo Gurus – Answered Prayers
• Le Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani
• The Victims – Television Addict
• The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf
• The Fey – Tear it off
• Shitkid – Dying to
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ramble Tamble

On today’s show

• We have a long chat with Pete Marley from Marveline about the new album Savoury Toothed Tiger. Hint – expect the unexpected.
• We also chat to Sydney songstress Em George about hew new EP, this time with a band. Hint – luscious.
• Valerie van de Panne joins us from Florida after her road trip to Boston and back.
• Plus we have lots of new music.

PS – Dave Faulkner on the show next week. Also true.

Tracklist

• Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
• The Third Mind – Reverberation
• The No ones – No One Falls Alone
• The On and Ons – Don’t want to talk about it
• Marveline – Gonna get myself a demon
• Marveline – Magic Umbrellar
• Marveline – Made of stars
• Marveline – (Theme For An Imaginary) Cop Show
• Em George – In flight
• Em George – Light comes in
• Emmylou harris – Wayfairing Stranger
• The Baseball Project – Here lies Carl Mays
• Anna Karina – Roller Girl
• Billy Childish & Holly Golightly – Demolition Girl
• Mezcaltones – Six Days on the Road

We’re back!

After 18 months we’re back in the big chair.

On today’s show:

• Stuart Coupe talks about his new book on Paul Kelly
• Matt from Howlin’ Threads talks about their new EP and being in a band in COVID times.
• Valerie Van de Panne joins us from Florida
• New music from Em George. Sean Nicholas McMahon, Mike Elrington, Lucie Tiger and Melody Moko

Track list

• Alive and well – Kim Volman and the Whisky Priests
• Looking for clues – Robert palmer
• Body moving – Howlin’ Threads
• Matt Houston (Howlin’ Threads) – Interview
• River and The Sea – Howlin’ Threads
• Brisbane Electrical Storm – John Kennedy
• Stuart Coupe – Interview
• Clean this House – Paul Kelly and the Dots
• Hard Love – Vika and Linda
• Don’t Give Me A Dime – Mike Elrington
• Lost Alone & Lonesome – David Schaak
• America – Em George
• Valerie Van De Panne – Interview
• Hungry Planet – Sean McMahon
• Gasoline – Lucie Tiger
• Last Cigarette – Melody Moko
• Corporate Girl – Strawberry Teardrop

The station needed someone to fill in for a cancelled show, so we had an extra hour! We were on from 17:00.

Hour 1 – Penny Ikinger

We talked to Melbourne songstress Penny Ikinger about her new single which is a collaboration with Deniz Tek.

Listen!

Tracks

• Can – Outside my door
• Penny Ikinger – Ride on cowboy
• Penny Ikinger – Gin no suzu
• Penny Ikinger – Fragile
• Jen Cloher – Regional echo
• John Kennedy – Making America hate again (Pete Veliks remix)
• Swhat – Cookie cutter suburbia
• Glitoris – Trump card
• Neil Young + Promise of the real – After the goldrush

Hour 2 – Dr. Bombay and Mihka Chee

First up, we spoke to the singer Gary Slater from Brissie band Dr. Bombay. They have a new record and it’s a ripper.

Then we were joined in the studio by Sydney singer-guitarist Mihka Chee ahead of her show at Staves Brewery in Glebe on Saturday September 16.

Listen

Tracks

• Dr. Bombay – Spit You Out Like Revenue
• Dr. Bombay – Follow the leader
• Plastic Jack – Why do I worry?
• Glass Animals – Youth
• Mihka Chee – Both
• Soma Sutton – Bloom
• Mura Masa – What if I go
• Mihka Chee – Coat tails (live)

Hour 3 – Mihka Chee (continues)

Listen!

Tracks

• Methyl Ethyl – UBU
• Mihka Chee – I was better
• The Exponents – Like she Said
• WCB – Control
• Mihka Chee – Centrefold dream (live)
• Funky Punch – Nothing
• Field of Wolves – Patricia
• WCB – Control
• Mihka Chee – Be mine
• All Our Exes Live in Texas – Sailboat