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February 7, 2012
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NWA Podcast #20. Yolke, Live-to-air Set & Interview

Formed while field researching sound in 2008, Melbourne psych ambient four-piece Yolke released their debut album ‘Poppy Wash’ back in 2010, and it quickly drew references to shoe gaze, krautrock and folktronica, with some of the reviews citing the pop quirks of Caribou and Ariel Pink as influences.

In January 2012, Yolke embarked on an east-coast tour of Australia along with their ‘Fallopian Tunes’ label-mates Trjaeu, Wild Dog Creek, Document Swell and Red Hymns, which also saw them all and taking in an appearance at the inaugural Wormwoodstock Festival in NSW. The live-to-sir set – originally broadcast on FBi Radio on 26th January 2012 – includes three extended tracks from Yolke, including new and unreleased material – as well as a track from the ‘Poppy Wash’ album and from their road trip buddy, Document Swell.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #20. Yolke, Live-to-air Set & Interview (January 2012)

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January 30, 2012
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NWA Podcast #19. Pollen Trio, Live-to-air Set & Interview

In January 2012, Canberra’s Pollen Trio were in Sydney for the Now Now annual festival of ‘exploratory music’ – a genuine feast for lovers of experimental, spontaneous and downright surprising music. The trio uncomfortably fit the genre of ‘avant jazz’, instead taking in a broad range of influences – most directly from their ‘day jobs’ as members of well-known Canberra bands, Spartak and Kasha. With a love of Flying Lotus and Autechre, blended with a reverence for non-trad jazz masters such as Morton Feldman and Ornette Coleman, there’s a lot to listen out for in this podcast, when the trio (masquerading as a duo) played a live-to-sir set on New Weird Australia, on Thursday January 19th 2012.

Pollen Trio site: pollentrio.wordpress.com

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #19. Pollen Trio, Live-to-air Set & Interview (January 2012)

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January 22, 2012
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NWA Podcast #18. Secret Birds, Live-to-air Set & Interview

Under the name Secret Birds, former Brisbane resident D. Black takes an astral-tinged journey through synth jams, float folk and fried psychedelia.  Although currently a solo project, Secret Birds has seen more than 30 musicians drafted as members of the experience over the years, supporting the likes as Ducktails, High Wolf, and Slug Guts.  In Sydney for an extended stopover before heading overseas, Secret Birds played an extended live-to-air set exclusively for New Weird Australia, on Thursday January 12th 2012.  This podcast features the full set from Secret Birds, plus an artist interview and tracks from his recent releases.

Official Secret Birds site: http://secretbirds.net/

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #18. Secret Birds, Live-to-air Set & Interview (January 2012)

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August 27, 2011
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NWA Podcast #17. Brain Drain, Live-to-air Set & Interview

Brain Drain is a Sydney based artist who straddles the divide between structure and improvisation, often revelling in the contrast between the two. His primarily guitar-driven pieces centre around creating both mood and rhythm through loops and using this repetition as a foundation on which to improvise. Since 2010, Brain Drain has released three albums: a self-titled debut cassette, the follow-up Wahine Division, and the collaborative album, Popolice Versus Brain Drain.

This podcast features a full set from Brain Drain, broadcast live to air on New Weird Australia in May 2011, plus an artist interview and tracks from his first two releases.

Official Brain Drain site: braindrain3053.tumblr.com

Live tracks featured in this podcast: Double Chocolate Stout, Black T, No-Hitter, Theme.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #17. Brain Drain, Live-to-air Set & Interview (May 2011)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL:  http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.  You can also download our Podcast App for iPhone or Android which includes an archive of all podcasts to date, plus automatic updates of all new podcasts as they are released.

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June 4, 2011
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NWA Podcast #16. Severed Heads, Live-to-air Set & Interview

(April 2011) Severed Heads are regarded as being one of the most influential experimental and electronic bands in Australia, pioneering the use of tape loops and samples in the late 70s and early 80s, and forging an innovative career that stretched across three decades.  Retiring in 2010, Severed Heads nonetheless came together once again in May 2011 to play a series of shows with electro-pioneer Gary Numan, and, prior to the tour, gave their final live to air performance on NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA.

Over 50 minutes in length, this exclusive Severed Heads set is in two parts – a ‘pop’ set featuring well-known classic tracks from the back catalogue, and a shorter ‘weird’ set, with the band recreating early material with Ableton Live. In between, Stu Buchanan discusses the legacy, ‘the retrospective era’ and upcoming solo activity with Severed Heads frontman, Tom Ellard.  [Official Severed Heads site: sevcom.com/]

Live tracks featured in this podcast: (Part One) Now, An Explosive New Movie / Pilot In Hell / Harold And Cindy Hospital / Kittenette / Petrol / Pilots Hate You / Choose Evil / Heart Of The Party / Dead Eyes Opened. (Part Two) Ken Burns Effect / Gashing The Old Mae West / Wonder Of All The World

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #16. Severed Heads, Live-to-air Set & Interview (April 2011)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL:  http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes .  You can also download our Podcast App for iPhone or Android which includes an archive of all podcasts to date, plus automatic updates of all new podcasts as they are released.

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January 27, 2011
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NWA Podcast #15. Breathing Shrine, Live-to-air Set & Interview

(January 2011) Breathing Shrine is a psychedelic / noise / drone band from Melbourne. After touring the USA twice as a duo under the name of Grey Daturas, Bonnie Mercer (guitar) and Rob Mayson (bass & drums) decided to continue under the new name of Breathing Shrine. Ahead of one of their rare live appearances in Sydney, Bonnie & Rob join Stu Buchanan to discuss the birth of Breathing Shrine, the freedom that it now affords them and what the future may, or may not, have in store. The podcast also includes a performance from Breathing Shrine, recorded live on New Weird Australia, titled ’27-01-2011′.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #15. Breathing Shrine, Live-to-air Set & Interview (January 2011)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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November 16, 2010
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NWA Podcast #14. Axxonn, Interview

(November 2010) AXXONN is the self-described “pop/synth/doom/electronic music project” from Brisbane’s Tom Hall. Originally exploring territories solely of doom and drone in his earlier EP releases, his recent debut album ‘Let’s Get It Straight’ deploys a barrage of wider influences – from 80s mullet-metal, abstract electronica, hardcore noise, synth-pop and the blackest of black metal. Stu Buchanan talked to Tom Hall during the album launch tour, shortly before he was due to take to the stage in Hobart and ahead of dates in Sydney, Geelong, Melbourne and Perth, rounded off with a lap of honour in Brisbane.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #14. Axxonn, Interview (November 2010)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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October 29, 2010
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NWA Podcast #13. Spartak, Interview

(September 2010) In this NWA podcast, Stu Buchanan chats with Canberra artist, label manager and promoter SHOEB AHMAD, and his regular collaborator EVAN DORRIAN.

SHOEB has, for quite some time, been one of the key voice of dissent in the city of Canberra – single-handledly staging an inexhaustible series of experimental music events, managing the renowned HelloSquare record label and producing music, both as a solo producer and as one half of SPARTAK, with EVAN DORRIAN. As drummer, producer and sound artist, EVAN is additionally a core member of POLLEN TRIO and released his debut self-titled solo release in 2009.

In Sydney in September 2010, for a local show with THE GHOST OF 29 MEGACYCLES and THE INFINITY ROOM, Shoeb & Evan chat about the recent SPARTAK album ‘Verona’, as well as upcoming records on HelloSquare, and Shoeb’s role as the first guest curator of the New Weird Australia compilation series, with the forthcoming release ‘The Sound Of Young Canberra’.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #13. Spartak, Interview (September 2010)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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October 5, 2010
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NWA Podcast #12. Pimmon, Interview

(September 2010) PIMMON is arguably Australia’s most well known and most successful experimental music producers, having recorded for various labels around the world (including Tigerbeat6 and Fat Cat) and collaborating with the likes of FENNESZ, OREN AMBARCHI and more recently with Jeff Burch, formerly of SONGS.

Over the last eighteen months, PIMMON has released five albums of new material, from 2009′s ‘Smudge Another Yesterday’ to his forthcoming split cassette on Spanish Magic, which comes backed with one of his earliest recordings from 1983 under the name YCLEPT DINMAKERS.

In this New Weird Australia podcast, he talks to Stu Buchanan about whether this productive patch actually means anything, whether his early 80s material is really worth a listen, and whether any of the so-called chillwave cassette bands actually sound any good with the hiss removed.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #12. Pimmon, Interview (September 2010)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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September 25, 2010
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NWA Podcast #11. Paneye, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

(September 2010) Paneye is the moniker of Sydney musician Will Treffry. Residing in Sydney,Will’s music combines elements of psych-folk, ambient electronica and dream pop. In this podcast episode, recorded on the NWA Radio show in September 2010, Stu Buchanan talks to Will about his work to date – which includes three full solo albums, and an ongoing collaborative project with Jasper Rice, titled ‘Bristles On the Carapace’. We hear tracks from his most recent album ‘Lying Under Moribund Waves’, as well as unreleased material recorded recently during a residency in Japan, and two tracks performed live in the studio.

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #11. Paneye, Live-to-air Performance & Interview (September 2010)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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August 13, 2010
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New Podcast Feed

Our podcasts have moved to a new server, and we’ve therefore changed our Podcast feed address. If you already subscribe to our podcasts, please update your bookmarks with the new URL:

http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss

As a thank you for updating, you’ll find some new material at the new address, including the first episodes of our ‘NWA TV’ vodcast series featuring live performances shot at recent New Weird Australia gigs.

You can also find the full back catalogue lists of podcasts and vodcasts via the Podcast link in the main menu.

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July 2, 2010
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NWA Podcast #10. Danger Beach, Live-to-air Performance & Interview

(July 2010) As far as new, weird Australian music goes, Canberra is fast establishing itself as 2010′s most interesting city – and in this NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA podcast (originally recorded in July 2010), Stu Buchanan talks to one of its emerging artists, DANGER BEACH. Leaving behind the lo-fi punk noise of his ASSASSINS 88 project, DANGER BEACH explores the ground between noise and pop, attempting to “write songs that your girlfriend would listen to”. As well as chatting about his upcoming gigs and releases, DANGER BEACH plays four live tracks in the studio: ‘Lakes’ (featuring TV Colours on guest vocals), an Elvis cover ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Apollo’ and ‘Safe Home’

DOWNLOAD: NWA Podcast #10. Danger Beach, Live-to-air Performance & Interview (July 2010)

The New Weird Australia Podcast Series features selected interviews and in-studio recordings from our FBi radio show, as well as live performances from events, video interviews and more.  Subscribe to our podcast feed by using this URL: http://newweirdaustralia.libsyn.com/rss or click here to subscribe directly in iTunes.

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