New Weird Australia Podcast App for iPhone
Our podcast host, LibSyn, has provided New Weird Australia with the opportunity to deliver its podcast series via a new iPhone app, now available from the iTunes App store. The Jesus Phone is of course now all conquering and all pervasive, and we are just as much a sucker for the touchy feely techno object as anyone else. However, now we can take our ill-advised gadget lust to the next level – we can listen and watch NWA audio and video content... Read More
New Podcasts & New Vodcasts from NWA TV
We’ve recently posted a number of new podcasts and vodcasts, as well as changing our Podcast server (and thus getting a new Podcast feed address – update your bookmarks!). Our new content includes two radio interviews & live performances from DANGER BEACH and COLLARBONES (the collaboration between SCISSOR LOCK & CYST IMPALED), as well as three video recordings of live sets from New Weird Australia events – ambitiously dubbed... Read More
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... Read More
NWA Radio: Danger Beach
(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... Read More
NWA Radio: Clan Analogue & Actual Russian Brides
(June 2010) Formed almost twenty years ago, CLAN ANALOGUE remains one of the most prolific and interesting collectives in Australian electronic music. ANT BANNISTER and ADRIAN ELMER (Telafonica) join Stu Buchanan on this NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA Podcast to talk about the Clan’s new career-spanning retrospective album, and its launch party in June 2010 in Sydney. Performing two exclusive tracks live in the studio are Clan members ACTUAL RUSSIAN... Read More
NWA Radio: Kate Carr
(May 2010) Sydney artist KATE CARR has been making music since 2007, developing a pallate of drones, soundscape, glitch, opera and pop. In this podcast edition of the ‘New Weird Australia’ radio show (recorded in May 2010), Kate talks about her work to date, including her 2009 album ‘First Day Back’ released via German label ‘Retinascan’, and plays two tracks live in the studio. DOWNLOAD: Podcast Seven: Kate Carr... Read More
NWA Radio: The Necks
(February 2010) THE NECKS are one of Australia’s most innovative cult bands, channeling experimental, avant garde, jazz, ambient and minimal sounds via a back catalogue that runs to fifteen albums over twenty years. Each of THE NECKS also has an equally impressive solo and collaborative career – however they always find time to regroup and return to Sydney at least once a year for one of their renowned live shows. Ahead of their Sydney show in... Read More
New Weird Australia, Podcast Five: Crab Smasher
By their own admission, Crab Smasher are a NSW based group of “improvisational sound sharks crafting a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo psychedelic noise rock and experimental pop delicious”. Having morphed through a variety of lineups and styles since their formation in 2002, their current incarnation took time away from recent Sydney gigs to visit the New Weird Australia radio show with guest presenter Brooke Olsen. The band deliver... Read More
NWA Radio: Crab Smasher
(January 2010) By their own admission, CRAB SMASHER are a NSW based group of “improvisational sound sharks crafting a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo psychedelic noise rock and experimental pop delicious”. Having morphed through a variety of lineups and styles since their formation in 2002, their current incarnation took time away from recent Sydney gigs to visit the New Weird Australia radio show with guest presenter Brooke Olsen. The... Read More
NWA Radio: Tom Ellard, Severed Heads
(January 2010) 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 1970s and early 1980s, and forging an innovative career that has stretched across three decades. Returning for a special ‘grand finale’ show at the 2010 Sydney Festival, Severed Heads’ mainman TOM ELLARD joins Stu & Danny on the latest NEW WEIRD... Read More
