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Rando excluZZZive! Out today from local dream-pop/shoegaze, 'song explores the aftermath of a situationship where you question how you could mean so little to someone who meant so much to you, deals with the anger and inner turmoil you're left with after being ghosted by someone'

Ranso guarantee!  Previous guests on the show, Indie-rock grunge.  It's a song Harry wrote after a close call when driving, and a metaphor for love and delusion

Rando guarantee!  Naarm/Melb singer-song-writer, a characteristically sparse and quietly devastating meditation on connection, loss, and finding your way back to yourself. Set against a landscape of forests, fields, and shifting seasons, the song unfolds with an ethereal beauty that is eerie and haunting yet strangely inviting.

Rando guarantee! Geelong / Melbourne 5-piece, 2nd release ahead of LP 'Less Louder' set for release 11 Sept, "My Room is a track broadly about feeling content. The canvas toward the entire thing is for someone (myself at the time) to feel at ease. To know or feel true comfort. Chase things to make you feel grounded. Knowing to be happy to spend time at home alone and enjoy all the simple beauty to life. Happy to not feel as if there is something missing. To be able to channel and manage their own thoughts without over thinking them, putting ones mind at ease with a ‘ciggie and a cup of tea’"

Previous guest of the show, another thoughtful and compelling release for this fab local writer and musician

Rando guarantee! Naarm (Melbourne), bright, energetic and irresistibly melodic, pairing shimmering electronic textures with an infectious indie-pop sound. Beneath that vibrant exterior, however, lies a song shaped by grief, loss and acceptance.

Rando guarantee!  Naarm/Melb, 'Dark, theatrical and emotionally raw, “I Need To Run” explores the psychological unraveling that comes from toxic love. The single captures the terrifying moment someone realises they are trapped in a relationship that is slowly consuming them and the shift from vulnerability to rage.' 

Rando guarantee!  Coastal Scrub are a Sydney-based duo whose music blends Latin rhythms and psychedelic garage rock. Released doble A-side vibing Latin, psych, dance & electro

Rando guarantee! Sydney/Eora-based 4-piece art-rock band making danceable, theatrical post-punk music, debut track as a band, explores the endless search for meaning in a world where certainty feels increasingly out of reach

De's POTW!  'Bored Alone' is less a song about the pandemic than the emotional landscape it created. Confined to familiar rooms and repetitive rituals, Cedarsmoke found inspiration in the ordinary: the alarm clock sounding, the kettle boiling, the morning light creeping through the blinds. From these everyday snapshots emerges a deeply human reflection on loneliness, identity and the quiet determination required to keep moving forward. 

De's POTW!  Imagines a version of Nashville built from daydreams, rhinestone vests and queer possibility where gay cowboys kiss on the open road, Dolly Parton is your best friend, and country music becomes a place of refuge, joy and transformation

De's POTW! Brisbane oz hip hop artist originally from Logan city. Starting off in the punk scene he formed the bands SLOJ and Slurpee Jerks! During Covid he started working with Evil Eddie (Butterfingers) and quickly formed a tight bond.  2nd track released off ECA's upcoming album 'Crash Landed'. its a dark hip hop track with lyrics focusing on depression and an unhappy minsdet

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Repeat offender guest of the show returns with latest release, an earworm!  Terrvces, Sabre Siren, Daylight Ghosts @ The Cave on 24 July

From the archive, 2011 release by lstandout ocal darkwavers 

ExcluZZZive ldebut launch on last week's show, catch RJT on Thursday 9 July for the EP launch

Rando guarantee!  Naarm/Mekb, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and engineer, latest single from his forthcoming debut album 'The Ordinary Instant' (out July 31), born from the ashes of a life-changing adventure fuelled by romance and self-exploration across the southern half of the United States.

Rando guarantee! Melbourne/Naarm's underground, best known for fusing post-punk and dream-pop with synth-wave to map queer relationships across utopian and dystopian urban landscapes.  "Rupture” is about the complexity of relationships – how we hold them together, and when we have to let them go," Simona says. "It's about trust, truth, and trying to work from a place of repair when mistakes are inevitable."

Rando guarantee!  Sydney dance-pop, electro-pop with trap-inspired production and building into a chaotic world that captures the feeling of a night spiralling into blackout.

Rando guarantee! self-proclaimed Gaysian Empress of Sydney,  classically trained pianist turned hyperpop producer 

Rando guarantee!  Local artist joined by Devaura from Western Syd, “This track is about taking up space, being loud about what you want and refusing to make yourself smaller or more palatable for anyone else, giving yourself permission to be seen exactly as you are”

Rando guarantee!  ndigenous Walmatjarri and Bunuba hip-hop artist and producer, single ahead of LP 'BUNUBA BABY' due 14 Aug, '765' is the first single off my forthcoming album 'BUNUBA BABY', which is a project to showcase a personal side of me, speaking more about my relationship with culture, facing the confusion, anger and frustrations of being mixed race and coming to terms with the fact that it’s ultimately ok," 

Miles Nautu is an Aboriginal and Fijian producer and rapper from Brisbane, based in Melbourne. Hip-hop/neo-soul/jazz, 'the EP deconstructs the different facades we present to the world - examining insecurity, jealousy, grief, and the pressures of a growing audience with sharp self-examination and his signature laid-back, confident flow.'

Rando guarantee! Kaurna/Adelaide underground dance scene producer, ahead of new EP 'Age of Burnout', 'a dizzying club weapon. Heavy on modular synthesis, Strict Face takes notes from heavyweights like Boyz Noize and Errorsmith, with (in Strict Face’s own words) “a drunken yet noble hat-tip to Benny Benassi welded onto it”.

Princess Toadstool is a solo though multi instrumental endeavour born late 24' by founder Aiden Ruddle, 'A conceptual set of work aiming to paint pictures in the mind & draw out various emotion in the form of double tapped bass lines, thick dissonant chords & tasteful percussion all bound by light, expressive keys & sparce orchestral ropes. It explores themes of grievance, growth, enchantment & peace'

Rando guarantee!  Meanjin-based indie-electronic music duo consisting of Keeley Gadke and Aidan Clark, their first song which has been deconstructed in a 'werid electroclashy poppy thing'

Rando guarantee!  Sydney-based soul, jazz, and R&B project, combining live instrumentation, improvisation, and contemporary production.

Rando guarantee!  Originally AUK NZL now based in Naarm/Melb, 'LIAR is an explosive, raw exhumation of the fabrications spun by detractors. Packed with pure fury, the track is a visceral middle finger to the world's deceivers—unfiltered and fiercely cathartic.'

Local legend of noise-rock, post-punk, Mark's Paranormal Dysneyland is the solo project of Mark Spinks from Gravel Samwidge , First album came out on Eternal Soundheck with a follow up Vinyl coming through Swashbuckling Hobo Records and will feature guest appearances by Bob Farrell ( Laughing Clowns ) , Micheal Plater , Tim Steward (Screamfeeder) and Simon Walker and Victoria Watson from Some Jerks

Eumundi-core's leading edge from the Sunny Coast.  Performing in The Teenage Fan Club @ Cave on 10 July and supporting Girl'n'Girl @ Junk Bar on 24 July. Debut EP 'Pale and Blue' out 31 July.  EP 'Pale and Blue' launch at Nambour (check the socials) on 15 Aug

Our Aotearoa/NZL friend of the show.  Ttitle track from 2021 EP

Title track from 2022 LP

Taken form 2024 LP

Rando guarantee!  Adelaide's genre-bending electro-indie-pop trio, 'Carry Me Home is an ode to people who feel deeply, who take too long to forget and too long to move on. A personal story, it is the struggle to pick yourself back up. The search for distraction and meaning to fill the void of longing.'

Friends of the show, The Neon Signs, The Goldhearts, Tin Star @ Banshees on 7 Aug

Rando guarantee!  Naarm/Melb indie-folk has released 5 track EP, leading single: 'a sparse, tender indie-folk song that holds a relationship from both sides. It moves between self-reflection and empathy, tracing two people caught in exhaustion and circular thinking, still choosing to turn toward each other.'

Rando guarantee!  Singer-songwriter based in Melbourne, who grew up on Yagara Country. Since relocating to Wurundjeri country in 2016. 'It serves as a refusal of accepting the templates we are given to model our lives off of. The song unpacks the non-linear process of healing, a major cornerstone of Wren's music, and shines a light towards building the life they want to live outside of familiar patterns.'

Rando guarantee! Wollongong four-piece, “The song tells the all-too-relatable narrative of going home for Christmas and falling back into that situationship you never really moved on from. Starting with clean vocals over simple acoustic guitar, Hometown Hero evolves into a gut-wrenching indie rock anthem with a Taylor Swift-level bridge build you can't help but belt out. The lyrics paint a clear picture of a couple imagining the life they could have built together if they didn't go their separate ways, and the comfort of knowing they can always fall back into their fake domesticity when home for the holidays.”

Rando guarantee!  Sydney based Sarah Roche’s indie/folk singer-songwriter project, self-described as a ‘chronic overthinker’