Mar 30, 2016
Hip-hop, jazz and funk come together in Koi Child, one of the most exciting Aussie bands of the last few years. On the eve of their debut album release, I sat down with keyboardist Tom Kenny to talk about his love for D'Angelo's seminal R&B masterpiece 'Voodoo'.
We talk about how the album is D'Angelo's answer to the...
Mar 24, 2016
ACM-nominated Southern rock hitmakers the Cadillac Three join me backstage at the CMC Rocks QLD festival to talk about one of their biggest influences - rock legend Tom Petty and his 1994 album 'Wildflowers'.
We talk about producer Rick Rubin's influence on Petty's songwriting, the Americana sound of the record, the...
Mar 22, 2016
Standup comic, actor and host of my new favorite podcast Julian Loves Music, Julian McCullough, joins me in an Echo Park bookstore to try and convince me that Guns n Roses are awesome. We talk about growing up the son of a music snob, how he played a GnR song about heroin for his elementary school class, why he never...
Mar 15, 2016
Danny Clinch, harmonica player and the greatest rock photographer of the past 25 years, joins me to talk about the debut album of his idol and frequent collaborator Bruce Springsteen - 'Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ'.
Danny talks about the parallels between his NJ upbringing and the characters on the album,...
Mar 10, 2016
Singer, songwriter, actor, owner of a truly fantastic head of hair Sam Palladio is best known as Gunnar Scott in the addictive drama series Nashville, but the English native is also a talented musician with a love for the soothing sensitivity of James Taylor.
We talk about how he discovered JT and the album 'October...