Trusty Chords

I'm going to preface things this week by saying this is going to be far from anything close to a normal podcast. Why? Well, it's because this week's guests are TISM co-founders Ron Hitler-Barassi and Humphrey B...

I don't think I'm talking out of school when I say that Tex Perkins is a man who wears many hats (and oh my, does he ever look stylish when he does). If you're a casual consumer of music, then band names like Beasts Of...

As far back as I remember, I've never been someone to really find myself attracted to bands that generate a lot of 'buzz'. I mean, I remember realising as a kid that I had to listen to a song numerous times before it...

It's always really fun watching artists catch on quickly and suddenly seeing their popularity skyrocketing as folks catch on and pay deep attention to them. That's pretty much what happened with Sydney outfit The Lazy...

It's always fascinating to see how songs can catch on and – in some cases – become emblematic of an entire era. For many, the early '90s hip-hop scene is typified by songs like 'Jump Around', the debut single from Los...

Cast your mind back to the early-to-mid-'00s, and it was pretty hard to escape Epicure. That is, if you were listening to triple j, the Ballarat outfit were a hot commodity. Having formed in the mid-'90s, a few...

When I first started this podcast, I made a wishlist of people I wanted to chat to. I've still not achieved my most-wanted artist (but I came close earlier this year!), but one of those first names I put on that list...

Has there ever been a musician harder to categorise than Pinky Beecroft? (Okay, for those saying Frank Zappa or Ween, that was more of a rhetorical question, so please hold onto your opinions for the end.) For the vast...

I say this a lot, but as a former Adelaidean, I really do enjoy listening and chatting to musicians from South Australia. If you're someone whose finger has firmly been on the pulse of the City of Churches' music scene...

Ahead of making this podcast, I really had to think back to where I first discovered the band Metric. Hailing from Toronto in Canada, the group came together back in 1998, initially forming as a duo between Emily Haines...

One of my favourite things is watching a band achieve their goals. I don't just mean recording an album, releasing it, hitting the charts, and going on tour – both domestically and internationally – but honestly, even...

If you've taken anything away from the sort of artists I've had on this podcast in recent years, you can probably surmise I'm a bit of a fan of the more indie, alternative, punk, and heavier genres. One of the groups...

Hello and welcome to Trusty Chords, the podcast which aims to celebrate music and those that create it. Most Australian bands would tell you that the dream is to not only carve out a respectable niche for yourself on...

There's a very good chance that if you've listened to music lately, then you might have heard of Dexter And The Moonrocks. Maybe theirs isn't a name you've particularly become familiar with, but on a statistical level...

For close to 25 years now, Canada's own The Flatliners have been bringing their unique brand of punk to the world. Formed in 2002, the Ontario group are one of those rare bands who have managed to maintain the same...