Tim Steward is the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Brisbane band Screamfeeder, as well for as the excellent outfit We All Want To. Screamfeeder has shows with The Superjesus and Bluebottle Kiss this November. Go to screamfeeder.com for more.

Jon Toogood is the frontman and songwriter from New Zealand band Shihad - and he has just released his first solo album, the very personal and tender Last of the Lonely Gods. Jon is on tour now, with shows in NZ, Australia, and the UK. Visit jontoogood.com for more.

It's been twenty years since Black Betty was the highest-selling single in the country, and Spiderbait are hitting the road to mark this milestone, with a new vinyl of 2004's Tonight Alright record to boot. Kram talks about the shock and joy of hitting #1 six albums into their career, after the earlier success of singles like Buy Me A Pony and Calypso, and the double-platinum selling 1997 album Ivy and the Big Apples. Get tickets, tour dates, and vinyl at spiderbait.net.au.

Reg Mombassa is the lead guitarist, songwriter, and founding member of the bands Mental As Anything and Dog Trumpet, and designer of iconic artwork for Mambo. He has also designed album covers for PIL, Crowded House, Mondo Rock, and Paul Kelly. Check out dogtrumpet.net to buy tickets to Dog Trumpet's upcoming tour.

Mark Arm is credited with inventing grunge - although if you ask him, it originated in Australia in the early '80s. He is fronting a new iteration of The Saints, who will tour Australia in November. Go to feelpresents.com for tickets.

Ed Kuepper was the guitarist and songwriter for The Saints during their legendary first run, and led art/jazz/punk band the Laughing Clowns in the 1980s. He also has a bunch of great solo records, albums with The Aints - an enviable body of recorded work. Ed has assembled a new lineup under the name The Saints 73-78 to tour those first three Saints records this November, and has also been reissuing a number of his solo records on vinyl. Get tickets and tour dates at feelpresents.com and vinyl at edkuepper1.bandcamp.com.

Zoë Randell is the singer and songwriter of Australian-born, Brooklyn-based duo Luluc, who have released five great albums, including their most recent offering, Diamonds. Visit luluc.org for more.

Stuart Murdoch is the lead singer, songwriter, and driving force behind legendary Glaswegian band Belle and Sebastian, who are touring Australia this August. Details at belleandsebastian.com

Jeff McDonald is the lead singer and guitarist for Redd Kross, the legendary LA pop/punk band, who have just released an 18-song self-titled double album. They are also the subjects of a new documentary and a forthcoming book.

Mike Rudd is the frontman of two legendary Australian rock bands: Spectrum, and Ariel. Spectrum landed a #1 single in 1971 with the classic song 'I'll Be Gone', and released the first Australian rock double-album that same year. Check out mikeruddbillputt.com to buy CDs, or see when Mike is playing next.

Van Dyke Parks is an arranger, according to him. He is also a songwriter, solo artist, producer, and -- clearly, obviously -- a genius. He co-wrote the mystical Beach Boys album SMiLE with Brian Wilson. His 1967 debut album Song Cycle is one of the great psychedelic classics of the era. He arranged The Jungle Book song The Bare Necessities. He claims to have owned the first ever Sony Walkman on American soil, gifted to him by the boss of Warner Bros Japan, and used to write 'Sail On Sailor' with Brian. Over 80 or so minutes, Van Dyke discusses working with David Crosby, Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, Daniel Johns, Phil Ochs, Ry Cooder, Judi Collins - and -- clearly, obviously -- Brian Wilson. Strap in!

Brian Cadd is an Australian songwriting legend, who has written hits for Glen Campbell, the Masters Apprentices, the Pointer Sisters, and John Farnham - plus for his own iconic 1960s band The Groop, and Axiom. Check out briancadd.com/live for tour dates.

Kasey Chambers released her thirteenth studio album Backbone yesterday, and also has a new memoir out: Just Don't Be A Dickhead. Kasey is playing a bunch of shows over the next few months, including some author-in-conversation appearances, a number of festivals, a Sydney Opera House gig with Vika & Linda, as well as her own national album tour. For all this and more, visit kaseychambers.com

Frank Turner is a UK singer-songwriter who just released his tenth solo record, Undefeated.

Paul Leary is the guitarist, songwriter, producer, engineer, and much more for Butthole Surfers. Here he talks about the band's catalogue, which Matador is reissuing, plus working with Daniel Johnston, the Meat Puppets, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

Olivia Bartley writes, records, and performs music under the name Olympia. She released her new Love For One EP yesterday, which she will be launching with three solo shows, starting May 30 in Melbourne.

Details at olympiamusic.com.au.

The classic Underground Lovers album Dream It Down turns 30 next month, and to mark the occasion, there is a new double-disc vinyl reissue out, as well as shows in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Find out more at linktr.ee/UndergroundLovers

Quan Yeomans is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter from Australian art pop legends Regurgitator, who released their tenth album Invader last week, and are about to embark on a massive tour of the country. Get tickets and buy the record from regurgitator.net.

Caiti Baker is an award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, vocal engineer, graphic designer, and artist from Darwin. She was one-half of soul group Sietta, has recorded and released a number of great solo records, co-wrote and sung on A.B. Original's landmark album Reclaim Australia, and won an ARIA for creating the artwork on Dr G. Yunupingu's final album. Her new single Stay Down is out now - find out more at caitibaker.com.

Mark Seymour released his eleventh solo album yesterday, The Boxer, his fifth to be credited to Mark Seymour and the Undertow. Add nine Hunters & Collectors albums to the mix, and that's a lot of music. Mark is touring currently, get tickets and check tour dates at markseymour.com.au.

Cameron Baines is the lead singer and guitarist of Bodyjar, one of Australia's best-ever punk rock bands.

James Baker is a legend of Australian music. He played on the classic Hoodoo Gurus debut Stoneage Romeos, wrote The Victims' legendary punk single Television Addict, co-wrote and played on the early Scientists' records, and drums for the Beasts of Bourbon - and, at the age of 70, he has just released his debut album, Born To Rock. The Beasts are touring right now. Buy tickets to that from texperkins.com, and buy James' album through strangeworldrecords.com.au.

Nic Cester is the lead singer of Australian rock group Jet, whose 2003 debut album Get Born sold over four million copies. Jet are touring in May, where they'll play the record in full. Get tickets at jetofficial.com.

Rebecca Barnard is a solo artist, and was the lead singer of Rebecca's Empire, who landed songs in four consecutive triple j Hottest 100 charts in the 1990s. Visit rebeccabarnard.com for music and shows.

Jim Reid is the lead singer of Scottish legends The Jesus and Mary Chain, who released their eighth album Glasgow Eyes yesterday.

Rob Younger is the lead singer and co-founder of legendary Australian band Radio Birdman, who are touring this year in honour of their 50th anniversary.

Chris Robinson is the lead singer of The Black Crowes, who release their ninth studio album Happiness Bastards on Friday. It's their first studio record for 15 years.

Kim Salmon is a founding member of Beasts of Bourbon, who are heading out on tour next month, forty years after their blistering debut album The Axeman's Jazz. He was also the driving force behind The Scientists, and the amazing art-rock band The Surrealists. He is also said to have invented grunge.

For tickets to the Beasts tour, visit texperkins.com.

Andrew Cox is singer and guitarist for The Fauves, who have written classic Australian tunes such as Dogs Are The Best People, Bigger Than Tina, Celebrate The Failure, Self Abuser, Everybody's Getting A Three Piece Together, Surf City Limits, and The Charles Atlas Way.

Graham Nash founded 1960s UK beat group The Hollies with his best friend and enjoyed a dozen top ten hits. Then, Nash decided to quit the group, and move to America. Here, he discusses meeting and falling in love with Joni Mitchell, the first time he sang with David Crosby and Steven Stills, meeting Neil Young over breakfast, and recounts writing hits like Teach Your Children, Our House, Marrakesh Express. He also recalls the morning Paul McCartney called him up to come to the 'All You Need Is Love' recording. Graham tours Australia from March 2024. Get tickets at grahamnash.com.

Lydia Lunch is a singer, songwriter, poet, artist, author, and long-time musical collaborator of both Thurston Moore and Rowland S Howard. She fronted influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (produced by Brian Eno), and co-wrote and sung the epic Sonic Youth track Death Valley '69. She is touring Australia next month - get tickets at lydia-lunch.net/shows, and listen to some of her vast discography at https://lydialunch.bandcamp.com.

Sally Seltmann is a solo artist, songwriter, and producer, who previously recorded under the name New Buffalo. She's also one-third of Seeker Lover Keeper, with Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko, and wrote Feist's hit single '1234', which hit the top 10 in the US and the UK - and even made it onto Sesame Street. She also provided vocals on The Avalanches' debut album Since I Left You. Buy her music at sallyseltmann.com.

Brendan B. Brown is the frontman, singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, and engineer of Wheatus, the man behind hits such as Teenage Dirtbag, Leroy, and a sterling cover of Erasure's A Little Respect. On this episode, Brendan talks about his breakthrough single, his love of production, and how he recorded a hit album in three weeks in his mother's basement.

Brendan is touring Australia from February 1 with last week's Listen Carefully guest, Art Alexakis from Everclear - to buy tickets, visit everclearmusic.com.

Art Alexakis is the singer, guitarist, songwriter, and driving force behind Everclear, one of the most successful rock bands of the past thirty years. Everclear had a slew of hit singles in the 1990s, including Santa Monica, Father of Mine, Heroin Girl, Everything to Everyone, I Will Buy You A New Life, You Make Me Feel Like A Whore, Heartspark Dollarsign, and Local God.

Art is touring Australia from February 1 - to buy tickets visit everclearmusic.com.

Rob Snarski is the frontman of The Blackeyed Susans, SnarskiCircusLindyBand, and new project Snarski vs Snarski, whose album Waiting For The Bell is out October 17 on CD and vinyl. Visit robsnarski.com to pre-order the record.

Brian Ritchie is the bass player and founding member of Violent Femmes, a folksy, punky, Milwaukee band whose 1983 self-titled debut album sold over three million copies and spawned countless indie imitators.

James Reyne is hitting the road over the next six months in celebration of the 40th anniversary reissue of Crawl File, the greatest hits collection from legendary 1980s band Australian Crawl. We discuss his time with the band, as well as his solo career (including his huge '90s hit Way Out West). To buy tickets or the vinyl reissue, visit jamesreyne.com.au.

Billy Birmingham is The Twelfth Man. He is also Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry, Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, and dozens of other characters across a series of insanely popular 12th Man records. Between 1984 and 2006, all seven 12th Man albums, plus two singles, landed at #1 on the ARIA chart. It's quite a feat. Here, Billy goes through the recording process for his albums, does a ton of impersonations (Barnesy, Farnesy, Richie) and shows off his new talking stubby holders. This interview was done in November 2011, and has been revived for the podcast era.

Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou are two-thirds of indefinitely hibernating rock band Silverchair, and co-authors of Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and outside Silverchair, which you can buy here.

Chris Ballew is the singer and guitarist from 1990s legends The Presidents of the United States of America, and writer of hit singles Lump, Kitty, Mach 5, Peaches, Dune Buggy, and Volcano. His work can be listened to and purchased at chrisballew.org.

Ashley Naylor is the frontman for Even, as well as guitarist for the Paul Kelly band, The Church, The Stems, the Rockwiz band, Vika and Linda's band, and The Ronson Hangup. His latest album is Soundtracks Volume 2 - which can be bought (along with his other records) from ashleynaylor.bandcamp.com.

Jamie Hutchings was the creative force behind Bluebottle Kiss, who released six albums between 1995 and 2006, plus a few lengthy EPs that probably should have been classified as albums, too. Jamie has a new solo record out, called A New, which he will be touring from January. For tour dates and to buy or stream the album (plus all his other work - he is a prolific artist) visit jamiehutchings.com

Earlier this month, the vinyl reissue of The Mark Of Cain's third album Ill At Ease crashed into the ARIA charts at #40 - its highest position since it first came out in 1995. Singer and guitarist John Scott talks about the album's legacy, about working with Henry Rollins and Steve Albini, and floats a pretty great theory that grunge originated in Adelaide. The band is touring off the back of Ill At Ease - for dates and tickets, visit tmoc.com.au.

Twenty years ago, The Waifs released Up All Night, their fourth album and the first to garner national attention, driven by the pining, lovely London Still. The album sold double-platinum, the single reached #3 on the Triple J Hottest 100, and the band were propelled to another level. Soon, they were supporting Bob Dylan, and moving 100,000 copies of a double live album. On this week's episode, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and harmonica player Vikki Thorn talks about all that and more. For tour dates, visit thewaifs.com.

Lenka is one of Australia's biggest pop exports: her 2008 single The Show appeared in hundreds of TV shows, movies, and advertisements, selling over 300,000 copies in the US alone. Her new album, Intraspectral, is out this coming Friday (November 17) and that evening, she'll launch it at the Gasometer in Melbourne. For tour dates, and to buy the record, visit lenkamusic.com.

Lo Carmen is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, artist, and actor. Her seventh solo album Transatlantic Light comes out this coming Friday, September 20th, and you can pre-order it on ⁠locarmen.bandcamp.com⁠ now.

Once Darren Cross fronted Gerling, electro punk anarchists who strode into the new millennium wearing backpacks. Now Darren is D.C. Cross, and yesterday he released his fourth acoustic instrumental record, Wizrad, which you can buy on vinyl, CD, or computer file from Darren's Bandcamp page. There, you can also find dates for his tour, which kicks off this Thursday in Sydney.

Bob Evans is the singer/songwriter project of Jebediah's frontman Kevin Mitchell. For those looking for Jebediah talk, go to the previous episode. This is pure Bob Evans chat.

Kevin Mitchell is lead singer and guitarist for Jebediah, who have just released 'Gum Up The Bearings', their first new music for twelve-and-a-half years. We talk about the entire Jebediah discography during this episode - if you are a fan of Kevin's other work, tomorrow morning I'll be releasing another episode, all about the Bob Evans albums.

Simon Day is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and cartoonist for Aussie band Ratcat, who -- a year before Nirvana -- opened the floodgates for alternative music to rush into the mainstream. The Tingles EP, driven by the memorable clip for That Ain't Bad, rocketed to #1 on the national charts, before Ratcat became the first local artist to simultaneously hold the #1 single, with follow-up Don't Go Now, and the #1 album, with Blind Love. Last week, the band released All Stripped Back, their first collection of new recordings since 1997. For show notes, and links to buy records and tickets, go to listencarefully.com.au.