ANGELFIRED

We hopped in the Volkswagen with our number 1 ticket holder, Jade Zoe, for a good old Australian road trip to Spilt Milk Festival in Ballarat. Our truck stop investigations explored the political undertones of sports drinks and homogenous fashion choices before we arrived in the country for a day of live music, rural hospitality, and field reporting from inside of the artist area. [TOPICS] (00:00:...

Vocal shitposting is our bread and butter, so we’re perceiving wildly and running our mouths about the city-country divide, bodies of water, drink trends, modes of transport and the goodest white ‘it’ boys (most notably Harry Styles). [TOPICS] (00:00:00) The Good Old Days (00:02:40) I Dyed My Hair Black & Sustainable Haircut Anxiety (00:06:50) Sydney, Test Cricket And The Young Murdoch Dream (...

We embraced masochism and flew back to Sydney for the warm weather and washed nights of fancy feasting and post-Aria Awards shenanigans. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) En Route To Sydney (Again) (00:04:05) Review: Ester (00:29:18) The Pains Of Being Cropped Out (00:36:00) Review: Aria Awards Afters - Our Sadistic Return To The Abercrombie, The Lansdowne Lock-In, The Lure Of The Ace Hotel, The Morning After A...

I arrived at SXSW Sydney with clear objectives: avoid AI and see Dust play live. Mission accomplished. Harry fed his academic appetite with weird panels by day, before joining our crew of industry misfits to search for new music by night. After hours at the Abercrombie had us in a choke hold for five mornings in a row, which inevitably led to sinister repercussions. No regrets. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:0...

No Gods, no Masters - just CB, TJ, and a theatre full of tropes. We went full Gonzo from the foyer to the afters and mingled with the fitted freaks of the local Goners community. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Perceiving The Fits, The Tropes & The Vibe (00:42:22) Review: How Long Gone Live (00:54:36) Meet Me In The Foyer: CB & TJ IRL (00:57:44) Afterparty Shenanigans (01:03:25) Post-Pod Clarity

No thoughts, just sports. I've unleashed my inner cheerleader and it feels good to purge the rage again. Clear eyes! Full hearts! Can't lose! [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Smooth Brain Content: Sports, AR, Magic Eye (00:11:00) Understanding Jock Mia (00:16:11) We’re Voting YES (00:23:01) Brand Spons Wishlist: LoBros, Heaps Normal, Barry Non-Alc, Fishbowl (00:25:18) Review: The Footy Festival & Parade...

It’s a weeb kind of week with the Barry Drop, the Baz Lenka Cotton On Collab and the JPEGMAFIA show at The Forum. Big in Japan or Big into Japan? We review the latest romcom releases: ‘When a Wild Fox Girl Meets a Push Pull Boy’ (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce), the sequel ‘When a Panda Dunks Girl Meets a Samba Boy’ (Gabriette and Matty Healy), and the third instalment ‘When a Magpie Girl Meets a L...

Harry makes his fortune in Jetstar bucks after a post-Bigsound flight cancellation in Brisbane and indulges in a taste test of astronaut broccoli before Eagle Rocking his way into the Qantas Lounge to assess the complimentary menu of unsalted snacks and big milk jugs. Meanwhile, back in Melbourne, I’ve caught finals fever and have broken up with my childhood footy team to scope out some new boys t...

After being catfished by a helveticacore bistro and suffering from dehydration at a vibeless pizzeria, we went full Seinfeld & Costanza on fine dining and its “fine” dining. Yada Yada Yada! We misplaced the red reading glasses required for ABC viewing, so we made our own Gruen Transfer assessments of primal celebrity fetishism in the perfume industry and the anti-ageism rhetoric in youth-relev...

Meet me in the bathroom? Nah, meet me in the BACK ROOM! We’re revisiting house parties and promoter guest lists, MySpace bulletins and Tumblr scenesters, YouTube wormholes and Soundcloud sub-genres, streaming algorithms and Boiler Room cameos, status anxiety at the club to social anxiety of digging with the heads. Our new favs are a lot like our old ones. It’s hard not to simp over artists who wer...

It’s too easy to post wholesome family trip content online, but what really goes down on the tour bus? Jae returns to the pod to air out some post-travel demons after our recent holiday in the Philippines. We love our bread, we love our butter, we love our vapes and each other. Tap in as the Besorio sisters shed some light on navigating family dynamics and personal space, the gaslighting that come...

I returned from the Motherland and fell into the void. I’ve since escaped thanks to Harry’s light, fresh after his first AAA Splendour In The Grass experience. Despite being "Sober Kings" we aren’t quite raw dogging life and undertake a therapy session about the many vices that keep us impure. [TOPICS] (00:00:00) Vapes Are Demon Nectar (00:04:23) Therapy Sesh: Locating The Void (And Ways To Escape...

Our source codes are now sauce hoes, lost in their likeness sold as starter pack identities to the masses. The gentrification of the gentrified! Is it the human condition to destroy art in favour of commerce or are we simply inhumane? [ TOPICS ]  (00:00:00) The Angelfired Set Makeover (00:00:54) Big Spoon VS Lil Spoon (00:06:08) What’s The Deal With Sleeping Habits? (00:11:51) My Late Awakening To...

Post-nut clarity has unleashed the truth serum: The Idol is mid. Moodboard-captioncore-aesthetic excellence may be in check but the plot holes are deeper than an indie softboi quoting Baudelaire. This is not the pod to leave a stone unturned, so we do our very best to dig through the vapour and find meaning beyond the hottie with the hairbrush.

Pearl clutchers beware! The Idol is good. Don’t come for us. Cum for the show instead. If you’re still reading, we also review the Iceage, Varg2™, Kahukx and New Wave live shows and spotlight wedding-bouquet-catching Jae and resident Coles slut Curtis Stone. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Review: The Idol (So Far, So Good) (00:22:45) Review: Iceage Live @ The Forum (00:32:30) A Chance Encounter With Iceage...

Yeehaw, it’s Meemaw season! A chance sighting of Ethel Cain in the streets followed by seeing her perform live at Rising Festival doms the pod, but that doesn’t stop us from overanalysing Throwing Fits memes, relevant TV shows, pets and their owner's disgusting behaviours, the designer apple and nerd goggle warpath and the Macca’s mafia. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) A Chance Encounter With Ethel Cain (00...

What do a flea market, a billy cart derby, and question time have in common? A sinister underbelly uncovered by us. Harry and I cross utopian borders from the hills of Bangalow to the Nation’s Capital to compare the streets to the senate whilst high on Sudafed. [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Recap: Habitat Flea Market Sale (00:08:53) The Bucket Of Fuccboi Novels (00:10:13) The Best Gems Eva (00:11:00) The...

Spoiler alerts are rife as Harry and I review the final episode of Succession. We perceive the micro nuances of the characters and the macro elitism of the show's entirety as we say one final “fuck off” to the capitalist pigathon that had us gripped to the teet over 4 seasons.

My reformer pilates training served me well at the annual vintage sale, which I narrowly escaped with my designer bundle in arms. To celebrate my haul, Harry and I ate tinned fish and tiramisu at a fontcore establishment with hotties on staff. A pit stop at a “famous pies” spot led to disappointment, followed by heavy discourse around the emerging Brad and Edna tropes in the rural town pie gentrif...

In The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis reflects on high school in the pre-internet liberation of the 80s, where insecurity is too often mistaken for sincerity. The Shards showcases "numbness as a mask" worn by emotionally stunted teenagers vs the "numbness as a feeling" characterised by the morally depraved cast of Less Than Zero. The ability to "feel in excess" validates our paranoia about the horrors...

I travelled back to my scene days at the all-ages Maggie Lindemann show at Prince of Wales, which got me thinking about ex-scene kids and their altering habits as they age up. Harry and I discuss Aubrey Plaza, Travis Barker, Pete Davidson, Phoebe Bridgers, Matty Healy, Grimes and "the agenda" of Big Milk, Big Sugar, Big Nicotine, Big Manscape, Big Paywall and Big AI. (00:00:00) Tour Review: Maggie...

We drove to Brisbane for the day to see our fav extroverted sad girl chef Alison Roman on her ‘Sweet Enough’ book tour. What happens when two emo girlies make eye contact? Well, Harry (The Menace) booked us literal front-row centre seats for the show so I could find out. (00:00:00) End Of The Bad Boy Era: My Big Return To Reformer Pilates (00:02:51) Coronation Chicken Musings (00:04:44) Prince Har...

After seeing The 1975 'At Their Very Best' on tour, surviving the emotional turmoil of the Matty Healy and Taylor Swift dating rumours and witnessing the coronation of the wrong King (it should've been you Matty), we callback to our first listen to 'Being Funny In A Foreign Language' during album release week. Rest assured that our takes have aged like a fine (non-alcoholic) wine, as has the recor...

After a brief co-appearance in Sydney, Harry and I are trying one of those “zoom-arrest-pod-things” from separate cities. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, but the same can’t be said about vampire reboots, fashion icon bootlegs, milk moves and rappers going goofy. Yikes! [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) From The Suburbs To The Seaside (00:01:35) That Big Pharma Good Good  (00:02:29) Sydney Recap: Pellegr...

Between alt kids in political families, the token Asian girl on Dave, the Superbad supremacy and the #footlongontour bus - we’re feeling seen af rn. This week, we sympathise with Charli XCX and Barbie Ferreira, demonise Trump and Minor Figures and regress into #babycore as we indulge in water bottle culture and the vape contradiction. Uh, Wabi-sabi anyone? [ TOPICS ] (00:00:00) Hush Money and Poli...