Listen Carefully with Nathan Jolly

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...

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 h...

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 a...

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...

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 f...

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 (Ba...

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...

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, vo...

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 .

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...

Chris Cheney is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist from legendary Australian three-piece The Living End. Yesterday, the band released the 25th Anniversary Edition of their self-titled debut album, which features hit singles West End Riot, Second Solution, Prisoner of Society, All Torn Down, and Save The Day.

Gareth Liddiard is the singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm, and Springtime. He is about to go on tour in honour of his 2010 solo album Strange Tourist, which has been reissued on vinyl. For tickets and records, go to tropicalfuckstormrecords.com .

Diesel, Mark Lizotte, Johnny Diesel -- however you may know him -- is one of Australia's most successful singer songwriters. He is about to release his sixteenth studio album, Bootleg Melancholy, and is currently touring Australia. For tour dates, tickets, and full show notes, visit listencarefully.com.au .

Deborah Conway is a singer, a songwriter, an actress, and an author. She is about to release her memoir, The Book Of Life, which hits stores on October 3. Pre-order her book here , or go to listencarefully.com.au for full show notes, including all the music we discuss in this episode.