Record Royale

We back off a one-week lay-off! How good. Chatting a couple of festival-worthy records in The Weeknd's 2022 release 'Dawn FM' against Norwegian DJ Toff Terje's 'It's Album Time'. So much fun. Even greater fun having Nik Iliadis and George Gunson from Perth outfit Death By Denim on the show. Two funny legends who know their stuff. Enjoy! (0:00) - Intro (5:56) - Ch...

An unprecedented fourth podcast appearance for our main guy and band mate Joe Willis this week, and what a couple of albums we have him on for! We threw the question out to all the good people of Instagram asking for the match-up they want to hear, and we chose Lewis Armstrong's absolute dud (maybe genius) match up between Corey Feldman 'Angelic 2 The Core' and Captain Beefheart &am...

Another monster all-Aussie clash this week! Two of the biggest psych-rock bands in the world go head-to-head with Tame Impala’s best-selling album ‘Currents’ facing off with ‘Nonagon Infinity’ by Melbourne band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.  Dan McNamee, the frontman of one of Australia’s best bands Art Vs Science, is on the show too to chat these two ripper records, plus their brand new a...

Couple of 2000s rock titans clash on the pod this week with Paramore's 2009 record 'Brand New Eyes' going up against Taking Back Sunday's 2006 major-label release 'Louder Now'! Dom Harper from Brisbane band The Comfort is on the show to chat these two rippers, plus The Comfort's upcoming album and shows. Brand New Eyes has hits like Ignorance, Brick by Boring Bri...

Super good time on this week's episode chatting with Campbell and Lewis from King Stingray! King Stingray are truly one of the country's hottest bands at the moment - appearing on triple j's Like a Version a couple weeks back, playing at Splendour in the Grass yesterday, and releasing their debut record on August 5th - they're busy boys but made time for us. We talk about a cou...

Jimmy Vann is the singer and guitarist of one of Australia's hardest working and consistent band, The Vanns, and he's on the show for a crazy match up! We're talking the beautiful guitar licks of Dire Straits' 1979 self-titled debut against the experimental and dreamy Bon Iver and their third-studio album '22, A Million'. Two very different albums by two very popular...

Frank Ocean is once again the topic of the podcast after an almost 100 episode layoff! His critically acclaimed sophomore record 'Blonde' is going up against Jeff Buckley's debut and only full-length release 'Grace'. Super stoked that Liam Guinane from Melbourne band Reside is on the show to chat these two, which he holds very dear. Enjoy! (0:00) - Intro  (6:05) - Chat wit...

More heavy heavy! Ben Schimdt & Mitch Parry  from Melbourne band Loose End are on the show to chat two albums that started it all for them. It's an all-UK affair with Bullet For My Valentine's debut 'The Poison' against 'A Flash Flood Of Colour' by Enter Shikari! Laugh-out-oud absurd riffs all over these two. Enjoy! (0:00) - Intro  (4:19) - Chat with Ben & Mit...

The match up absolutely no one asked for is here! Two of the most loathed bands of all time go head-to-head on today's episode, with Nickelback's 'All The Right Reasons' facing off with 'Human Clay' by Creed. Despite being always mentioned in the conversation of 'worst bands ever', these two records are some of the best selling albums of all time, so they do...

It feels good, feels right and feels like a long-time coming, but we're finally covering one of the most-requested bands for the pod with Parkway Drive's debut record 'Killing With A Smile' going up against Good Charlotte's 2002 pop-punk hit-machine record 'The Young and the Hopeless'! Super stoked to have one of the best blokes in the Australian scene, Joel Mart...

We're back for season seven and what a doooooozy we have here! Hot as hell Sydney artist Mung Mung is on the show and she's brought with her two of the biggest and best albums we've covered on the show so far. It's Kanye West's hit machine 2007 record 'Graduation' against one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time in Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp A Butt...

IT'S BRACKET TIME, BABY. That's right, the bracket episode is back! We've covered 32 albums in season six, and it's time to see which one is truly the best! The albums have been seeded 1 through to 32 based on the score that we gave them in their respective episodes, and we're chucking them in an elimination style tournament.  Plus, we give out our coveted end-of-season aw...

WE'VE DONE IT. 100 EPISODES THE PODCAST BABY!!!!!!!!!!! Who would've thought ey? Over 2 years of Record Royale and now we're raising the bat for the big one hundo. So many good times, so many good albums (and not so good) and some truly amazing memories. For the 100th episode we knew we had to go big with the albums and our guest, so who better to have back on the show than good pal...

Where are our electronic music fans?! Big time legend and great friend Dom Wattam, from house outfit Dipsmith is on the show this week for episode 99 to talk about two of his all-time favourite albums. Porter Robinson's debut 'Worlds' and Madeon's debut 'Adventure' have been at the top of Dom's list for some time now, so we're stoked to have him come on and...

98 episodes in and we have a podcast first, with Brenton Larney being our first guest who has their own podcast about music! Brenton hosts The Breaking Through Podcast, chatting to different Aussie artists each week, but today he's on our show to talk Hockey Dad's 2018 release 'Blend Inn' against Sticky Fingers debut record 'Caress Your Soul'. Enjoy! (0:00) - Intro  (...

A light rescheduling this week meant we didn't have much time, so we knew we had to choose two albums by two bands that we love dearly - so it was finally time to talk some Oso Oso on the show, against a band we have been mates with for a while now, Jacob! Oso Oso's new record 'Sore Thumb' is up against 'Show Me Some Passion' by Jacob, and there may or may not be a sp...

Adam Newling is one of the country's hottest artists at the moment and we're pumped to have him on the show this week! We're chatting Brand New 'The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me' vs. Wu Lyf 'Go Tell Fire To The Mountain' with the great man. Both bands are now defunct for very different reasons, but these two albums are very good, also for different reaso...

Did somebody say rock 'n' roll, baby? Apparently so, because we have a big one between Wolfmother's self-titled debut release and one of the most highly regarded albums of all time, 'Hotel California' by Eagles! Chuffed to have bassist Regan Beazley from Perth outfit Dice on the show to chat about these albums plus their recently released EP and upcoming shows. Enjoy! (0:0...

Back to our pop-punk roots baby! Stoked to have the guitarist of Sydney band Bellwether, Heath Joukhadar, on the show to chat a couple of albums by two of the leading bands in the pop-punk scene. Neck Deep's 2015 sophomore effort 'Life’s Not Out To Get You’ is up against The Story So Far's 2013 release 'What You Don’t See’! Two ripping albums from top to bottom with no bad trac...

It's our first solo episode in a hot minute so we thought we'd take the opportunity to cover some early 00's hip-hop, and at last, we're chatting some Kanye! The man has been in the media lately, and the Netflix doco about his upcoming and debut record 'The College Dropout' is amazing, so we're tossing it against 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z, where Ye reall...

Such a pleasure to have Tahlia Borg and Cahli Blakers from one of Australia's hottest bands at the moment, Teenage Joans, on the show! The duo have put forward two albums from two of their favourite bands, with 5 Seconds of Summer's 2015 release 'Sounds Good Feels Good' going up against Mom Jeans' latest release 'Sweet Tooth'! These albums rock and we talk about...

We can't get enough of the international flavour on the pod at the moment. Stoked to have the frontmen from two of New Zealand's biggest bands on the show this week to chat AC/DC 'Back in Black' vs. Sublime 'Self-Titled'! Joel Shadbolt  from L.A.B. and Jake Barton from Summer Thieves are about to jump the ditch for a huge Australian tour together, so what better time...

Absolute pleasure to have our second international guest on the show this week! Luke Bentham from one of our collective favourite bands, The Dirty Nil, is with us to chat The Rolling Stones 'Sticky Fingers' vs. The Replacements 'Let It Be'. The singer-guitarist talks the impact these albums have had on his songwriting, plus their impact on music, period. Plus we dish up some aw...

Long time mates Campbell Burns and Jake Johnson from the big boy band Vacations are back on the pod for the second time, and this time we're chatting Radiohead 'In Rainbows' vs. Bonobo 'Black Sands'! Two albums from the guys' high school years which may differ sonically, but both provide brilliant listening experiences. Plus we talk Vacations' rise in the meme ga...

Very chuffed to have Sydney artist, songwriter, and producer, Chelsea Warner, on the show this week to chat Tyler, The Creator's 2017 release 'Flower Boy' against Mac Miller's 'Swimming'! Flower Boy is Tyler's third album appearance on the podcast and yet again it's a ripper, whilst this is the first time we've dove into Mac, we're immediately big...