The Pitch of Discontent

March rolls on and the new heaters show no sign of stopping. Owen & Paige get stuck into the week’s latest releases from metalcore team-ups and hardcore whip riders to alternative crooners and proggy cosmic death metallers. To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod ⁠ --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playl...

This week we have Chas Levi from Justice For The Damned joining the pod to chat about the band’s new era as they prepare to hit the ground at home for a bunch of coast-to-coast tour dates. Chas talks about the challenges of writing new Justice material, the desire to streamline performance for maximum fun and crowd participation, the mental fortitude required for weeks of touring, and overcoming p...

Stoked to have Zayna Youseff of Sweet Pill jumping on the pod this week as part of the 2025 lineup for New Bloom Fest alongside Basement, Balance & Composure, DRAIN, One Step Closer, and Glitterer. Zayna talks Aussie slang, coping with anxiety and writer’s block, the realities of constant touring, and her undying love for RuPaul’s Drag Race. For early access to all our In Bloom episodes, subsc...

Stoked to have Ryan Savitski of One Step Closer jumping on the pod this week as part of the 2025 lineup for New Bloom Fest alongside Basement, Balance & Composure, DRAIN, Glitterer, and Sweet Pill. After returning from a huge UK run supporting pop-punkers Neck Deep on some their biggest ever shows to date, Ryan digs in to the band’s progression on last year’s exceptional ‘All You Embrace’ LP,...

It might be a brand new month, but it’s the same old roundup! Owen & Paige get cracking on new finds, old favourites, and throw in a few sonic curveballs for good measure. Oh, and Reesey makes an appearance and chucks a mad yawn on camera. *offensive Brad Pitt accent* “Do ya like dahgs??” To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod...

Joining the show this week are the Lone Star State homies in Drunk Uncle . Will , Peyton and Jake jump on the pod to talk about their upcoming release, ‘Fiction Years II’: a companion piece and spiritual sequel EP out through the good folks at Tiny Sounds Collective on March 14th. The Texas boys chat about Metallica as a musical gateway, finding each other through a Craigslist ad, moving back to a...

🔥Here’s our brief chat with George Pettit of Alexisonfire and Dead Tired 🔥 Returning Down Under after their 2023 tour with Tasmanian rockers Luca Brasi, Canadian institution Alexisonfire are back once again for a four-show run with Underoath & GEL . Frontman and resident throat-shredder George Pettit drops into the show mid-rehearsal to chat about playing older songs, reflecting on his youth...

Stoked to have Ned Russin of Glitterer and Title Fight on the pod this week as part of the 2025 lineup for New Bloom Fest alongside Basement, Balance & Composure, DRAIN, One Step Closer, and Sweet Pill. Dialing in from Peru in the middle of a Latin America tour run (hence the lack of reliable video bandwidth), Ned talks about the intentionality behind the group’s latest LP, ‘Rationale,’ how to...

It’s the end of another month, and we’re smashing through another stacked selection of roundup tracks. Owen & Paige blast some heartfelt indie punk, full-throttle hyper-pop, groove-laden hardcore, pissed-off metalcore ragers, and more–it’s all here. So, tune in and let us know what you’re listening to! 🙏🏼 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www...

For Jack Bergin , the last few years have brought one realisation into sharp relief: the only way out is through. With their final tour wrapping up, the frontman for Naarm/Melbourne heavy hitters Void Of Vision joins the show to bring this chapter to a bittersweet close. We chat about Jack’s health struggles and his determined journey of self-discovery, the moment he decided that VOV needed to tak...

Coming back to what feels like their second home, Californian chillers DRAIN are ready to rip once again as part of the gnarly 2025 lineup for New Bloom Fest alongside Basement, Balance & Composure, One Step Closer, Glitterer, and Sweet Pill. All-round nice bloke Sammy Ciaramitaro drops in to the show to give us the low down on his community’s resolve in the face of natural disasters, the band...

Paige is back, folks, and we’re saddling up for another week of business as usual. We’ve got mathy prog-pop-metalcore freakouts, fuzzed-out 90s alt-rock worship, surfy and sassy indie-punk, and tearjerker emotional rockers, plus much, much more. Bring it in, listen closely, and giddy up 🤠 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod ⁠...

This week we’re joined from the road by Hands Like Houses frontman Josh Raven as the group crosses the country on select regional dates with heavy icons The Butterfly Effect. Josh opens up about his initial trepidation at joining an already established band, after years spent at the helm of Perth rockers The Faim , along with the creative freedom and boundary pushing sessions that led to ‘ATMOSPHE...

🔥 Here’s our brief chat with Chris Cresswell of The Flatliners and Hot Water Music 🔥 We were fortunate enough to have some time with the affable Chris Cresswell–guitarist and vocalist for The Flatliners and Hot Water Music–as he prepares to pull double duty for both acts on their upcoming New Zealand and Australian tour run later this month. Chris chats to us about first touring with and then ev...

Another week, another (regrettably solo) roundup! Don’t worry, folks, Paige is fine, and she’ll (hopefully) be back next week. (Proof of Life available upon request.) We’ve got crashing metalcore bangers, sapphic post-punk, groove-laden ragers, a post-metal epic, and much more. LFGGG!! To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod ⁠ ---...

This week we’re joined by none other than Brendan Murphy –infamous tweet sender, feline aficionado, stage yeller, esteemed metalcore scholar–of Counterparts & END , ahead of their return Down Under with Dying Wish. Brendan gets real about how touring takes him away from his beloved animal companions, his enlightened journey with sobriety, writing with newfound creative focus, forging a cohesiv...

With Paige out of action and coughing up a lung, Owen holds down the fort to run through this week’s solo roundup. We’ve got a bunch of new tracks to catch up on and it’s all bangers on deck. New finds, old favourites, and seasoned vets coming back from the brink. It’s all here, so dig in 🙏🏼 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpo...

This week we’re joined by Windwaker frontman and all-round good bloke Lian Guinane to get the downlow on the group’s latest release: a deluxe version of last year’s sophomore smash LP, ‘Hyperviolence: Expansion Pack,’ out on Friday 14th through Fearless Records/Civilians. Liam chats with us about the band’s latest material from the initial ‘Hyperviolence’ sessions, overcoming self-doubt, pushing c...

Cursed sickness and poor hotel wi-fi be damned. We made it, folks. Owen & Paige bring this week’s extremely tardy Roundup to you live from the cuck chairs of their Vegas casino hotel room. We’ve got emotionally charged hardcore, “the last ever deathcore band,” Finnish doom-gaze, and skull-splitting Aussie brutal death/slam. Dive in and maybe we’ll survive the trip home 🙏🏼 To listen to Side B...

On their stellar third album, ‘TOY’ (out now through Domestic La La), Dear Seattle are wrestling with change. It’s a record born from transitional states of self-reflection, where recollections of who we were collide head-on with who we want, often desperately, to be. Joining the show for our first guest episode of 2025, frontman and guitarist Brae Fisher takes us on the journey that birthed ‘TOY,...

We’re back! It’s our first episode of the new year and we’ve already got a slew of new alternative tunes to run through. Dreamy doom pop, angular post-hardcore, “Melbourne Boltdown,” and spaghetti western metallic hardcore–all that and more on this week’s roundup. Dive in and have a listen! --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1tNs5cVlqvhiYcdPuFmQWv?si=b36fc816a71f40a...

It’s our final episode for 2024, and what better way to go out than with a Good Things Festival supercut featuring artist interviews and backstage shenanigans with Frank Turner , Northlane , Belle Haven , and Alpha Wolf .  We chat about their year highlights, the realities of touring, pushing the creative envelope, and how to best channel that all-important chaos energy. Shout out to Frank, Marcus...

It’s officially list season, folks, so we’re running through the Best Albums of 2024 with our 100% correct, entirely definitive takes. Y’allternative barn-burners, Aussie gutter-folk, Little Rock doomsayers, Myspace post-hardcore revivalists, and Kentucky metalcore bruisers. We’ve got all that and more. Dig in! To support the show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod ⁠ -...

For our final guest episode of 2024, we’re joined by Mitch Alexander , media personality, political activist, and vocalist for Naarm/Melbourne metallers Eye of the Enemy . Mitch gives us the lowdown on the quintet’s new four-track concept EP, ‘ Only Equals Negotiate ,’ and how his fiery lyrics articulate the historical contingency and material dimensions of power, revolution, and collective action...

It’s our final roundup of 2024, folks, and we’re going out with nothing but non-stop bangers. Brooklyn post-punk, Philly anti-shoegaze, Aussie sobrock, and supergroup comebacks. It’s all here and fit for human consumption. Dig in! To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tpdpod --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playli...