The Pitch of Discontent

➡️👋🏼 Yooo, we’re back for another stacked Weekly Roundup! Paige goes off on our desire for more of the same with regard to cultural products and rip-off podcast ideas, while Owen recaps a fun weekend at Kingpin Fest. We’ve got tracks from metalcore veterans, sad boy emos, power-pop punkers, and many more. Let’s go!! 🫡 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: htt...

In the words of “Hello Sadness” by Los Campesinos!: “It's only hope that springs eternal.” For Tom Lanyon, singer-songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and narrative journeyman for Naarm/Melbourne indie rockers Ceres, the quest for hope ultimately became the guiding principle behind the group's fourth studio album, the sprawling ‘ MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1996​—​2022) ’. Presented as a 25-track double L...

➡️ We’re sliding into Monday with another wicked batch of alternative tunes. Owen & Paige smash through indie rockers, hardcore ragers, metalcore revivals, and more, alongside delicate singer-songwriter material and a gut-wrenching sonic tribute to loss and brotherhood. Thunder in the night forever! 🖤 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: https://www.patreo...

🤯 Even after a catastrophic audio failure and delayed episode schedule, Owen & Paige soldier on and deliver a shiny new roundup episode, now with extra DVD commentary dub energy! 🎤 We've got metalcore bangers of the old and new variety, alt-rock mood pieces and post-rock tearjerkers, alongside two distinct death metal flavours and a synthwave house drop special. Let's go! To listen t...

Before they kicked off two roaring sets of fuzzed out, shoegaze-slanted post-hardcore at this year's BIGSOUND 2024 showcase in Brisbane, the boys from Sunbleached dropped into TPD HQ to give us the lowdown on their stellar new five-track EP, ' I Crawled Into The Hole '. Josh & Brent discuss the inception of the band, how the energy of live shows and a desire for visceral impact ske...

Here’s our post-release chat with Z eal & Ardor frontman and conceptual mastermind Manuel Gagneux . We dig into the group’s latest full-length, GREIF , and how their sound has expanded on LP#4 to incorporate swampy Delta blues and funk-oriented grooves to their spirited black metal foundations. --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fJhYxMy7UHC0wBPiufnY9   Follow a...

💸 Not even “dynamic pricing” shenanigans and/or a dying laptop could stop us from getting to the roundup this week! Owen & Paige run through a stellar selection of new tracks, pulling from Aussie indie rock and bleak death metal to NYC “slamgaze” and brash Belgian power pop. It’s a total gas 🫡 To listen to Side B and get the whole show, subscribe to the TPD Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/t...

Emmy Mack is a bonafide rockstar. With their forthcoming full-length, ‘ Mutation ,’ locked and loaded (and arriving on November 22nd), the RedHook frontwoman and formidable firebrand is well on her way to becoming a household name. Emmy joins the show to chat about the band’s “outsider” status, the challenges of being a woman in heavy music, industry shenanigans, the group’s desire for evolution o...

BRAT Summer is dead 📗🔫 Long live Demure Autumn! 💅🏼🍁 Very modest, so mindful. With their collective moods on high, Owen & Paige get stuck into another stellar selection of roundup tunes for the week, pulling from domestic heavy hitters, the international avant-grade, and beyond. Lots of genre-diverse material to cover here, so you better get cracking! To listen to Side B and get the full s...

It’s release week for Sydney fuzz-fiends Regionals as they celebrate the launch of their debut full-length, ‘ Spoonbender ,’ an album four years in the making. Guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist Aaron Costello joins the show to chat about the group’s intentional progression from urgent alt-rock and emo to a more experimental, triple-guitar, wall-of-sound shoegaze approach. We discuss the...

Here’s our backstage chat with HEALTH bassist, producer and Discord overlord John Famiglietti . The “cum metal” (IYKYK) flag bearers were recently in Australia for an impressively sold-out tour run, so we caught up to talk about their approach to performance, the group’s genre-bending collaborative history, and how to make music that feels like the future. Watch the full episode now on YouTube and...

Paige returns to the show, now in BRAT form! For Side A this week, we run through another banger slew of alternative tracks, with some fan recommendations and new finds in the mix. Indie punk wake-up calls, hypnagogic shoegaze, satanic speed metal, and more. Dig in! To watch Side B and get the full show, including tracks from Bewitcher, Ecca Vandal, Torus, and Trench, subscribe to the TPD Patreon:...

While emo alt-rockers Bad Neighbour were in town on a national support run with California’s Badflower, vocalist and guitarist Cooper Riley swung by TPD HQ to give us the lowdown on the group’s upcoming debut full-length, ‘ Millions ’ (out September 20th). We chat about Coop’s nostalgic twang for country music, pulling together friends to smoke cigs and play riffs, writing an album through the iso...

With Paige’s absence extended for yet another week, Chris reluctantly returns to keep the guest co-host seat warm, and Owen graciously thanks him for his service. We run through upcoming releases from Many Eyes, House of Protection, Make The Suffer and more, a new anonymous project of questionably mysterious and/or horny origins, along with a speculative analysis of temporal compositional constrai...

Joining the show this week are Bailey Schmebri & Aden Young of Naarm/Melbourne metallers Gravemind . With their bold new album, ‘ Introsphere ’, finally out in the world, we chat about the years of creative struggle the group faced in bringing their dark sonic vision to life. Bailey details the internal pressure felt in stepping into the band as their new vocalist, with a completely finished a...

Here’s our brief catch-up with Full of Hell vocalist and all-round legend Dylan Walker . We chat about the band’s creative legacy, the purpose of art over time, and how they approach their collaborative endeavours.  You can follow Full of Hell and grab tickets to their upcoming Australian run with Baton Rouge sludge icons Thou (Aug 14-25) here .  Watch the full episode now on YouTube and exclusive...

With Paige away interstate, Owen recruits resident Gravitate thunderbird, man of many talents, overenthusiastic multi-tasker, and future Billabong rep Chris Roese (@deaf.chris) to sub in as this week’s co-host. Chris defends the honour of Good Charlotte, confesses to crying in the mosh pit, pours his heart out for ‘Radical’ and talks about that one time he dodged the matrimony bullet. Oh, and we a...

Plovers are dead. Well, almost. It’s certainly not from a lack of trying, though, and at least they’ve got one hell of a record to play themselves out. We catch up with two-thirds of “Melbourne's 9th most popular post-hardcore band” to discuss their untimely soon-to-be demise (RIP), the protracted journey to their phenomenal debut album release, our yearning desire for critical thinking and se...

It’s been another wild week in the world of alternative music. Thankfully, Owen & Paige are fearless, intrepid explorers willing to venture where others may fear to tread. We unveil Oddworld nu metal vistas, Aussie elder emo heaviness, riffy D.C. pop-punk, and legendary Japanese post-rock goodness. Oh, and this week’s feature album is staggeringly beautiful and utterly devastating in equal mea...

What comes after the end? We check in with Naarm/Melbourne crew Post Heaven this week and catch up on the post-hardcore quintet’s whirlwind twelve month run. Yasmin & Pat join us at TPD HQ to chat about blending 90s grunge, shoegaze and alt-metal soundscapes, recording their breakthrough debut EP, racking up wild support slots, and what’s on their sonic horizon for 2024. Watch the full episode...

It’s another cracking roundup here at TPD HQ, as Owen & Paige run through alternative heater after absolute heater. Emo contemporaries, post-hardcore mood pieces, indie-punk anthems, and noise rock dirges. It’s all killer, no filler. LFGGG!! --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fJhYxMy7UHC0wBPiufnY9   Follow and support the show: https://linktr.ee/tpdpod Theme/ti...

Our guest this week is currently rocking her way through the UK and Europe from new cities to old stomping grounds. Frontwoman Amariah Cook joins the show to recap Future Static’s whirlwind year following the release of their phenomenal debut full-length, ‘ Liminality ’. We chat about her childhood in Barcelona, the perils of performance anxiety, joining an established group, the importance of vis...

Owen & Paige run full-steam ahead into another packed roundup, and the tracks aren’t slowing down for anyone. Aussie hardcore royalty rubs up with R’n’B rockers and American alt-metallers. Oklahoma drops by with some homegrown indie-punk and a slamming slice of brutal death metal. And why not add a little shoegaze and jamming psych to the mix? They’re all here, and we’re chatting about the lot...

Our guest this week is resident bad bitch and meme queen Bec Thorwesten from Naarm/Melbourne heavy hardcore bruisers Terminal Sleep , who just dropped a brand new two-track single, “ Spineless / Shadows ,” along with some moody remixes. Bec joins the show to chat about the band’s formation, channelling her inner rage on stage, the anxiety of becoming a role model, looking after her voice and findi...

Featuring Sunbleached, Exploring Birdsong, Duhkha, and more. We’re back after our two-week break, and guess what? We’re YouTubers now! Very mad. It’s the same pod you know and/or love, now with video of our yapping heads. Owen & Paige chat about "BRAT summer" discourse, Deftonesgaze, and a whole slew of sick new alternative tunes. Let’s go! --- TPD Weekly Roundup playlist: https://op...