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78 Amped
Helping you find the next great song in your playlist. Each week, the team from 78 Amped bring you the news, reviews and interviews you need to find the next great song for your favourite playlists!
Episodes
78 AmpedThe Naked and Famous
EVERYONE STAY CALM. This week Max and Sam get their fanboy on with Alisa and Thom, aka The Naked and Famous, to chat about their new album, Recover, what it's…
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Two-Mate Debate: Best Splendour in the Grass Line-up
Everyone's fist-pumping arm is twitching after 12 months of rest between Splendour in the Grasses, but this year's iteration has been ruined (like everything…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area - Something For Kate, Remi Wolf, Rat!Hammock
Sam and Max interrupt their arvo bevvies to bring you six new tracks that you need to add to your playlists! Tesselate - Baynk & Tei Chi Waste of Breath -…
78 AmpedThe Faction's Tim Price
This week we're chatting to one of the most influential names in Australia's metal and punk scenes, Tim Price. Tim is the man behind Collision Course PR, which…
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Mid-Year Review 2020
Join Max and Sam as they look back at Q3/Q4 of FY 2019/20 (note: Max did say the wrong year in the pod). We list out our favourites, our unexpected gems, and…
78 AmpedTwo-Mate Debate - Best Kanye Era
We've taken a while to come back to it, but we're revisiting the Two-Mate Debate where we argue about the absolute objective truth on any given topic. This…
78 AmpedHot Singles in Your Local Area (Ft. Up Late) - Great Gable, Raleigh Ritchie, Sung + More!
Six more tracks for your leisurely listening! Sam's sore after being back hitting the footy field, while Max keeps hitting the streaming services, and we chat…
78 AmpedHot Singles in Your Local Area (Ft. Jack Gray) - Make Them Suffer, AIRPORTS, Saint Lane + More!
Six more tracks for your high-rotation playlist! U Feel It 2 - Airports Airwalkin' - GUM Slow Learner - Slowly Slowly When Did We Grow Up - Saint Lane The…
78 AmpedEliza (& the Delusionals)
Sam and Max catch up with Eliza Klatt (unfortunately no Delusionals) to chat about their massive USA-breaking EP A State of Living in an Objective Reality…
78 AmpedHot Singles in Your Local Area (ft. Wake the Blind) - Ukiyo, Eliza & The Delusionals, Korky Buchek + more!
Seven more days, six more tracks! This week we also chat with Anthony, Adam and Dylan from Wake the Blind about their massive new track, Patient. Into We -…
78 AmpedBobak Rafiee from Justice for the Damned
Open the pit up as Sam and Dan chat with Bobak Rafiee, front man of Sydney metal outfit Justice for the Damned. Touching on everything from sneakers and TikTok…
78 AmpedHot Singles in Your Local Area (Ft. Travalley) - Cosmo's Midnight, Alpha Wolf, DIET. + more!
Six more tracks direct from our favourite playlists to yours! Plus, this week we chat with Levi Travalley. Complicated - Eves Karydas Resemble Love - DIET…
78 AmpedCloudhighcomeup
This week we dive into the UK underground scene with Aleks from cloudhighcomeup. We cover how he crafts his beautiful melancholy tunes, what it's like to be…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area: Kwame, Sycco, 6lack + more!
This week, aside from addressing Sam's dynamism and get into some jams, we bring you six more tracks to add into your playlists! Honey - Loose Bricks Drowning…
78 AmpedThird Eye Visuals
Fresh off his latest project with Alpha Wolf, we chat with photographer and videographer Third Eye Visuals to find out what it's like capturing some of…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area (ft. Doonie Way) - Stellie, Genesis Owusu, Veil of Maya + More!
Armed with an abundance of bidet chat, and some controversial comparisons to Ian Kenny, Sam and Max set out to bring you six new tracks this week that they're…
78 AmpedTwo-Mate Debate: Best Daft Punk
We've kicked off yet another series, the Two-Mate Debate, where we settle in to decide the objective truth on a topic. This week we're finding out which Daft…
78 AmpedNik Iliadis from Death By Denim
This week we connect up across the country with WA outfit Death By Denim to chat about how things are looking in the scene over there, whether or not everyone…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area (ft. Dweller): RAC & Louis the Child, Super Whatevr + More!
Sam and Max are bringing you another six tracks you need to add to your playlist, and this week, they've done some actual work to chat to one of the artists!…
78 AmpedShane Parsons from DZ Deathrays
Fresh off their blistering cover of The Choirboys' Run to Paradise in collaboration with Powerball, Shane Parsons from shredheaders DZ Deathrays joins to chat…
78 AmpedBONUS: Jimmy Wizard from Higher Power
This week Sam chats to UK punk-meets- hardcore rockers Higher Power. Lead singer Jimmy runs us through the financial strain that bands are facing without…
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Hot Singles - Death By Denim, Tapestry, Stevan + More!
There's light at the end of Australia's COVID-19 tunnel this week with the return of football on the horizon, so it's time to stop filling your lockdown…
78 AmpedGetting Soulful with Stevan
This week, Wollongong wünderkind Stevan joins Sam and Max for a chat about his latest material, what might come next, and how to be a fashion icon in a…
78 AmpedBonus: Nick & Nick from Johnny Hunter
We're chatting with a couple of Nicks this week. Not just any Nicks off the street, but one half of Sydney four-piece Johnny Hunter. We get into the…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area: Justice For the Damned, The Midnight, Motez + More!
Get another hot singles around ya, with six new tracks to add to your playlist this week! Patience - Motez Deep Blue - The Midnight Rush - Tia Gostelow…
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Take Two with Aston from TOWNS
Our first repeat offender, Aston from TOWNS joins the podcast to chat about what they've been doing to keep on keeping on during COVID, why the Adelaide scene…
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Hot Singles in Your Local Area: Khruangbin, DZ Deathrays, Mia Rodriguez + More!
This week, Sam and Max take a deep dive on six more new tracks that you should add to your playlists, as well as handle the inequity of Australian wedding…
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Minipod - Young Franco, The Ghost Inside, Bluey
We're coming armed with another six tracks to hit your playlist from across the musical spectrum, and looking back at some of the failures of Puddle of Mudd…
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Ocean Grove's Sam Bassal
This week, we catch up with Melbourne Nu Metal band Ocean Grove's drummer and songwriter, Sam Bassal to chat about their new (nearly) ARIA #7 album, Flip Phone…
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Minipod - Neck Deep, Inertia, Babirusa
With three hosts on the Minipod this week, we take a dive into six VERY different tracks you need to hear this week. Abomination - Babirusa When You Know -…
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Minipod - Cloudhighcomeup, Malevolence, Baker Boy
Two boys with private Catholic school educations shit all over the true meaning of Easter this week as they bring you six new tracks that you need to hear this…
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Review: Everything is A-OK & CALM
We have a squisten (squizz + listen?) to the full gamut of Aussie pop rock, with the new albums from Violent Soho and 5 Seconds of Summer, who we're sure would…
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News - Coronavirus ruins everything, Hottest 100 of the Decade
Everything has been postponed, cancelled and ruined, so we go back to the last glimmer of light in our otherwise mundane isolation lives; the Triple J Hottest…
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Minipod - Stand Atlantic, Vengeance, Cuban Heel
Sam and Max are bringing you six new tracks that you need to get your ears around this week, with fresh tunes from (almost) all Aussie artists. Slippery Slope…
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Minipod - New CLYPSO and Ocean Grove + Chill out with Stevan
Don't worry, the Minipod was never going anywhere! Wrapping our first week of bite-sized episodes, Sam and Max chat about their new playlist fillers for 2020…
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Review - The Slow Rush - Tame Impala
Our first bite-sized review is of the biggest Australian release so far in 2020, with a better-late-than-never rundown on "The Slow Rush", the fourth release…
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New Music - The Weeknd, Amity Affliction, Glass Animals
Continuing their raft of small, bite-sized music news, Sam and Max catch up with the big tracks they missed since the start of the year. Songs Covered: The…
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News - Splendour 2020, Hella Mega Tour, Hottest 100 of the Decade
Welcome to 2020, where we're mixing it up with small, more frequent pods! In this week's news, we go through everything important we've missed since the start…
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End of the Decade
If you're one of those numbers nerds who insist on that "the '01 year is the true beginning of the decade", this one isn't for you. Sam, Dan and Max chat…
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Minipod 7 - Nancie Schipper, Ocean Grove, Falling In Reverse & More!
Max is back in the Southern Hemisphere, so he and Sam sit down to chat about some new tracks they've both been enjoying while they were apart. Bonus: Good luck…
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Festival Cancellations and Mental Health w/ Tory Robertson
While Max partied hard in Japan and Dan ventured down rockstar pathways, Sam was lucky enough to chat to the very talented Tory Robertson (Harbours, Passerby)…
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Minipod 6 - Wish You Were Here, Miss June, Young the Giant
Sam and Max manage to make their way through high school to bring you six more tracks you need to get your ears around this week! Dreams like Dogs - Wish You…
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From the Barrier - August Burns Red w/ Alpha Wolf & Gravemind @ The Triffid
Following up immediately from his review of Northlane, Same goes back to his house of metal to catch August Burns Red, supported by Alpha Wolf and Gravemind…
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From the Barrier: Northlane w/ Counterparts, Silent Planet & Void of Vision @ The Triffid
In a brand new show, Sam gives us the goss on his experience at the Northlane show at Brisbane's The Triffid on October 13th, 2019. He also discovers AS(a)MR…
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Minipod 5 - Lime Cordiale, Waterparks, Fitz & The Tantrums
News flash: new music! This week Sam and Max go from happy summer pop to Sad boi tunes at a speed that will give you whiplash, and report it all with a…
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Minipod 4 - Rumours, Cloudhighcomeup, & More
This week we hit some new tracks from across the musical spectrum, with a little bit of something for everyone. Filthy Rich - Can’t Swim I Woke Up Alone -…
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BIGSOUND Day 2 - Approachable Members, Nancie Schipper & Being Jane Lane
On the second day of our BIGSOUND coverage, Sam and Max chat with Approachable Members of Your Local Community, Being Jane Lane, and Nancie Schipper about how…
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BIGSOUND Day 1 - Japanese Wallpaper, TOWNS & More
With a brand new look and name, Max and Sam head up to BIGSOUND in Brisbane to chat with TOWNS, Future Haunts, Japanese Wallpaper, and Mickey Kojak. Discover…