Creative Spectator

Episode 10 (double digits baby!) is now available on mixcloud for your listening displeasure!

This week: wintertime struggles, energy drink-induced rants, confusing zoomer slang, the lameness of Spotify monthly listener counts and tunes by Beabadoobee, The Armed, Puffy AmiYumi, New Junk City, Goon, Westside Cowboy and many more!

Linkage in the bio.

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Episode 9 is now available on mixcloud for your listening displeasure!

This week: perfect music listening environments, non-cringe rock operas, difficult post-drinking snack pronunciation, 2009 nostalgia, and tunes by Mclusky, Antarctigo Vespucci, Hesitation Wounds, Screaming Sneakers, Broncho, Girls and many more!

Linkage in the bio.

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Episode 8 is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: album guest appearances, do*****ag song dedications, musical sibling shoutouts, rediscovering the joy of shocking lyrics, and tunes by Blowers, Vi**ra Boys, Perfect Blue, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals, Greet Death, Together Pangea and many more!

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Episode 7 is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: Coachella 2025, the good and bad of solo albums, fake fans of underrated bands, tributes for a punk rock legend, and tunes by Touché Amoré, Militarie Gun, Brainiac, Modern Baseball, Tunde Adebimpe, Joey Ramone and many more!

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Episode 6 is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: weird band names, posthumous appreciation for an under-appreciated artist, the joys of moving, and tunes by Sharp Pins, Midwest Goodbye, Bdrmm, Q Lazzarus, Man Overboard, Cloakroom and many more!

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Episode 5 of ‘5 + 5’ is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: the joys of dreamy distortion, the disappointment of dwindling festival lineups, the confusion of songs with identical names, and tunes from Velocity Girl, Vi**ra Boys, LA Witch, Texas is the Reason, The Men, Horsegirl and many more!

Available now on Mixcloud.

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Episode 4 of ‘5 + 5’ is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: cooking cupcakes for rockstars, hard to pronounce band names, endless rants about Melbourne’s s**te weather and tunes from Teen Mortgage, Danger Den, Momma, Sincere Engineer, Cryogeyser, Chromatics and many more!

Available now on Mixcloud.

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Episode 3 of ‘5 + 5’ is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: The good and bad of Valentine’s Day, creepy love songs, the truth about mid-afternoon festival slots, plus a whole bunch of Valentine’s related tunes from The Replacements, The Weakerthans, Ramones, Brian Fallon, The Knife and many more!

Available now on Mixcloud. Linkage in the bio.

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Episode 2 of ‘5+5’ is now available for your listening displeasure!

This week: dream music venues, ruined gigs, weird genre names, tributes to the 2 greatest Davids (Lynch and Bowie), plus a metric buttload of tunes from Antenna, Alex Cameron, Guerrilla Toss, 2nd Grade and many more.

Linkage in the bio.

Another year, another new show!

and I had such a blast recording our “Fave Albums of 2024’ episode of Music Rant Repeat Radio that we’ve decided, for good or ill, to make it an ongoing thing in 2025.

So, behold - the first episode of 5 + 5, a show in which we plant ourselves in front of microphones, shoot the s**t and choose 5 songs each to soundtrack our barely coherent ramblings.

Episode 1 is now available on Mixcloud, with more to follow fortnightly (well, that’s the plan anyway). Linkage as always in the bio.