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Huge news, everyone: the inimitable Jeff Sparrow is stepping down from co-hosting Breakfasters after three and a half amazing years on air.
Hey ho, potential subscriber-inos! If you’ve been pondering subscribing during April Amnesty, now’s the time – ’cos it’s nearly over.
‘I just released an album. It’s a time for great celebration and relief. But it’s like when I go to my niece’s grade two concert. As much as I love her, as much as I am proud, I am also bored to tears.’
He’s helped make so many iconic Aussie comedies – from Frontline to The Castle to Utopia. But how did Tom Gleisner get into this caper? And why have the Working Dog team enjoyed so much success? Steph and Daniel Teitelbaum have a natter with the multi-talented Tom to find out.
‘Shrimpwitch is just Kim Prawn and Georgi Goonsack, but they sound like 10 people. Or more.’ In a few short years, local punk duo Shrimpwitch have gone from playing Cramps songs in a Brunswick shed to closing out Meredith. We trace their trajectory and analyse their awesomeness.
Record Store Day is nearly here – this Saturday, to be precise. In anticipation of the good times ahead, we get up close and personal with some of Melbourne’s finest independent music retailers.
There are lots of reasons to subscribe to Triple R. Not only do you benefit the world by keeping us going, but you also benefit yourself. In many ways. Allow us to tell you the ways (just in case you weren’t already aware).
Folks, the Triple R online shop is up and running!
‘The drive out to Bambra in Friday night traffic is a Fury Road-style dust and wind nightmare complete with semi-trailers nipping at my heels…’ Triple R volunteers Alix Palmer and Clara Slewa capture the beauty, the rain and the characters at this year’s By the Meadow music festival.
Finding your news from three different sources is the new five fruit and veg a day, but hitting your intake isn’t as easy as coming home and making a fancy salad.
This April The Golden Age of Piracy celebrates ten years (!) on the Triple R airwaves. Host Tristen Harris explains the show’s origins – and how ‘banging on’ about influences has come to influence him.
‘As soon as a boy is one year old, he gets gifted a football […] Women just don’t have that inherited cultural entitlement.’ Kick Like a Girl host Kate O’Halloran gives us the full rundown on all things AFLW – the good, the bad... even the jargon.
Subscribe during April Amnesty and you’ll automatically go in the running to win: a swish new bike; a year’s worth of Victorian-grown olive oil; a trip for two to Tassie’s lush north, including flights, accommodation and wine; and oh-so much more.
From starting a bidding war between 20 record labels to forming a supergroup with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus is an artist we’re bloody pumped about – and she’s performing at Triple R’s April Amnesty Opening Party!
Ever wondered how Triple R got started? Or how folks found their way onto the airwaves? Then you’d do well to have a squiz at this sweet doco Channel 31 made about us!
We’ve got four ripper live April Amnesty shows coming up to celebrate Maps, Kick Like a Girl, The Golden Age of Piracy and Double Bounce – and guess what? Subscribers can go in the running to come to all of them.
Through the lens of Triple R volunteer photographer Chelsea Sienna King, we remember the beauty and the magic of Golden Plains 2019.
Kendrick described her as possibly ‘the illest doing it right now’ – but mainstream recognition has been slow for London rapper Little Simz. Her new record ‘GREY Area’, Triple R’s Album of the Week, could change all that, though.
From the thousands of mixtapes he sold from his driveway, Houston legacy DJ Screw established the now-famous chopped and screwed DJ technique – but the closest thing he had to a ‘single’ was a mixtape he made for a friend’s birthday (by now, it’s likely to have sold enough to be a platinum record).
Something pretty cool went down here in Melbourne recently: ‘Rah! Rah!’, a feminist punk retrospective of the last 30 years of female, femme and non-binary sounds from this city. We broadcast three of the talks panels on International Women’s Day – and they’re now available for your streaming pleasure!
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