Kick Like a Girl: Melbourne’s Paxy and Newy Share Their Hopes for What Lies Beyond Round Seven
Joining Kick Like a Girl as special co-host is ‘supercoach’ and digital producer for Fox Sports Paige Cardona. After returning to the world of footy, Paige is now playing for Diamond Creek, having…
Good Fortune: Cooking up Tiana Khasi’s Anthem for Empowerment
‘My great-grandmother said, “Slow cooking is good cooking.”’ Brisbane soul artist Tiana Khasi breaks down the recipe for her latest single ‘They Call Me’, a song about women reclaiming power over the narratives…
The Grapevine: Christchurch, Brexit and ‘the Existential Act of Violence’ with Guy Rundle
‘The existential act of violence is the way to assert yourself when the world is trying to crush everything you believe in.’ Guy Rundle is one of the most unique, irreverent and incisive…
Twang: Neko Case Brings the Fire to the Performance Space
Legendary songwriter Neko Case joins Denise for a lovely conversation as well as a live show in the Performance Space. Neko speaks about the fire that affected her property in Vermont, joking about…
Breakfasters: How to Design a More Sustainable Future
Toxic City? is a symposium focused on reducing the impact on the systems of global warming. Happening as part of Melbourne Design Week, Toxic City? aims to provoke conversation about building forward-thinking cities…
Tomorrow Never Knows: How a Tinder Date Led to Paul Gorrie Becoming a DJ
Paul Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man based in Melbourne. He is a DJ, playwright, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Paul chats to Emerald about his recent experience playing drums at Golden Plains…
Respect the Rock: Putting Politics Back into Punk with Dispossessed
While in town for Brunswick Music Festival, the new lineup of metal/punk band Dispossessed drop in to Respect the Rock to explain some of the reasons they do what they do:
‘You grow…
Resetting Your Nervous System to the Universe: A Guided Meditation with Laraaji on Get Down
Sometime in the mid-’70s Laraaji had a transformative experience. He describes it as an ‘internal sound vision’, in which his ‘heart cracked open’ and ‘eternity was no longer a mystery’. It was this…
Breakfasters: Why Listening to Your Gut Could Save Your Life
Humans have always been pretty obsessed with the gut. Whether we’re listening to it, spilling it or having a ‘gut feeling’, we seem to know instinctively that there’s something magical about that part…
Max Headroom: ‘I’m Gonna Screw the World Up’: Discover the Brilliance of DJ Screw
Tom Martin Takes Us On A Musical Tour Featuring Hip-Hop Artist, DJ Screw
Robert Earl Davis Jr., better known by his stage name DJ Screw, made a huge impact in his relatively short…
Byte Into IT: BindiMaps Light The Way For Vision-Impaired People In Indoor Spaces
Have you ever wandered into a large shopping centre and been overwhelmed trying to find your way around or perhaps, more pressingly, locate the loo?
Well, for one in four Aussies that task…
Podcasting about Aboriginal Sexual Health on The Glasshouse
From crushes to queer stories to sexual education, the ASH podcast reaches out to Aboriginal communities to provide a platform of resources through a sex positive lens. Sasha Smith, one-half of the team…
Reflecting the True Stories of the African Diaspora on The Rap
Quick! Close your eyes and think of Africa. What comes to mind? Starving children? Gun-toting warlords? Tin-pot dictators wearing aviator shades? Kholisile Dhliwayo, architect and head curator for the Afro Urban Collective, wants…
Vital Bits: How David Bridie Uses the Ordinary to Make Extraordinary Music
Acclaimed songwriter and composer, David Bridie stops by the studio to have a good yarn with Tim about his new album The Wisdom Line, his favourite collaborations, his love for pump organ…
Uncommon Sense: Leta Hong Fincher Gives Us the Rundown on China’s Growing Feminist Movement
The concept and practice of gender equality is not new to China. In fact, encouraging women to take on male-dominated roles was once a core goal of the Chinese Communist Party. However, as…
Why the Kids Aren’t Alright About Climate Change on Breakfasters
Last year the United Nations released a landmark report warning there was only 12 years remaining for humanity to prevent a full-blown climate change catastrophe. Not surprisingly, those warnings largely fell on deaf…
Max Headroom: Take a Tour of the Singapore Music Scene with Nik Tripp
Trip through a ‘menagerie of music from The Lion City’ as Nik Tripp explores The Sounds of Singapore. From hip-hop to electronica through pop, dance and grindcore, let Nik take you through a…
Breakfasters: Kylie Auldist Plays Live and Celebrates Inspiring Women on International Women’s Day
What better way to usher in International Women’s Day than to listen to Sarah, Geraldine and Fee B-Squared chat to Kylie Auldist and Xani Kolac, two incredible local musical talents? Kylie and Xani…
Rah! Rah! – History, Context and Change: from the Wet Ones to Wetfest
This is a recording of one of the panels that took place during ‘Rah! Rah!’, a feminist punk retrospective of the last 30 years of female, femme and non-binary sounds from this city…
Rah! Rah! – Locating Gender in Genre: a Feminist Punk Rock Sound?
This is a recording of one of the panels that took place during ‘Rah! Rah!’, a feminist punk retrospective of the last 30 years of female, femme and non-binary sounds from this city…