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They’d released their debut album Boys & Girls the previous year to widespread acclaim - it scored them three Grammy nominations, earned them the #39 spot in the Hottest 100 for the single 'Hold On', and took them around the world. The Athens, Alabama 4-piece played across the country with the Big Day Out, and the triple j live music team captured this electrifying sideshow at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre. Frontwoman and guitarist Brittany Howard is such a charismatic performer - you can hear the excitement and love from the crowd as they witness her on stage for the first time. Listen Tue...

Django Django are back with album number 4: 'Glowing in the Dark - which follows from a series of records that has built them a huge fanbase here in Australia. The album was released last Friday, and sees the group collaborate with a range of artists including Charlotte Gainsbourg and Braulio Amadio. Vinny Neff , singer and guitarist from Django Django joined Tim Shiel on Arvos from his pad first thing in the morning in the middle of the London Lockdown.

The Triffids never enjoyed the same mainstream success as many of their peers, but there are few bands in this country who have been as acclaimed and influential. Their evocative songs were driven by the perfect poetry of David McComb, who wrote about Australia with a kind of desolate beauty that has never truly been matched. Behind him was a band whose music painted pictures almost as vivid as their frontman's words. The weeping steel guitars of Evil Graham Lee, the spacious textures added by Jill Birt and Robert McComb among the many ingredients that made this band so special.