You wouldn’t listen to any of us…

XXXX is Australian for PUNK, obvs.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 26 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THOMAS L. BIGELOW – Walking Meditation
  • ZANE 2000 – Get Me Off This Sphere
  • ZANE 2000 – There Is A Better Way
  • ZANE 2000 – Boom
  • CURSES – Ghost Of Arms (feat. Terr)
  • HATCHIE – Til We Run Out Of Air
  • CRUUSH – Sombre By The Weekend
  • MEDAL – Night Falls
  • MAD FRANK – My Love
  • TENNIS – One Night with The Valet
  • SOFIE ROYER – Feeling Bad Forsyth Street
  • NAJA NAJA – Sunset Shopping Center
  • WAR CLUB – Fluffy Clouds
  • THE CHATS – OUT ON THE STREET
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES – NBPQ (Topless)
  • RHYS LANGSTON – DJ Khaled Muff Diving (feat. Big Flowers, Pink Navel, Old Grape God) [prod. spinitch]
  • ANDREW MBARUK – So… You’ve Become a Surrealist
  • MALI-I – This Place feat. Natty Wylah
  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – Ortigas
  • DON GLORI – Commodore
  • 2XM – Love Unbound
  • SOUND SIGNALS – Stevie´s Groove
  • CLIVE FROM ACCOUNTS – Pearls feat. Jessica Roch
  • RED AXES – 20 Min
  • ROSETOWN – Aeternum Vale
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Coyotes
  • SUPERSWAN – Teknospell
  • SOCIAL SPORT – Living With

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

Through your first story window I see my favourite record store…

Low_at_Saturn,_Birmingham,_Alabama,_2022-03-25,_Mimi_Red

Rest in peace Mimi Parker. Hard to pick one track to celebrate her voice, percussion and songwriting. Instead, one track from each of Low’s albums so that we slow down time and immerse ourselves in beautiful and unsettling dreams.

The Guardian: Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock

The Guardian: ‘She was so casual about her genius’: musicians on Low’s Mimi Parker

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 12 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • LOW – Condescend
  • LOW – Two-Step
  • LOW – Laser Beam
  • LOW – Point Of Disgust
  • LOW – Broadway (So Many People) *
  • LOW – Pretty People
  • LOW – Holy Ghost
  • LOW – Landslide
  • LOW – All Night
  • NO BRA – The Cult of Hierarchy
  • MAD FRANK/VIOLET FRENCH – Break My Neck
  • T. G. SHAND – WAWO
  • HATCHIE – Don’t Leave Me In The Rain
  • 100% – Second Chances
  • THE TACKS – Someone Else
  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – New Day, New Year
  • DON GLORI – The Wire
  • SOUND SIGNALS – Stevie’s Groove (Soul Renegades Remix)
  • ZANE 2000 – Rain Dream
  • TUPPERWAVE – Jane Fonda
  • ORBITAL & SLEAFORD MODS – Dirty Rat
  • RHYS LANGSTON – Progressive House, Conservative Ligature (feat. Fatboi Sharif) [prod. Opal-Kenobi]
  • ANDREW MBARUK – Who’s That Man on the Mic?
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Natural Information
  • BREANNA BARBARA – Diamond Light
  • MARGOT ET MAX – Monte La Musique
  • FLOATING POINTS – Someone Close

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: I’ll be all day getting the velvet back to you Bambi…

Direct download: The Joint – 07 May 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • SEB THE VEGABOND X FLANDIZ – Simon Says
  • MEDLINE – Tournée D’Honneur
  • HILDEGARD VON BINGE DRINKING – Angst
  • KITTIN & THE HACKER – Homme a la mode
  • WATA IGARASHI – Spiral
  • NU GENEA – Tienaté (feat. Fabiana Martone)
  • MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER – Alma_The Voyage
  • HATCHIE – Lights On
  • UFFIE – cool
  • COURTESY – Night Journeys III
  • FUZZ CATS – IV
  • OUTSIDERS – The Ballad of Harry Head
  • DARLING – Isolating
  • ALDOUS HARDING – Leathery Whip *
  • LOCAL TOURIST – You Are Alone
  • CONNIEBEATS – October 2nd
  • MR. SCRUFF – Come on Grandad
  • SCHNEIDER TM & KPTMICHIGAN – The Light 3000
  • NADIA D’ALÒ – D.S.
  • BLACK MERLIN – The Mohican Trance Leopard
  • ESIAFI 1 – ESIAFI 1 at 45° east
  • LÉA SEN – Hyasynth
  • KELLY LEE OWENS – Anadlu
  • ANTHONIE TONNON – Lockheed Bomber

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Can I have a taste of your ice cream?

R.I.P. Julz Sale of Delta 5.

R.I.P. Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 25 September 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • DELTA 5 – Mind Your Own Business *
    • CABARET VOLTAIRE – Nag, Nag, Nag
    • MOLCHAT DOMA – Sudno (Boris Ryzhy)
    • ESTER POLY – Pressés
    • MARSHEAUX – Eyes Without A Face
    • MANDY, INDIANA – Bottle Episode
    • KING KHAN – A History of Lies/Lives
    • MAD FRANK – Summoning
    • LANA DEL REY – Wildflower Wildfire
    • HATCHIE – This Enchanted
    • PIP BLOM – You Don’t Want This
    • CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS PUPUL – Thank You
    • STEELY DAN – Peg
    • PELLEGRINO & ZODYACO – Ué Uagliò (Via da qua)
    • CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE – Laidback boogie (feat. Equalizing Wizard)
    • L’ECLAIR – Concorde
    • DAVID HOLMES – Hope Is The Last Thing To Die (feat. Raven Violet)
    • ASA MOTO – Cacao
    • SUNDAY – Neutron Star
    • CHINASKI – Energy 1
    • TUPPERWAVE – Palace In The Clouds
    • ANZ – You Could Be (feat. George Riley)
    • MOOR MOTHER – Mangrove (feat. Elucid & Antonia Gabriela)
    • LEECH – ATE SHIT (PAVEMENT)
    • DE LA SOUL – Eye Know
    • DAYDRIVER – I just adblocked the trending tab
    • MALI-I – Sunday Feel
    • CARBOY – Reflection
    • PRETTY STOOKED – My Line
    • AREN’T – The Black From The Dark (feat. McKisko)
    • THE FREE POP ELECTRONIC CONCEPT – Chewing Gum Delirium

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: I won’t get on my knees. Don’t make me do that please…

While researching and putting together the show this week (which involves throwing darts at music maps and scouring Bandcamp for Christchurch and Brisbane music) I stumbled across Hatchie & The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s glorious cover of The Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Sometimes Always”.

Proof indeed that the Reid brothers have an uncanny knack for writing perfect pop songs lovingly drenched in honeyed guitar tones. Sadly the pink vinyl 7-inch single has sold out but you can still have a listen below.

I seem also to have stumbled into the trap of playing TV theme tunes, but sometimes you just have to scratch that itch.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 15 August 2020

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • FRENCH CONCESSION – Far Away
  • E.M.M.A. – Ryan Gosling in Space
  • KATIE VON SCHLEICHER – Messenger
  • DANA GAVANSKI – Everything That Bleeds
  • MAD FRANK – A Hold of Me
  • T. G. SHAND – The Town Cards
  • HATCHIE & THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Sometimes Always *
  • RAYMOND RICHARDS – LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
  • NICK DRAKE – Riverman
  • EL MICHELS AFFAIR – Rubix
  • THE DANIEL CAINE ORCHESTRA – The Days And Nights of Molly Dodd
  • ISAAC AESILI – Steps
  • DESOLATE TESTAMENTS – pacific jazzhop
  • NECRUM SELECT – How You Swang
  • PAPLOCO – GO GO! BLUEPRINT RALLY VIP
  • LIAM K. SWIGGS – HEARTLAND VIP
  • BAILTERSPACE – Heard It Once
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORT – Bank of Peninsula
  • NICOLAS JAAR – Faith Made of Silk
  • BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND – My Jamaican Dub
  • ÇAYKH – Soùmatra
  • DUMA – Pembe 666
  • EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – YANG 양
  • TUPPERWAVE – Feel
  • SHIT AND SHINE – Hillbilly Moonshine
  • YEONGRAK – email
  • PANORAMA CHANNEL & PLETNEV – Eiffel Tower Syndrome

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.