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Each week (or as often as time and technology allow) writers for AAA Backstage sit down to discuss the news and reviews of the Aussie music scene.

Indie Mk.Gee, sexy metal and 60s' throwback bangers are stacking the new music mix this week, before Sam and Max pour one out for an Au...

The mics are back to full power, and Sam is in neo-soul heaven as he reviews the second outing from UK outfit Jungle. He's throwing ref...

Sam and Max head backstage at The Tivoli to chat with Phil and Beau from Saosin prior to their tour. They cover the band's first new mu...

It's an audio disaster as Sam and Max discover that this week's episode broke our mics, meaning that we're running off the ba...

Max is discarding everything he thought he knew about Filthy Frank as he reviews the homework that Sam set for him this week with Joji'...

Ahead of their first ever Australian show, Sace and Noah join Sam and Max backstage at the Triffid. They chat about the different recording...

Max is operating on half-capacity thanks to a back injury, but the show goes on with fresh new music from some British indie rockers, a U.S....

Sam's rewinding back to a big year for him as he listens to Prodigy's 1997 masterpiece, "The Fat of the Land". It's shaped hi...

Ahead of their tour with A Day to Remember and Papa Roach, Sam and Max dial in with Flo and Kevin from the French Metalcore band LANDMVRKS....

After starting with a formal apology for last week's experimentation, Sam and Max dive into new music with features from some Aussie fa...

It's a review of one of Brisbane's most iconic bands and one of their most iconic record as Max looks back at Violent Soho's...

Off the back of his latest single, "Arms", Max and Sam dial in with Sydney singer-songwriter Chuck Sics. They cover how he learned to love t...

Sam debuts a character on-air which changes the vibe of the entire episode, as he and Max chat through the stack of winter tours heading Bri...

Following the release of his latest album, "Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally", Sam is reviewing Harry Styles' penultimate record,...

After getting a sneak peek at some work-in-progress tracks, Sam and Max joined Don Broco's Rob Damiani while they were in Brisbane on t...

Sam has flown into town just to podcast this week, so alongside new music to grace your eats, he and Max cover the continuing fallout from t...

It was one of their big transition albums from deathcore origins to alt-pop modernity, but will Max get onboard with Oli and the gang's...

Max sits down with Dom from the electronic music duo Felsmann + Tiley to chat about their latest album, "Protomensch". Along the way they co...

After jumping into the new tunes of the week, Sam and Max look into how and why Bluesfest might have failed, how Hilltop Hoods brings the da...

Sam has made his feelings known about Coldplay both positively and negatively. But after a look back at their second full-length release, wh...

Diving back into the archives, we're bringing our 2021 conversation with Dune Rats back to the fore. They cover what the big late-00s/e...

The race is on as Sam opens up with a Melbourne Grand Prix recap, before he and Max bounce through some new albums on the scene, and then ta...

Fresh off Sam's recent visit to see Thornhill live backed by Ocean Grove, he's dropping the latter's fourth album for Max&apo...

Alongside the release of their latest record, The Warning, Max dials in with Ed and Josh from Melbourne's Telenova. They chat about whe...

Sam and Max are taking on income inequality and heavy drops in this week's new music mix, then it's a look back at Sam's pinn...

Ninajirachi's debut album defined a new generation of EDM and won the critics hearts the world over. But will it win Sam's heart a...

Joining us at Catalog Music around his recent Brisbane shows, Max chats with U.S. Country singer-songwriter Wyatt Flores. They cover how his...

The Foo Fighters are returning to Australia and bringing a swathe of great local acts to reach the limelight they deserve, Groovin' the...

Max is going back to the grunge era with a review of the 2013 debut from the Doylestown outfit Superheaven. He's torn between his love...

Backstage ahead of their Brisbane show, Sam chats with Landon from The Plot in You. They cover the band's biggest ever headline show ri...

After a wild smooth Jazz coincidence in the new music rundown, Sam and Max dive deep into a quick wrap of some of the stack of tour news for...

Sam's getting his lip ring polished and donning some three-quarter pants as he reviews Blink-182's huge 2001 release (and their al...

Behind the scenes before their very first Australian show, Sam and Max sit down with Bert and Tom from UK Nu Gaze outfit Split Chain. They c...

Max has managed to drag Sam to his first normie festival, so the boys are unpacking Laneway Festival's 2026 Gold Coast edition. They al...

Max is back in the headphones to listen to the 2005 debut record from Dallas Green's solo project, City & Colour's Sometimes. Whil...

Backstage before the kick-off of their very first Australian tour, Sam and Max sit down with Will and Jordan from Better Lovers. They cover...

Only days after the Hottest 100 wash up, Sam and Max are back looking at the best of 2025 with analysis of this year's Grammy awards. T...

Sam's going into a second back-to-back pop gal album with a look back on Olivia Rodrigo's sophomore album from 2023. He's dis...

Ahead of the fourth iteration, Max dials in with Tom and Jack from Port Noarlunga's Nice Day to Go to The Club Festival. They cover the...

It's a bumper episode this week as Sam and Max breakdown the numbers on the weekend's Hottest 100 countdown, analyse Harry Styles&...

Max's homework was to dive deep into the 2016 chunky big hitter, Promise Everything, from the UK band Basement, but will the non-stop o...

Off the back of their seventh studio album, Simon from DZ Deathrays dials in with Sam and Max. They cover how two different EPs led to the r...

Summer listening is still the the talk of the town for our new songs this week, then we dive into the new line-up drop from Bluesfest, a tou...

Sam is dipping into the alt-pop world of the early 2010s for this week's vinyl club. Will his hardened grunge heart open up to the pop...

Digging back through the archives (because it's January and holidays have made us lazy), Max and Sam revisit one of their earliest favo...

It's 2026, Max is back in the country, and the boys are ready to (poorly) podcast! It's all new songs to kick off the year, discus...

Sam has set Max new of his favourite albums from 2025, from the big-hitters at Thornhill. Max is on the move on an overseas holiday, but wil...

While the industry is taking some time off in the early part of the year, Sam and Max compile a collection of Hottest 100 votes that reflect...

Max is still jet-setting his way across the world, but that doesn't stop him and Sam from running through some under-exposed hits that...

Sam's taking a trip back in time to one of the biggest landmark albums of the pop-punk era, with Sum 41's 2001 debut record. What...