Love this. Saw it on @annie’s blog (check it out), decided to do my own. 🎶

Tried to keep the variety high and limit each artist to one section. Just for fun.

Links go to Bandcamp where possible (and Wikipedia when it’s not).

What are five of your favorite albums?

What are five of your favorite songs?

Favorite instrument(s)?

Piano.

What song or album are you currently listening to?

I’ve been dipping back into The Neon Handshake by Hell is for Heroes a lot lately.

Do you listen to the radio? If so, how often?

Every day. I wake up to Triple R, a community radio station here in Melbourne.

How often do you listen to music?

Constantly. I get weirded out if I visit a friend and they don’t have background music playing.

How often do you discover music? And how do you discover music?

On the regular. Radio is great for it – Triple R keeps me plugged into a variety of new music. Less often, I use the Bandcamp Weekly. Gabbie’s newsletter, New Bands For Old Heads, is also great.

What’s a song or album that you enjoy that you wish had more recognition?

So This is Love by Cash Savage & the Last Drinks.

I could list their entire back catalogue here but that’s their most recent album. “Push” is a good song to start with.

What’s your favorite song of all time?

“Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here” by 65daysofstatic. No question.

Has your taste in music evolved over the years?

Started out as a “whatever’s on mainstream radio” kid: favourites included the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls.

Songs For The Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age was the first album I truly loved. Nirvana and a slew of others got me deeper into rock.

Funeral For A Friend was my gateway into emo, hardcore, and punk in my mid-teens. From there, I got into heavier stuff (e.g. Protest the Hero, Gojira, and Genghis Tron). 65daysofstatic got me into instrumental stuff and, eventually, dance music.

“Loyalty” by Blue Scholars was the first hip-hop track I loved. That opened up a lot of doors.

Haley Heynderickx opened my heart to singer-songwriters. Emma Ruth Rundle combined that with my love of waves of guitar and sound to become of my fave artists full-stop.

Nowadays, I mostly listen to local artists. Aussie rock and punk are having a moment. Highlights include: Cable Ties, Amyl & the Sniffers, Cash Savage & the Last Drinks, RVG, and Gold Class.