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"With the triple j Unearthed thing, we put a song up on there and about a month later, a record label in London wanted to put out that song over there and we played a few shows over there."

Canadian hardcore outfit Counterparts are currently touring Australia on their maiden visit to our shores. The band, supporting In Hearts Wake, play shows as part of the ‘Survival’ tour. Killyourstereo.com exclusively hosts the group’s tour blog written courtesy of frontman Brendan Murphy – continuing today with part two. You can catch up on part one here. After Jesse's guitar got stolen, we had a quick three-hour drive to a town called Byron Bay. Hometown of bands like In Hearts Wake, Parkway Drive, 50 Lions, and others. We played a small youth center type place and it was wicked. I was a little angry about an "awesome" hamburger place in the area, which I went to and was greeted by a nice mushy Chipotle mess. ALTHOUGH I will give them credit: Unreal french fries. After that show we were BLESSED with a nice 10-hour overnight drive from Byron Bay to Sydney. Honestly, I don't remember anything about it other than it being freezing cold, coming out of a gas station bathroom yellin...

"I’d been wanting to make a record like this for a long time, and I’d been talking about [it] – even as far back as when I was in my last band, Hitchcock’s Regret."

"You know, I think people can tell when you’re being honest. Curiouser was a much more layered, playful pop record, by comparison."

"I have a tendency to write down song titles before I actually write down the songs. I’m also a big fan of puns and humorous couplings of words and things like that."

"There was a lot of writing being done on buses and hotels but there was also a lot of drinking and a lot of messing around going on as well. So they were good times!”

We had a chat to Portugal. The Man bassist Zach Carothers right before the Australian release of their seventh studio album 'Evil Friends'!

"There’s the lighter, more popularist sort of an easier listen on the one album whereas the other is a bit edgier and even lyrically is probably a little bit harder to digest."

"We have been touring non-stop around the world since last summer and we feel great now... We hope we can continue even when we are 80 years old."

"I wanted to distil all my jazz stuff and my rock stuff and my stuff with an orchestra into one project that reflects all those projects, but in a new, intimate way."

"My dad is part east Indian and his family came over from India, into America, and travelled up into Canada. There was a lot of violence in India at the time, it happened during an uprising, so they basically escaped."

"I’m not a rapper and would never describe myself as one. I’m a fan of rap music but I’m a fan of many genres."