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"I found that most of the time I was making other bands sound better than they were..."

"I’m a weird little man. Since we’ve been talking, I’ve switched chairs three times. I actually think it’s not just me as everyone’s fucking weird and everyone has a bit of obsessive compulsive in them."

"Any time you hear something like, ‘Oh, Illy’s a fucking faggot,’ ‘Why?’ ‘Oh, because he’s got that fucking song.’ I have forty others that sound nothing like it."

“I like to think we do for music what those Gervais and [Larry] David do for comedy. A lot of what inspires people does not always happen to be in the field that they work.”

The critics are fawning all over his debut solo album, but ex-Snowman dude Joe McKee still can’t afford to eat anything fancier than baked beans. Chris Hayden buys him a sandwich.

“Rather than listening [to music], we’re trying to take more of a body-movement approach with this record.”

"[Producer Lou Giordano]'s always been there for me – he’s my bullshit detector."

The Belligerents chat to us about their new EP, She Calls The Shots.

Stereo Addicts chat to us about their newest single, Goin' Away!

Erkstock is just around the corner. We grabbed IsyV from Hard As Nails, Brad Thomas from Foundry Road and Emmy Mack from Smokin' Mirrors to chat about their Birthday favourites.

Boston's Transit have just finished up a stint on the Van's Warped Tour, and will now be making the trip to Australia for the very first time. We caught up with the band's guitarist and vocalist Tim Landers ahead of the tour to discuss the run of dates, as well as the band's fantastic new album "Listen & Forgive", which is out now through Rise Records.

Melbourne punk band Anchors are set for a big end of 2012. They have just released their new album "Lost At The Bottom Of The World" and will be launching the release of the record by hitting the road later this month with Transit, as well as heading over to America for the first time in October to play The Fest in Gainesville, as well as a string of other shows while they're there. We caught up with the band's guitarist Patrick O'Shea once again to discuss the new record, as well as the band's touring plans.