78 Amped
Helping you find the next great song in your playlist. Each week, the team from 78 Amped bring you the news, reviews and interviews you need to find the next great song for your favourite playlists!
Episodes
The boys are online to get their reviews in after a long Bigsound week, but Max gives his thoughts on the latest album from Phoebe Bridgers. Sam's already shared his many positive thoughts on the record, but how much does Max align?
Relisten to "Lost Weekend" on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Backstage during their recent tour of Australia, Sam and Max sat down with Lucas Woodland, lead singer of Holding Absence. They cover how the new album came together by throwing out everything they knew about making an album, which song was meant to score a cheeky Loathe cameo, and why they went full anime for this release.
Connect with Holding Absence on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to the latest singles from their upcoming alb...
Sam and Max are out and about at Bigsound this week, but that doesn't mean they can't bring you their regular updates with new music from across the genre spread. Then, it's good news for pop music fans, bad news for country music fans, and excellent for Australian human music fans. Finally, they close out with some more shoe/nu-gaze and a shout out to one of Australia's least talked about scenes.
Their brand new album has just hit #1 on the ARIA charts (presumably because of our interview), but now Sam is reviewing the latest album from DMA's, as well as some of the formative songs that led to its creation. How does it hold up?
Relisten to DMA's self-titled on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Ahead of the release of their new record, "Happier Now", Sam dials in with Patrick Miranda from U.S. Post-hardcore band Movements. They cover the eternal Sydney/Melbourne feud, how songs reveal themselves to you as a songwriter, and how the band has a second generation of song-writers already growing up.
Connect with Movements on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to their upcoming album, "Happier Now" on Spotify and Apple Music.
Sam and Max muddle their way through the new music of the week before they finally find their stride. They're chatting some tragic news from a friend of the show, big new tour announcements (that we might have ruined), and then predicting Laneway's line up. Then, we own up to bands we like more than we should, and the ones we know less than we should.
Follow along with the songs we discuss with this week's Spotify Playlist.
You've heard the interview, you've (probably) heard the album, but have you heard Max's long and winding thoughts on the new Citizen album? Well now you can. It's a record that pulls together so many sounds in one, but how will it sound overall?
Relisten to "Halcyon Blues" on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Ahead of his Australian tour, Sam dials in with British rock icon Gavin Rossdale of Bush. They cover how he maintains his energy as a workaholic, how to live up to the pressure of being a namesake, and how sharing dinner opened his eyes.
Connect with Bush on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to their latest album, "I Beat Loneliness" on Spotify and Apple Music. Find tickets to their Australian tour with Shinedown at their website.
Sam and Max are tucked away in a new studio set up, with new cameras, and a new longer time spent in the editing booth. After blazing through new music, they cover some proud friend moments, two regional gigs, and Sam's new discovery in the sad girl indie music canon. Then, a family tree of Nu-Gaze, and planning for the 2032 Olympics.
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Sam's reviewing the new album from an artist that he's previously aired his concerns with. Will he be continuing down the line, or changing his tune?
Relisten to "A Love for Strangers" on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Off the back of the Good Things lineup announcement, Sam dials in with Chuck from Pop-Punk legends, Simple Plan. They chat about the band's new resurgence with a whole new generation, how they try to balance a setlist with fan requests, and how they band will likely be hitting the links when they get Down Under.
Connect with Simple Plan on Instagram and TikTok, and catch-up with their classic hits ahead of Good Things Festival on Sp...
Ahead of the release of their fifth, self-titled album, Sam and Max catch up with Matt Mason from DMA's. The cover how getting some extra time to build the record helped it feel more relaxed and intentional, they settle the debate on the best inner-west pubs, and which unexpected tracks get the audiences moshing.
Connect with DMA's on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to their self-titled fifth record on Spotify and Apple Music. Get ...
It's pandemonium, as Sam and Max blast through the new music this week before launching into a massive round-up of festival news. Surprise sell-outs, the return of an old favourite to a local haunt, and of course, the Good Things line up. Plus, how have Good Charlotte ruined music this time?
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Around the release of their new album, Sam and Max dial in with Mat, the lead singer of mid-west band Citizen. They cover how they approached this album with their huge life developments, how the band still relate to their biggest hits, and how South America had them feeling like Justin Bieber.
Connect with Citizen on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to their latest record "Halcyon Blues" on Spotify and Apple Music.
It's the highest of art forms on review here, as Max looks back at Hinder's biggest record, "Extreme Behavior". We can already agree that it's a 5-star review, so should be a short episode, right?
Relisten to "Extreme Behavior" on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Dialling in from the U.S. as they record some new material, Sam catches up with Melbourne band Wayside. They cover how Will Yip's production has pushed their songwriting, how they were celebrating America's 250 with Christina Aguilera, and all about their expert strategy to play it cool around Keanu Reeves.
Connect with Wayside on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to their latest single, "Invisible Strings" on Spotify and Apple Music...
After burning through some new tracks, Sam and Max chat through the new line-up for Thy Art is Murder (and connect them to Kevin Bacon), remember a fallen hero of the show, and stick it to the man by looking at the government's new late-night laws. Then they reintroduce themselves by a look back at their most formative bands.
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Sam is reviewing the 1994 seminal album that took industrial rock to the mainstream, but he's stepping in with an opinion off the cuff. Will he find something about the album that he can love, or is he all hate?
Relisten to "The Downward Spiral" on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Ahead of his Australian tour, Sam dials in with U.S. singer-songwriter Kip Moore. They cover how important the snare drum was in his new record, how he's able to maintain such a high-quality workload at pace, and the secret
Connect with Kip Moore on Instagram and TikTok, and listen to his latest record, "Reason to Believe" on Spotify and Apple Music. Get tickets to his Australian tour at his website.
It's a real mix in the new music this week, before Sam unveils more of his favourite tracks from the DMs. Then, the boys bring in star of stage and podcast, Andy Procopis, to breakdown the latest record from Charli XCX, they cover tour announcements that Australia has been holding out over 14 years for, and then dive further into the Bigsound lineup.
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