Despite a recent high-profile FOO FIGHTERS gig, Tasmania rarely gets international visitors - hell, most national tours don't even include it - which makes Portland alt-rockers THE DANDY WARHOLS very special. Not only are they no strangers to The Apple Isle, first coming down to ring in the new year at the 2005 Falls Festival, but keyboardist Zia has developed an art installation for MONA, the Museum of Old & New Art, an occasionally controversial and always awesome museum in Hobart that looks like it was created by a Bond villain. Oh, and they're teaming up with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra! Zia was my first EVER interview as a music journalist, so it's always a treat to sit her down and talk some SENSE...

Heading to Australia and New Zealand next month with a re-recorded version of their seminal 1992 album "Let's Knife", Osaka's SHONEN KNIFE have been around the block a few times, winning over several generations of fans, including the late Kurt Cobain, who took the band on tour before "Nevermind" blew a hole in the music world. Heading to Australia and New Zealand for a tour including Brisbane's Zed51 and the Croxton Block Party in Melbourne, Sense sat down with Naoko to wind back the clock on their stellar career and explore Japan's musical underground.

Legendary Brisbane trio I HEART HIROSHIMA will be treading the boards in the beautiful Roma Street Parklands on Saturday October 24th as part of ZED51, so it seemed like a brilliant idea to track down Matt and Sullivan to explore their history with 4ZZZ and find out what brought them back into the fold!

Heading to Australia for the first time in 15 years, we can't tell you what songs you'll be hearing when CAKE take to the stage. Hell, neither can they! Scott Gelston went The Distance with frontman John McCrea to find out more!

Dave is a busy man. CUSTARD are one of the headliners of Zed51 alongside MUDHONEY and THE MARK OF CAIN, and his other project, Dave McCormack's TRS-80, has booted up with a new single. Oh, and he plays Australia's greatest dad, Bandit Heeler, on Bluey. With Father's Day this weekend, I sat down with Dave to find out how Aussie dads can find their inner Bandit!

Gold Coast alt-rockers KALATONE have unveiled the cinematic video clip for "Nostalgia", the final track of their stunning EP "Pathways". We think they sound pretty good already, so when they got together for rehearsals, we convinced them to talk to us instead, and explored the process of realising your vision, and finding your Pathway.

Hardcore legend Jerry A. of POISON IDEA has stepped up to the mic for his old friends in THE HARD-ONS, and they've just released a full album! I got Jerry talking about the album, being covered by PANTERA, the infamous cover of "Feel The Darkness", and much more!

Eighteen seconds. That's how long it took between pressing play on NYCTALOR's first offering and me agreeing to interview them. If they can do that to me in 18 seconds, imagine how you're going to feel when you finish I: The Collapse, the first offering from the anonymous Australian music collective, who take the crushing weight and claustrophobic horror of PORTAL and push it even further into the abyss. We spoke to vocalist B and guitarist D about the genesis of the project, and what horrors are still to come.

Aussie indie-folk songstress Olivia Coggan has released her stunning new single "Fault Line", and she talked some Sense about making an album with her father, getting mentored by Kasey Chambers, and much more.

Australian industrial death metal maniacs THE BERZERKER have been resurrected to bring their warp-speed savagery to NECROSONIC in Brisbane and FROTH & FURY in Adelaide. Mastermind Luke Kenny talked some Sense about why the masks aren't returning, and what the future looks like for the fastest band in Australia.

Buckle up! Ahead of the next installment of SLUGFEST - "SLUGFEST 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO" - Brisbane bruisers WAR BEAR will be bringing the heat to Greaser Bar alongside a massive lineup of talent, so it seemed like the perfect time to discuss the practicalities of onstage overalls with the lungs of WAR BEAR, Ravi.

Blending extreme metal with Latin American culture and cartel violence since 1989, BRUJERIA aren't for the faint of heart (that was a very real decapitated head on the cover of their debut album "Matando Güeros"), so what better band to be joining the mighty CARCASS for an Australian tour? Vocalist El Sangron talked some SENSE about their first visits to our shores, and why they won't be joining CARCASS in New Zealand.

Melbourne mathcore loons FIVE STAR PRISON CELL have been resurrected by the necromancers at NECROSONIC FESTIVAL, and will be bringing their hyperactive chaos to Brisbane on Saturday the 22nd of August. Drummer Marc and guitarist Mark talked some Sense about the possibility of new noise...

Whatever you do in life, try to live a story worth telling. That approach has worked out pretty well for Kira Roessler, who went from touring with one of the most influential punk bands of all time to a long career as a dialogue editor in Hollywood, whose credits include "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Project Hail Mary" and more. With the release of her latest solo album, the appropriately named "Enigma", Kira reflected on the challenges of holding her own on the road as a young woman in a van full of dudes, and shares some insight into the defensive capabilities of Emmy awards.

No, the math isn’t wrong: it’s 30 years since ASH dropped their classic album "1977", with its ear worms like "Girl From Mars" and "Oh Yeah" burrowed deep into the minds of alternative radio listeners. The band are playing it in its entirety for Australian and NZ audiences this September and frontman Tim Wheeler stopped by to talk about what it was like to release "1977" back in 1996.

Spend just five minutes on Facebook and you'll see that a lot of people from older generations aren't coping too well with changing times, but you won't find Pinky Beecroft ranting about "the wokes" anytime soon. Best known as the frontman for raunch-n-rollers MACHINE GUN FELLATIO, he might write a lot of songs "from a position of grumpiness" these days, but as he tells Sense, if you're not evolving with the times, you might be the problem.