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!
Off the back of a long list of fresh new tracks, Sam and Max get excited to go back to the 90s, going beyond the Oasis reunion news with a batch of great Britpop classics, as well as the big announce…
Straight to the point with Vinyl Club this week, as Sam dives deep into the second album from the New Zealand dream pop band, Mild Orange. Will the slow builds and reverbed guitars sit tightly with S…
This week, it's an absolute scorcher of a chat with Sydney Singer-songwriter, tiffi ahead of her show at BIGSOUND. Along the way, we dive deep on just about every topic, including the Western Sydney/…
Experimenting with a live call on the show, Sam and Max get a first-hand review from an old friend on a recent live show, before diving into their favourite new tracks from the week. Then it's lookin…
After a quick drive-by on both the Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony and our social followers ignorance about pants-off dancing, Max tucks into the main course, reviewing Ocean Grove's The Rhapsody Tapes. …
Max and Sam really get their wheels spinning on their new music picks for the week, then they send their little hopes sky-high by looking at some of the biggest and best summer festival line-ups drop…
Scan in your club card and join the conversation as Sam and Max look back on "This Modern Glitch" by British indie darlings The Wombats as they're announced on the Rolling Sets line up. Sam discovers…
After Sam sets the tone early by nailing the band's name, we get an insight of Story of the Year's Page Avenue 20th Anniversary Tour live in Brisbane. They cover a huge range of physical injuries ove…
Sam and Max wrap up on the greatest moment of Australian athleticism that has ever happened, then re-examine the Good Things line up now that we know when it's dropping, and look at Green Day's upcom…
Stepping onto the stage for the first time as its own format, Vinyl Club finally has a chance to shine. We chat through the controversy of Sam's rock band rankings, then Max reviews "Discovery" by Da…
Ahead of their hectic week of back-to-back shows, Max sits down with Brisbane Pop duo Juno. They chat about how to get so much smouldering confidence into their sound, how they plan to analyse their …
It's a format change for the show as we realise that it's so much nicer if we don't overstay our welcome. From now on, Wednesday drops will be just Sam and Max talking shit about the news and reviews…
It's another day of sad news and Sam and Max have to report that yet ANOTHER Australian music festival is shutting the gates, but then they bring the vibes back by discussing which musicians could br…
Sam and Max cover the gamut from operatic metal to the best of modern country in the first ten minutes, then follow it up with a sad moment of silence for a fallen soldier: Splendour in the Grass (an…
Max challenges Sam to tell us which hits he would slap on if he was handed the aux cord at your next party, then they dive into some bands that are completely underrated.
Over in Vinyl Club, Sam makes…
Sam and Max find what will really get our Olympians hyped to bring home the gold over our official track. Then, Sam tries to discover if he can be swayed by the Beatles, and chats with Max about the …
Sam and Max unpack why the Aussie music scene is off Triple J currently, and unpack how and why the Australian media landscape broadly is letting down Aussie music. Then, they look back at a stellar …
Sam and Max get right into the big issues, figuring out why people don't like Coldplay, and run through a list of Sam's very first big tracks of 2024 (in June). Then, they look into the Bigsound line…
Recovering from a silly start (and a wheezy lung), Max and Sam tuck into some emo rock cringe, two interesting music-adjacent developments, and then unload on their musical pet peeves.
Max and Sam dia…
Sam and Max have a stab at the upcoming Good Things festival line up, and then try to solve the issue of cancelling festivals once and for all. Sam brings a few big hitting breakdowns to soil Max's e…