Murder Ballads, Tolstoy & Banjo: Sam Amidon on Jack Off With Jack Shit
Listen to Sam Amidon and Jack Shit talk Tolstoy, folk music and murder ballads – plus two stunning live songs from Sam in the studio.
Listen to Sam Amidon and Jack Shit talk Tolstoy, folk music and murder ballads – plus two stunning live songs from Sam in the studio.
Before heading off for the bright lights of L.A., Sydney legend Spod joined Jack Shit for an epic 40 minutes of banter, live music, talking over recorded music, and more than a few hot takes.
Sprightly Virginian songstress Natalie Prass joins us on her first jaunt to Sydney, performing sublime renditions of ‘Why Don’t You Believe In Me’ and ‘Bird Of Prey’ live in the studio.
The pair swung by FBi to perform the Guilty classics ‘Stress’ and ‘Blow The Horns On ‘Em’, produced by J Dilla and Madlib respectively.
The Indigenous icon talks about the album he recorded in Bathurst Gaol in just one hour, and performs the first song he ever wrote, live and unaccompanied in the studio.
In a disarming interview that left everyone in the studio in silence or tears, hear NZ’s Aldous Harding and Australia’s Laura Jean (plus Laura’s father and sister, incidentally) speak with Jack Shit on ANZAC day. Each artist performs an intensely personal piece in the process.
A sometimes reckless and even ribald chat between Elana and Jack, peppered with two outstanding live performances that could not be further apart in terms of tone and technique: one a profoundly beautiful acoustic rendition of her original song, ‘These Days’; the other a live-looping electronic cover of Mariah Carey’s ‘Emotions’.
At the beginning of this year some of Sydney’s favourite sons, Youth Group, reconvened – playing for the first time in over four years, live from the FBi studios. After a rapturous response to their sold out reunion at the Newtown Social Club, today they’ve announced more dates.
Old mates Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Thurston Moore (ex Sonic Youth) played together for the first time ever, live on Jack Off with Jack Shit.
Fourplay have gone from covering rock tunes for the UNSW band comp to performing with Neil Gaiman on the world’s most revered stages. They recently released their first all-original album and here join Jack Shit to perform a few pieces live, in-between chats about life working for the leader of the Australian Greens – and arguments about the relative merits of CDs over vinyl.