Nearly a decade after their genesis, Born Ruffians still sound as raw and visceral as the day they were born.

Their third LP under the Born Ruffians name, Birthmarks seems to revel in that stripped back feeling. When all the superficiality has melted away, these songs remain, crashing reminders of their roots.

List of people that were not able to convince me to become a vegetarian to reduce climate change: Al Gore, my vegan best friend (sorry girl). List of people that did convince me to become a vegetarian to reduce climate change: Charlie Pickering and Waleed Aly.

When Justin Timberlake isn’t busy method acting, taking his role as online music mogul Sean ‘Napster’ Parker just a little too seriously and performing necromancy on dead social networks, he makes music, apparently. Who knew?

It’s been seven years since JT came out with the juggernaut album Futuresex/Lovesound, that’s the amount of time Twitter has been around.

How do you find your music? Maybe you read blogs like this one, maybe you use Spotify and subscribe to the tastemakers, maybe you trawl Soundcloud and Bandcamp late on lonely Saturday nights to find the freshest thing. As much as there are many new avenues for finding fresh, raw talent, the still great champion of unearthed talent is radio, in particular community radio.

I honestly believe the best kind of gig is a comeback gig. A band returning to the loving embrace of their hometown after slogging it out and making it big overseas is a joy to be a part of. The whole atmosphere is different. It’s like the city is throwing a welcome home party.