Hosted by music journalist Doug Wallen, Waste the Alphabet showcases new independent Australian music. It airs 6-8pm Tuesdays on 88.0 Indigo FM in Beechworth. Podcasts: http://indigofmradio.podomatic.com. Playlists: https://facebook.com/wastethealphabet

This podcast is unpaid and survives on donations. You can donate here via paypal https://www.stephenmbland.com/olas-kool-kitchen or buy merch here https://olaskoolkitchen.dizzyjam.com I'm a DJ on KCLA 99.3FM In LA, 107.5 Andhow.FM in New Zealand, Maximum Threshold Radio, Rock Radio UK, Sword Radio UK, Jammerstream One, Kor Radio, Bombshell Radio, Pop Radio UK, Radio Wigwam, Dirty Chai Radio, Rock XS Radio. Radio Candy Radio, Radio Lantau and Firebrand Radio.
 I like my music eclectic. Basically mainstream radio sucks and that's why I do what I do. I provide a Kool alternative.

I'm interested in featuring new music, bands/artists if you wanna be on my show I only accept submissions here please https://www.submithub.com/radio/olas-kool-kitchen  

Bands I've interviewed and or recorded live are

Explosions in The Sky, The Silver Jews, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Animal Collective, Mount Eerie/The Microphones, Bon Iver, The Go! Team, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, The Playing Fields, The Chap, The Helio Sequence, Lynch Rider Lulu, Throwing Muses, Scarce, Trespassers William, Damien Jurado, Ariel Pink, Th'Faith Healers,  Vivian Girls, Spiritualized, Spectrum, Jimi Shields, Jason Molina-Magnolia Electric Company, The Jayhawks, Andrew Bird, Darlings Of The Day, Menomena, Yacht, The Hot Toddies, Bonde Do Role,Dika Omka, Citizens of Ice Cream, Khottal, The Stoned Revival, Liyana Fizi,Tenderfist, Beach House, Sleigh Bells, The Antlers, Apse, Circulatory System, Bis, Nana Grizol, Real Estate, Low, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Clare and The Reasons, The Smith Westerns, Dr Dog, Surfer Blood, Wild Honey, Peggy Sue, First Aid Kit,  The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Damo Suzuki, Drum Eyes, Nedry, Rocketnumber9, The Waves, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Florence and The Machine, Magic and Fur, Scout Niblet, Elephant Micah, Peter Tork, Joe Kidd, Thelightshines, The Koolaid Electric Company, Moon Duo, Galaxie 500, A Classic Education, Kyst, Mogwai, Baths, Salem, The Black Angels, PJ Harvey, Suicide, Interpol, Mward,Del Ray, Money Mark, The Album Leaf, Rubik, Julia Kent, My Teenage Stride, The Flaming Lips,The Telescopes, The Cult Of Dom Keller,Elephant Stone, Hall Of Mirrors, The See See, The Entrance Band, Sky Parade, The Suicide Of Western Culture,  Bearcraft, Four Dead In Ohio, Whipping Boy, The Meek, The Blue Angel Lounge, Dead Meadow, Spindrift, Secret Colours, Golden Dawn, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Airiel, Woods, Pink Mountaintops, Wooden Shjips, Bombino, Strangers Family Band, Vacant Lots, The Altered Hours, The Nova Saints, the Lost Rivers, The Chameleons, Gravenhurst, Thee Piatcions, One Unique Signal, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Dead Skeletons, Peter Wolf Cryer, Balthazar, Ancient River, The Underground Youth, Singapore Sling, The Silver Apples, Diane Cluck, Graham Bonnar, bev Davies, Gregg Foreman, The Electric Mainline, Youngteam, The Greencoats, Ricky Maymi, Helicon, Angel Olsen, Lumerians, Twink, Jordannah Elizabeth, K-X-P, Duncan McKnight from The Virgin Tongues, Robert Dean From Japan, My Morning Bride, Mutual Benefit, Nick McCabe and Simon Jones from The Verve, Black Submarine, Mig Schillace from Portishead/Santa Cruz,

Tender Buttons are a dreamy wash of shoegaze guitars with bitter-sweet pop melodies, 808 backbeats and industrial drum loops.

In 2016, Tender Buttons was born out of a collaboration between Jessicca Bennett (Love Shack Studios, Lash, Preytells), Rachel Sztanski (Reii) and Andrew Kluchareff (Lunars) on the dreamy surf-pop single ‘Southern Hemisphere.’

Following it’s positive reception and airplay on RRR community radio, the trio commenced work on their forthcoming collaborative and self-produced E.P. 

The tracks were sent to be mixed by Aden Senycia (Nicholas Allbook, Peter Bibby, Rabbit Island, Pikelet), who has since joined the band on bass guitar.

Photography by Naomi Lee Beveridge

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