Two weeks later, Episode 20 of Scratchin’ the Itch was found! And what an episode it is. Witty banter, insightful commentary and, of course, cracking tunes from the likes of West Thebarton Brothel Party, Cosmic Psychos (yes, THE Cosmic Psychos) and Hinds. Yes, its like we never really lost it at all… Now to start looking for a new job.

TRACKLIST

1. Hinds – Garden (Mom + Pop / Lucky Number)
2. The West Thebarton Brothel Party – Glenn McGrath (Mirador Records)
3. Cosmic Psychos – Better, Not Bitter (Desperate Records)
4. Longings – Vacancy (Framework)
5. Exek – Theme from Judge Judy (Homeless Vinyl)
6. Century Palm – Accept (Deranged Records)
7. Little Horn – Braindead
8. Powernap – Dexies (Rough Skies Records)
9. Cereal Killer – Track 1 (Anti-Fade/Agitated Records)
10. Making – Come to Me (Trait)

With that said, we have some cracking tunes and some bloody excellent advice to offer regarding, but not limited to, such bands and artists as: Liam Kenny, Nailhouse, Together Pangea and Drunk Mums. Give us all your money.

TRACKLIST

1. Liam Kenny – Border Fetish (Eternal Soundcheck)

2. Cumstain – I’m Not Mean (Southpaw Records)

3. Ex-Cult – Stick The Knife In (In The Red Records)

4. Drunk Mums – Pub On My Own (Pissfart Records)

5. Together Pangea – If You’re Scared (Burger Records)

6. The Rangoons – Lunatic / Shadow (Paradise Daily)

7. The Red Daggers – All Empires Fall

8. Kitchen’s Floor – Sundowner (Eternal Soundcheck, Hozac Records, Bruit Direct Disques)

9. Ladywolf – Susie’s Dead (Bummer Tapes)

10. Nailhouse – Hit Me

TRACKLIST

1. Fuzz – Pollinate (In The Red Records)

2. Tiny Giants – Teachers

3. Angie – Down For The Count (Rice is Nice)

4. Generacion Suicida – Criminal (Going Underground)

5. Tim & The Boys – Two Cowboys

6. OBN Ills – 4KD (12XU)

7. The Sulphur Lights – Life Stinks (Goodbye Boozy)

8. Modern Convenience – The Swarm

9. The Daxls – Go Ahead (Burger Records)

10. Yuppies Indeed – Golden Hour to Bounce (Burger Records)

TRACKLIST

1. Kill West – Neon Cross (Ongakubaka / CRANG Records / Drone Rock Recordings / Echo Drug Recordings)

2. Ghastly Spats – Obsessed (RIP Society)

3. Dilly Dally – Desire (Partisan Records / Buzz Records)

4. Tyrannamen – I Can’t Read (Cool Death Recordings)

5. Protomartyr – Why Does It Shake? (Hardly Art)

6. Sweet Home – Master Shake

7. Flour – Lonely Girl (Poison City Records)

8. Sunflower Bean – The Stalker (Fat Possum)

9. Baston – Maybe I’m Dead (Howlin’ Banana Records)

10. You Beauty! – Illywhacka (Rice is Nice)

TRACKLIST

1. Adam Gibson & the Ark-Ark Birds – Australia Restless

2. The Parrots – To the people who showed me their love while I was here (Luv Luv Luv / Burger Records)

3. Wireheads – Good Grief (Tenth Court)

4. The Laurels – Zodiac K (Rice is Nice)

5. Honey Radar – Look Closer

6. Lord Fever – Get It On

7. Sewers – Night Duty (Homeless Records)

8. Predator – Drag (Total Punk)

9. Old Mate – Atmospheric Pressure (Format Records)

10. Extra vague – La Beaute Des Balles

Human 2.0

TRACKLIST

1. Buck Biloxi & the Fucks – Million Years (Hozac Records)

2. Housewives – Brown Out (Total Punk)

3. Duderella – Supreme

4. The Hussy – Appleseed (Volar Records)

5. Royal Headache – High (Distant & Vague Records / What’s Your Rupture?)

6. Dralms – Pillars & Pyre (Boompa Records / Full Time Hobby)

7. Ravi Gunslinger –  Screaming Woman

8. Deafwish – Eyes Closed (Subpop Records)

9. Quilbones – Sunny Side Repulsion (Sad Sack Records)

10. Ausmuteants – Echo Beach (Hozac Records)

All pertinent questions that demand answers. Perhaps, if Billy is too chicken to get back to us, they could be answered by some of these movers and shakers: The Living Eyes, Wet Blankets, Tough Age and King Raam. They got the good stuff as do many, many more inside.

TRACKLIST

1. The Living Eyes – High Standard (Anti-Fade Records / Agitated Records)

2. Rose Windows – Glory, Glory (Sub Pop Records)

3. Wet Blankets – Fridge Too Far (Anti-Fade Records / Agitated Records)

4. Nathan Roche – Phantom Blues (Glenlivet-A-Gogh)

5. King Raam – The Man In The Black Suit

6. Tough Age – Nicholas Bragg (Mint Records)

7. Cyberbully Mom Club – Friends

8. Joanna Gruesome – Last Year (Fortuna Pop / Turnstile / Slumberland)

9. Daddy Issues – So Hard (Egghunt Records / Negative Fun Records)

10. Katarina – Dust Bunny Revivial

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TRACKLIST

1. Constant Mongrel – The Law (R.I.P. Society)

2. Ladywolf – About Melody (Resurrection Records)

3. Rectal Hygienics  – Granduer (Permanent Records)

4. OBNOX – Too Punk Shakur (12XU)

5. A Place to Bury Strangers – We’ve Come So Far (Dead Oceans)

6. Pisse – I Feel Nothing/Ich Fule Nichts

7. Hierophants – Skipping Steps (Moontown Records)

8. Hierophants – I Don’t Mind (Goner Records)

9. The Fat White Family – Autoneutron (Burger Records/Fat Possum)

10. Excess feat. Sean and Chris Campion – Home (Virtual Cool)

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