Off The Record

24/12/2025

Listen to On The Record with Brian and Michael:

Episode 4 of On The Record opens exactly as listeners now expect: however, the technology relents and the Christmas episode is officially underway. What follows is a warm, rambling, oddly moving conversation about Christmas music, memory, faith, food [...]

08/12/2025

In what could turn out to be a serious lapse in judgement Brian Wise has dragged his friend and colleague Michael Mackenzie into a new addition to the Rhythms stable - a podcast called, cunningly, On The Record.
In their debut episode (link below) listen as they ramble through new music from Mavis Staples, great writing from Patti Smith, why the new Beatles are better than the old Beatles, plus their takes on docos, movies, Tom Jones, Stranger Things and the existential delights of Pluribus.
Your comments and cries of horror are encouraged.

26/11/2025

Vote in the Rhythms 2025 Readers Poll. Link in comments.

16/11/2025

This is my interview with Todd Snider for Off The Record in 2021:

Listen to TODD SNIDER INTERVIEW SPECIAL by Brian Wise 1 on

16/11/2025

Vale Todd Snider. (October 11, 1966 – November 14, 2025). See comments for link.

12/11/2025

The November/December issue of Rhythms Magazine, edited by me, is out now featuring Nick Corr's feature on Mick Thomas' Roving Commission as the cover story.

11/11/2025

Paul Kelly played an exclusive fans show to launch his new album, 70, at Melbourne's Corner Hotel last night. Check out Nick Corr's review. Link in comments.

30/10/2025

This Saturday on Off The Record (rrr.org.au, 0900-1200 AEST) esteemed guitarist Blake Mills talks about his most recent collaboration with legendary bass player Pino Palladino. Also, Michael Mackenzie reviews Bruce Springsteen: Deliver me From Nowhere.

27/10/2025

Michael Goldberg reviews the new Dylan box set:

By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan’s Early Days: New 8 CD set focuses on Dylan’s transformation into the greatest songwriter of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the [...]

03/10/2025

Off The Record, Saturday October 4, 2025 (0900-1200AEST, rrr.org,au): Legendary guitarist Bill Frisell talks guitars, Fiona Boyes discusses the release of her Bluesfest 2004 show with Hubert Sumlin and Chris Wilson as guests.

26/09/2025

Saturday morning on Off The Record (rrr.org.au/102.7FM in Melbourne). Ron Sexsmith on his new album Hangover Terrace. Greg Johnson, Director of the Blues Archives at the University of Mississippi. Quality Used Cars in the studio.

25/09/2025

Off The Record Playlist, Saturday September 20, 2025
1. Guitars, Cadillacs – Dwight Yoakam (Cadillacs 2002 Remaster)
2. OTR INTRO Theme
3. Hillbilly Highway – Steve Earle (Guitar Town)
4. If I Needed You (Townes) – Emmylou Harris (Cimarron)
5. First it was a movie, then it was a book – Florry (Sounds Like…….)
6. America, Girl – Jesse Welles (Devils’ Den)
7. Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road) – Bob Dylan - (An Open Window, Bootleg Series Vol.18)
8. Stray Paper – Tift Merritt (Tambourine)
9. Good People - Hayes Carll (We’re Only Human)
10. Tools over Toys – Dee White (Heart Talkin’)
11. History – Mike Reid & Joe Henry (Life & Time)
12. Go On Down To Mobile – Bernie Leadon (Too Old To Be Cool)
13. Biscuit House (Radio edit) – Jordie Lane (Tropical Depression)
14. Cling to the Roots – Jimbo Mathus (Confederate Buddha)
15. Nobody Wants To Be Lonely – Robert Finley (Black Bayou)
16. Black Mattie – Black Keys (Delta Kream)
DEXTER EVANS (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC, NASHVILLE) INTERVIEW SPECIAL
17. I Saw The Light – Fisk Jubilee Singers & Jimmy Hall – Celebrating Fisk!
18. I Believe – Keb Mo’ - Celebrating Fisk!
19. War Games – Joy Oladokun - Celebrating Fisk!
20. Allison Russell & Julian Taylor – Pathways (Pathways)
21. Margo Price – All American Made (All American Made)
22. Nashville Blues – Everly Brothers
JOSHUA HEDLEY SESSION
23. Boogie Woogie Tennessee
24. Out On The Prairie Wind
WATSON TWINS SESSION
25. Queen of The Broken Hearts
26. Never Be Another You
GIG GUIDE - KEN