EP.19 January 12, 2026.
Raul and Isaac Selby from Three D Radio Adelaide share music from South Australia and the US
episode 2 with Three D Radio
In the inaugural episode of Sonic Dialog, co-curators Raul Campos, a Los Angeles-based DJ and KCRW radio presenter, and Isaac Selby from Adelaide's Three D Radio, share music from South Australia's finest DEM MOB, The Empty Threats and Coldwave, plus US buzz acts Cleo Reed, Turnstile, and Geese.
About: Three D Radio
Three D Radio has been broadcasting since 1979 as an S-Class community radio station on 93.7FM across the greater metropolitan area of Adelaide and its surrounding country areas. We have 87 diverse programs going to air each week.
Three D Radio is run by the Progressive Music Broadcasting Association Inc. (PMBA). We are committed to playing contemporary, progressive and alternative music.
There are no playlists or rotations on Three D Radio. Each of our 120+ announcers is free to choose the music that they present. We do have a quota system which ensures that our overall the station’s music content contains at least 40% Australian, 20% local and 40% female content.
About KCRW:
KCRW belong to Los Angeles, connecting diverse perspectives and the sounds of Southern California with curious communities around the corner and around the world. They are NPR’s flagship member station in Southern California and a community service of Santa Monica College.
DEM MOB
DEM MOB are the most remote hip hop crew in the world born deep in the red dirt of the APY Lands of South Australia and the first to rap in Pitjantjatjara. More than a music act, DEM MOB are a movement: fusing hip hop with cultural identity, education reform, and political resistance. Their work challenges the systems that marginalise First Nations youth and reimagines education as a tool of empowerment, not assimilation.
Their activism has directly influenced education policy, reshaped pathways for young people in remote Australia, and sparked a international conversation about what real equity should look like.
Cleo Reed
A student of Black underground sound and intention, Cleo Reed (née Ella Josephine Julia Moore) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice uses participatory art, music composition, instrument-making, bandleading, installation, and fabric arts.
Raised in Uptown NYC and DC, Reed’s history with music starts with classical training in percussion at Harlem School of the Arts, to playing guitar and songwriting in the influential New York punk band Pretty Sick, to studying sound engineering and sound design at Berklee College of Music.
Since releasing their debut album Root Cause in 2023 including a limited physical release with Vinyl Me, Please, Reed has emerged as a bold, rising talent, forging forward while staying firmly rooted in their ancestral and cultural lineage.
The Empty Threats
The Empties are made up of long-term contributors to the Adelaide live music scene; Stu Patterson, Matt Schultz, Lenny Regione, Michael Bond, Grace Mensforth and Alex Dearman.
Inspired by artists Tropical F*ck Storm, Aldous Harding, Kraftwerk and Car Bomb, their rebellious sound blends experimental noise with euphoric dance grooves, executed with professionalism, expertise and flamboyant theatrics.
Turnstile
Turnstile is a rock band that formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2014. The band currently consists of Brendan Yates (vocals), Daniel Fang (drums), Franz Lyons (bass), Pat McCrory (guitar), and Meg Mills (guitar). Former members include Sean Cullen (guitar) and Brady Ebert (guitar). The band has released four studio albums: "Nonstop Feeling" (2015), "Time & Space" (2018), "Glow On" (2021), and "Never Enough" (2025).
Turnstile is heavily influenced by NYHC bands such as Madball and Breakdown, and also incorporate elements of 90s alternative metal and alternative rock, grunge revival, 60s soul and r&b music, and art rock, and has a very distinct, groovy sound. The band is currently signed to Reaper Records and has two EP releases out: Pressure to Succeed (2011) and Step 2 Rhythm (2013).
In 2012 they were featured on the Extermination EP among other hardcore/metal acts such as Suburban Scum. They released their first LP, Nonstop Feeling, on January 13, 2015 which marked their shift into a more experimental direction. This continued into their recent Glow On album.
Coldwave
Australian six-piece Coldwave is a frantic yet tightly controlled blend of jagged guitars, booming horns and uncompromising vocal delivery that captures the abstract in life’s most mundane moments. The band was named Triple J Unearthed’s feature artist ahead of their performance at Adelaide’s 2023 Laneway Festival, seeing them share a bill with the likes of Fontaines D.C. and Turnstile.
Wielding a sound described as “post-punk pulse accelerant”, Coldwave’s EPs ‘Same Window, Different House’ and ‘No Conflict’ were met with glowing praise, the title track of the former touted as “precise in [its] chaos” (Dave McCarthy, Laundry Echo) and “like being plunged into an ice bath and set on fire” (Abby Butler, Triple J).
Off the back of a year supporting industry heavyweights including Citizen, Pond and RVG, Coldwave’s release ‘The Ants / Italia ‘06’ sees the band exploring influences fresh and familiar.
Geese
New York City’s Geese released their highly anticipated 3rd studio album, ‘Getting Killed’. After being approached by Kenneth Blume at a music festival, Geese tracked the album in his LA studio over the course of ten fast-paced days and released it to critical praise in 2025.
With scant time for overdubbing, the finished project emerges as something of a chaotic comedy, shambolic in structure but passionately performed, informed by an exacting vision. Garage riffs are layered upon Ukrainian choir samples; hissing drum machines pulse softly behind screeching guitars; strange, lullaby-esque songs are interspersed with furious, repetitive experiments. With ‘Getting Killed,’ Geese balances a disarming new tenderness with an intensified anger, seemingly trading their love of classic rock for a disdain for music itself.