Starting with Andrew Denton in 1990, Rage has a long tradition of inviting a band or artist host the show for the Saturday night episode.
They are followed by Mike Patton, Paul Dempsey and Tex Perkins, who have appeared five times apiece.
They now mostly film out of their own purpose-built rage studio in ABC Ultimo, Sydney, but also at music festivals and occasionally in musician's homes and hotels.
From March 2020, when COVID-19 pandemic restrictions began to be rolled out in Australia, rage permitted select artists to guest program the show over video call.
The nearly two-year-long studio filming hiatus for international guests lasted from March 18, 2020, until March 9, 2022, when Gavin Rossdale from Bush filmed a guest program in the rage studio to coincide with Australia's first international tour since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Under The Southern Stars concert series.