The Underground Stage
“The Belair Lip Bombs make incredibly busy music with seemingly very little effort – it comes off like they’re barely trying yet we still get complexity and nuance and deep songwriting skill. Like Pavement, bits are as slack as a yokel’s jaw but are somehow still as beefy as a jock’s bicep. It whizzes and […]
“Sesame Girl disguise their strength behind deceptively gentle performance, a blazing rage barely hidden behind cotton wool. It soars and shines and gleams, but it’s only afterwards you realise it’s left bruises and marks all over.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Sonic Reducer bring the savage guitars, sure, but they melt in enough theatrics and sheer giddy mayhem to make as much a party as a pounding. Sharp as a tack but madly charming with it, a furious and high-tempo playtime.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Mr. Industry add a shot of menace for every drop of joy, a savage piece of noise to match each moment of jazzy musicality. It’s a jagged assault until it’s not, and it weaves in between those two poles throughout, via a truly enormous and inescapable sound. Magnificent, threatening, and utterly wild.” Gallery Learn More […]
Every week I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]
“Headspacer’s first ever show lands with poise and muscle, never fully wigging out but nonetheless bringing impressive quantities of heft and mass to the fight. It’s less a riot in your street and more a stomping strut through your front door, confident in its density and happily contemptuous of any given opponent.” Gallery Learn More […]
“Research!? summon grunge from the heavens to rain down upon us, great big chunks of thud and distortion bouncing off our foreheads like raw-throated hail. The hair flies, the floor vibrates, and all is giant noise.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“So I Says To Mabel barrel through the building like a giant train made of Vans trainers and good times, grazed shins and busted ankles as far as the eye can see. High tempo from the off to the end, it’s a challenge to see who’s having more fun, them or us.” Gallery Learn More […]
“HALPERT.’s debut show kicks off by kicking in doors with both punk boots, but there’s more than one joke in this clever set. There’s more than enough to require you to fetch dancing shoes, to summon waving arms, or to order up a headbanging neckbrace. Throughout, crucially, it’s also having an absolute *whale* of a […]