The Underground Stage
“Sarah Levins’ set is full of rich beauty, all clever and high art, but with a spoonful of loopy thrown in for good measure. Fabulous, dreamy, and with astonishing musicality woven throughout, it’s a wild but comforting ride through the dark.” Gallery Listen
“Beryl play mostly unreleased music tonight, floating in like dark smoke. There might be no percussion but it still hits hard, impossible to grab hold of yet still leaving a mark.” Gallery Listen
🎰 We’re hitting the jackpot with the quality of shows on offer this week in Sydney: 🎶 2SER’s Dream State hosts a free Weds night show at Metro Social featuring Beryl, Sarah Levins, and Georgia Mulligan (Wed) 🎶 Bloody great guitars are the order of the night courtesy of Airline, Vertebrae, and Tallulah at OAF […]
Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇The Grogans (appeared on 32% of updated playlists) 🥈Teenage Joans, Bean Magazine (29%) 🥉Ball Park Music, Girl and Girl, Hellcat Speedracer, DEVAURA […]
“The Bottlers’ shanties and Celtic punk rattles and rolls and sways like a rough sea filled with beer and snot, utterly dismissive of anything except dancing and falling down and having a damn blast. All hands on deck, hoist the colours.” Gallery Listen
“REDD. brings literally all the energy, enough to bounce, deafen, or scar you, depending on your given mood. A *gigantic* pop sensibility runs through it, but the wild veering in various directions of fun keeps you happily off-balance, just as worried about snapping an ankle as banging your head off the ceiling.” Gallery Listen
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these. Hellcat Speedracer + Kobie Dee – JUMP! (single) 🎶 The latest upload from Hellcat Speedracer does absolutely nothing to […]
“OK Hotel are back playing in Sydney so all is well. Their driving, pounding set made of sad/happy escape remains vital and alive, wrapping you in a blanket made of bounce and growl. OK? Fuck no, way better.” Gallery Listen
“Tallulah ring like a struck steel beam, great big clangs of glorious guitar with harmony poured liberally on top. As punk as you’d ever want, but with as much high-altitude song as you’d ever need, this is a straight blast of roaring good-time fun. Yup, needed that.” Gallery Listen