The Underground Stage
“Blake Williams doesn’t miss, precisely-targeted directly to the core. The power in these songs meshes with their vulnerability, exposing as much as they explode off the stage, raw emotion harmonising with the sheer glee of playing. Fun, raw, and stronger than a steel beam.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“LLC’s highly-strung, tightly-wound folk punk judders as much as it rings, twitchy and staring. Gloriously rich, it’s a chocolate cake liberally laced with speed, a sweet treat to keep you wide-eyed and awake for days.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“When playing acoustic and solo, some artists make you kinda hanker for the full band thing, like you’re missing out a bit. Vetty Vials is just plenty all on her own, enough to get well and truly lost in, a joy of the highest order.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Punish sear their own throats and our ears, fizzing and buzzibg and screaming like banshees. The songs never get hidden though, bags and bags of melody to soothe the battering.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Leftards’ uncompromising racket accompanies the sun setting, darkness falling to furious noise. Hard like a concrete floor, it’s a tough landing from any height, a fall you’re going to feel.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Limited open today’s anti-fascist fundraiser, Jello Biafra warbles cutting against jagged but truly daft punk rock. Right up in your face, but grinning like a bloody maniac.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Raff Iacurto – of Robot God and other extraordinarily loud bands – draws down on his inches-thick songbook tonight at another of his Sundown Serenade nights at The Duke. There’s something very vulnerable about seeing someone give up the protective shield of volume and riff to lay it all bare in songs from now and […]
“Max Steele plays in at least two bands that self-describe with the word ‘doom’, so it’s a delightful surprise to hear this solo acoustic set, chock full of incredibly tricksy guitar work that skitters along next to a rich and powerful vocal. A mischievous set, smattered with covers and non-doomy versions of the full bands’ […]
Most Playlisted This Week Unsurprisingly – given they’re the single most widely playlisted artist across the last two years – King Stingray topped the pile as the most added this week across the best Australian new music playlists. 🥇King Stingray 🥈Betty Taylor, Somber Hills, Sycco, The Sunday Estate 🥉ioakim Just behind them, Sycco continued a […]