The Underground Stage
Milan Ring’s consistently broad critic support put her new track ‘Photograph’ in the spot for the most added tracks on the most credible Australian new music playlists this week (and for the second time this year). Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Milan Ring 🥈Dune Rats 🥉 Barkaa, Jess Ribeiro Dune Rats were only a quick bong […]
“Jebediah may be scene veterans but there’s no signs of wear in their latest, tearing around with madcap energy and shambolic charm. It shakes with excitement, two minutes dead of bulging eyeballs and dizzy escapism ⚡️”
“Selfish Sons haven’t wasted their time during their stint in the US, with their latest adding some West Coast golden-hour shine to their already-hefty skills with a hook. Like all the best pop, it’s an immediate shot of good mood, right when you need it most 💉”
“Jolly, liberal arts indie merges here with classic songwriting, sitting somewhere between Divine Comedy and Prefab Sprout. Literate and fun, it’s got enough wry observation mixed into its go-lucky sound to keep one eyebrow arched and both feet dancing 📚”
“Haley Holgate’s latest starts by lulling you into slowing down your breathing and lowering your heart rate, but ends in fireworks, bloody great showers of sparks and colour. A lit fuse burning quietly in the dark, an explosion waiting to happen 🧨”
“Intense and and in a royal mood, The Duke Of Randwick mine the better parts of the 90s for a modern reworking of paranoid grunge and woozy shoegaze, all raw throats and insistent rhythms 😠”
Across two decades, Newton Faulkner’s delight of a voice and that picky, plucky style of guitar playing has lit up dark rooms around the world. To go along with his Australian and New Zealand dates in March & April he’s gifting us a new exclusive track too. With seven studio albums behind him, he brings […]
“Clay J Gladstone are on the precipice of dropping new tracks, so you’d expect some excitement in the set, right? This is Clay J Gladstone though, so their set would be pushing heart attack levels of excitement and mania on any given night. So it is here, blistering pace and soaring tune delivered with impeccable […]
“Charlie Collins has played almost none of these crystal-clear, beautiful songs out loud before, but they land with heavy blows that belie the sweetness in the sound. It’s been a while since we saw her live at all, and the brutal honesty of the journey she’s been on since runs through it, but doesn’t ever […]