The Underground Stage
“Gerard Smith’s voice crashes and rolls like mid-ocean waves, a deep-water melancholy that calls you towards it. It’s hypnotic, and it’s an effort not to plunge right into it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Sometimes, you grow followers steadily and slowly. More rarely, oodles of them show up overnight. In aleksiah’s case – after recently getting playlisted by some serious players – it’s the latter, racking up nearly a thousand Spotify followers in a week and putting some jet fuel into an already-solid growth spurt over the last ten […]
Across 30 years and 11 studio albums – and with a twelfth album being release in March – The Dandy Warhols return to Australia for a run of shows including a night at Enmore Theatre on 1st May. One of the shinier stars of a grubby and disoriented late 90s alternative music landscape – and […]
Teenage Dads continue their irresistible onward march to glory with a standout performance on the best Aussie new music playlists this week, with the bonkerz ‘Weaponz’ hitting the mark with nearly half of the lists that updated. More playlists updated this week than the average too, so that percentage slightly undercooks just how popular this […]
“FANGZ debut in Manly to a crowd on the verge of going feral at the start, and who aren’t exactly calmed down by the titanic racket they are treated to. New stuff, old stuff, it doesn’t matter, this is – in a regrettably literal sense from one enthusiastic mooning punter – hairy-arsed and crazed, the […]
“KIRKLANDD pitches as a punk rock rapper but that doesn’t really do it justice. Yes, there’s oodles of attitude and rattly bass and speed, and yes – by God, yes – there are some stunningly fast bars. The vibe though is all its own, a fully batshit party run by lunatics dancing to their own […]
“Derrik N The Idiots are cooked rare from the off and only get – literally – bloodier, raw punk meat served at speed. Weaving into slow-banging metal but always snapping back to high velocity mayhem, it’s got more than enough iron in it to keep it as solid as a baseball bat to the face.” […]
“Adam off of Peking Duk sounds like he’s having an absolute riot on this latest track from his Keli Holiday project, a swaggering blast of late-night head-nodding and baggy hand-waving. The bubbling bassline, the signature infectious hooks, and the sheer amount of fun being had puts it out in front by a lot more than a length 🐎”
“The tight, insistent chug of the opening bars rapidly expands, inflating at speed until it blocks out the sun. Lyrically, it’s all self-doubt and disconnection – but few other songs will welcome you in quite as warmly 🫂”