The Underground Stage
“Taken from Hockey Dad’s fourth album, ‘Rebuild, Repeat’, this is just one of the many examples of how confident they’ve become. It’s as playful as ever but its simplicity is deceptive, with complexity running through this and the full record. It’s the best work they’ve done to date, which is saying something 🥇”
“LOSER return with the first new material since last year’s ‘Stadium Dreams On A Bedroom Budget’ album, and their goals haven’t changed in scale at all. Urgent and fizzy at the start, it rapidly expands into starbursts of spectacular chorus, a determined and exciting statement of intent as they work towards album #2 🎇”
“Unvarnished and unpolished enough to leave you finding splinters in your skin weeks later, this is unbridled fun, high-speed poppy skatepunk in raw form. As with so many of the best things in life, it’s the rough edges that make it shine ✨”
“Australian post-punk has been hitting its stride recently, and Tasmanian outfit Teens join the fray with this menacingly bubbly twitcher. Shuddering like a fucked train, it’s equal parts amphetamine cheekbones and feral teeth 🚂”
“Scrappy and charming – and with one of the best band names in the game – Alright Psycho’s latest is a burst of scuttling energy and bite, nipping at your ankles like a mad thing. It might look cute, but it’s got claws that’ll leave a mark 🦀”
“Like smoke in a still, cold night sky, Human Noise float and twist around your head, catching the light but impossible to grab hold of. It’s got its own physics, its own laws, and it demands you bend to it, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes you. Brilliant and baffling, dense yet danceable, there are […]
“Elizabeth Fader returns after literally years away, but does so with a set so chock full of loveliness and grace it makes you wonder how we ever survived without her. It’s beautifully constructed and it’s sharply cut, crystal-clear songs made of twang and thrum and harmony that demand you stare and stare and stare until […]
“Sevilles switch effortlessly between a soft crash and a hard landing, jazzier moments giving way to wigout distortion. It mostly reaches out with velvet gloves, but the iron fists inside occasionally wrap themselves around your throat, a killer behind the caress.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“DINGE crash together classic rock and modern hip-hop, six-strings and hot mics, live drums and fast bars – it’s like early Roots and Pearl Jam set up shop in Western Sydney. It’s incredibly rich stuff whichever mode or gear they settle into, thick and dense and toughened like leather.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok