The Underground Stage
“Princess Unit’s second upload brims with just as much promise as their first – complex but fun, whip-smart but engagingly daft. It pulls you in on its tractor beam and leaves you wanting, very much, to believe 🛸”
“As sweet and lovely as it is short, this one-minute gem packs more lyrical pleasures and earwormery than a song five times its length. Everything you ever need in a track, in a package you can carry around with you all day long 💎”
Frontman of the scene-defining Hüsker Dü, and writer of more gloriously buzzing and roaring guitar masterpieces than it’s easy to count, Bob Mould is one of the all-time undisputed heavyweight champs. On Nov 29th, he’s bringing his solo show to the Metro Theatre. Appearing in Australia for the first time since 2012, this show is […]
“Martha Chess Phelps veers between chugging indie and soaring soul without warning, but it all fits together like it’s got glue on its edges. Sharp and witty in parts, softly shining in others, it’s a soundtrack for the voice in your mind that can’t quite work out what mood it’s in. It knows it wants […]
“Lindsey’s set, complete with a seven-piece band, pushes the walls out musically as much as it fills the stage physically, bulging with enormous song. The tracks roll in like big waves, lulling you into the quiet bits before dropping tons of liquid weight onto the top of your head. Rich and lovely and weighty and […]
“Eva Diana’s solo set is as much a vehicle for rich songwriting and a clean knockout blow of a voice as it is designed to tug at the emotions. The skills might catch your attention, but it’s the feels in the air that’ll rip the heart right out of your chest.” Gallery Learn More Instagram […]
“Floodlights bring a dark theatre to the chat, bubbling groove and rich baritone performing a script of wild-eyed imaginings. It’s evocative enough in its quieter moments, but when it lets go it’s like black fireworks going off in your head.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“A Sweetie set is always less about the music they make and more about the mood they maintain – somehow the pace rarely picks up, but the pulse still races. Defiant, solid as a rooted oak, sinister and joyous all at the time, it’s rich and dense and poetic. It’s the art, stupid.” Gallery Learn […]
Most Playlisted This Week Jess Locke and total tommy shared top honours for the most spots on the best new music playlists in Australia this week, a brilliant achievement for both artists, showing off their broad support among critics and playlisters. For total tommy to top the list with just her second upload is also […]