The Underground Stage
New music started to be released in earnest this week, and while there was about half the average amount of new material playlisted, there were some crackers in there. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Last Dinosaurs, Middle Kids, Royel Otis 🥈ioakim 🥉GAUCI In particular, new tracks from Last Dinosaurs, Middle Kids (pictured), and the still rapidly-growing […]
“Every fibre of Organs’ rattling, thrumming set gets a workout tonight, every tiny part in constant, sweaty motion. Bits of The Strokes crash into Royal Headache, Replacements into Ramones, ankle-breakers and neck-sprainers all the way to the finish line. Exhausting, delirious, and a giant rush of blood.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Bursting open the doors with great peals of toms, Dead Witch’s latest fills the air with strange noise and confident stomping. Louche and lovely 🫦”
“Beefy and with a keen shine all over it, ioakim floats less but stings more than on previous releases. Precise and powerful, it lands the spike right where it needs to go 🐝’
“It’s phone-lights-on time for Sophisticated Dingo, with a track that pauses for a bit of breath amid their high-velocity catalog. It’s big feels, and it feels big. 🤳”
“Renegade patches up its own wounds with razor-edged guitars and urgent delivery, sharp and insistent and jerking around like mad. It’s a tough story to hear, but it’s hard not to walk away with just a bit more grit and determination to power ahead regardless ✊”
“Snub take warped fairground licks and wrap them in a roaringly angry track full of fury and injustice. It’s viciously precise, mad as hell but focussed and in control of its rage 😡”
“Del-Slackers’ wild-eyed, pedal-to-the-floor, high-times punk is just one of those things that’s hard to resist. It’s all the dumb – and yeah, small – things in life turned into madcap shenanigans and fun. No-one’s leaving miserable, which is not something all bands can claim.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Ben Mastwyk & His Millions twang like their lives depend on it, a red-hot shot of good times injected into the dusty veins of cow-persons everywhere. It might sound bucolic and grassy, but the energy is high-voltage and twitchy, a giddy mix.” Gallery Learn More Instagram