The Underground Stage
Most Playlisted This Week Two excellent guitar-driven acts shared the podium this week, with The Buoys and Girl and Girl both receiving the most adds on the country’s most credible new music playlists. Both acts have seen incredibly consistent support across a broad spread of critics and tastemakers – if either band is new to […]
“After the tears and heartbreak of previous track ‘Guard My Heart’, ‘Subject A’ gets back in the ring with dumb men, and in particular any of them dumb enough to have acted the ass within hearing distance of this band. With left-right combos of savage wit and ferocious melodies, The Buoys are back on offense, and the title’s right there for the taking 🥊”
“It’s only MILINA’S second release but this soaring pop carries itself with unusual confidence. Grand in musical scope, personal in lyrical theme, it marries technical prowess with emotional heft. Bags of tune, and bags of promise to with it 👜”
“BoysnLove’s sharp charm is always a pleasure, dreamy and buttery but with a finely-honed edge. Thoughtful and well-read, kind and empathetic, it may have been a while since we last heard from them but it’s as all still as beautifully crafted as it ever was 🖼️”
“Wiggling guitars writhe like snakes among piles of delicious bedroom pop in this tricksy little piece of delight, slipping between your fingers and then gone for good just as you start to get a handle on it. As difficult to get a firm hold of as it is easy to dance your socks off to 🐍”
“A glorious bang of swirling drums and guitars open this dreamscape of woozy distortion, everything inside it bursting out at the same time. Burning ferociously in its first half, the chain reaction eventually breaks down, cracking into smaller pieces until it’s finally extinguished in chaos and exhaustion 🔥”
“BESTIES smash open their pop-punk piñata for us to gorge on tonight, a perfectly balanced set of sugar and salt. There’s bags of bouncy fun throughout but the edge is never dull, slicing limb from giddy, flailing limb.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Down For Tomorrow come back from the dead a couple of days earlier than is traditional this Easter, blowing up The Lansdowne on Good Friday with a glorious set full of unholy wonders. Titanic versions of ‘Good Person’, ‘Sentimental’, or ‘Survive’ remind us of just what we’ve been missing. A little miracle, a privilege to […]
“Bad Juju’s heavyweight emo rumbles and roars from start to finish, big slabs of song brought in by crane. Muscular, meaty, and rarely anywhere except right up in your face, it’s still welcoming and warm, a fiery embrace.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok