The Underground Stage
A fussy week on the playlists, with a huge drop in the number of releases, less lists actually updating, and few clear winners. In amongst it all though, Royel Otis, Alice Ivy, and HighSchool all received the most adds for their latest tracks across the best Australian new music playlists. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Royel […]
“It’s a Sunday night and everything’s calm and chill… until The Bancrofts show up. Holy moley, anyone who can summon this much energy, show, tune, and pure barrelling fun from note one to close – on a Sunday night! – is absolutely not to be trifled with. Rare, committed, mental, and brilliant. On board with […]
“Day Release give us more than one cover tonight – including RHCP, Limp Bizkit, and Killers – which tells you much about the tone tonight, meaty and dense. This is serious-browed fret action and vocals alongside thumping rhythms, and the audience shout along like their lives depended upon it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“It’s wholesome rock fun from Hunting Thompson tonight, and that’s not faint praise – it’s *hard* to make music that carries serious musicality without sounding overly serious. This set is made of nothing but good bloody fun, which is both difficult to do and a pleasure to watch.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Victoria’s new album is a joy – it’s as smart as a whip and brimming with fizz that tickles you in all the parts. Live though, there’s something extra. Not that anything’s missing from the studio version, but more that the life that’s given to these tracks IRL makes them shine even brighter. When the […]
“Worry Mall’s delicious table groans with delights, rich and complex. All the parts work, even and especially – and I’m not usually a fan – the sax, everything harmonising into a thick soup of smartly put-together, nourishing warmth. Bloody lovely.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Happy as clams to be headlining their own day-long festival, FANGZ tear through the place tonight, a sharp-toothed grin of a band going direct for the throat. Few bands can conceive and carry off this sort of rich mayhem, as jagged as a bread knife but as smooth as the butter it’s cutting.” Gallery Learn […]
“Whenever LOSER join us from Melbourne it is nothing short of deep pleasure, blast after blast of big-room songs, delivered again and again with feeling. Every time a sure thing.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Closure’s giant sound barrels through the paint on the walls, full of kinetic energy. Each one starts with a threatening hum but builds to a fearsome roar, a shallow mid-ocean wave that destroys once it hits shore.” Gallery Learn More Instagram