The Underground Stage
In a slightly slower week for releases, Elsy Wameyo was still a clear favourite on the best Australian new music playlists, with ‘Piny Lara’ gaining support across the board. For an emerging act to nab top spot is always impressive, and makes her a clear one to watch this year. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Elsy […]
“Anyone who has three guitarists is clearly in the mood to screw with your mind, and Trillion’s giganto-normous shoegaze rattles the back teeth out of your head, just as it should. Fuzzed and distorted beyond recognition, thumping in ways that are sure to please you, it’s a set to rip the hair off your scalp […]
“So I Says To Mabel drop a bone-twitcher of a punk set tonight, thrown out without regard for your joints. Enough to shudder an ankle off, it’s hard to keep control of the important junctions of your body, which merrily shudder and judder along to these high-speed, harmony-fuelled, buzzsaw tracks. We fall for it all […]
“Gully Days give it the beans this afternoon, a selection of tracks designed with enough chug to saw through hard wood. It’s all energy – raw voltage and twitching and big choruses exploding all over the place. It’s an absolute ton of fun, and enough to escape into – what on earth else do you […]
“Butterknife’s dark and danceable set takes the heat out of a hot Sydney afternoon, a rich and strange mood to lower the temperature and dial down the glare. There’s so much going on here though – it’s madly clever songwriting – that it’s easy to forget whether it’s day or night. Witchy and wonderful.” Gallery […]
“Thoughtful and frequently epic, Sam Allen‘s set bears much of the hallmarks of Pablo Honey-era Radiohead, giant swells of sound and intricacy, and a voice that stuns as often as it soothes. Mighty in many ways – and the hair surely swings and flies all set – but it all still seems as close and […]
“Tash Wolf absolutely wails through a short but deeply well-constructed debut set, blisteringly hot and bluesy guitar licks wrapped around slightly melancholy but very literate pop. If this is the start of it, it’s hard not to wonder where it might end. Impressive stuff.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Second Idol are consistently and boilingly cross, fizzing with bubbling rage at -archies and -isms and -ists. Most bands seem happy to remain silent and content, something Second Idol seem utterly incapable of doing. I’m grateful for that. I’m also bloody grateful it’s not aimed at me 🤬”
“Beaming in from somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert, this is a magnificent song, crazed and grandiose, swollen huge in both ambition and execution. A perfect way into their ‘Goodnight My Children’ album, it’s epically mad, chaotically overblown, and utterly, utterly brilliant 😮