The Underground Stage
It was a crowded pack this week on the nest new music playlists in Australia, but it was the more emerging acts that won out with Girl and Girl, Nick Ward, and Logan (pictured) all appearing at the top of the pile and bagging the most spots across the board. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Girl […]
“This focus track from The Terrys’ new album ‘Skate Pop’ makes the most of their woozy swagger, half of it as sharp as a pin, the other half with pupils like dinner plates. It speaks of – and sounds like – escape, a high-speed flight towards a new breaking day on the horizon, chock full of optimism and ravenous hunger 😵💫“
“This slab of atmospheric alt-rock sits in the middle of their ‘Fake Energy’ EP, smushing all of their various influences into a big bag filled with riff and chug. There’s high-octane fuel running through these engines, and it belches out fire and heat and smoke while it tears through the streets 🏎️”
“Sonic Reducer create a fiery, demented concoction, bubbling with dangerous chemicals and threatening to spill all over the road. It gets right up the nose and into the nervous system, a twitching dose of mania that’s gone in just over two minutes but leaves a lasting effect 🧪”
“Sandy Dish’s streak of tracks designed to make you snort your drink out of your nose continues with another stabby, spiky little monster that doesn’t so much go there as it gatecrashes, moves in, and refuses to leave. Riotous, hilarious, and brilliant 👹”
“A sugary interpretation of Billy Bragg’s original, neatly capturing the balance between saying the loveliest things and making no sense at all. Daft to the point of clinical derangement while also one of the loveliest sounds you’ll hear for a while, it adds a delightful layer of bonkers to its source 😜”
“Fergus James has that rare quality, the one where you can’t quite figure out why you’re absolutely fucking delighted by what you’re listening to, but you just *are*. He’s playing without a band tonight (so is somehow playing all the instruments, which is both charming and a little mad to watch) but these songs just […]
“Hattie Oates played the same venue just last night but tonight it’s stripped right back, just a couple of guitars and a voice fit to snap any nearby load-bearing structures in half. Without a full band, the emotion in and behind the songs absolutely roars out, raw as a fresh wound, but it never loses […]
Once you’ve stuffed yourself to bursting with Easter eggs, there’ll still be plenty of sweet musical treats in April courtesy of some of the biggest legends going. Starting with the top-shelf classics, Sydney’s got some killer shows in April, with the irrepressible Tom Jones playing on the 4th, and James Taylor on the 23rd, both […]