The Underground Stage
“Santa Ana Rodeo are in town from the US and bring a surfy set of clean tones and rich indie rock that slots right into an Aussie evening without touching the sides. Rich and ringing, sparkling like your favourite slice of ocean.” Gallery Listen
“Blood Thinners are razor-sharp and urgent, paranoid with a dark froth. Goth notes clang and thrum around the fizzing, punk core, both a wail of despair and a primal, cathartic roar of defiance. Hefty, wired to the gills, and very, very good.” Gallery Listen
“The Dress are perfectly pitched, immaculate and literate songwriting that cues you in on the Velvets, Buckley, and The National, weary beyond their years but youthfully scrappy. Cinematic and darkly poetic, it’s a smoky joy of a set.” Gallery
“Joe Mungovan shimmies and shakes between genres but it’s shoulder-shuddering stuff throughout, danceable and rich and just as happy as a clam. The brand new tracks – ‘Melodrama’, ‘Chocolate Chips’ and the fabulously Elvis Costello-tinged ‘Lucy’ – land with as much ease and energy as the rest of the set, including and especially the latest […]
“The Monty Shambles add surfy notes to classic Stones-y tones, beefy and swaggering, but never step over the line into the unnecessary. It’s really precise, no more and no less than is needed for a stomping good time – all the right elements in the right order and amount, impressive without ever needing to shout […]
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
