The Underground Stage
“This could so easily be a much rougher or a more aggressive record, but there’s a gleam and a shine that balances it all out, leaving a pounding track that’s punk in length but pop in personality. Shiny-bright but nearly falling apart with a madly twitching energy, it charms as much as it chews your arm off 🤪”
“A late-night Royal Chant show is like a digestif, one last rich pleasure at the end of a long night full of them. Tonight’s set spans their many albums, from the recent single and imperious set-opener ‘Fevers and Sweat’ through the perennial favourite and party-starting blast of ‘High Low’. A band that knows what they’re […]
“If you’ve ever found yourself hankering for that sweet spot between the B-52s and Spongebob, then Casual Swimwear have your vibe packaged up and ready to go. The whole thing is so nautically bonkers, it’s hard to – wait for it – fathom how this sort of mayhem comes to life in the first place. […]
Screamfeeder may be doing nothing new tonight, nothing that’ll break TikTok, but literally not one person here cares – this is an anti-fashion moment. The room is full of people who genuinely want to be here, who know words and beats and back stories, and who are incapable of cynicism. The sound and – most […]
“Chimers clang and bash with a Japandroids energy, great heaping slices of clang and fizz. It’s got so much menace it makes you want to just offer up your wallet before it’s even demanded, but you’ll have a great wide smile on your face when you hand it over.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Yes I’m Leaving are a hot iron on skin, cheerfully merciless. Underneath and behind all that pain and heat though lurks some high-altitude and ringing song – you’ve got to work through the chaos and the burst eardrums, but it’s totally worth it when you do.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Blusher have had a rocket-fuelled twelve months. Their first track upload was in February of 2022 but, over just the last year, a sequence of tracks has given them a sizeable boost in Spotify followers and seen them supported by just about every Australian new music playlist that matters. Let’s look at that playlist support […]
“Ricky Albeck & The New Band primarily clip-clop their way through dusty and charming alt-country and – hell yeah – most of these songs are about as cowboy as they come. When they yank the reins though to veer off the track into more unexpected places, when they add madder and spikier ingredients to the […]
“In a truly uncomfortable space somewhere between Huey Lewis and Jarvis Cocker lurks Billy Charles, a dark mind playing soft-focussed songs that leave you vaguely disturbed by nearly everything. While it sounds like the cream on a pavlova, something is – deliberately – just not quite right. Unlike almost every band you’ve ever seen, it’s […]