The Underground Stage
“Sharply-tailored beats back up Moody Beach’s floaty vocal on this, detached and slightly threatening yet somehow also warm and welcoming at the same time. It’s an arched eyebrow and a cheery smile – but with a concealed weapon tucked just out of sight 😏”
Legendary WA prog outfit Karnivool are back on the road again, bringing their downtuned wizardry to Sydney’s Liberty Hall on 25th & 26th May as part of their Tri-Continental Drift tour. Credited by Metal Hammer with pushing Australian progressive metal into the world’s gaze, their three studio albums have earned them a long-running career, a […]
“Pixie’s songwriting is pure finesse, sharp and fun and softly delightful all at the same time. The set glues the eyes and the ears to the stage, and when she brings up Bronte Eve to the stage you get a deep-dive into just how much music means to both her and her friendships. Her joy […]
“Bronte Eve manages to hop genres across this rich and lovely set with just a voice and a guitar and a loop pedal, a trip through acoustic pop, stripped-back neo-soul, and unplugged alt rock. The glue is that vocal though, and it’s one for the ages – wherever it goes you end up there too, […]
“Gerard Smith’s voice crashes and rolls like mid-ocean waves, a deep-water melancholy that calls you towards it. It’s hypnotic, and it’s an effort not to plunge right into it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Sometimes, you grow followers steadily and slowly. More rarely, oodles of them show up overnight. In aleksiah’s case – after recently getting playlisted by some serious players – it’s the latter, racking up nearly a thousand Spotify followers in a week and putting some jet fuel into an already-solid growth spurt over the last ten […]
Across 30 years and 11 studio albums – and with a twelfth album being release in March – The Dandy Warhols return to Australia for a run of shows including a night at Enmore Theatre on 1st May. One of the shinier stars of a grubby and disoriented late 90s alternative music landscape – and […]
Teenage Dads continue their irresistible onward march to glory with a standout performance on the best Aussie new music playlists this week, with the bonkerz ‘Weaponz’ hitting the mark with nearly half of the lists that updated. More playlists updated this week than the average too, so that percentage slightly undercooks just how popular this […]
“FANGZ debut in Manly to a crowd on the verge of going feral at the start, and who aren’t exactly calmed down by the titanic racket they are treated to. New stuff, old stuff, it doesn’t matter, this is – in a regrettably literal sense from one enthusiastic mooning punter – hairy-arsed and crazed, the […]