The Underground Stage
“Formerly the drummer from Terra, Darcy Baker emerges in solo mode with a debut bubbling with energy. Also featuring the powerhouse vocal of Eat Your Heart Out’s Caitlin Henry, it’s a loud and feels-filled introduction 🫧”
“Packing as many syllables as possible into a track just over 90 seconds long, St.Bedlam takes stock of the world with dense bars and booming beats. Short and sharp, but cuts deep 🔪”
Across 2023, I playlisted over 2,500 tracks, and shot nearly 400 sets by over 300 different artists. I loved it all, but I thought I’d have a crack at pulling together the fifty artists who gave me the most musical joy, made me mash the repeat button the most, or who just plain blew my […]
A fussy week on the playlists, with a huge drop in the number of releases, less lists actually updating, and few clear winners. In amongst it all though, Royel Otis, Alice Ivy, and HighSchool all received the most adds for their latest tracks across the best Australian new music playlists. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Royel […]
“It’s a Sunday night and everything’s calm and chill… until The Bancrofts show up. Holy moley, anyone who can summon this much energy, show, tune, and pure barrelling fun from note one to close – on a Sunday night! – is absolutely not to be trifled with. Rare, committed, mental, and brilliant. On board with […]
“Day Release give us more than one cover tonight – including RHCP, Limp Bizkit, and Killers – which tells you much about the tone tonight, meaty and dense. This is serious-browed fret action and vocals alongside thumping rhythms, and the audience shout along like their lives depended upon it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“It’s wholesome rock fun from Hunting Thompson tonight, and that’s not faint praise – it’s *hard* to make music that carries serious musicality without sounding overly serious. This set is made of nothing but good bloody fun, which is both difficult to do and a pleasure to watch.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Victoria’s new album is a joy – it’s as smart as a whip and brimming with fizz that tickles you in all the parts. Live though, there’s something extra. Not that anything’s missing from the studio version, but more that the life that’s given to these tracks IRL makes them shine even brighter. When the […]
“Worry Mall’s delicious table groans with delights, rich and complex. All the parts work, even and especially – and I’m not usually a fan – the sax, everything harmonising into a thick soup of smartly put-together, nourishing warmth. Bloody lovely.” Gallery Learn More Instagram