The Underground Stage
It’s likely you’re already well aware of Teenage Dads, but the level of support they’ve enjoyed this year is truly exceptional, and their audience has grown fast alongside it. Let’s look at how well they’ve been supported first, because it stands out like a great big throbbing sore thumb. My usual refrain is that Spotify […]
Teenage Dads absolutely romped all over the best new music playlists in Australia this week, with ‘Tale Of A Man‘ bagging more spots than any other artist, and appearing on over half of the playlists that updated this week. It wasn’t a slow week for updates either – and to grab spots on 11 of […]
Tight as a coiled spring, Lipstereo’s high-tension guitars propel their latest track along on a fizzing wave of crackle and hum, paranoid but happy. Dizzying and unrelentingly energetic, this is another attention-grabbing track from a band picking up more and more momentum 🏎️”
“Teenage Dads epic restraint shines bright on their latest, teeny tiny flourishes and itty bitty beats crackling in the air like fireflies. Equal parts sharp tailoring and louche scruffbaggery, it’d be equally at home strolling on the Riviera or crawling out of a bar while dawn breaks 👔“
“Released along with the rest of the excellent ‘Dorothy Painted Portraits’ album, ‘Us & Them’ heals with its calm, a soothing draft to mend broken sprits. Like the rest of the tracks here, it’s born in the dust but it ends up soaring like a newly-freed bird 🕊️”
“Acacia Bloom have released two tracks prior to their ‘Something You Said’ EP – which this track opens – and it all feels like things are building up a bit. On its own, it happily chugs and bounces in gales of fuzz and thrum – as part of this strong debut collection, it carries huge promise 👀”
“On paper it’s an unlikely pairing, but on record the collision between Yorke Heath’s folk-tinged, poppy indie-folk and Sacredd’s brick-solid bars is a glorious cocktail. Smooth as you like but stronger than you realise, it’s one you’ll knock back again and again 🍸”
“C.O.F.F.I.N have come back home to Brookvale tonight and hell, it *feels* like home with this cheerfully insane crowd – most of whom may have known most of the band since they were knee-high. The band seem delighted too – whether that’s because they know full well they’ve put out one of the undisputed albums […]
“Stiff Richards repeat straightforward ideas and phrases, at volume and at pace, until they’re a structural part of your brain. Keep it simple, keep it loud as hell, and give it everything you have – do that and we’ll give it all right back, with interest, and with ferocious joy.” Gallery Learn More Instagram