The Underground Stage
Two Last Names are three songs deep into their recorded material, and so far haven’t put a damn foot wrong. They may be a band born into the pandemic – all we have to go on are these recordings – but there are few bands, pandemic or no, that I’ve been so desperate to see […]
The immaculately-named Good Pash have been a longtime favourite around these parts, and ‘Delete Me’ simply affirms all the reasons why. I could spend all day talking about their talent for balancing light and shade in their songwriting, about how this track carries you on a tide that veers between turbulent mayhem and sparkling serenity, […]
I’m absolutely not going to be the one to pronounce something so old-fashioned as a ‘scene’, but it is worth noting that in the last month we’ve had Brendan Maclean’s ‘Gemini’, we’ve had Sarah Cherlin’s ‘Small Machines‘, and now we’ve got Toogla’s ‘Bubblegum’. All three are stage-quality musical numbers masquerading as instant pop classics, and […]
This crackly little wonder comes towards the end of Jack R Reilly’s first full-length album release, ‘Middle Everything, and like much of the LP, it comes off both haunting and comforting at the same time. It’s like that nursery rhyme you remembered years later – you might have been fondly reminded of childhood but there’s […]
Representing the rich yet underexploited vein of songwriting concerned with the consciousness of bi-valve molluscs, The Double Happiness wrap up this medititaive number in some darkly piercing guitars, with shoegazey vocals swirling around turbulent rhythms. A comfortably menacing atmosphere pervades, reeling you in and then throwing you far out to sea.
“Ambient Book Club are not even a teensy-tiny bit ambient. They are – in fact – otherworldly, beaming in riffs and song from a dimension occupied by Muse and prog and about a bazillion effects pedals. Also, some more pedals – enough in fact to peel the paint off the walls, which is precisely the […]
“Nuclear Raptor sound *exactly* as you expect, with fireball riffs and alchemical psyche combining in a way that makes you suspect the end of the world is actually nigh. All things being equal, it’s just about the perfect 2020 soundtrack.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very […]
“Sal & The Mandas are semi-kinda punk adjacent (and constantly make onstage jokes about how unpunk they are) but fundamentally they are a band about joy. Not just the happy type, but the kind of joy you get from revenge, or from thinking about impossible things. Basically, they’re the tonic we all need right now, […]
“KODA open tonight’s extravaganza with some leather-trousered rawk, taps fully open, throttle fully engaged. Everything roars, and even in these regulated times, it’s enough to rock you back in your seat.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.