The Underground Stage
“There’s always a point in every day when you just *need* to shake your shoulders, hair, and hips. This week, when the need for a hit of sugary, wild-armed joy arises, Coast Arcade have you well and truly covered 🪩”
Honours were shared this week, with new releases from both Milan Ring (‘Mangos’) and Last Dinosaurs (‘RYU’ EP) gaining the most spots across the best new music playlists in Australia. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Milan Ring, Last Dinosaurs 🥈Psychedlic Porn Crumpets 🥉Big Skeez, Greta Stanley, Nicole Millar, Ninajirachi, Peach PRC, Surf Trash, West Thebarton Psychedelic […]
“Kristin Hersh isn’t a legend by mistake. That jagged, near-dissonant vocal still scrapes at the sore spots in your soul just as hard as that guitar still stuns a room to silence. Not one note of this is pop in any sense, literally not one damn note. Yet not one note of this entire set […]
“T.Wilds’ set is a balm, a salve for the wounded. Gentle and calm for the most part, it still skitters around like a newly-freed bird – just as you want to wrap it all up in bandages and cotton wool, it’s busy healing your own broken pieces.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Radio Free Alice open up their residency at The Duke with a regal set of guitar-y jewels, Strokes and Smiths and Bloc Parties colliding into a mass of rock-ribbed, danceable fun. Sharp and arty, delivered in stabbing thrusts.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Dumbhead’s slow pace and restrained groove is hypnotic, a swirl of oddball sounds that drag you down to infinite depths. It’s the sound of both a terrible nightmare and a glorious dream happening all at the same time, and it’s bloody hard to snap out of.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
flowerkid returned with a new EP, ‘LET IT BE ENOUGH’, tracks from which got scattered all over the best new music playlists in Australia, putting him at the top of the pile this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇flowerkid 🥈Hockey Dad 🥉ENOLA Hockey Dad’s latest, ‘Still Have Room’ was barely a smidge behind though with […]
“Julia Why? lurk in the shadows, but as a haven, not a trap. Swirls of shoegaze and squalls of noise define the set, but while it often sounds like imminent peril, the songs are a place of safety – like home, a warm place in the dark.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Hotel evoke and stimulate, mood as much as music. Sinister themes flicker around the venue like sparks off a fire, a 35mm film made of dreamy images that come back to haunt you in the dark.” Gallery Learn More Instagram