The Underground Stage
“More NC than O.C, more Chapel Hill than Newport Beach, this is a track with a thunderous, chaotic energy, swan-diving from a dizzying height into turbulent waters. If this *had* been playing when Marissa pulled the trigger on Trey, she’d have damn sure pulled it more than once 🌊”
“Avalanche light the fuse on their Duke Of Enmore residency tonight, foot-to-the-floor and hair-on-fire and stacks-of-Marshalls and white-tigers-in-the-swimming-pool. The thing is, you know how sometimes you just *need* someone else to cook for you? This is a set that’s difficult and technical and hard to do, but when someone serves it up to you on […]
“Radicals are down a guitarist, but we’re still a distance from stripped-back. Without the solos – which are usually awesome, to be fair – there’s a strange, pounding attraction to a set made of unforgiving chords, a barrage of six-string artillery landing squarely on the top of your head. “ Gallery Learn More Facebook | […]
Last month’s insane show from Downgirl makes this month’s cover, a glorious display of lunacy and mayhem. There was a ton more goodies to be found across May though, and this issue features shows from Loser and Acacia Bloom, as well as the madcap return to Sydney of West Thebarton, plus a bunch more. Off […]
VV Pete‘s latest track “Jordan 1s” – a collab with UTILITY – was the most added track across the best Australian new music playlists this week, appearing on over a third of the playlists I track. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇VV Pete 🥈GUM 🥉Aodhan, BLESSED, Gretta Ray, Jack River, The Teskey Brothers GUM’s latest was […]
“Stellie’s set is gigantic, a towering godzilla of epic-scale pop – they don’t so much come onstage as stomp on the entire damn building. Every single song in this set is a monster, and even though it collapses giant structures as it barrels through, it’s still got a wicked-ripping grin on its face. Even as […]
“MYMA burns slowly but brightly, heat flaring off everything. It’s Saturday night pop, but with enough added snarl and stomp to put you back on your heels, even while you’re trying to dance in them.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Jnr.’s pop tonight is smooth – like ice cubes on glass smooth, like there’s almost no friction at all. The trick though is how it’s all so damn organic – it may be mostly computerised, but at its core is a live and furiously beating heart.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Rumbly and blurred at the edges, this is a charming slice of driving and dreamy fun, so laid-back it arrives horizontally. It’s smart though too – there’s a steely glint in those sleepy eyes 😵💫”