The Underground Stage
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 😵💫”
“There’s something hypnotic about Divebar Youth’s new track, something that tricks the brain into losing track of things while it stomps and sprawls all over the room. It catches your eye easily, but all of a sudden you realise you haven’t blinked for a really long time 👁️”
“Sweetie summon every ounce of swagger in the universe on their latest and use it to stomp all over your nice clean floors. It’s confident, it pushes the needles right up into the red, and it’s coming for you, ready or not 🦈”
“Straight Arrows take a warpy detour down a psychedelic path and float off into a melting sky. It crashes around the ears and fizzes in the brain, a whirl of colour and fuzz 🍭”
“Nat Vazer’s latest mixes the dreamy with the determined, pounding through with gritted teeth but still as light as smoke in a sunbeam. The plaintive vocal strains at gravity, and the whole song feels like it’s reaching for something, high up and out of sight 🙋”