The Underground Stage
“Whether it’s the fury in ‘Fake The Maps’ or the sheer six-string delight of tracks like this, Final Girls just explode out of the speakers, a constant back-and-forth of rage and delight 🔁”
“Luca Brasi return with a new album, brimming with as formidable songwriting as you’re ever likely to require. This track opens the LP, and makes all the hard work look easy, sweeping you off your feet and into the skies right along with it 🛫”
“JK-47 flows like bags of ice tumbling onto glass, all smooth and fluid motion but near-impossibly complex if you try and follow it all. Few things in life though pay off as much as making the effort to do just that 🧊”
“Cheap-Skate specialise in the madcap and the chaotic, the delirium and immediacy of young life. The decisions may be questionable, the funds may be depleted, but the good times are always the best you’ll ever have 💸”
“Aside from its exceptional title, Ama’s pop intrigues, hard to define and impossible to get a solid grip on. It floats around you like smoke, and you just can’t seem to get it off your clothes 😶🌫️”
“The test of most bands is whether they can stack a building to its foundations when armed with nothing but the songs. Given nowhere to hide, Luca Brasi’s acoustic set embraces the spotlight, and it roars off the stage as loudly as any fully-electrified version. Anyone can crush it with volume and muscle, but true […]
“Mikayla Pasterfield barely moves an inch while performing, but the sheer force coming off of that vocal and these songs could light up a small town. Towering strength matched with a quiet lightness of touch is a rare combination, enough to hypnotise a weary soul and body.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
The always-brilliant Teenage Joans’ released ‘5 Things I Can Taste’ this week and it propelled them right out front among the playlists I track, gaining them more spots than any other act. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Teenage Joans 🥈Babe Rainbow 🥉Angie McMahon, Gut Health Impressively, this is the third release in a row which has […]
“On record, Drastic Park’s love for a certain band related to roughly 182 involuntary eyelid movements is clear – but live it’s something else entirely. There’s homage here, sure, but it’s well and truly its own thing, deep and rich punk guitars savaging the walls while the songs bounce your head off the bar. Way […]