The Underground Stage
“We don’t get many songs from Yasmina Sadiki tonight but all are lengthy explorations into jazz and hip-hop and soul, intricate and dense. There’s a sense of impending menace that pervades it all and makes it positively cinematic, music bringing light to the darkest of corners.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
Trophy Eyes topped the list of most-added artist on the Australian best new music playlists this week with the brilliant “What Hurts The Most” landing on nearly a third of the lists I track. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Trophy Eyes 🥈Fractures, Nerve, West Thebarton, Hallie 🥉Bad//Dreems, Whyte Fang, Sophisticated Dingo, SUPEREGO Fractures and Nerve also […]
“This fuzzy slab of late afternoon sunshine from Forest Hall is just what’s needed to blow the cobwebs away, and to put everything into soft focus. Lie back, relax, soak it all up ☀️”
“Paint’s latest veers between its floatier, more airborne parts made of blissful dreams and its triumphant high-tempo sections, where the shoegazey rapture just explodes into the sky. A song to get well and truly lost in 🎆”
“Last Quokka roar out of the blocks on their latest, a feral yell at the world, a series of body blows landed in rapid succession. Wired so tight it feels like it’s about to snap, it’s a jittery but joyous explosion of mayhem 💣”
“Bonkers, bloopy, and delivered at a near-lightspeed pace, Glitch Kingdom’s second track adds to the promise of their debut. Intricate yet chaotic, there’s three or four songs crammed into its mere two-minute blast, energising, tightly wired, and brilliantly mad 🏎️”
“A fizzy swirl of shoegazey guitars cocoon you from the off on Bridge Dog’s latest, crystal-cut melodies soaring above a darker landscape. A misty, out-of-focus gem of a track 💎”
“Good Ramen drop a set tonight worthy of the ages, a ferocious-but-friendly grab bag of songs that by turns soar and sear, Sonic Youth and Superchunk and Pavement and Hockey Dad and… oh fuck it, a bunch of your favourite bands. There is no earthly reason that any group of people should make a noise […]
“Dial Tone’s squalling guitars are fearsome, but it’s their ability to match melody with eardrum damage that spikes the heart rate. If I ever get sucked up into a tornado, I hope it sounds like this.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram