The Underground Stage
“Amber Rose’s fragile set trembles and shakes but never shows signs of breaking, unlike the hearts of us out front – it doesn’t so much pluck at the heartstrings as grab hold and shake them into tiny pieces. As melancholy as it is a delight, the accompanying cardiac arrest be damned.” Gallery Learn More Instagram […]
“Cooee’s first ever show is quiet as a soft breeze, but it hits like an early winter storm. This delicate set may be fully acoustic, but there’s a pop roar that lurks behind it all in the songwriting that raises the hair on your arms. A truly beautiful set, and a hell of a way […]
Fetch your cardigans and brush up on French film-making, because indie-pop darlings, Belle and Sebastian, have announced a night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on 22nd Aug. That show will also feature Badly Drawn Boy, who returns to Australia for the first time in over two decades. From Belle and Sebastian’s humble beginnings in Glasgow in […]
Most Playlisted This Week DOBBY and dust topped the league for the most adds across the best Australian new music playlists this week. Both younger artists – of very different genres – it’s great to see each of them continue to get strong support across the board. 🥇dust, DOBBY 🥈merci, mercy, Hayley Mary, Girl and […]
“The last track to be released before her ‘Marmalade’ album arrives in May, ‘Stupid’ is gossamer delicate and prettier than a spring meadow. Chuck in the clear-eyed and unflinching honesty in the lyrics and you get a run of tracks which have been a pure joy, setting up the LP as a truly mouth-watering prospect 🤤”
“Hayley Mary stomps with characteristic confidence and poise, shiny-bright yet full of grit all at the same time. As glittering as a nightclub mirrorball, but still as dirty as its floor, it soars and pounds while it languidly draws on the dregs of its last cigarette 🚬”
“It’s been a while since her last release, and Jess Day wastes zero time getting straight to the point on ‘Lilith’ – no intro, no small talk, just directly into a set of chugging guitar that, unmistakably, sounds like it means business. Explosive in the chorus but with an air of threat lurking in the minor chords, it’s a welcome return 🎸”
“Ringing like a struck bell, ioakim’s latest chimes and chings with a gentle but insistent urgency. A little bit woozy, a little bit dreamy, but it’s got enough fizz to force you to work to keep pace all the way to the finish line 🏁”
“Squalls of feedback, then some guitars that feel like being hit in the head with a brick, then a lot (a LOT) of ear-wrenching screaming, then some more blistering guitar, then some bits that sound like Pavement being murdered by meth bears, then some more, then even more, before it all collapses in a heap and starts up again with what sounds like a completely different track. This may, in fact, be the perfect song 👌”