The Underground Stage
“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 🙋”
“Well? have been in residence at The Duke for four Thursdays, a natural habitat if ever there was one. On record, the big impressive song stuff is all well in place but live… well hell, it’s got *that* extra gear you can’t capture, a madhouse of bent mirrors and feral sound. By set’s close all […]
“A Starcrazy set is high-tension and high-wire, ready to snap at any point and send you plunging to certain death. Which, obviously, is the whole point. It’s all blisteringly hairy but also gloriously mad – when they get to their if-Perry-Farrell-was-a-Swede cover of Abba’s ‘S.O.S’, you find that you don’t want to live any other […]
New tracks from Genesis Owusu, Saint Lane, and San Cisco were the most added artists across the best Australian new music playlists this week, with Saint Lane’s achievement also making them the Story Of The Week for doing so ahead of some far more established acts. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Genesis Owusu, Saint Lane, San […]
“For those aware of West Thebarton and have priors with, they haven’t just kept their energy and ferocity, they’ve built on it. For those coming to them for the first time, it’ll knock your eyes out of their sockets. This is a towering set, built out of complicated steel girders that promptly explode into a […]
“Jet City Sports Club have a set you could ice a cake with and – honesty moment – when it comes to cake, it’s the icing we all secretly crave. While it may be sweet enough for any tooth, this is still a band with sharp edges, and ahead of imminent new material it’s worth […]