The Underground Stage
“The Empty Threats scratch the paint off the walls without even breaking a nail, fearsome energy propelling giant song. Its mood might come off dark but it lights up the whole damn room, a defiant theatre.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Sonic Reducer’s raw and serrated set opens up the night like a slashing blade across the gut, important bits spilling everywhere. Uncompromising but defiantly fun, there’s so much blood going everywhere it’s impossible not to get swept up in the tide.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
“Human Noise have been releasing complicated new tracks as easily as breathing over the last few months. Each one has been excellent, but each one has also been a bit of an intellectual challenge – mainly on account of their cheerful messing about with time signatures, most often somewhere in the fives and sevens. Hearing […]
October was a HUGE month for the city more generally this year, with the inaugural version of SXSW Sydney blowing up on a million stages. It was a wild time too and so this month, I’ve included photos from every one of the fifty shows I caught across the week. To celebrate it being the […]
“The week’s silence is long over, replaced with the fearsome poetry of rage. Barkaa’s blistering, paint-searing fury burns the air, fire unleashed from her lungs to sear everyone else’s: ‘fuck your constitution, you can keep it for them rednecks – and every time you look at us I hope it makes you fuckers sweat’🤬”
“Taken from their excellent ‘HONEST’ EP, this is another of FVNERAL’s delicate, fractured songs, and it’s hard not to listen to the whole collection with a tear in your eye and a smile on your face. It takes nerve to be this candid, and it takes strength to be this gentle. Wonderful stuff🥹”
With a squirrelly guitar line to add some zing to the pound and thrust of the song, we get a fully carbonated fizz of a track from Platonic Sex. Without any one of its parts, it’d be dull or menaingless – smashed all together though, it’s a heady brew of head-nodding heft and swivel-eyed lunacy 🍸”
“There’s so much muscle in this music, yet so much sadness rippling through it. It’s basically one more masterclass in intensity from Hugs, soaring high on wings that nonetheless carry the weight of the world along with them 🪽”
“There’s always a point in every day when you just *need* to shake your shoulders, hair, and hips. This week, when the need for a hit of sugary, wild-armed joy arises, Coast Arcade have you well and truly covered 🪩”