The Underground Stage
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Ed Sheeran With his 110m+ Spotify followers, Ed Sheeran was the biggest artist to appear across all of the biggest nine New Music Fridays […]
The Rions latest shiny blast “Scary Movies” got the most spots on the most credible Australian new music playlists this week, taking up space on over a third of them. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇The Rions 🥈Body Type, Milku, dust 🥉Aodhan, RVG, The Teskey Brothers The always-excellent Body Type were hot on their heels though, […]
“The members of Dedpan are playing their debut show tonight, but carry a hefty pedigree of playing on Sydney’s stages with them. Sure, these are no amateurs… but. But but but but but, this is a *magnificently* mad set, no matter how experienced the players may be, a blinding and cathartic jolt of wild electric […]
“At Arm’s Length breed chaos, either in the jazzy undertows or in the obscenely fun wigouts. This is a set designed to keep you on your toes – one minute it’s a noodling reflection on why bass harmonies are worthy of exploration, while the next it’s ripping your filthy face off and using it to […]
“Heroin Wendy pound like an army of hammers, deliberate and unstoppable. Even in the quiet bits it’s a strong force bearing down on you – in the loud bits it’s like being buried under giant granite boulders.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Nothing short of a towering pop masterclass, the latest from Charley is a ground-shaking bop bomb, full of humour and wit and emotion, guaranteed to make you dance until your ankles crumble into dust 💃”
“Private Wives send the dick pic brigade a brutally direct message on their latest, a roaring blast of contempt that’s enough to sear the paint off the tiles. This is a fearsome set of knuckles to the throat, with a follow up blow to the more sensitive parts for good measure 🥊”
“The immaculately-named Superdose Gangway have been building up a shuddering head of steam, culminating in their ‘Quiet People With Loud Feelings’ album. This is just one of the many outstanding tracks offered up, precise enough to hit right on target, but still big enough to block out the sky 🎯”
“Body Type punch the pedals and up the pace ahead of their forthcoming album with this swirling and frenzied bag of energy and fun. Standing tall and proud and glinty-eyed, this is one of their very best to date, setting the wires on fire with a high-voltage rush ⚡️”