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 The biggest of the big sat contentedly atop the big nine playlists this week, as Ed Sheeran launched “Celestial” out into the world. […]
The week belonged to CLEWS’ “Everything Is Heavy” and Triple One’s “PETER RABBIT”, both of which appeared on about a third of the best new music playlists in Australia. 🥇CLEWS, Triple One 🥈Abby Bella May, ioakim, merci, mercy 🥉Folk Bitch Trio, Forest Claudette, Ivoris, Jesswar, PRICIE, Suzi, Thundamentals, grentperez Abby Bella May’s fabulous new track […]
“Satin Cali’s first headline show in Sydney goes OFF. It’s any one of their killer combo moves that are getting us in the throat, a lethal mix of those daftly deft musical skills, that nerve-jangling songwriting, the ear-bursting volume, and that crazy surf-soul vocal…. It’s hard to know where we ended up tonight, but it’s […]
“The important syllable in The Vandastruts is “S T R U T”. The whole set just plain swaggers around the room, a pair of leather trousers come to life, its riffs disembowelling all-comers and its solos carving holes in the back of your head. When “they” tell you that rock ‘n’ roll will corrupt your […]
Magic Machine beam in from another dimension to psyche up the place from the off. Bags of spring reverb, oodles of shoulder-shaking rhythm, and the sort of endless jams that seem specifically designed to result in someone needing a defibrillator. Any band with this much groove in their hearts is to be respected – but […]
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: Sam Smith The big dog this week was Sam Smith (20m+ followers), whose collab with Kim Petras, “Unholy”, landed them on top of the pile, […]