The Underground Stage
“Bellwether in the afternoon, what a delight. Rich and giddy pop-punk, with all the enthusiasm in the world spilling over the top, onto the floor, and right up your leg. There are – regrettably – not enough things in life like this, to pump the blood, tickle the nerves, and tug at the grin muscles.” […]
“Wicked Things are either asleep or at full bloody pelt, and it’s not certain they ever sleep. Every track is stadium-rock-with-extra-fireworks, every other moment screams or thumps or fills or wails. It’s pure, it’s unadulterated, it’s the size of a row of houses, and it’s so chock full of fun and skill it’s impossible not […]
“Father Deer Hands’ fearsome set roars into life this afternoon, a late-night sound dragged into the daylight. It’s a big noise to take in, something for open ears and minds to receive, a thundering, noisy message with clarity within for those willing to seek it out.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
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: Rihanna Taken from the full album for Wakanda Forever, “Born Again” – for the second time in a fortnight – put Rihanna in pole […]
Amid a tsunami of releases this week (up a whopping 40% on last week) it was tracks from Ninajirachi’s album “Second Nature” that took up the most space on the most credible new music playlists in Australia. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇 Ninajirachi 🥈 ASHWARYA, Cub Sport, Fan Girl, Jen Cloher, KANADA THE LOOP, King […]
The thundering new track from Fan Girl
“Amends battle against a rolling farce tonight where the smoke machine repeatedly and loudly – *really* bloody loudly btw! – sets off the venue’s fire alarms. Like nine of them. In random order. Over and over again, like Aphex Twin programmed them. This is no doubt distracting for the band, which is sad for them, […]
“Ben Leece & Left Of The Dial have that sort of comfort with their instruments where you’d guess they were born holding them. They use them to play the sort of thumping set that sounds like a giant truck, all unstoppable mass and movement. There’s a distinct edge of social and political fury underneath it […]
“Floats like a dream, until it explodes with glorious, blinding light 💣”