The Underground Stage
“Fewer things can be more ‘Sunday’ than a solo set from Iain T. McKelvey. The exhaustion of a life – let alone a week – strains in every steely chord, a tired and dusty wreck of a body crawling forward in spite of it all. And – in spite of it all – there is […]
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: Drake Drake, his new track “Major Distribution“, and his 68m followers stood proud at the top of all nine of the biggest New Music Friday […]
In a much slower week for releases (27% less adds to the playlists this week) it was easier to pick a winner, and KUČKA got the most adds across the best new music lists in Australia with “Not There”. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇KUČKA 🥈DMA’s, Matt Corby 🥉Caroline & Claude, D’Arcy Spiller Matt Corby and […]
“Plastic Bath‘s hard and heavy guitars are on home turf at Frankie’s tonight, and they come with some serious weight and song behind them. Opening track ‘Nothing Better’ is a hell of a way to open a set, an absolute ground-rending monster that’s as immediately catchy as it is loudly effective. There’s no recorded material […]
“The Bifters are in fine fettle tonight, wide-eyed and giddy and making a racket of epic proportions. With QOTSA-like desert rock at one end, and staggering fuzzy punk at the other, it’s a set to leave you well and truly high on their supply.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
“Anamcara‘s sound is lead-dense, rock-ribbed and heavy. They take so much pleasure in playing it though, that it’s lighter and more nimble on its feet than you’d expect. A very serious sound that takes having fun very seriously.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Radicals play songs so sharp and urgent you shouldn’t be allowed to run with them in corridors. It might be having all the fun in the world but it’s stabbing you in the back of the head over and over, dead on the beat, until you just realise it won’t quit, ever. That’s when you […]
“Starcrazy’s Janes-Addiction-y snake-hipped rock throws its arms and legs and hair to the sky and proclaims the party open. I don’t give a neatly-groomed fig about your views on widdly solos, tight trousers, slap bass, or any other damn thing that’s going on – this here is made of pure fun, undiluted and irresistible.” Gallery […]
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