The Underground Stage
“Julia Why?’s ethereal, laidback shoegaze-infused stomp is a heat haze off a hot highway, shimmering and intense, and entirely capable of killing you dead. The gentle moments are offset by the ear-ruining ones to form a terrible balance, a hypnotic fuzz that leaves you sweating and parched and unsteady.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
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 Likely to have happened without the Marvel stardust on it, but “Lift Me Up” put Rihanna in the big chair this week, the most-followed […]
Tracks from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s latest collection dominated the best Australian new music playlists this week, a level of support for this titanic outfit that you’d expect. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 🥈Death By Denim, Emerson Leif, Horror My Friend, Phoebe Go 🥉Arno Faraji, Cry Club, KANADA […]
“Raised As Wolves’ serrated edges are on full display tonight like the world’s most beautiful threat. Each song rumbles and cajoles and judders like its – or rather, your – life depends on it, all of the sharpest guitar bands you’ve ever heard crammed into a lift, prodded in the kidneys, and then set on […]
“Nancy & The Jam Fancys come off rough, like the soles of a well-worn boot, but – alongside with that *immaculate* name – their set is as much of a pearler as you’re ever likely to be on the receiving end of. For those among you who who see red dust and distant horizons in […]
“Regionals’ massive – no, really, it’s h u g e – sound rattles the rafters, and threatens the structural integrity of the building. Some of it is just there to teach you a lesson for standing too close, but the bits that make you want to truly lose your mind are the same bits that […]
“Dream Lawn’s baritone vocal and hyperactive post-punk is a shock, hard to resist, like a jolt of voltage. It’s smoother than that though – you find your spine shaking, but with pleasure not pain.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
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“Cry Club are a walking, bouncing, gesticulating reminder that it’s not *just* about the music, maaan. It’s about unbridled joy, performance, theatre, explosions of physicality, and eruptions of emotion that come from so deep down you can’t even see the top of them. Take a primal scream and drench it in glitter, take the soundtrack […]