The Underground Stage
“Silicon Prairie bring the trebly urgency of garage beat and smash early-stage Replacements headlong into it – a wildly danceable, wildly tuneful concoction, delivered with wild abandon. There’s enough fury to keep the blood pumping but with a grin a mile and a half wide, and it’s brilliant, untethered fun.” Gallery Listen
“Punk and poetic, Loaded & True’s set is equal parts delight and disorder. Gentle and wonky notes, spoken word, the clarinet, and daftly chugging fun all make appearances, sometimes all at the same time. A different drum steers the direction of travel, and it’s entirely worth the oddball detour.” Gallery
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
“Robust and danceable, The Heart Shaped Aces inject art into their pounding indie rock, confident enough to rouse a rabble. As much a swagger as an arched eyebrow.” Gallery Listen
“Boyfriend Material’s darkness shines tonight, a bright shade of black. It rings clearly like a struck bell but is as hard to focus on as a pitch sky, as much fun as fear. A very lovely nightmare.” Gallery Listen
“Speaking Of Which step cleanly between dub rhythms and surfy tones, easy and clear but always with a purposeful strut.” Gallery Listen
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]