The Underground Stage
“Stephanie Milostic’s voice rips up and down the walls with such joie de vivre that it almost – almost – disguises just how ridiculously talented it is. Soulful, energetic, and bursting with the dying hours of a Saturday night, it’s a guiltless pleasure to drown in.” Gallery Listen
“Kacey Fifield visits from the US tonight, and her fully live pop bulges with craft and emotion, sharp edges that are – just – softened with a noticeably sunny and Californian tone. There’s the expected quantity of danceable moments, but the glint in the eye and the edge of the blade make you just that […]
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 […]
“pictures with yuki skitter across the floor and up the walls, all erratic trajectories and surprise attacks from unexpected directions. Glorious in both its precision and its rejection of control, it’s a set of dangerous-looking teeth that are arranged – for at least some of the time – in a deceptively winning smile.” Gallery Listen
“Complex and deep, Local Tough Guy are the loud, gaze-y equivalent of a thick book, something to last you the full season. By turns smartly plotted or fearsomely noisy, it’s enough to block out the rest of the world and leave you happily lost in theirs.” Gallery Listen
“Tonight’s Spouse set is solo and acoustic, haunting and wispy, all threads and tendrils. It floats like smoke, leaving bits of itself in your hair and your clothes, and it lingers like an echo.” Gallery Listen Shame (garfism bootleg) by Spouse
“Thom Bastick’s skill is in the restraint that runs through this rich and textured set. Knowing it’s definitely *going* to explode but not knowing precisely *when* it will is the added spark, a tension that makes it all as taut as a highwire. It strokes, then gnaws, then blinds with explosions of bright light.” Gallery […]
The artists killing it in Australia and around the world this week. I’ll dive in more deeply below but, if you just want to get straight into it, the artists you need this week are: 1. The top five global superstars with new releases 2. Five artists punching above their weight around the world this […]
“Massive, bright, and bursting with art, The Empty Threats draw us to them like demented pied pipers. By turns hypnotic, pounding, soaring or all of the above, there’s pop and smarts and rage running through the whole set. It’s not a little bit magnificent, and it pulls to your happy doom. “ Gallery Listen