The Underground Stage
“Few bands bring as much jerking, jumping energy to their tracks as After School Care, and this is yet another scorcher that just cries out for a sunburnt festival crowd to sing it back to them 🕺”
“This track marks a shift for Georgia June from band to solo artist, but it’s not a break from that history. Instead, this builds on the reserves of pop that always existed, creating something that goes in new directions, but stays as lush and glorious as ever 🔄”
“Salt Money’s roaring screamo blisters the paint off the walls as well as causing multiple guitar casualties along the way. This is a primal, honest, searing noise, both powered by and communicating things deeply felt, right down in the marrow of the bones.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“The first language I think of for this Mowgli set is theatrical – it’s intricately plotted, it moves in scenes and acts, and it requires thought to keep up with. As it goes on though I think in more meteorological terms, giant squalls of howl and noise, epic thunderbolts and electric forks giving way to […]
“A band like Amends are the perfect win-win, everything you want and everything you need. Nourishing the organs, soothing the soul, pleasuring all the fun bits, there’s everything here a growing body requires. Best taken daily.” 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: Sam Smith Sam Smith’s “Gimme” appeared on all of the biggest NMFs this week, and was the artist with the largest Spotify following (21m) […]
And we’re back! New music is reappearing, and the best new music playlists in Australia are beginning to select their favourites – in this first week of the year, Spacey Jane took out the consensus favourite, with their new track “Lots Of Nothing.” Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Spacey Jane 🥈Dulcie, Matt Corby, Royel Otis 🥉Gena […]
“The Shadow Ministers blow in like a rough south-westerly tonight from Adelaide, and make it instantly clear that they understand the two cardinal rules of rock n’ roll: don’t overthink it, but don’t *ever* undercook it. Not one note here is anything other than crystal-clear, 12-bar, British-invasion classic – but not one note isn’t screaming, […]
“El Coyote are built on a blues foundation, the furiously stomping sort, where terrible pain is expressed through the tone of a six-string soul in torment. What they bring to it though is a rough-edged, wild-eyed, Doors-y sensibility, which makes it completely bloody filthy. Only two gigs in, but as stiff as the last drink […]