The Underground Stage
“Boiling Hot Politician’s one-man chaos infects like a nerve agent, enforcing a twitchy response from the spine and organs. Largely bonkers, always driving, occasionally bloody hymnal, it’s a masterclass of the avant garde that triggers your joy switch without you consciously understanding why. Totally batshit, and a lot brilliant.” Gallery Listen
“Tract create dark thought as much as they make music, motorik post-punk rendered just out of focus by swirling, smoky noise and ringing guitars. Unforgiving electronics mash into glorious analogue racket, black dreams and forward motion.” Gallery Listen
“Retail Therapy bring the big hammers for the concrete stage tonight, heavy and raucous without losing the bright and shiny edge that makes it soar.” Gallery Listen
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. If you’re looking for new albums, all the new long-players I’ve spotted from emerging, independent, and DIY artists are […]
“Warwick Kennedy launches his album tonight, a witchy and twisted carnival of clever songwriting. Lethally precise but carrying a big bag of oddball, it’s a set that jinks and turns, that keeps you fully off-balance but also absolutely locked into its path. Impressive and unnerving, all at the same time.” Gallery Listen
“The Brights do, as you’d expect, shine – but the silvery twang is offset by the darker touches of Velvet Underground-ish art, country green paired with poet black. Gentle on the outside, filled with needles.” Gallery Listen
“Jude Pascal’s short but immaculately crafted set doesn’t let you rest for a beat – one minute it’s twangy and rural, the next it’s all roaring guitar energy, the next it’s literate absurdist comedy. The ratio of fun to time here is crazy huge – short enough to leave you wanting lots and lots more, […]
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 […]
“xiao xiao whirl like a tornado, something you can’t stop nor stop staring at, moving with both purpose and the threat of malice. It’s a hurricane force sound, heavy and with purposeful intent, and it stamps through the room, enough to rip the house clear out of the ground and send you to a whole […]