The Underground Stage
“Jackrabbit have both a sharp edge and a blunt weapon, songs with heft that can still cut through soft tissue. There’s precision and control here, but it’s matched with a fizzing sense of danger and rage, and it draws you to it like a moth to a bare lightbulb.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Large Mirage pay their homage to a bunch of decades ago, and for the length of their set they make it live. Enormous songs, few in number, lengthy in execution, chock full of widdling guitars and big drum and thundering bass – it’s enough to make you miss a past long gone, but bask in […]
“Big Skeez twists around the stage, all arms and legs, to stuttering, juddering beats and sharp lines. It fizzes around the room like a tricksy little goblin, richocheting off the walls and burying itself in your hair. Gold Fang joins for a massive finale of “Where Yuh From” – that no dancing is allowed right […]
“Gold Fang swaggers his way through a too-short set of loping, rock-solid reggae-flavoured bangers. Latest release “Light It” is confident and strutting, but the whole set stands strong and tall, the defiant and raw Caribbean sound fused with a blast of truly shoulder-shaking pop sensibility.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“If I promise that I’m not using “infectious” as a pandemic pun, are you cool with me calling Del-Slackers infectious? To be honest, I don’t really care and I suspect neither do they. But yeah, that’s it – this set is catching, and catchy, and I’m caught.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Raised As Wolves – as I may have mentioned before – are the most urgent, sawtoothed band in Sydney right now, and their set tonight packs in a bunch of my favourite tracks from the last year. It’s when they take the best of Australian garage, douse it in Replacements-level sharpness, and then set it […]
Every Monday, these charts update to show fresh versions all of the music-related data I track. Most Playlisted | Artists This shows the individual artists who – with any song – gained the most playlist adds. While much (and sometimes all) of the artists who appear here also appear on the Most Playlisted Tracks chart […]
“It’s Down For Tomorrow’s first standing-audience show in two years, and if there’s anyone left who doubts the importance of a crowd going full-bore ba-nay-nays on a band’s performance, let me dip you head first into this crowd and baptise you. What we have tonight is a top-volume virtuous circle – the madder we get, […]
Show Notes “Deadshowws’ insistent, barrelling, sharp missiles ricochet off the walls tonight and end up right under your eyelid, an itch you need to scratch but can’t quite reach. Precision engineering, designed to flatten city blocks.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram