The Underground Stage
A Clay J Gladstone track always seems to have more ideas than the average song can hold, and their latest once again strains at its bounds, pulling at the seams holding it together. Teeth clenched and veins bulging, ‘Balance’ hulks out of its clothes, ragged and wild-eyed, coloured in outside of its lines.
Cat & Calmell return with another preview of their forthcoming EP, an everyday tale of breaking down at the roadside and having a bit of a flirt with the strange but helpful chap spraying pesticide on the verges. As bonkers a premise as you’d expect from this outfit, it’s another glorious and giggling cut – […]
Royal Chant set an appropriately regal tone on this new slice of fuzz, standing square and upright and imperious. All that confidence might just be a trick though – while it sounds like you’d need a wrecking ball to knock it over, there are enough wisps of melancholy and weary cynicism in there to give […]
We Are Not Robots’ latest doesn’t so much let the brakes off as cut the lines, mash the accelerator, and close its eyes. Travelling at unsafe speeds of at least a thousand words a minute, it barrels around the room and inside your head, crashing into the inside of your skull and leaving tire tracks […]
“The Shang swagger through this set, classic and stomping rock, sharp and confident. These songs peak the meters when they really let it go, and you feel it all the way down to your boots. The added bonus of some astonishingly well-constructed facial hair just adds to the heady cocktail.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to […]
“Rainbow Riders’ bewildering array of instruments that go ping and bloop allow them to conjure up a sprawling landscape of musical textures, from Tarantino surf lines to Moog-driven swirling. Over the top are wonko storylines about deserting husbands, flirting in foreign languages, and other such charming oddities. A gleeful bag of mischief and playful invention.”
“It’s hard to overstate how much joy Totty bring to the stage and to their songs. While there’s an undercurrent of melancholy to the themes, the unbridled giddiness in the delivery is impossible to escape, a pleasure to witness.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best […]
“Drift’s set rings like a struck bell, fearsome waves of six-string squalls, four-string rumbling, and tub-thumping aggro. The vocals roil around the bow and the stern, a sensation of drowning. Enough to suck the air from your lungs.” Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. […]
“Imaginary People open with a jagged little set of spiky numbers infused with Superchunk-y fizz and literate punk. Rough like griptape, sandpaper to smooth off your ragged soul.” Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.