The Underground Stage
Tired Lion do nothing by halves, and their newest one (with an album to come in November, hurray!) is as reliably full tilt as ever. With its hair flying and its throat scratched it strains at its leash until it snaps, sending it careening off headlong into the china cabinet. Anything with the Tired Lion […]
Few records are likely to get both hipsters and hen parties dancing together, but Hope D has not only written a song that’s about what people share in common, but a song that can be shared by totally different people. It’s a pop banger, it’s punk as fuck, it’s got a soft core, but it’s […]
This spicy little pinger bounces about all over the place, rattling around somewhere between the Spiderman theme tune and the nighclub scene in Austin Powers. It’s all the good bits of The Go Team, with added horns and dizzily grinning danceability. A surefire way to inject some fun into your day.
Snark’s latest is a lot more upbeat (and contains a lot less 90s cynicism) than its Nirvana-quoting title would imply. This is a rumbly, thrummy pleasure of a track, where the guitars and the vocals take their turns in soaring high and wide, and it’s packed a lot of pleasure into its four walls. Following […]
Lucinda R brings just a guitar and vocals to this track but manages to make it sound near-on orchestral. The vocal might be as delicate as a bird’s wing but it still completey fill the space, merging and intermingling with the metallic guitar tones that both hold the vocal up and give it room. This […]
I love head-fakes like this. Starting off with a plaintive bit of emo, this song quickly shifts up through its gears and ends up somewhere else. You start off thinking this song is wearing a cardigan and having a nice cup of tea, but end up realising that it’s half-naked and hanging from the damn […]
A personal favourite track from their “Never Magenta” EP, Ride For Rain’s love for 90s high-velocity pop-punk screams out of the speakers here and drills right into the side of your head. Like all the best songs, it arrives with a bang, it shines so bright you’ll need to draw the curtains, and is then […]
This song was clearly written to inspire head-banging, hair-shaking, and horn throwing. Every single note, every component part, every proton and neutron of its being is focussed on achieving that goal. It will not be distracted. It will not be stopped. You will comply.
Private Function’s blistered-raw sound is harnessed here in tribute to the twin-city enclave of Albury-Wodonga, which straddles the border between New South Wales and Victoria. It is triumphantly bonkers. If there was any justice, it would be played throughout the streets of its subject, all day and all night. Also: bonus points for having a […]