The Underground Stage
With a beat like a broken heart, Munchy Dolphin’s latest is a mournful, evocative, thumper designed to carry you off into who knows where. Taken from their excellent ‘Fishing WIthout A License’ LP, it sounds like a train in the night, clacking and swooshing and rumbling, carving a straight line through an endless landscape. A […]
“Sweetie are playing their first – first! – ever public show and holy moley, the swagger… Every song is heel-and-toe stomping, every move is damn near perfect. How does this even happen? Seriously, what an entrance. Fear them.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new […]
“Despite – or perhaps because of – that hyper-aggressive name, Morgues are the only two-piece I’ve ever heard who are trying to quiet it all down a notch. It’s super-schmindie, every note is as light as an atom floating through space, with songs that so much as look in the direction of the loud, and […]
“Darling Vicious are well-named. As cheery as they are dark, as saw-toothed as they are cuddly, they veer through savage themes to funky asides, a rollercoaster of sound. As calm as they seem, there’s trouble brewing underneath.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian […]
“Crimes Against Fashion bring the keytar to the party, which honestly is usually enough. However, when it’s bolted on to an afternoon set that’s chock full of post-punk weirdness and joyous batshitery, it feels like they’re a bunch of over-achieving headcases. Fabulous mental acrobatics.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released […]
“No Illuminati bring the goodtime rocknroll to a Sunday arvo, cheers and clapping and grinning and solos and thumping. The sort of fun that it’s damn near impossible to resist, shoulders and ankles twitching like crazy.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. […]
“Ohhhh, snap. Sarah Cherlin opens up this afternoon’s fun at Sunday Setlists and promptly shushes everyone. The equivalent of an acoustic set, just the piano and THAT voice, these glorious, soaring songs are set loose to flit around the venue like newly-freed birds. A wonderful set powered by a truly wondrous talent.” Facebook | Instagram
The first time I saw Pist Idiots (in a pub, naturally) I was knocked leftwards by the immediacy, the sense of blood flowing wildly, pumped by an absolutely HUGE heart. Their first release of this year sees that heart multiplied in size – nothing is left in the dressing room here. There’s less of that […]
Protest songs take many forms but the purest shape of musical anger at any injustice is best expressed at 170bpm or so, with guitars so sharp they could peel your face off, and with brutal lyrics that play with language in a way that both impress *and* impresses a message. This is one of those […]