The Underground Stage
“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.
“Headstrong play their first headliner tonight like it’s their thousandth, like it ain’t no thing. This kind of scale and breadth and bounce takes proper work though; when they drop the one last song tonight – a *vicious* version of Sk8er Boi – it takes what’s left of us and them and leaves it right […]
“Days Like These have no problem getting right up your nostrils and screaming direct into your brain. That they do it with such terrifying precision makes it totally worth it.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.
“A Swift Farewell have the tautest set going. It’s like being operated on, a scalpel cutting with a steady hand behind it. They could be severing an important artery and you’d still be trusting them to get it all right.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very […]
“Afterthought open up tonight and set a high bar – this is tight as a highwire, and full of song. Every blast leads you down a winding, twisty ride, and you’re hanging on for dear life as every inch whizzes by.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the […]
“Thanks to the virus, Clay J Gladstone aren’t totally used to playing to crowds on their feet – but it’s not them that need the practise, it’s us. When a band like this gets this up in your face with songs as wild and untethered as these, it’s time to relearn how to lose it, […]