The Underground Stage
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these. If you’re looking for new albums, all the new long-players I’ve spotted from emerging, independent, and DIY artists are […]
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
“Lotte Gallagher is playing her first Sydney headliner tonight and it’s fucking spectacular. I could mess about with, y’know, metaphors and adverbs and stuff, but honestly, ‘fucking spectacular’ covers it quite neatly. I could bark and yap about the perfectly-formed pop with spiky edges that knocks you down before lifting you clear off the floor, […]
“I don’t 100% know where the apostrophe goes in Father’s Favourite and it haunts me. Which is apt – many bands are full of heart, some brains, others all guts, but this one is 100% spirit. It floats and thumps in the dark, stamping on the ceiling or swirling round your head, all of it […]
It often sucks being an artist – I know this because I hear you lot talking about it quite a bit. I don’t think you’re wrong, mind, but I do think there are things you can do about at least some of it. While the rules might keep shifting under your feet, SXSW Sydney’s conference […]
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
“If you want to know why The Grogans – who on the surface are guitary and surf-adjacent catnip for the moustache-and-mullet crowd – are, in fact, something a bit different, just take a look at the front row here tonight, 100% made up of young, loud women, most of whom have been hanging on the […]