The Underground Stage
“Jordan Kenny’s wide-eyed and skyward-looking set tears strips off the ceiling and blows bricks out of the walls tonight, smashing together classic rock, art, poetry, and theatre in a glorious cocktail of mad joy. Music should always soar and swoop but still tear at the chest, and we leave tonight with the precise amount of […]
“Milly McPherson and her band play with such joy it’s enough to short circuit a synapse. Bubbling guitars and rhythms underpin a vocal that flies between laconic and stratospheric, songs that go from melancholic to ecstatic. All the way through there is enough bounce to keep you pinging off the walls long after it ends.” […]
“Lili Alaska’s set has a few covers in it but it in no way hides behind the talent of others – this is musical skill that slaps you in the head with a voice that knocks you to the ground. There’s rich and soulful, there’s madly danceable, there’s clever, and there’s fun. Impressive, basically.” Gallery […]
Most Playlisted This Week In a busy week for new releases, Logan sang and danced his way to the top spot with his latest ’Say It’, gaining more adds from Australia’s most credible new music playlists than any other artist. There was a notably broad level of support for this emerging artist, across three of […]
“It’s hard not to love a band who are launching their current album but still play a bunch of stuff from the next unreleased one. Forest Hall don’t really need more reasons for you to love them, but you can add that to the pile. The new new stuff is added to the new stuff […]
“Julia Why?’s set tonight comes with a noticeable amount of bite. The shoegazey core is still fluffy and comforting, but it’s got an extra row of teeth – the guitars are a notch more savage, the drums a smidge more primal, the bass prowling a little too close for comfort. The danger lights are flashing […]
“Rik Saunders from The Melodrones opens up solo tonight, a set made of Lou Reed-y drawling and one of the most beautiful sounding guitars going. It’s as lo in terms of fi as you’ll get, but a reminder that with songs this pretty you don’t need much more to make something sound a little bit […]
“The gentle twangs of the opening chords quickly collapse into a full-throated roar, yelping and bounding and howling at the skies. All teeth and claws, it grabs at the neck and doesn’t let go 🐺”
“Pounding day-glo mayhem runs gleefully out of control on RedHook’s latest, taking all the bits we already love them for and turning them all up to eleven. Deafeningly loud in both volume and colour, it’s proof that more is, in fact, more 🔊”