The Underground Stage
Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇EGOISM (appeared on 33% of updated playlists) 🥈Tamara & the Dreams (25%) 🥉Parcels, Esha Tewari, Baker Boy, Press Club, First Beige, Mulga […]
“Old Mervs aren’t *technically* playing a gig tonight so let’s just call this thrown-together album launch (where they played a whole bunch of songs) the best kitchen at the best party you’ve ever been to. Everyone here is friends by default, and everyone here is pumped to be squished into the room, a collective pleasure […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
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, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]
“Josh Hannan’s rich voice is something to wrap yourself in, like a duvet made of cake. Somehow it’s both plaintive and vulnerable as well as belting and roaring – which is bloody hard to do, not to mention bloody rare to hear.” Gallery Listen
“Beckah Amani’s spectacular range, both in genre and octave, shines off the stage tonight, fit to blind. Bouncing rhythms, smooth soul, eye-widening vocal acrobatics, heart-breakingly wonderful quiet numbers – it’s all there, and it’s enough to put a hole in the world. Magnificent, absolutely bloody magnificent.” Gallery Listen
“Dear Tommie sings of heartbreak under big skies, rubbing country dust into pop’s shiny shoes. A fabulous Saturday night vocal swoops over rumbly pop rhythms, sad songs for happy nights out.” Gallery Listen
🚨Set your alarms, Sydney’s got some outrageously good gigs on offer this week: 🎶 There’s a new venue launch this week at Chuck Trailer‘s new CBD version, with shows both Thu and Fri, all played on their basement mini-ramp stage. 🎶 Destrends (pictured) tear up Bootleggers (Sat) 🎶 You get three goes to see Don […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.