The Underground Stage
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 […]
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 […]
“The Taxpayers’ visit us from far away shores but it’s immediately like old friends just dropped by the house. Instant, welcoming, and infectious as hell, it’s a set of high art that’s having all the fun. By turns creative, sad, witty, and soaring, it’s like the various pieces really *want* to be shambolic and chaotic […]
“Whiskey Dram’s punk-tinged shanties and stompers fill the room with raised glasses and spilled drinks, melancholy bangers made of danceable tragedy. Music that hits you hard in the core, but that moves the feet while it does.” Gallery
“An Ess-Em show is the demented musical you wish your parents had dragged you to as a child, the show where the final scene ended with the theatre on fire and collapsing in on itself, and where you woke up the next day in a dumpster minus a kidney. Giddy mayhem in major thirds, and […]
“Billy Puntton’s takes on the world veer between roars of fury and belly laughs of absurdity, some parts bedroom poet and some parts that guy screaming in your face on the street – you’re never quite sure whether you want to laugh, cry, or run for cover. Observations sharply made, stories well told.“ Gallery Listen
“An Adam Newling set is like sinking into the world’s comfiest chair – it might come off old and worn down but it’s just perfect for the moment. The musical brain at work behind these songs is fearsome, but it never lands like anything other than a comfort and a balm, a cool dressing for […]
“The Pretty Littles’ exuberant bouncing is infectious, a pick-me-up and a knock-me-down all at the same time. They barrel through this set at nothing less than top speed, brakes not even an option, and – assuming you don’t crash straight into the wall – good times the only guarantee.” Gallery Listen
“Molly Rocket are ferocious and joyous, a grab bag of sharp-edged fun and games. Grungy and bouncy and entirely made of razors, the whole set works hard to ease you in but it’s only at the end you realise all your clothes are covered in your own blood. Amazing.” Gallery Listen