The Underground Stage
🚨Set your alarms, Sydney’s got some outrageously good gigs on offer this week: —- wed 9th thu 10th fri 11th sat 12th sun 13th —- 🤤 Want more gigs? Hey, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you want to see similar shows a bit further out. —- 🤔 Wait, […]
With the festival starting next week, a flood of updates and announcements has left the list of artists playing at SXSW Sydney 2024 sitting – by my count – at 175. These now include both the latest official list, plus other artists announced by labels and other people putting on their own showcases as part […]
SXSW Sydney 2024 starts in a week, so you should be planning like a maniac by now. The official app is live, and is being updated with new acts, which is probably nearing a final state by now. You still can’t search by genre though – which for a lot of you I’d imagine would […]
Most Playlisted This Week Floodlights‘ first release of 2024 was greeted like an old friend by the best new music playlists in Australia this week, propelling just out front of a crowded pack. 🥇Floodlights 🥈Nick Ward, Ra Ra Viper, Salarymen, Skegss, TOWNS 🍟 Takeouts: —- 📸 Photo credit: none found —-
“Ant Gallery fold and bend folky indie-pop into dancefloor funk, a cocktail you’d probably never order, but one – it turns out – you’d not regret drinking. All the fun of a Saturday night out mashed into all the joys of a quiet night in, a little bit bookish and a little bit bonkers all […]
“Milly McPherson baits with arch and wry songs, all raised eyebrows and dry wit, before the switch comes and knocks you backwards with huge choruses and a voice to raise the hairs on a dead man’s arm. It’s confident and it’s complex, a soaring set of intelligent, impressive songwriting.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Final Girls have long proven their skills with roaring walls of noisy mayhem, but tonight’s set has as much a smile as a snarl, as much fun as fury. The songs are mostly the same but what felt a bit more like catharsis a year ago now veers close to joy, and it’s somehow even […]
“Nick Ward’s output has been super-high quality, and we now get a collection of tracks in the shape of his ‘House With The Blue Door’ LP, brimming with invention and intelligent sounds”
“Many years in the making, Ceres’ album is finally out in the world, and its extra time in the barrel gives a smoky, mature piece of work that’s chock full of surprise and wonder, right down to the last drop”