The Underground Stage
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 […]
“Good Ramen are, by turns, expansive or savage, thoughtful or primal, tightly in control or totally off its leash. It keeps you bouncing on the balls of your feet, except when it knocks off you off-balance.” Gallery Listen
“Blowers storm in from Melbourne like the squalls of rain outside, brief moments of calm before you’re knocked off your feet into the traffic. Savage guitars run through the core but it pinballs between QOTSA and Ramones and Hives, the damage landing from both sheer volume and nifty hook-laden song.” Gallery Listen
“Gavin Bowles & The Distraction’s power pop comes with an urgent, insistent edge and has *just* enough snarl mixed into the sugar to make it bite your face while it dances with you. Driving and punchy at all points, it’s a leash to drag you along by the neck, right to the end of the […]
“Crash & the Crapenters slice unevenly with a jagged-edged punk blade, leaving you raw and bleeding and full of giddy rage.” Gallery Listen
“The Hot Sauce Committee are pure party starters, a set of jump leads to get a room humming. It’s a lot like uncorking a well-shaken bottle.” Gallery
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, […]