The Underground Stage
“Okin Osan’s gloriously grubby take on 50s rock ‘n’ roll sends shivers to all your dancing parts, distortion crackling up among the doo-wops and ooh-wahs. It’s riddled with daftly good bass runs, it’s chock full of grinnable moments, and it’s basically Belle & Sebastian doing the Detroit Cobras. It’s absolutely bloody lovely.” Gallery Listen
“Vanishing Sound are quiet on the outside but boiling loud in the middle, shoegaze squalls wrapped in nervous steps on cracked ice. Before you realise it, you’re stolen from the ground and are soaring through the stars along with them.” Gallery Listen
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 […]
👺There are some devilishly good gigs happening this week in Sydney: 🎶 Southern Nights kicks off, so there’s like a bazillion gigs happening this week 🎶 The Buoys return from a Euro tour for a free show at the Vic (Fri, pictured) 🎶 The 4th Swell Time all-dayer is at The Bridge Hotel with Body […]
“Good Pash’s whip-sharp city-kid sound is dead-on for this concrete palace of a basement, shiny and smooth but hard enough to break heads. While more than capable of thumps and cracks, it’s the wit and the smarts that hang you up and put you on the ground.” Gallery Listen
Chloe Parché has had a busy – and buzzy – six months or so, with the journey up to the “Split Ends” EP release in March seeing her quickly winning support across the board. # releases: 4 While I’m looking at the last twelve months, the action here really only started in August last year, […]
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.