The Underground Stage
Most Playlisted This Week Darcie Haven pipped a lot of more established players to bag the top spot this week, gaining more spots on the best Australian new music playlists than any other artist. 🥇Darcie Haven (appeared on 35% of updated playlists) 🥈Beddy Rays (30%) 🥉 Ocean Alley, ONEFOUR, Mallrat, Hazlett, DICE, Jade Imagine, Merpire […]
“Vermanic pound and soar by turn, wisps of early No Doubt floating through the room while the rest of it beats you round the back of the head with a monstrous grin on its face. Whopping in size and whomping in effect, happy and glorious.” Gallery Listen
“Adorn bring strong, clean, and well-defined tones for the most part, sometimes surfy, sometimes jazzy, but always smooth and near-frictionless. However – and I suspect that having a Scotsman in the lineup is behind this – they also give it bloody laldy too. Rich melancholy matches roaring movement, potency with added poetry.” Gallery Listen
“AYLYZA whirl and drive, crisp edges slicing and hair waving furiously. It stomps with glorious purpose while dancing its damn head off, the sound of high-speed pursuit and untethered fun. A blast.” Gallery Listen
It was an appropriately high temperature week of releases for Valentine’s Day, steaming up the windows and working you into a sweat. 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 […]
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 […]
🥾Get your dancing boots on, there are some foot-stomping shows in Sydney this week: 🔥 The incredible Frenzee play twice this week at Hollywood Hotel and Petersham Bowlo (Thu, Fri, pictured). No excuse to miss them, basically. 🎸 The ever-excellent Steve Smyth returns to the Oxford Art Factory (Thu) 🔪 Mac The Knife cut Manly […]
No, wait, hear me out! It’s easy to assume that anyone who offers to pay an artist “in exposure” is a jackass and a huckster. And the vast majority of times, that’s true! However, it’s worth remembering that there are a certain, very specific, set of circumstances when it might not be. Keep an eye […]
In a classic case of getting a break, Toby Hobart plugged away for a while before his early 2024 track ‘Feel The Same‘ achieved escape velocity with both playlisters and audiences, kicking off twelve months of solid growth. # releases: 6 – While “Feel The Same” was the tipping point in Feb of 2024, he’s […]