The Underground Stage
“Kidskin’s excellent set starts off witchy and dark then builds with stunning precision into euphorically wild noises, banging on the walls and clattering the china off the shelves. The smarts just scream from the electronics, unerringly accurate in every move – not a foot put wrong and not a high not reached. Really, really impressive.” […]
“Doctor Robot returns again from the year nine million to scan our brains, fight triple J executives, and make music that’s so bloopy and fun and utterly sideways that it makes you relieved that the world turns out this way in the aeons to come. If I could time travel the way the good Doctor […]
Don West has put on a burst of speed over recent months, picking up a ton of audience and pricking up the ears of tastemakers across the board. So much so, in fact, it feels a bit like the blue touch-paper has been lit, and it’s time to stand well back. # releases: 3 – […]
🤠Saddle up, Sydney’s got some rootin’ and tootin’ rock shows on this week: —- thu 12th fri 13th sat 7th —- 🤤 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, wtf is this? Looking […]
Most Playlisted This Week A slightly slower week for releases saw Party Dozen’s glorious chaos rise to the top, with tracks from their ‘Crime In Australia‘ album landing on more of the best new music playlists in Australia than any other artist. 🥇Party Dozen 🥈Betty Taylor, DON WEST, Great Gable, total tommy 🍟 Takeouts: —- […]
“Mini Skirt roar in like a damn train tonight, engines thundering enough to rupture eardrums and a pit fierce enough to generate heat for a thousand homes. If you can keep your body still enough among the writhing mayhem to keep your eyes on it all, you’ll end up stone blind. Driving, relentless, and chaotic […]
“Loose Lips might have a quality pedigree that shines brightly but, damn, are they having fun. Sharp as a freshly-filed fang, the songs slice and swish through air, garage-tinged but ultimately fuelled by pure bloody fun and good times. Immediate and infectious, it’s not worth the effort to try and resist.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“There’ll probably come a day when a total tommy track isn’t the best thing you’ll hear all week. Not today.”
“ Caroline & Claude are at their twitchy best here, roiling and edgy pop sawing its way through the noise of the world, existentially weary but manically wired all at the same time”