The Underground StageEssential new music from Australia’s most exciting artists
After what seems like an eternity, the debut single from Elizabeth Fader is finally out, and it’s just as immaculate as the live shows have long since been. On record, we are funnelled through the classics a la Kelley Deal or Julianna Hatfield, but taken on whimsical detours via sprinklings of tight-fitting, shiny modern pop […]
It’s easy to slip off into ennui or even an outright funk during these turbulent times. It’s tough, for sure. But sometimes, tracks like these appear like lights in the sky. Perfectly formed slices of bouncing, energetic laughter like this are just what the doctor ordered. Take your medicine. Learn More: Facebook – Instagram – […]
This one just stands quietly next to you but firmly insists you keep listening – understated, but hard to ignore. Once you lock into that groove, that’s it, you’re done. And off you go back to the start again. Learn More: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter Latest Posts
There are some days when I just make food hot. It’s not really cooking, it’s just temperature. Some days though – not often – I manage to accidentally make something so bloody good every bite is a pleasure, rich and chewy and exciting. In case you can’t see the metaphor coming, this is like that. […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve not got round to seeing live yet. Ducey Muncs – Stuck at Rabbits House While the world collapses inwards on itself, this is the sort of track to make you want to look outwards again. Outwards to your friends, inwards to yourself, […]
I’m worried about Raave Tapes. I’m increasingly convinced that the nicest people in music have visited an actual dystopian future and have brought back a soundtrack to warn us all of what awaits. This post-industrial, scorched-earth attack of shuddering energy is enough to turn the most self-confident into raving paranoids, and to turn the already […]
This must be the jauntiest song about hating someone ever written. The Bloods sound usually comes at you wearing a set of stompy boots, but mostly pairs it with a glinting, glittering smile. On this one, the smile is turned into a snarl, and the only glint is off the steel of a drawn blade. […]
There can be few things more utilitarian than the lines in the middle of the road, but Sal – and, indeed, The Mandas – turns them into romantic goals to be aimed at. Few bands wear their hearts so obviously on their sleeves, and even fewer do it with such large grins. Shut your face, […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve somehow not got round to seeing live yet. Semantics – SDE You know that bit in Breeders’ “Cannonball” when the guitars do that muted string thing just before it explodes into the chorus? Semantics do that here, but at like nine times […]