The Underground StageEssential new music from Australia’s most exciting artists
Well, this is filthy. There’s always been such a *strut* to FFMB’s moves, a confidence that defies your gaze and your judgement – this art lives separately from and above you. This slice of swagger walks slowly up to your face. It tells you what’s what. It owns you now, and you know it. It […]
I almost *never* talk about full LPs anymore, because these times are disposable and I’m usually fine just talking about individual tracks. For the first time in a long time, I’ve spent a heap of hours with the new Nothing Rhymes With David LP, and it’s an incredibly well-shaped album in two senses. First of […]
This long-time set opener has as much sparkle and bounce on record as it does on stage, and is just one of many gems taken from BoysnLove’s debut ‘Just Desserts’ LP. Here, as across the album, we get to sink into their their joyous combination of laconic vocals singing sharp lyrics, guitars that’ll twang the […]
There’s always a degree of trepidation pushing play on a second release, especially in the case of Seathru, whose debut was just so incredibly strong. Any nerves though are quickly brushed aside by this blast of bright, festival-friendly fun,with its beefier sound and a strength in their songwriting far beyond their years. While it’s chock […]
With a beat like a broken heart, Munchy Dolphin’s latest is a mournful, evocative, thumper designed to carry you off into who knows where. Taken from their excellent ‘Fishing WIthout A License’ LP, it sounds like a train in the night, clacking and swooshing and rumbling, carving a straight line through an endless landscape. A […]
The first time I saw Pist Idiots (in a pub, naturally) I was knocked leftwards by the immediacy, the sense of blood flowing wildly, pumped by an absolutely HUGE heart. Their first release of this year sees that heart multiplied in size – nothing is left in the dressing room here. There’s less of that […]
Protest songs take many forms but the purest shape of musical anger at any injustice is best expressed at 170bpm or so, with guitars so sharp they could peel your face off, and with brutal lyrics that play with language in a way that both impress *and* impresses a message. This is one of those […]
Bugs’ superpower is the ability to casually drop grinalong singalongs, and this is another of their finest. Brimful of their usual energy, it’s a guaranteed pit pleaser and sounds almost exactly like the best night out you ever had. Lyrically though, there’s another level at work – the whole song may sound like joy in […]
Even if you ignored the fact that Molly & The Krells’ latest punctures the egos of no-talent show-ponies, laughs at anyone who does a Xmas album, and has a chorus that is patently about a night out (or playing) at Frankie’s in Sydney, you’d STILL end up with a massive banger that should be taught […]