The Underground Stage
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 or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
Alongside their rapid growth, critic support for Royel Otis is certainly not fading, with a whopping 38% of the playlists I track adding ‘Fried Rice’ this week, more than any other artist. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Royel Otis 🥈Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers 🥉1300, Alex Lahey Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers released their […]
New tracks from Genesis Owusu, Saint Lane, and San Cisco were the most added artists across the best Australian new music playlists this week, with Saint Lane’s achievement also making them the Story Of The Week for doing so ahead of some far more established acts. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Genesis Owusu, Saint Lane, San […]
With 844 different tracks added to the best Australian new music playlists this week (the 3rd largest amount this year), it was a really busy week and incredibly difficult to stand out. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Alex Lahey, Babe Rainbow, DICE, Skeleten, Teenage Joans A handful of artists just (only just!) nudged ahead of the […]
“A Californian golden hour lights this deeply contented track, happily stuffed to the gills with nature and, I’m guessing, fistfuls of edibles. A normal everyday tale of getting high as a paper kite in the desert to Michael Bolton – but make it epic enough for a sea of swaying phone lights 🤳”
This month’s fanzine edition features Chloe Dadd on the cover, just one of a bunch of killer live shows captured in February, along with Jet City Sports Club, Platonic Sex, The Tin Knees, The Great Awake, and tons more. There are also reviews of the very best new music from DIY, independent, and emerging Australian […]
With the release of her full length debut, WILSN proved that her top spot two weeks ago was no fluke, with over a third of the best new music playlists in Australia adding tracks from “Those Days Are Over”. This is no small achievement and super-strong support for an artist certain to make more waves […]
“Alex Lahey returns, taking a faint impression of Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” and forcing it into this century. Lahey’s combo punch of laconic wit and fuck-it joie de vivre shines, another crazy-bright roadsign pointing directly to fun 🪧”