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 […]
“Antenna burn like a flare, all heat and light and sparks. The rhythms don’t so much pound as they incite, the guitar roars like a train in a tunnel, and then there’s Shogun’s vocal, which scampers up and down the scales like a squirrel through the trees. It’s enough to burn the retinas out of […]
“Antenna are fronted by Shogun, so that voice rattling up and down was always going to add another dimension to an already power-hungry sound from the band. A wild animal loose in a perfectly put together room, it’s as much chaos as it makes perfect sense.” Gallery Listen
“I’ve seen Antenna twice in just a few weeks, both times right at the end of the year, and in those two short shows they’re now basically camped out towards the top of my holy-cow-I’m-glad-I-caught-that-show list. Immediate doesn’t quite cover it – this set causes a reaction like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, a massive […]
“Antenna are wildly mischievous, dangerously playful, a barrel of giddy mayhem tipped over and spilled all over your shoes. Even without being fronted by Shogun, it’d still be twelve bonkers rounds of awesome – but with that impeccable vocal skittering and scattering all over it, climbing up and down the walls like gravity had been […]