The Underground Stage
Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇JACOTÉNE (appeared on 30% of updated playlists) 🥈Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird, Bakers Eddy, Vv Pete […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
Most Playlisted This Week Two bands bagged the top spot this week ahead of some much more established artists, a brilliant result for both Bakers Eddy and Velvet Trip. 🥇Bakers Eddy, Velvet Trip (appeared on 27% of updated playlists) 🥈Lithe, Ball Park Music, The Grogans, Old Mervs, Skeleten, Lotte Gallagher (23%) 🏆 Bakers Eddy‘s latest […]
This gig was part of SXSW Sydney 2024 – head here for all the shows & STUFF “We’re close up and inches from Bakers Eddy’s raucous good times, and it’s a shot in the arm of neat adrenaline. It’s a hell of a skill – even when they’re singing about insomnia or depression, they’re keeping […]
This gig was part of SXSW Sydney 2024 – head here for all the shows & STUFF “Bakers Eddy’s precision energy isn’t so much infectious as near-immediately fatal, pumping up pulses to dangerous levels from the off. A hatful of instantly catchy songs careen around like mad scamps, impossible to nail down or resist.” Listen […]
“Holy sweating foreheads! Bakers Eddy have no gear slower than foot-to-the-floor, even when they try. This is the sort of set you just bloody *need*, a blast and a jolt and a burst of joy and fun and to hell with it all. In the dictionary under “pleasure” there should just be a recording of […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve somehow not got round to seeing live yet. Seathru – Bedsheets This debut is so absurdly strong it’s enough to make me down tools and call it quits. It starts brilliantly enough with the innocent, crunchy swing of a ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, […]