The Underground Stage
“Beddy Rays’ latest drives another cattle-prod right into the pleasure centres, launching them back onto the trail with a sunny jolt of joy. Beer-stained and bubbling over, there’s no sign of the fun stopping anytime soon 🤩”
Tkay Maidza pulled in the most spots across the best Australian new music playlists this week, with “Ring-A-Ling” nudging out ahead of some really strong tracks. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Tkay Maidza 🥈Middle Kids, Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers 🥉Beddy Rays, Skeleten Middle Kids and Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers were only a […]
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 […]
“Beddy Rays rejoin the race after last year’s album with a brand new track written, appropriately, about getting back into the swing of things. Happily for us, there’s nothing here to suggest they were ever out of it 🏃🏻♂️”
“Beddy Rays dropped their album this week, and while they – charmingly – seem completely baffled by the overwhelmingly positive response to it, there’s literally no shock registering to anyone who’s seen them live. Absolutely loveable from the off, these songs are instant and overflowing with giddy pleasure. This whole set, as with the album, […]
Teenage Dads’ “Teddy” and tracks from Beddy Rays’ self-titled debut LP shared top honours on the best new music playlists in Australia this week, with both appearing across a third of the lists. 🥇Beddy Rays, Teenage Dads 🥈I Know Leopard, Telenova 🥉Dune Rats, Elizabeth M. Drummond, Maggie Rogers, Noah Dillon, Sampa The Great, The Buoys […]
“Beddy Rays have cracked it. This crowd – who are miming and absolutely not singing along – know every damn word. This band’s superpower is that they can make us feel like one of them, like we’re part of a gang, connected and fully in tune. Every song – even the new ones – are […]
Joining the ranks of songs-about-COVID, Beddy Rays’ musical exuberance is tempered here by the effects of the pandemic on the mind. They might bounce around like mad’uns on this track (and it’s just as much giddy and goof-around fun as ‘Sobercoaster’) but singer Jacko’s Eeyore-ish, almost mournful vocal notes get the starring role. It’s a […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of. Listen to them all on the playlist. RVG – Little Sharkie & the White Pointer Sisters WIth a string of absolute crackers behind them, RVG move onto releasing their ‘Feral’ album. This little wonder pops up early on, a glorious mix sitting somewhere between Pulp […]