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: 🥇The Terrys (appeared on 29% of updated playlists) 🥈Mikayla Pasterfield, Armlock (25%) 🥉Esha Tewari, The Vanns, Press Club, Carla Wehbe, Jem Cassar-Daley, […]
“Carla Wehbe’s Christmas-themed set tonight is a finely wrapped and carefully chosen gift, her interpretations of seasonal songs peppered with her own tracks to create a crackling fireside of a set, something to stretch out in front of. I spent a bunch of Decembers working in retail as a teenager, suffering through *that* shopping mall […]
“Carla Wehbe really seems to be enjoying this. Accompanied tonight by (someone put a leash on my excitable heart) no less than Charlie Collins, it’s a close-up acoustic session made of classic pop covers that matter to and have inspired her (ABBA, Swift, Roan, Wheatus) but interspersed with crowd-chosen originals – a festival of singalongs […]
Three acts pulled down the most spots on the best new music playlists in Oz this week, with Budjerah, Jack River (with Genesis Owusu), and Spacey Jane all grabbing spots on just shy of a third of them. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Budjerah, Jack River, Spacey Jane 🥈Pacific Avenue, MID CITY 🥉Breakfast Road, Carla Wehbe, […]