The Underground Stage
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
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, […]
This gig was part of SXSW Sydney 2024 – head here for all the shows & STUFF “DIVEBAR YOUTH struts and stalks the stage while the set moves with precision through great big hairy monsters and softer moments of silky pleasure. While the music ranges in tone and pace, the effort going in and effect […]
“DIVEBAR YOUTH’s prolific recent output is on full display for the full set tonight, tight as a drum (even in the teeth of a few tech gremlins) and with bags and bags of bite and bounce. In one hand there’s determined drive and pounding rhythm, in the other there’s galaxy-sized melody and sharp songwriting. The […]
The real point of SXSW is to discover what’s next, not what’s already big, so it’s always worth looking beyond the artists you’ve already heard of and hunt out who’s coming up. Here are my favourites from the Indie Rock crop this year. I’ve taken a look at the Australian artists announced so far who […]
Most Playlisted This Week The top three this week was made up exclusively of artists on the rise, those who are coming next placing higher than some more established artists. 🥇DIVEBAR YOUTH 🥈Miss Kaninna 🥉 Folk Bitch Trio 🍟 Takeouts: — 📸 Photo credit: Potionhead —-
In one of the more fascinating examples I’ve seen, Vinnie Barbaro’s DIVEBAR YOUTH project has not only hit the mark with a broad spread of tastemakers, not only grown audience at a strong rate, but also done it using a core principle of marketing – one which most artists either don’t know or don’t realise […]
In a slightly slower week for releases, Elsy Wameyo was still a clear favourite on the best Australian new music playlists, with ‘Piny Lara’ gaining support across the board. For an emerging act to nab top spot is always impressive, and makes her a clear one to watch this year. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Elsy […]