The Underground Stage
“DOBBY’s voice is a precision weapon, in both delivery and message. Eye-wateringly fast in flow and gut-churningly direct in subject – colonialisation, climate destruction, racism – it’s a whirlwind of language and fury set to deft, rumbling beats and DJ-ing. The anger is not born from wild-eyed or unrestrained fury though, there’s a deep core […]
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 DOBBY and dust topped the league for the most adds across the best Australian new music playlists this week. Both younger artists – of very different genres – it’s great to see each of them continue to get strong support across the board. 🥇dust, DOBBY 🥈merci, mercy, Hayley Mary, Girl and […]
In a week where Australia / Invasion Day and the Hottest100 meant a much lower number of releases (that happens every year), Big Scary’s latest track ‘Something To Remember’ was still an overwhelming favourite with the playlists I track who updated this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Big Scary 🥈Hiatus Kaiyote, DOBBY, Gold Fang 🥉Good […]
“It’s might have been three years since they last played together, but Blind Hot Gems can clearly still play like demons, and their technically outrageous, high-energy set of instrumentals are impressive. They’re joined by young rapper Dobby for a few tracks though, who is just crazy good, and his bullet-fast and crystal-clear delivery contains more […]