The Underground Stage
“dust blow up, explosions of dirt and gravel delivered with a smile and an arched eyebrow. It’s art and it’s noise and it’s finesse and it’s blunt force trauma. It’s big joy fuelled by darkness and hurt, and you spend most of the time blinking, just to keep the sharp bits out of your eyes.” […]
Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players I’ve caught across the month by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
Most Playlisted This Year Over 2024, the playlists I track – a selection of about 40 of the most credible new music playlists in Australia – added over 13,000 different tracks by nearly 8,000 artists. Across the year through, these are the artists who made it onto the most of those playlists, the ones who […]
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 […]
The Rions latest shiny blast “Scary Movies” got the most spots on the most credible Australian new music playlists this week, taking up space on over a third of them. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇The Rions 🥈Body Type, Milku, dust 🥉Aodhan, RVG, The Teskey Brothers The always-excellent Body Type were hot on their heels though, […]