The Underground Stage
“DZ Deathrays playing acoustic is so wrong as a concept it should be barred from pubs, but their first-ever go at turning face-melters into head-nodders is honkingly odd yet wildly good fun. It’s odd for the obvious reasons – these songs scream out for ear-splitting distortion and bassy mayhem – but the mad charm of […]
“Channelling – of all things! – 90s UK grebo, DZ Deathrays drop one of their very best in ‘Tuff Luck’. With as much bounce as beast, and as much groove as guitar, it’s a wide-eyed trip both backwards and forwards 😵💫”
Australia’s best new music playlisters went for wider range of tracks than usual this week – a sign of the quality of releases on offer – but Matt Corby’s new track “Big Smoke” nudged ahead of the large pack to appear on the most lists this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Matt Corby 🥈The Teskey […]
Yb. powered to the top of the list this week, with “Blackphemy” gaining the most adds on the Australian new music playlists in Australia. This is huge and wide-ranging support – not only did he beat out some much more established artists, not only did it make it onto nearly 40% of the lists that […]
In a delightful bit of messing about, WAAX and DZ Deathrays release covers of each other’s songs, this being DZ’s cover of FU (their ‘Fired Up’ is given the WAAX treatment in return). The original ‘FU’ heroes Maz’s vocal in all its vibrato fury, where here the guitars are (predictably) given enormous turbo-chargers and big […]