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 […]
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: 🥇JACOTÉNE (appeared on 30% of updated playlists) 🥈Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird, Bakers Eddy, Vv Pete […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these. Floodlights – JOY (from the album ‘Underneath’) 🎶 Floodlights continue to excite as they continue to grow, and this comes from […]
“JACOTÉNE has spent the year testing her strength in ‘demo’ form, but these songs are surely as fully-formed as they need to be. Rich, soulful songs delivered by a voice that’ll stop traffic, it’s intimidating to think that this talent could level up even further 😮”
October was a HUGE month for the city more generally this year, with the inaugural version of SXSW Sydney blowing up on a million stages. It was a wild time too and so this month, I’ve included photos from every one of the fifty shows I caught across the week. To celebrate it being the […]
“It’s just one knockout blow after another from JACOTÉNE, and this latest demo drop leaves you just as bruised and dizzy as the rest. Literally and metaphorically stunning 🥊”
Jem Cassar-Daley’s track “Slow Down” is in its second week of release but, while she performed well last week, this week everyone else caught on, propelling her onto more Australian new music playlists than anyone else. Taken together over the last fortnight, this excellent artist has caught the attention of just about every critic and […]
“This astonishing talent couldn’t be burning any brighter right now, a jaw-dropping, bewitching voice for the ages. Add that to madcap, stuttering drum lines and you end up with a sound casting a spell powerful enough to capture the heart, soul, and feet of anyone in range 🪄”