The Underground Stage
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 Rions (appeared on 36% of updated playlists) 🥈Old Mervs, The Terrys, Oscar The Wild (27%) 🥉Lithe, Floodlights, Deep Sea Arcade, The […]
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 […]
“Oscar The Wild’s pristine and shiny songs are the golden ticket tonight – a winning combo of sweet and sour, vicious wit behind the soft embrace. There’s moments here for us all, dancing and laughing and crying and hugging, but behind it all is a wicked-sharp understanding of how to have fun and turn it […]
“Oscar The Wild’s glorious chaos lands squarely on our heads tonight, pecking at our eyes and stealing our sandwiches. Great big flapping wings of song attach themselves to the edge of a mad bag of chaos, a sky-high ride full of mayhem and fun. What a joy.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
Across 2023, I playlisted over 2,500 tracks, and shot nearly 400 sets by over 300 different artists. I loved it all, but I thought I’d have a crack at pulling together the fifty artists who gave me the most musical joy, made me mash the repeat button the most, or who just plain blew my […]
There were some absolutely stunning shows on Sydney’s stages across November, with Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers‘ standout show (and this month’s cover) topping the pile. It was quite the pile to top too, with amazing performances elsewhere across the month from the likes of Isabella Manfredi and Radio Free Alice, as well as […]
“The last shining piece of their EP’s puzzle, ‘She’ll Be Right’ slots neatly into a collection of blazingly bright tracks. Mischievous and wide-eyed, the mood might be giddy as all hell, but the wit and songwriting is sharp enough to slash your throat right open 🔪”
“It’s at the point now where I’m just *assuming* any new Oscar The Wild track will delight me beyond reason. Another glittering gem on the road to their EP later in November, it’s yet another track from them that makes you suspect this band just might be infallible 🦸”