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 Terrys (appeared on 29% of updated playlists) 🥈Mikayla Pasterfield, Armlock (25%) 🥉Esha Tewari, The Vanns, Press Club, Carla Wehbe, Jem Cassar-Daley, […]
There are happy reunions, heady rhythms, and harsh reminders in this week’s crop of new music from emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
Every week I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]
“Roaring back into life with their first new material in twelve months, Press Club rattle the teeth right out of our heads once again, half through the sheer kinetic energy they create, but half from making us just plain grin too much”
“Sparks flying like it’s being carved up by an axle grinder, Press Club keep up the tension, relentless and driving. Enough blasts and slices to level the block 🧨”
Sometimes – just sometimes – the universe operates smoothly and correctly, and this week was one of those times, with Bad//Dreems absolutely brilliant new track ‘Jack’ running the table on the best Australian new music playlists. 🥇Bad//Dreems 🥈Babe Rainbow 🥉Kinder, Ocean Alley, Press Club, Royel Otis What’s of note here too is more precisely who […]
“Press Club have got so much weight in their set it (literally) rattles the floor but it somehow still seems like the whole thing’s floating on air. Packing tonight’s fun with both old faves and new teases, from the first song they come amongst us, as if it can’t be contained on the stage. And […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve somehow not got round to seeing live yet. Press Club – Insecurities As reliable as the sun coming up, new Press Club tracks are always worth the time. There’s a very specific ‘Press Club’ set of melodies and moves, and every single […]