The Underground Stage
“So I Says to Mabel treat us to current and future songs tonight, their ongoing mission – right there in the album title – to make punk great again. I’m not convinced punk was ever anything but pretty great, but for damn sure sets like this don’t make it worse, full as it is of […]
“So I Says To Mabel celebrate their excellent album of spikes and speed with a set to match, a SoCal sun blazing over the skatepunk racket. Enormous and hugely melodic song, delivered at pace direct to the bloodstream.” Gallery Listen
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.
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
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 releases […]
“So I Says To Mabel blister the paint and crack the brickwork, flat-out and roaring West Coast punk, hardcore screams and gigantic choruses taking turns in beating your kidneys to a pulp. A full send, happy and glorious.” Gallery Listen
“So I Says To Mabel barrel through the building like a giant train made of Vans trainers and good times, grazed shins and busted ankles as far as the eye can see. High tempo from the off to the end, it’s a challenge to see who’s having more fun, them or us.” Gallery Learn More […]
“Unvarnished and unpolished enough to leave you finding splinters in your skin weeks later, this is unbridled fun, high-speed poppy skatepunk in raw form. As with so many of the best things in life, it’s the rough edges that make it shine ✨”
“So I Says To Mabel drop a bone-twitcher of a punk set tonight, thrown out without regard for your joints. Enough to shudder an ankle off, it’s hard to keep control of the important junctions of your body, which merrily shudder and judder along to these high-speed, harmony-fuelled, buzzsaw tracks. We fall for it all […]