The Underground Stage
“There’s no way round it, Teenage Joans face headwinds tonight, all physical health struggles and technical goblins – but y’know what? Literally not one person here cares. It’s a Sunday night in Sydney, and the front row has been impenetrable since doors. The music? Sure – the older stuff is still as electric as ever, […]
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: 🥇The Grogans (appeared on 32% of updated playlists) 🥈Teenage Joans, Bean Magazine (29%) 🥉Ball Park Music, Girl and Girl, Hellcat Speedracer, DEVAURA […]
Most Playlisted This Week It was one of those oddball weeks on the playlists that happen every now and again, where there was very little consensus, with less artists being obvious and widespread favourites. While this kind of sucks for dorks like me who build charts, it usually means good news for listeners since that […]
“A soaring collaboration between two outstanding bands, that takes the very best of both worlds to create a whole new one made of nothing but giant choruses, sugar, and waving, happy arms”
“Teenage Joans snap strings in the opening moments and are basically scatterbrains the whole way through their set, but it literally could not be any more charming. When your set is this deep with absolute rich bangers, they could have smashed their instruments into ribbons and set fire to the stage and it would still […]
“Rocket fuel and sugar and good times power Teenage Joans’ fizzy brilliance, a soaring bag of mayhem and delight. You’ll see few bands who’ll fly higher or burn brighter.” Gallery
“This is just one of the endlessly glittering tracks on offer as Teenage Joans finish a run of bright, sparkly singles with a sugar-coated full-length album packed to the edges with fizzy delights. Jumpy, frenetic fun, enough for the sweetest of teeth 🍭”
The always-brilliant Teenage Joans’ released ‘5 Things I Can Taste’ this week and it propelled them right out front among the playlists I track, gaining them more spots than any other act. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Teenage Joans 🥈Babe Rainbow 🥉Angie McMahon, Gut Health Impressively, this is the third release in a row which has […]