The Underground Stage
🫵 Sydney needs YOU to go to a gig this week – here are just some of the crackers on offer: 🎶 Southern Nights continues, so there’s just a daft amount of shows on all over the place. 🎶 total tommy headlining is reason enough to go, but the whole lineup for this night at […]
Most Playlisted This Year Over 2024, the playlists I track – a selection of about 40 of the most credible new music playlists in Australia – added over 13,000 different tracks by nearly 8,000 artists. Across the year through, these are the artists who made it onto the most of those playlists, the ones who […]
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 […]
I managed to catch about a fifth of the artists playing SXSW Sydney 2024, and it was a thrill ride from start to end – the sheer scope of what’s on offer for a new music nerd like me makes it the best week of my year. While I loved seeing every artist, these are […]
This gig was part of SXSW Sydney 2024 – head here for all the shows & STUFF “total tommy is insanely good, enough to literally short-circuit important bits of your brain. We all know it too, a crowd of people driven slightly batty, heading towards delirious.” Listen Spotify Gallery
Most Playlisted This Week A slightly slower week for releases saw Party Dozen’s glorious chaos rise to the top, with tracks from their ‘Crime In Australia‘ album landing on more of the best new music playlists in Australia than any other artist. 🥇Party Dozen 🥈Betty Taylor, DON WEST, Great Gable, total tommy 🍟 Takeouts: —- […]
“There’ll probably come a day when a total tommy track isn’t the best thing you’ll hear all week. Not today.”
The real point of SXSW is to discover what’s next, not what’s already big, so it’s always worth looking beyond the artists you’ve already heard of and hunt out who’s coming up. Here are my favourites from the Indie Rock crop this year. I’ve taken a look at the Australian artists announced so far who […]