The Underground Stage
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: 🥇Holly Hebe (appeared on 32% of updated playlists) 🥈GUM (27%) 🥉Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Esha Tewari, LAZY GHOST, Yorke, Velvet Trip (23%) Takeouts […]
Most Playlisted This Week Two bands bagged the top spot this week ahead of some much more established artists, a brilliant result for both Bakers Eddy and Velvet Trip. 🥇Bakers Eddy, Velvet Trip (appeared on 27% of updated playlists) 🥈Lithe, Ball Park Music, The Grogans, Old Mervs, Skeleten, Lotte Gallagher (23%) 🏆 Bakers Eddy‘s latest […]
RVG rocketed to the top of the best Australian new music playlisters’ collective preferences this week, appearing on over a third of the best lists in Oz with new track “Nothing Really Changes”. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇RVG 🥈Body Type 🥉San Cisco,Tia Gostelow, Velvet Trip Only a smidge behind, Body Type also kept up their […]
“Velvet Trip in full-band mode are a vortex of psyche and blues, with considerable fuzz and heft. In solo mode we get to see the gentle heart at its core, and while it might be a bit softer at the edges for being exposed to the air, it still beats like a mad ‘un. The […]
“Velvet Trip drag you into their whirlpool of psyche-y blues and make you forget you’re being sucked under. Keep staring, lose yourself.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.