The local scene is burning up right now.

Feeling a bit lethargic this week? Still coming down from a massive chocolate overdose? Well here are some new tunes you can be listening to as you’re lazing around wondering how you’ve put on that extra couple of kilos. Be sure to check out all the acts below (and more) on our Locals Without Spotify playlist too, and get your sluggish ass out there and catch some live music.

Sloan Peterson

If you’ve heard Sloan Peterson before you’d know she’s got an ability to blend the vintage flavours of the 50’s and 60’s with a modern day shine. ‘Midnight Love’, which is taken from her second EP Midnight Love, Vol. 2 is the perfect example of how her sound is new, old, and unique all at the same time.

Jermango Dreaming

For those of us who seriously fan out on Inner-West indie rocker Jermango Dreaming, new music has been a long time coming. Taking us on more of a dancey ride with ‘Breeze’, it seems Jermango has strengthened his ability to write tunes with hooky melodies and euphoric lyrics. This song’s about getting coffee btw.

Life After Football

We had a chat with these post-punkers shortly after the release of their latest tune ‘Top Order Collapse’ and they told us the title of the tune is “from a sports pages headline about the Australian cricket team” which somehow “sets the scene thematically.” Make sense? It doesn’t have to, the tune is a corker. These guys are playing a show in Newy May 3rd (info here)

Demi Mitchell

Speaking of Newcastle, sultry blues master Demi Mitchell has just dropped her first new music since last year’s record The Overflow. The song is a dark tale of love with a Waits-esque groove that has a magically hypnotic feel to it that’s quite hard to explain. Maybe just give it a spin and make up your own mind.

Atlas Franklin Alexander

We don’t know a lot about electro mysterio Atlas Franklin Alexander, but we like what we’ve heard. In the video for his latest tune ‘Sonder’, which was directed by Paris-based collective The Bardos, we see the nomadic musician take on a role of some kind of god in a dystopian world where women are in short supply. It’s a concept that is only matched by the experimental brilliance of the track in which Atlas reimagines RnB and pop hooks masterfully.