Every Wednesday, we compile a playlist of every single band that's playing in Sydney over the next 7 days. It involves listening to snippets of dozens and dozens of songs — but sometimes we've just gotta let the full track play out, and some of those become mainstays in our listening. You'll find plenty of those standouts below. And, of course, some of these are songs we first heard live, and then raced home to hit that repeat button (not to mention the Buy button).

These are the songs that got us off the couch on rainy weeknights to hear them live, soundtracked long Saturdays of rental inspections, jolted us into checking out new scenes and venues, were dropped into group chats with a barrage of exclamation points, lured drunk punters up during DJ sets to ask for track IDs, and rewarded whole rooms for showing up for the support. These songs are proof, if anyone needed more, that Sydney is so back. Enjoy.

» Read the full list on SydneyMusic.net