Stimpies
It’s safe to say that 2026 has been a stellar year for Stimpies, the Frankston upstarts who have quickly blossomed into one of the country’s most exciting acts to follow. Their homegrown blend of alt-country Australiana and dirty garage rock has coalesced into their standout second album ‘Doing Good’ - a collection of songs & stories from the shared lives of the band.
Across twelve tracks, Stimpies portray a gallery of faces and connections - friends, lovers, families - and confront the interplay, euphoria and intensity of it all. Doing Good is a garden of shared lives, enriched by local and national communities that overlap and flower into a modern Australian oral history.
On Valentines Day, the band launched Planet of Love into the world with resounding success. Their first release in two years was met with a Rage Feature, airplay on JJJ and community radio, and over 500 fans singing along at its sold-out launch at the Night Cat in Melbourne.
This was followed up by Young Life - a rousing banger that channels Oasis and Eddy Current Suppression Ring with equal reverence. A crowd favourite before its release, it nearly broke the floor at its live debut in January at the Young Street Tavern.
The next singles - A Long Long Time and Counting The Days accompanied an east-coast tour that took the band to dive bars, mountain-tops and rainforests alike, and received widespread praise both at-home and overseas.