Live Reviews

Review: Jack Price The year is 2006. A much, much, MUCH younger me, eye lined and scene haired, sat staring down the old glass screen computer monitor in my high school pc lab. A friend […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose On Wednesday night the Brisbane Entertainment Centre hosted one of the more eclectic heavy lineups to hit the city in recent memory, with Ecca Vandal, Interpol and Deftones bringing together punk, post-punk, shoegaze and […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose There’s a whole generation of newer heavy bands now pulling equally from metalcore, shoegaze, post-hardcore and alternative music without really caring where one genre ends and another begins. Last […]

Review: JD Garrahy How was Hammersonic a week ago already? Suffering from severe amounts of post festival depression, to which there is only one known cure. More live music! Prove to me that I’m wrong and ill […]

Review: JD Garrahy The slogan reads, ‘Decade of Dominion’, and this festival, rich in history, is celebrating its 10th year with as much brilliance as possible. This is Hammersonic Festival, and if you haven’t been […]

Review: JD Garrahy It’s Saturday in Jakarta. Hammersonic has kicked into full swing, and the grounds are steadily filling up. With a stacked lineup catering to metalcore, pop punk, and everything in between, it’s a […]

Review: JD Garrahy It’s Friday night in Indonesia. It’s hot, it’s humid, and I’m on my way to a gig in the lead-up to Hammersonic Festival in the morning. Now, let’s give some context to […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose Brisbane’s The Tivoli played host to a long-awaited return, with Superheaven kicking off their first Australian tour in a decade alongside Angel Du$t and Sydney crew Secret World. One of the first things that […]

Review and gallery: Nate Rose Brisbane doesn’t always get the first punch, but last night at The Triffid, it took it square in the jaw and asked for more. The sold-out room felt volatile before […]

Review: JD Garrahy Rock ‘n’ roll is dead, you say? Yeah, sure—I’ll believe that when hell freezes over. It’s not dead; there just hasn’t been anyone worthy enough to fill the void since the rock […]