Live Reviews

Review: Nev Pearce Photos: Kaotic Images  It’s been seven years since thrash metal titans Anthrax last hit our shores at Download Festival, which also included some side shows with Slayer and Behemoth. Those shows were […]

Review: Dan Maynard It was barely a year ago that Japanese Kawaii Metal trio Babymetal were in Australia last. Since then, they’ve released a brand new album Metal Forth and toured the world endlessly, and tonight, it’s Australia’s turn […]

Review and gallery: JD Garrahy There’s sold out shows and then there’s One OK Rock shows. As I arrive to The Fortitude Music Hall, camera in hand, the sheer amount of people already lined up […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose For more than two decades, The Bronx have built a reputation as one of punk’s most ferocious live bands. On Saturday night at Brisbane’s Tivoli, they proved once again why that reputation […]

Review: Christian Stanger On a Friday night, with humidity climbing toward triple figures, Brisbane finds itself hosting a poetry recital. Not the kind you might expect inside the Playhouse or Concert Hall, but something closer […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Pictures: Dan Maynard There is something slightly surreal about watching a band built for arenas tear through a venue like Miami Marketta, but that is exactly what happened last night when The Darkness rolled […]

Review and gallery: Nate Rose Some records don’t just soundtrack your youth, they define it. Wake the Dead is one of those records. Twenty years on, Comeback Kid brought it back to life inside a sold-out Crowbar, […]

Review and gallery: James Garrahy With each passing year, there seems to be more and more Anniversary tours for the albums that heavily shaped my musical tastes and those awkward teenage years. We were young, […]

Review and gallery: JD Garrahy Its hot, its steamy and the black shirt army is out in force. And that’s outside of Brisbane’s magical Fortitude Music Hall. Tonight, there is only one reason to be in […]