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FESTIVAL REVIEW & GALLERY: New Bloom Festival, Brisbane
Friday 15 March Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane Bands: Citizen, Movements, Touche Amore, No Pressure, Softcult, Nerve Damage, World of Joy, Eat Your Heart Out, Blind Girls, Bad Neighbour, Sunbleached Australia’s newest music festival, New Bloom Festival, made its debut over the weekend across the east coast and we were there to experience the show…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: Hot Mulligan – Princess Theatre, Brisbane
Saturday 9 March Supports: Free Throw (USA), Bad Neighbour As a pop punk ride-or-die, I have been very, very out of the loop these past few years when it comes to who’s killing it in the genre nowadays. While I am well and truly ontop of the local game and am well-versed in bands…
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GIG GALLERY: Yours Truly – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
Saturday 2 March 2024 Supports: Bec Stevens, Talk Heavy To celebrate the beginning of a brand new era in 2024, Sydney pop punk act Yours Truly relased brand new single ‘Call My Name‘ just a few months back. Led by Mikaila Delgado and Teddie Huron, the duo are poised to shed light on even…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: Stick To Your Guns – The Triffid, Brisbane
Wednesday 24 January 2024 Supports: Wet Work, Wildheart, Seeyouspacecowboy Brisbane’s Wildheart took to the stage and stole hearts with their emotive, gritty blend of metalcore. Even those that weren’t familiar with the band can feel the passion emanating from stage — it was contagious. The main support for the tour was Seeyouspacecowboy, and…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: The Gloom in the Corner – The Zoo, Brisbane
Saturday 20 January 2024 Supports: Prompts (Japan), Heavensgate, Blossom Although I’m very much a softcore music listener at heart, lately in the last year or so, I have gone above and beyond into developing my tastes into heavier songs and bands. So I am very stoked to announce that the first gig of 2024…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Green Day – Saviors
Released 19 January 2024 Warner Music Australia/Reprise Records Billie Joe Armstrong – vocals/guitars Mike Dirnt – bass Tre Cool – drums Green Day have always been very good at telling a story for the current day and age through their music. Dookie did that in the 90s, while American Idiot helped influence a…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Neck Deep (Self-titled)
Released 19 January 2024 Hopeless Records Ten years ago, a fresh-faced band of misfits from Wales stumbled across our iPods with their label debut, Wishful Thinking. A few months later, Neck Deep embarked on their maiden voyage across the world to Australia, playing a raucous set of angsty, fast-paced pop punk only small dive…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Good Things Festival 2023
Sunday 3 December 2023 Brisbane Showgrounds, QLD Australia’s biggest alternative/metal/punk gathering, Good Things Festival returned earlier this month swinging in its biggest edition yet. With emo icons Fall Out Boy and noughties nu-metal/rap rockers Limp Bizkit at the helm, everyone was amped to make a day of it. Even amongst the sweltering heatwave that annihilated…
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EP REVIEW: Colourburn – Compromise in Colour
Released 24 November 2023 Independent Colourburn is: Jordyn Briggs – vocals Jack Gray – bass Josh McIntosh – guitars Hailing from the streets of Melbourne, alternative/rock trio Colourburn are the fresh act you need to dive into. Crashing on the scene with their debut five-track EP, Compromise in Colour, vocalist Jordyn Briggs is Australia’s…
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EP REVIEW: LUNE – The Change Around Us & The Change in You
Released: 10 November 2023 Resist Records Melbourne metalcore outfit LUNE are flying the flag high when it comes to emerging acts to watch and for good reason. They’ve just unleashed their new sophomore EP, The Change Around Us & The Change in You on Resist Records and their craft and musicianship that can be heard…
