October 2011
5 posts
Review: The Worm County Circus
By Z. Guild
Headkase. They’re local. They’re different. They’re awesome?
Headkase’s self funded album, The Worm County Circus distinctly reminds me of Dimmu Borgir’s song “Kings of the Carnival Creation” meets something you would hear off of a Type O Negative album. It’s Carnival-esque, witty, and more entertaining than most metal tunes which...
Brisbane Fusion: Interview - Gary Eldershaw
By Tom Kojrowicz
Similarities between styles of music are easy to pick by dedicated players and fans alike.
Gary Eldershaw doesn’t care about differences. He just enjoys playing it all.
He’s a metalhead-turned-drummer. Most talented musicians are open for diversity but its not something so commonplace you don’t take notice.
Give us the shakedown of jazz in Brisbane
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Review: Behemoth - 'Lucifer' (Proof 'Extreme...
By Tom Kojrowicz
I want my metal like I want my fast food. Heart attack-inducing.
Who can still deliver? It seems with every new release there is one band to drop off of the list. The end of 2011 is nigh and one of the only things that has turned my head all year is the music video release of a two-year-old track.
To be fair, though, it nearly broke my neck.
I like music videos, as noted by...
A Day in the Parklife
By Z. Guild
Parklife: Beers, Queers and Engineers.
I had the chance to witness and be part of the festival phenomenon where the day is long, the hair is longer, the songs are short and the pants are shorter and where the pony tails are high but the girls sporting them are even higher.
Parklife is at a brilliant venue overlooking the Brisbane River and is situated next to the engineering...
Dubstep Isn't Real Music
By Tom Kojrowicz
It’s shitty. It’s juvenile. It’s ridiculous.
It’s also serious business.
A Little while ago I took a brief look at the emergence of dubstep in the spectrum of popular electronic music, and the split fan base between the sub-genres involved with the style.
Over the past couple of months, some of the broad generalities I made through commenting on the...
September 2011
4 posts
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Bird Attack, Frenzal Rhomb
Photo: Eat It For Lunch Blog
By Alicia Bolton
Gettin’ down on Friday? Usually no. On an average Friday night you’d find me curled up on the couch in my snuggie watching Nip Tuck. Friday September 9th was no average Friday night though.
Frenzal Rhomb were in town, and I was looking forward to the weekend. After missing two busses and running late, I finally made it to the Arena, or...
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Brewers Beer Garden – Kuta, Indonesia
By Alicia Bolton
In preparing for Bali’s Paramore tour at the end of this month, Brewer’s Beer Garden, Kuta, held a Paramore covers competition. As a diehard Paramore fan I was totally psyched.
The bar tenders and photographers all wore white shirts with ‘Paramore Bali’ printed on the front and ‘Official’ on the back. I HAD to have one, and after failed attempts of talking the photographer into...
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On the verge of awesomeness
Image: Bethann Shannon (Vera on the verge)
By Alicia Bolton
Vera on the Verge, cool. I’m digging these pictures lately. Check them out here. That’s one talented lady.
Speaking of talent, I caught up with THERE FOR TOMORROW vocalist Maika Maile and had a chat about their latest album, starting a high school band and promoting music through social network sites.
“(There For...
No riff-raff, please.
By Tom Kojrowicz
As a guitarist, I’m always chasing good tone.
To give you an idea of exactly what it is that I’m talking about, let’s have a look at how Eddie Van Halen has it perfected:
“It starts with your ear. If you have no concept of tone, then out comes blergh!”
Lets put the homogenous keyboards and overdriven amps aside to look at five killer guitar...
August 2011
5 posts
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Do you remember that time when we...
By Zoe Guild
I know your probably expecting some sort of ‘in-depth’ ‘look at me and how well I write and source things’ kind of a story/report/review/interview. If so, well sorry, you can click off this page right now. This particular blog is a personal one and we all know that you all are nosy little weasels love to be all up in someone’s grill and/or cool-aid.
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Feeling this Ghetto Ambience
By Alicia Bolton
Is that a gansta in an Avenged Sevenfold shirt? I’ve seen it all now…or so I thought.
Rock’n’roll rapper Hyro Da Hero is fresh, original and ready to inspire the world with his new album ‘Birth, School, Work, Death’. So what makes him so unique?
When you think rap + rock, bands like Hollywood Undead and Linkin Park probably pop into your head. Think...
Wubba-dub-dub with a metre-wide sub
By Tom Kojrowicz
Dub, grime, UK garage, futuregarage, drum ‘n’ bass, breakbeat, breakcore, noisecore, hardcore, soundcore, post-soundcore, pizzacore.
Has the endless and quite utterly ridiculous quest for more bass been conquered?
It’s a bit like that when it comes to electronica, isn’t it? But who cares. All we need to know is that this slow-bobbing ‘dubstep’ genre is really popular right...
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Zombie Daylight – Twice Diner and Punk Bar, Bali,...
By Alicia Bolton
Indonesian punk and rockabilly? HELL FUCKING YEAH! Light bulbs encased in bowling pins swung on the ceiling, a crimson fixie shone from one corner and a leopard print seated cruiser from the other, welcome to Bali’s rockabilly lovin’ heaven, the Twice Diner.
I bounced into a cherry coloured booth overlooking the chaos of Poppies Lane and picked up the menu. “Eat Fat, Die...
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Brisbane Music Videos
By Zoe Guild
Now, if you are whinging about how nothing happens in this little city, you are so very wrong. Some of the biggest names in Australian music have called this place home, for at least three-ish minutes or so anyway. I’m taking about music videos. From the likes of Brisbane’s very own, Powderfinger, to The Living End and this list actually goes on believe it or not of just some of...
June 2011
2 posts
Review: Parkway Drive: 'Karma' (The Almighty Music...
By Tom Kojrowicz
It’s amazing what happens when you mix a product of a high quality with a drop of nostalgia.
Byron Bay metallers Parkway Drive have had a profound effect on the youth of Brisbane. It’s hard to be in a social circle without knowing a fan of them, let alone hard to walk down Queen Street without seeing at least three of their t-shirts. They play here annually and...
May 2011
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Interview: Dementia 13
By Alicia Bolton
Sunshine Coast punkers Dementia 13 are ‘in your face’ and down to party. There’s not much coverage of the punk scene around here so check them out and show the love. Alicia Bolton had a chat to guitarist Dan Dementia about the band’s journey and the no girlfriends in the studio rule.
First up, for those who haven’t heard Dementia 13 before...
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INTERVIEW: HEADKASE KEYBOARDIST, BRETT HANSEN
By Zoe Guild
We caught up with Brett Hansen, keyboardist for the ‘quirky circus-metal’ band HeadKase to talk about the bands humble beginnings, their musical inspiration and style, and whats in store for them in the future…
Tell us a bit about HeadKase and how it formed.
“HeadKase formed in 2001 out of a few smaller bands some of the members were in during high...
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Interview: Ironhide
By Alicia Bolton
We caught up with Ironhide’s Lochlan Watt to chat about their debut album, cover art by Jacob Rolfe and playing alongside La Dispute. Ironhide are launching their album this weekend with a short tour around Queensland. Get onto it!
Tell us a bit about the journey of creating and recording your debut album Create/Collapse/Repeat? It was a long process. We started...
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Interview: Robert Van Soppavich (The Melting Pot...
By Tom Kojrowicz
A little while ago, we asked Thomas J Griffin what he thought about Brisbane through the eyes of indie. It would be wrong to take his word as gospel (after all, what do these indie kids know what they’re on about?) So to back it up we’ve got electronic music producer and disc jockey Robert Van Soppavich to tell us more about ‘the melting pot’ known as...
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Interview: ///Sorry Socrates\\\ (The Melting Pot...
By Tom Kojrowicz
A little while ago we showcased ///Sorry Socrates\\ recording their debut single‘FANGS’.
With the single now available for FREE (yep, that’s right) we had a chat to Thomas J Griffin of ///SS\\ about life, musicianship and what it means to write, record and perform in a place like Brisbane - the place we soon found out people like to call ‘the...
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SS (not the German type)
///Sorry Socrates\\
Just about the best philosophical lesson in Brisbane. Don’t feel the need to seek an apology from Plato afterwards, either.
Keep an eye out for these guys to pop up on a Facebook page near you.
I know the guitarist looks a little creepy - but please, don’t let it deter you.
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Local exports (or five reasons why you should read...
By Tom Kojrowicz
Billboard Magazine was quoted in the Courier Mail as citing Brisbane as a sort of haven for live music and emerging talent. Some nod at this claim with zealous amounts of pride, whilst others are genuinely confused.
to put the rumours to rest, here’s the evidence:
The Bee Gees
The Saints
The Go-Betweens
Powderfinger
Violent Soho
There are others,...
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Review/Interview: Rolo Tomassi
- By Alicia Bolton
Rolo Tomassi vocalist Eva Spence had everything a progressive hardcore chick could want: total control of her raging vocals, quirky metalcore chick demeanor and Gallows frontman Frank Carter on her arm, she had me hooked from the moment she first caught my eye at Soundwave 2010…or so i thought.
After watching their set I dived straight into a hunt for more female...
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Review: Creamfields Brisbane Festival 2011
By Zoe Guild
As a new day dawned on the 1st of May 2011, I would soon realise that on this day of my ‘oh so humble’ would get the chance to witness true electronic dance music professionals, swagger and all, hit the decks in front of thousands of fans. Creamfields 2011 was upon Brisbane at last.
Tired and heavy-eyed thanks to my good-for-nothin’ midnight shift the night...
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Review: The Medics
By Zoe Guild
Cairns turned Brisbane local Indie band The Medics will play a set with The Jungle Giants next Thursday 14th of April 2011 at the Old Museum, Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills.
Blossoming from the cane fields of Cairns, a place not really notorious for good music in my books, The Medics have been slowly but surely been working hard to persue their high school dream and moving to the...
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Whats On: May
By Alicia Bolton
It’s creeping up on us like a thirty foot tidal wave and it’s going to knock us off our feet, yep it’s nearly May and here’s my top picks for the month.
1st May 2011.
The Tivoli are starting May off in style as the venue welcomes Escape The Fate and Pierce The Veil. Mmm Vic Fuentes need I say more? Aside from seeing the gorgeous boys from PTV, I’m...
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Interview: Pride Of Place
By Alicia Bolton
I had a quick chat to Luke Bishop from Pride Of Place about the local hardcore/punk scene, musical influences and live shows.
Tell us a bit about Pride of Place in regards to musical influences, live shows and how you’ve grown as a band over the years? Influences are a strange one. As we’ve changed our influences have changed I guess. Pride started out as a...
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Review: Mayfair!
By Alicia Bolton
Grab a blender. Throw in some musical influence from the likes of A Day To Remember, deck yourself out in your favourite sports attire, add some post teen angst, and you’ve got yourself a Mayfair milkshake!
I’ve just recently picked up an unreleased copy of Mayfair’s debut album Pull Your Socks Up. I wasn’t too sure what to expect as the last time I...
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What's On: April/May
By Zoe Guild
Greetings. Here to share with you my amazing TOP 3 upcoming unmissable events in Brisbane in April/May 2011!
1. Skrillex @ Creamfields Australia Festival 2011@ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, May 1st.
Skrillex, DeadMau5s’ dirty dubstep love child, after releasing his third solo EP ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’ this year, is headlining at Creamfields Australia...
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Review: In Obsidian
By Alicia Bolton
In Obsidian, They’re exactly what you would imagine, satanic black metal.
Not really my type of music, but then again they didn’t exactly make me want to kill myself either. I saw them about six months ago at Rosies Tavern, Brisbane. Thought i’d share the banner which was hung behind the drummer that night because, well, i just though it was cool! And Nicole...
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Welcome to Brisbane Riot
By Alicia Bolton
Welcome to Brisbane Riot. I just wanted to share a few local bands which i thought deserved a mention. Unless you’ve been under a rock then Parkway Drive will be familiar. On the other hand, hopefully I’m about to uncover the wonderful world of the Founds to you, and the amusing side of Lemon Smashle/All My Friends At Sea (AMFAS). On a more serious note, AMFAS are...