By Chet Utly – Hype is a cruel mistress. When I read the description of Shadow At Morning as a “serious metal” band with “a love of hardcore technical music that pushes the limits of human endurance”, I was at least expecting something along the lines of the Dillinger Escape Plan, The Human Abstract, Between the Buried and Me, and their ilk.
ALive & Kicking Elf Power Live @ the High Dive April 15, 2008 By Tyson Lynn When Elf Power play, they crash through papered hours like furies enraged, giving everything…
Sam George-Allen – As we approach the Zoo – one of Brisbane’s foundation venues for local live music – the sound of slightly out-of-time cowbell drifts down to the street, and already I’m in love. It’s Gold Coast rock outfit The Moderns, and it just gets better once we’re inside.
“EVERYBODY DIES!… EVERYBODY DIES!… EVERBODY DIES!… EVERRYYBBOODDYY… DIES…. EVVVRREEEBBBOOODDDYYY.. DIES” a punk rock chorus sing/shouts, while a distorted, one-chorded intro degenerates in tempo, fading into oblivion.
Barry Vail – My Morning Jacket’s twenty-five song set at McCaw Hall last month was sometimes epic, but at all times pretentious. Maybe it was the Opera House setting?
