Core - February 15, 2012

0 Comments. 76 Views. Posted 15 Feb 2012 @ 3:13pm.
Punk, Ska, Hardcore news reviews and gossip. By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Today I tip my hat to Resist for touring some of the best live bands out there at the moment. After they decimated my eardrums at Blood Sweat and Beers last weekend, I went to the East to get another taste of I Exist, only to find they added a fourth guitarist to their already lethal mix. Everything hurt afterwards. My brain was literally fuzzy like a laptop that’s been shaken violently. This week I’m looking forward to not affording it the rest and relaxation it deserves. Whitehorse at The Gasometer will be... Read More!
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Core - February 8, 2012 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 111 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 2:28pm.
  So last week was a bit epic, what with Big Day Out and then all the ensuing sideshows. I acted like a most mature adult and ditched the whole festival thing and bee-lined straight to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl sideshows. My wallet still hates me for it. So Mariachi El Bronx were excellent on Monday night but they weren’t quite The Bronx, ya know? And then I was finally one of the lucky... Read More
Core - February 1, 2012 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 165 Views. Posted 2 Feb 2012 @ 7:29am.
Sweet Jesus, summer’s really kicking me in the balls at the moment. I’m so glad I wasn’t convinced by some enthused soul to attend Big Day Out on the weekend. I could barely string together a coherent sentence while sitting on my couch in my jocks, fanning myself furiously with an old issue of Rolling Stone. Power be to those who endure stifling heat each year to see their favourite bands,... Read More
Core - January 25, 2012 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 240 Views. Posted 26 Jan 2012 @ 8:05am.
Melbourne felt especially, nay spectacularly, summery this weekend and dozens of slightly hungover carcasses dragged themselves to Edinburgh Gardens to enjoy some acoustic diddling of the Poison City variety. Fitzroy’s finest green patch was swarming with cider, puppies, a couple of youngins, and even some oldies. Now I’m presently not of the age where too many of my friends are procreating so... Read More
Core - January 18, 2012 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 222 Views. Posted 19 Jan 2012 @ 1:44pm.
  Well well well. Look what we have here. A Refused reunion . For years now I’ve been hearing rumours about the substantial sums of money Coachella have been offering similar seminal bands to forget their past indiscretions and reform for the festival. Apparently with each new year the offers become more and more generous, making it harder and harder for bands to resist the urge. At The... Read More
Core – January 11, 2012 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 340 Views. Posted 11 Jan 2012 @ 11:01am.
Not sure if you guys are as disenfranchised as I am about the current state of Australia Day, but rather than looking forward to a public holiday with the usual thirst, it's become a holiday that I'd rather forget. I keep seeing peers, our own mates, neighbours, members of our generation totally misrepresenting their adoration of their homeland with sentiments like 'fuck off we're full'. By... Read More
Core – December 21, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 475 Views. Posted 21 Dec 2011 @ 10:06am.
Let’s wind up the year shall we?  BEST ALBUM: Balance And Composure – Separation – The young Pennsylvanians delivered on all expectations both with new album and Australian tour. Bravo. The Smith Street Band – No One Gets Lost Anymore – Happily one of the best Aussie albums in recent memory. Also one of the best live bands doing the rounds. Go see ‘em. Hey Rosetta! – Seeds –... Read More
Core - December 14, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 545 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:12am.
Sunday night was a bit of a revelation for me. Discovered that the Fitzroy Bowls Club was a sensational all ages live music venue. Spacious, carpeted, ample seating , cold beers and a nice low stage. Watching Extortion play their particularly crude brand of hardcore, I couldn't help but wonder what the bowls club's usual patrons would make of the evening. OFF!, fronted by Black Flag's Keith... Read More
Core - December 7, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 550 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 5:21pm.
So like most of Melbourne, I fought tooth and nail to get my hands on some Fucked Uptickets last week. It seemed like all of a sudden, their headlining sideshow became the most sought after ticket in town.  The East Brunswick Club is usually relatively hollow mid-week but folks keen on some school night shenanigans were spewing out of the venue on this chilly Wednesday night. Felt nice... Read More
Core - November 30, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 584 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2011 @ 11:10am.
You know how you were all excited about Soundgarden sideshows? Yeah? They just added The Bronx as supports. Upon hearing this my wallet cried out in anguish. "WHY!? WHY!? Why must you torture me so!?" Soundgarden and The Bronx play at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on February 1. Tickets are on sale next Tuesday from 9am. System Of A Down will play (wait for it) ROD LAVER ARENA... Read More
Core - November 16, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 550 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 10:22am.
So more news surfaced over the weekend of Bring Me The Horizon being involved in yet another brawl with their crowd. In circumstances not dissimilar to their previous melee in Salt Lake City, the band was getting heckled relentlessly and this time guitarist Jona Weinhofen (usually regarded as a pretty placid guy) jumped into the audience to take on the heckler, shortly followed by singer Oli... Read More
Core - November 9, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 423 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 10:51am.
Today I'm extending the olive branch to Jenna of Tonight Alive and then swiftly slapping every naysayer square in the squids with it. Following Tonight Alive's signing to Fearless records last week I kept catching wind of dickish statements like "they're just an Australian Paramore", "just because she's a hot chick", to which I feel compelled to say, "no shit". The girls IS attractive and as this... Read More
Core - November 2, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 345 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 10:55am.
Is there anything in this world more fucking painful and debilitating that FOMO? For those less not familiar with this totally hip, young vernacular, it's netspeak (hahaha, that's something my mum says) for Fear Of Missing Out. Right now I have the most crushing case known to man and it's quite devastating.  You see, a small fraction of my friends and loved ones are presently in the USA,... Read More
Core - October 26, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 537 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 10:03am.
Hay guys! Remember how you've been waiting, like, forever to see Weezer live and how no one, not even the most cashed up, persuasive promoters can lure these guys to our shores. Well never mind that, it's all going to be okay because Good Charlotte, those dudes in the fedoras who penned a couple of mildly tolerable pop rock tunes a decade ago and now make money by dating celebrities and pimping... Read More
Core - October 19, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 484 Views. Posted 19 Oct 2011 @ 11:30am.
Soundwave are indeed still proving themselves to be the most fancy free, unconventional festival on the circuit this week by moving their second announcement, originally schedule for December to this week. And, as has been the case with all previous festivals they have already started revealing cancellations, just a week after the lineup was confirmed.  AJ Maddah has again, spoken... Read More
Core - October 12, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 511 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 10:10am.
I'm all for artistic freedom and allowing bands to ebb and morph and shrink and flower into whatever mysterious being they want to become. People enjoy placing restrictions on music. On what bands should do and how they should sound.  Whenever my favourite bands (somewhat inevitably) dissipate into a sound I no longer like, I usually find it within myself to let them go... Read More
Core - October 5, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 666 Views. Posted 5 Oct 2011 @ 11:13am.
Well it's been some time since I've been this impressed by a Big Day Out lineup. Just when I'd resigned myself to abandoning the festival after too many afternoons spent sunburned, scrambling for shade and the unending indignity that is paying $5 for water, it may actually lure me back next year.  The festival has announced massive drawcards that include Kanye West, Soundgarden, Battles,... Read More
Core - September 28, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 667 Views. Posted 28 Sep 2011 @ 11:56am.
OK. Ok. Listen. I love Nirvana as much as the next Gen Y dipshit. I do. In fact, I can genuinely say they played a role in transforming my taste in music. My brother grew so tired in my horrific penchant for Top 30 Ace Of Base ‘90s techno trash that he literally locked me in his room one day and force fed me Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins and – of course- Nirvana. I’ll always... Read More
Core - September 21, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 702 Views. Posted 21 Sep 2011 @ 12:20pm.
Punk, Ska, Hardcore news, reviews & gossip by Emily Kelly Congratulations go out to Poison City Records and everyone who was involved in this year’s Weekender Festival. Though organisers admitted they felt a bit homeless this year after the demise of the Arthouse is seemed Melbourne’s other iconic live music venues stepped up to the plate. The wonderful thing about Poison City’s events seems... Read More
Core - September 7, 2011 column, core, music.
0 Comments. 606 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 11:06am.
Brokencyde, largely believed to be one of the biggest musical abortions of all time, have announced their first ever tour to Australia this October. I wanna be the bigger person here guys, but fuck it's difficult to avoid the temptation to bleat endlessly about how appalling this band is in every single sense of the word. It'd bring tears to my eyes were it not so genuinely fascinating how... Read More
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0 Comments. 884 Views. Posted 31 Aug 2011 @ 9:41am.
Yeah, so did I mention how much I'm digging Balance And Composure at the moment? Are ya'll sick of the endless, guffawing praise spewing forth from this tiny corner of Beat yet? Well, their performance at Next! last Thursday night did nothing to stifle the mad, all-consuming love. The sound at the venue did the powerful five-piece no real favours though. The ball-tearing guitar volume kinda... Read More
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0 Comments. 454 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 10:27am.
So. Soundwave Revolution got boned. A lot of people claimed to have seen it coming after the announcement of the 'second headliners' was continually postponed. Can't say anyone could have really anticipated an entire festival biting the dust. Promoter AJ Maddah said in an official statement, "we could have taken the option of limping through with the lineup as we have now, but we didn't want to... Read More
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0 Comments. 770 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2011 @ 9:26am.
Well the news of the week must surely be the most unexpected, yet not super surprising, split of Canadian band Alexisonfire. I mean, on one hand, you never expect a band this incredibly popular to call it quits. Bands work so hard reach the levels of success Alexis' did, so disbanding seemed more and more unlikely the more records they sold. And damn, Old Crows Young Cardinals was a runaway... Read More
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0 Comments. 1,021 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 11:08am.
The Amity Affliction have announced a huge headlining tour of Australia for this October, and they'll be taking Gold Coast's Skyway and huge international act Asking Alexandria with them. They've booked in two shows at Melbourne's Billboard on Wednesday October 12 (18+) and Thursday October 13 (underage). This is gonna be one epic tour, and the addition of UK's wunderkinds Asking Alexandria is... Read More
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0 Comments. 1,227 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 4:20pm.
One of my favourite bands of all time, Strung Out, released a collection of re-mastered songs last week. Titled Top Contenders it was a kind of best of (not including three new tracks), and I've gotta say that despite me loving this band with every inch of my being (especially the portion that is wildly sentimental, as I suspect this is what's fuelling the flame at the moment), releasing... Read More
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0 Comments. 1,422 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 3:27pm.
I feel like we have a lot of fantastic local releases to be excited about at the moment. Just as it seems that all our international acts have deserted us in the face of our brutal winter, it would appear local talent has come through with the goods. Firstly the new album from The Smith Street Band (Poison City),No One Gets Lost Anymore,is a corker and singer Wil Wagner seems to be... Read More
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0 Comments. 939 Views. Posted 7 Jul 2011 @ 11:05am.
Sebadoh have announced that their Melbourne show at the Corner Hotel on Sunday September 18 is now thoroughly sold out, prompting them to book a second show for the following night. Get your tickets quickly for this one via Oztix, Corner box office, or Polyester Records. The date of Melbourne's Evening With Anberlin has been changed to Monday August 29 at The Palace Theatre. Tickets are already... Read More
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0 Comments. 2,081 Views. Posted 29 Jun 2011 @ 12:02pm.
Anberlin are heading to Australia this August for a special Australian tour titled An Evening With Anberlin. Stoked? Confused? Vocalist Stephen Christian explains "Each of the shows we will be doing different things, different feels than we have ever done in any one show. We might be doing some special covers, different variations on our own songs, telling stories behind the recordings and... Read More
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0 Comments. 1,421 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 11:19am.
Everyone’s favourite anarchists Against Me! proved that they’ve still got a rebellious streak after inciting a bit of chaos at a show in Rochester, New York last week. They found out that the venue was overcharging for tickets at the door, so frontman Tom Gabel demanded they refund the fans the difference. They also took to stage and slagged the venue for being shifty bastards, “to this piece of... Read More
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0 Comments. 1,497 Views. Posted 14 Jun 2011 @ 6:14pm.
So I hear along a grapevine, a twisted, mangled mess of good intentions and miscommunications probably, that a well-known hardcore band who recently employed a new singer, made the dude sign a contractual agreement that insisted that he do so many pit calls and shout outs per live set. First it seemed completely implausible but the more I thought about it, the more likely it seemed. If bands are... Read More
Core - punk, ska, hardcore with Emily Kelly column, core, music.
0 Comments. 1,306 Views. Posted 7 Jun 2011 @ 11:27am.
So friends and I got to arguing about what makes a good live show. And apart from all the intricacies of being in a room with a hundred sweaty, over-stimulated strangers, when it comes to the actual band on stage, there’s something to be said for energy. I see local bands every week, all of varying status and talent, but I’ll be damned if the one sure fire way to send me shuffling awkwardly... Read More