Yowling into the microphone, Bixler-Zavala leads the crowd down the rabbit hole before handing the reins to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who starts flinging guitar solos about while Bixler-Zavala twirls and tames his microphone cord like it’s a naughty snake…
Polarity has the breadth of those old Smashing Pumpkins albums, catchy quick rock that gives way to…
Review by: Lana Harris John Butler Trio have been injecting mainstream consciousness with a social conscience since 2001. Along the way, John Butler has added fans, lost the dreads, changed the line up, but kept the message the same. The unique voice, more likely to sing about the heartbreak caused by cruel, heartless companies … Continue reading CD Review: John Butler Trio – One Way Road
Author: Lana Harris The afternoon brought with it dark clouds that took away the light but not the heat, and those of us wrapped in black shuffled through the cyclone wire fence that surrounds Riverstage dripping with something a bit more corporeal than anticipation. High on Fire began as soon as the gates opened, which … Continue reading Live Review | Lamb Of God @ Riverstage Brisbane 11 December 2009 w/ Devildriver, Shadows Fall and High on Fire
Review: Lana Harris There are very few musicians about today who can craft such an accurate visual portrait of their music as Tara Simmons has done with her new EP, All You Can. The cover depicts a childish collection of objects – colourful magnetic letters, a doll with a crocheted dress, plastic representations of … Continue reading EP Review: Tara Simmons – All You Can
Review: Lana Harris Flutes have a fairy tale history of hypnotising the impressionable – think of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading the children from the city, and the forest dweller Pan and his pipes that make maidens dance until sunrise. Is it just a coincidence that a trilling flute introduces Hungry Kids of … Continue reading CD Review: Hungry Kids of Hungary – Let You Down
Review: Lana Harris Are The Boat People benefiting from all the media coverage of a certain method of arrival upon our land girt by sea? Like the refugee boats, they’ve recently taken a new direction, ending up in previously unexplored waters. The audio land about turn has definitely benefited The Boat People. Previously an … Continue reading CD Review: The Boat People – Echo Stick Guitars
Dan Parsons – Run With Me Review by: Lana Harris Available at It’s a little known fact that record companies are the perpetuators of the idea that only by hearing a song can you get it out of your head – which conveniently places it in one thousand other people’s minds when you request … Continue reading CD Review: Dan Parsons – Run With Me
Suffocation: The Close of a Chapter (Live in Quebec) 2005 Review: Lana Harris ‘This is … Brutal!’ yells Frank Mullen at the end of The Close of a Chapter’s opening track, “Infecting the Crypts”. This is Suffocation. Birthed from the insomniac New York Underground, Suffocation clawed their way to the top of the death … Continue reading CD Review: Suffocation – The Close of a Chapter (Live in Quebec)