Iron Reagan are touring! The skate/thrash supergroup, featuring members of Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse and Darkest Hour, tear up the Tote in Collingwood on April 11. And you knooow the merch is going to be killer, so make sure you’re cashed up! Supports on the night come in the form of Join The Amish, Wolfpack and Wet Pensioner!
Amnesia Rock Fest is happening again, and with a line up that is just too ridiculous for words: Linkin Park, System of a Down, the Pixies, the Offspring, Sublime, Rancid (performing their classic album And Out Come The Wolves in its entirety!), Bad Religion, Flogging Molly, Propagandhi, ALL, the Exploited, Bigwig, GBH, Descendents, Buzzcocks, Deftones, Rufio, and many, many more. June 18-21, Montebello, Canada.
One Last Time In Stereo is the event being thrown for Mik from Strawberry Fist Cake on Sunday March 8 at the Brunswick Hotel. Geelong bands the Half Pints and Hopes Abandoned will be joining the likes of the Frangipanis (QLD), Cult Killers (NSW), Skinpin (NSW) as well as No Idea, the Worthingtons, the Shadow League, Dixon Cider, 12FU, the Krunchy Om-Let Experience, Now You Die, All We Need and many, many more. You’d be crazy to miss it.
Hevy Fest is also shaping up nicely, and if you find yourself in or around Kent in the UK this August, you could do a lot worse than checking this thing out, especially if you like modern or progressive punk. Thrice, Coheed And Cambria, the Get Up Kids, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Touche Amore, Creeper and Monuments are amongst the already confirmed bands. Cool!
Soundwave. Hmmmmmm. Where to begin? The weather was a little bit mental, and two days of it certainly would have taken its toll on many. Australian summers can be a little intense for multi-day events. Lagwagon, one of my only reasons for attending, seemed so disinterested in playing that I myself lost interest three songs into their set and wandered off. Disappointing to say the least, and I’m sure the oppressive heat didn’t help their performance. Loved the seven dollar frozen coke’s though! Too metal, for my liking (and that’s coming from a thrash fiend!). Funny festival moment: Tonight Alive covering Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against the Machine. Next year will be a one day affair again, thank goodness, and hopefully there’ll be more punk bands on offer. And by punk, I don’t mean emo bands, or screamo bands in baggy shorts.
The Governors Ball this year has a pretty rocking line up. My Morning Jacket, the Black Keys, Future Islands, Tame Impala, Royal Blood, Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Death From Above 1979 and many, many more acts will be joining the likes of mainstream acts Drake, Marina And The Diamonds, Bjork and Lana Del Ray. June 5-7, Randall’s Island Park, NYC.
Don’t forget! Guttermouth! Barwon Heads Hotel! Easter Sunday! Be there! No word on supports as of yet though…
The long-awaited new Millencolin album, True Brew, drops April 28 via Epitaph, and apparently it’s a true return to form for the Swedes. They may have just completed a Soundwave run, but it’s a pretty safe bet that they’ll be back out here by the end of the year.
More next time, kids! Stay cool!
Written by Christopher Cruz