I saw Negative Blast!
(With Slept On and Trauma Bonds)
They were pure jagged energy!
I recommend: No Trust
(With Slept On and Trauma Bonds)
They were pure jagged energy!
I recommend: No Trust
(With Thank)
They were a ruckus!
I recommend: unpopular parts of a pig
(With H Hawkline)
She was perfectly melodic!
I recommend: Mother's Mother's Magazines
Core is always a really wonderful and really jam-packed weekend, though my partner and I only ever plan, based on our endurance levels, to do one day. #old. We went on Saturday this year and saw Gout, Lights Out, No Known Weakness, Moni Jitchell, Roman Candle, Ditz, Pest Control and False Reality.
Every day of the festival is a great grab bag of bands if you love an assortment of punk, hardcore, noise and metal music; the festival itself is also just really fun (Hug & Pint doing pizza by the slice all day is great, also hope there's another custom radler brewed up for next year). However I want to give a special shout out to Gout, whose show felt like going to a gig that would be background to a scene in a Gregg Araki movie, and Ditz, whose set was entrancing, life-affirming noise chaos that broke into an impromptu cover of Dracula Mountain for the finale underneath swinging 70s light fixtures; the absolute high point of the festival for me.
(with Isabella Strange and CEEFAX)
They were funky, with a pit not for the faint of heart!
I recommend: The News
They were bringing the old man swag (and trombone swag) hardcore!
I recommend: This is My Life
(With Container)
They were raw power, for what felt like hours... (had the melancholy feeling of enjoying it so much, why don't I go to a gig every night? Thursday morning, I figured out why lol)
I recommend: Withered Hand
(With Wendell Borton and Julia's Bureau)
They were definitely superior to the Susan Sontag novel on the same subject... (Couldn't resist joking, but really, I was pretty mind-blown)
I recommend: The Hand That Did The Deed
They were trance-inducing!
I recommend: Time Garbage
(With Half Time and Dragged Up)
They were totally shredding!
I recommend: Little Egg
They were relentless!
I recommend: Ass2Mars
They were TRANSCENDENT!!
I recommend: THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN'T DO
They were rad!
I recommend: Escape