Entertainment - Monday, December 1, 2008 7:02 - 0 Comments

Three Bands and Two-Thirds Charmed at Minsk/Coliseum/Baroness

Poor Coliseum. They gave a perfectly serviceable show: high energy, tight, loud as hell. The sound emanating from their Coliseum brand amps (the band’s namesake) was dutifully crusty, the EQ pushed to red. Their songs were short and catchy, in a post-hardcore-meets-Motörhead kind of way. But this Louisville, KY band, with their monotonous, genre-bound songs that meld into each other two minutes at a time like a formulaic beat poetry reading, had nothing on the bookends surrounding their set—bipolar acts who both sit at the very forefront of heavy music today. Continue…