Live Shows: Bellower, Tysk Tysk Task, Elizabory, and Amulette, Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center, Greenfield, MA 1/13/24
My favorite bills are ones with bands that don't exactly make sense together. Seeing four metal bands or four ska bands can get repetitive, so my personal preference is seeing four completely different bands in one night. That's what happened Saturday night at Hawks & Reed with the quadruple bill of Bellower, Elizabory, Tysk Tysk Task, and Amulette. Amulette opened, and were definitely not what I expected with what I knew about the other bands playing. They're a Western Massachusetts based band that plays an uptempo sound that was a mixture of modern prog rock meets jam band. That might not sound like it would work, or would be terrible, but it was surprisingly good. They also play a nearly instrumental selection of songs with the bare minimum of lyrics required to not be fully instrumental. Plus, for the last song they added in a large chunk of 8-bit video game music. I'm most likely explaining this badly, but they were the type of band that surprised me more and m...