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Machine Head to release Machine F**king Head Live on November 9

Machine Head to release Machine F**king Head Live on November 9

The best way to experience the almighty Machine Head is in the live setting. The Northern California band has established itself as one of the best live acts in the hard rock and metal world, bringing venues and crowds to their knees with flawless onstage execution of their songs. Few, if any, of their peers can deliver the type of sweat-soaked, utterly […]

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Steve Vai – The Story Of Light (Video Interview)

Steve Vai – The Story Of Light (Video Interview)

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Entertainment Australia, in promotion of his new album The Story Of Light, we  recently had the opportunity to submit a bunch of interview questions to Steve Vai, who answered them via the video answers which now appear in the exclusive interview below. The Story Of Light continues on from where Vai’s most recent studio release, 2005’s […]

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P!NK – The Truth About Love Tour – Australia 2013

P!NK – The Truth About Love Tour – Australia 2013

Live Nation has announced that P!NK will make her hugely anticipated return to this country for what will be the hottest tour of the year – The Truth About Love Tour 2013. Renowned around the world as one of the most dynamic live performers of her generation – and by far the most successful female touring and recording artist ever […]

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The Cult Reveal Prequel To Choice of Weapon Album

The Cult Reveal Prequel To Choice of Weapon Album

In an ingenious move often reserved for film, The Cult has announced they will be releasing a ‘prequel’ to accompany their latest critically acclaimed album, Choice of Weapon. The digital-only release Weapon of Choice reveals the songs at a stage of development that will be of interest to The Cult’s fans and followers. Weapon of Choice is a document of a work in progress and offers a unique opportunity to hear The Cult’s process. The material has not been previously released, […]

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Tsar return with with a new EP ‘The Dark Stuff’

Tsar return with with a new EP ‘The Dark Stuff’

TSAR were formed in Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly planted their flag in the name of a new kind of rock at the center of the, then, exploding Silverlake music scene. Garage rockers, punks and glam babies alike flocked to eastside clubs to catch TSAR’s bombastic live performances and catchy power-pop/punk songwriting. A bidding war resulted in a major label […]

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Paul DiAnno and Blaze Bayley Australian tour

Paul DiAnno and Blaze Bayley Australian tour

Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley Australian Tour  Legendary ex-vocalists of Iron Maiden Hardline Media proudly presents Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley – former vocalists of Iron Maiden – performing together for the first time ever in Australia and New Zealand. In a world exclusive, for their co-headlining sets both singers will be belting out only Iron Maiden songs – classic […]

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The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965’ Out November 2nd

The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965’ Out November 2nd

The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965’ out November 2nd from ABKCO – Super Deluxe Box Set/Blu-ray and DVD Details Revealed ABKCO Films is proud to join in the celebration of the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary by announcing exclusive details of the release of the legendary, but never before officially released film, The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is […]

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WIN a copy of Grinspoon’s ‘Black Rabbits’ (CLOSED)

WIN a copy of Grinspoon’s ‘Black Rabbits’ (CLOSED)

Thanks to our friends at Universal Music Australia, we have five copies of the cracking new Grinspoon album ‘Black Rabbits’ to give away to five of our lucky readers.  First single ‘Passerby’ has given us a taste of a newer Grinners sound and we dig it!  Want to hear what else they’ve come up with? Well you can by simply […]

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Hawthorne Heights Australian Tour 2012

Hawthorne Heights Australian Tour 2012

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo.com present HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS WITH SIENNA SKIES AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are set to make their well anticipated return to Australia in December this year to celebrate the 2nd release in their EP trilogy – Hope. The Ohio quartet have been working solidly since they last hit our shores in 2006, releasing Fragile Future in mid 2008 and then their 4th studio album Skeletons hit shelves […]

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The Tea Party: Live in Australia DVD out 7th November

The Tea Party: Live in Australia DVD out 7th November

From November 7 The Tea Party: Live in Australia will be available for lovers of epic rock on Blu-ray and DVD. Since the Canadian three piece exploded onto the scene in the early-‘90s the Tea Party has pursued a singular epic sound melding middle-eastern influences with cacophonous power for what has become widely dubbed as Moroccan Roll. After a brief breakup […]

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THE SCRIPT announce their biggest Australian tour ever

THE SCRIPT announce their biggest Australian tour ever

THE SCRIPT ANNOUNCES NATIONAL ARENA TOUR! With smash hit album #3 (out now through Sony Music) tearing up charts and hearts across the globe, Frontier Touring Company is delighted  to confirm that The Script will return to Australia in 2013 with their biggest national tour to date! The Dublin natives make this announcement whilst in Australia for a sell out […]

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FM to release new EP ‘Only Foolin’

FM to release new EP ‘Only Foolin’

English melodic rockers FM have issued the following update via their Facebook/Website: “Here in FM land we love our traditions and in the run-up to the release of our seventh studio album we couldn’t resist one particular FM tradition – on 26th November 2012 we will be releasing ONLY FOOLIN’ EP. We’ve had a great reaction to our EPs over the […]

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2013 releases coming from Work Of Art, Snakecharmer, Cannata, Seventh Key and James Christian on Frontiers Records

2013 releases coming from Work Of Art, Snakecharmer, Cannata, Seventh Key and James Christian on Frontiers Records

Frontiers Records have issued the following update on upcoming 2013 releases for Snakecharmer, Cannatta, Seventh Key, Work of Art and James Christian! WORK OF ART Swedish AOR stars WORK OF ART have started laying down tracks for the anticipated third album which the band plans to title “Piece of Work” as a completion of the trilogy of album titles that […]

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Adler to release debut album ‘Back From The Dead’ on November 26th

Adler to release debut album ‘Back From The Dead’ on November 26th

September 24th, 2012  – Adler, the new band led by former Guns N Roses drummer Steven Adler will be releasing their debut album “Back From The Dead” November 26th via New Ocean Media in North America. “Back From The Dead” was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, Dokken) and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour). The album consists of 11 tracks ranging from adrenaline pumping rockers […]

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DRAGON release 2CD set – The Dragon Years Fortieth Anniversary Collection + concert dates

DRAGON release 2CD set – The Dragon Years Fortieth Anniversary Collection + concert dates

1976 Sunday night, 6pm …anywhere and everywhere in Australia: Countdown on TV. A giant appears on screen, black kohl eyeliner, flashy earrings, multi coloured hair, gap between two front teeth…’Gonna sit down and talk to myself’, he sings…camera pans out…two more very tall men, one willowy with long curly hair, the other rocking a steady bass rhythm nodding his bushy […]

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The Trews announce new EP and Australian tour

The Trews announce new EP and Australian tour

‘The rock gods have again answered the prayers of rock fans Australia wide by blessing us with another tour from multi-award winning Canadian rockers, The Trews’ – Troy Culpan, May The Rock Be With You This October THE TREWS will be gracing our shores for a national tour in support of their highly anticipated new extended EP, “…thank you and […]

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T&N ‘Slave To The Empire’ featuring “the big 3” from Dokken to be released October 31!

T&N ‘Slave To The Empire’ featuring “the big 3” from Dokken to be released October 31!

T&N reunites George Lynch, Jeff Pilson and “Wild” Mick Brown – aka “The Big Three” from Dokken – for this brand new 12 song disk that will surely be referred to as a classic in years to come! Returning to their roots, “Slave to the Empire” offers seven new original songs and five re-recorded classic Dokken songs that feature sensational vocal performances […]

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Geoff Tate to release his second solo album, Kings & Thieves on November 6, 2012

Geoff Tate to release his second solo album, Kings & Thieves on November 6, 2012

GEOFF TATE, the acclaimed voice of Queensryche, will release his second solo album, KINGS & THIEVES, on November 6, 2012 in North America.  KINGS & THIEVES will be TATE’s first solo album in more than a decade and his debut release for InsideOut Music.  As one of the most well-known and respected vocalists in the history of hard rock and heavy metal, GEOFF TATE has sold over 20 […]

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Crooked Saint and Ashleigh Mannix announce joint headline East Coast tour

Crooked Saint and Ashleigh Mannix announce joint headline East Coast tour

Crooked Saint It has been a massive eighteen months for Melbourne’s Crooked Saint, the musical alter ego of Tim Wheatley. He has independently released two EP’s and a double a side, all to critical acclaim, triple j, commercial and widespread national community and ABC airplay. In support of the releases he’s completed two Australian tours and two lengthy stints in […]

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Redcoats… Who’s Rollin’?

Redcoats… Who’s Rollin’?

Redcoats announce the release of their debut self-titled album out 19 October. To support this release the band will be touring throughout November on their Who’s Rollin’ album tour, full dates below. Following from first single lifted from the album, Raven, Redcoats have also just released second single Evergreen to radio. Watch the psychedelic inspired clip here now! Their album […]

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Jimi Jamison announces new solo album ‘Never Too Late’

Jimi Jamison announces new solo album ‘Never Too Late’

JIMI JAMISON – one of Melodic Rock’s most legendary voices – returns with his new solo album “Never Too Late” Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of JIMI JAMISON’s new solo album “Never Too Late” on November 2nd in Europe and November the 6th in North America. Often referred to as one of the American top Rock vocalists, Jimi […]

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ArtistsDirect premiere new Papa Roach song ‘Before I Die’

ArtistsDirect premiere new Papa Roach song ‘Before I Die’

ARTISTDIRECT premiered a new Papa Roach song ‘BEFORE I DIE‘ (http://bit.ly/R2ZTzu) and a behind the scenes video yesterday, off of their upcoming album The Connection (October 2, Eleven Seven Music). Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix had been diagnosed with a nodule on his left vocal chord. At the advice of his physician, he underwent corrective surgery to remove the nodule and prevent further damage. “It’s no secret […]

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RICK SPRINGFIELD to release in Europe his new album “Songs from the End of the World” on Frontiers Records

RICK SPRINGFIELD to release in Europe his new album “Songs from the End of the World” on Frontiers Records

Singer, actor and best-selling author : Rock icon RICK SPRINGFIELD to release in Europe his new album “Songs from the End of the World” on Frontiers Records For all his accomplishments as an actor, a best-selling author and the subject of a recent documentary, RICK SPRINGFIELD’s first love has always been music, since the first time he picked up a guitar […]

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Heart releases new studio album, ‘Fanatic’ & long awaited memoir, ‘Kicking & Dreaming’

Heart releases new studio album, ‘Fanatic’ & long awaited memoir, ‘Kicking & Dreaming’

2012 proves banner year for American rock band heart with new studio album & hardcover memoir arriving this fall legacy recordings releasing “Fanatic”, the hard-rock successor to 2010’s top 10 debut red velvet car, on Tuesday, October 2 and “Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock and Roll,” The Revelatory Memoir by Ann & Nancy Wilson On […]

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Matchbox 20 announce additional Sydney & Brisbane shows – on sale Thursday 27th Sept

Matchbox 20 announce additional Sydney & Brisbane shows – on sale Thursday 27th Sept

EXTRA DATES ANNOUNCED – 2ND & FINAL SYDNEY & BRISBANE SHOWS! THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 – MATCHBOX TWENTY make their the highly anticipated return to Australia next month, playing their first Australian shows in five years, with very special guests Aussie legends INXS at their side. Two extra shows have been announced for this their sixth Australian tour. Playing second and […]

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Paul Kelly announces new studio album ‘Spring And Fall’

Paul Kelly announces new studio album ‘Spring And Fall’

Australian singer songwriter Paul Kelly will release his 19th studio album ‘Spring And Fall’ on October 19th, his first album of new material since 2007’s highly successful ‘Stolen Apples’. ‘Spring And Fall’ arrives on the heels of an extended period of retrospective activity, during which Kelly celebrated his extensive body of work with the release of the career-spanning 40-song compilation […]

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Dave Dobbyn’s ‘Slice Of Heaven’ hits Australia

Dave Dobbyn’s ‘Slice Of Heaven’ hits Australia

It has been 20 years since Dave Dobbyn last toured in Australia. Now he is bringing his acclaimed ‘Greatest Hits’ show and his five-piece band to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on November 14, 15 and 16. Dobbyn has written the soundtrack to kiwi lives, with a string of NZ hits including ‘Loyal’, ‘Beside You’, ‘Be Mine Tonight’ ‘Language’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Outlook […]

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Birds Of Tokyo announce ‘This Fire’ EP October 5

Birds Of Tokyo announce ‘This Fire’ EP October 5

What do you do if your band spends five years growing from acclaimed indie artists into having its name up in lights? Well if you’re Birds Of Tokyo you burn it all down and you start all over again. It’s therefore apt that the group’s first new music in over two years is a four song EP called “This Fire”.  It […]

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The Amity Affliction ‘Chasing Ghosts’ debuts at #1 on the ARIA charts

The Amity Affliction ‘Chasing Ghosts’ debuts at #1 on the ARIA charts

THE AMITY AFFLICTION DEBUT AT #1 ON THE ARIA CHARTS! 4/5 – Blunt Magazine “The songs here are some of the strongest the band has written.” – Themusic.com.au 4/5 – Alternative Press (USA)  “…this is a definitive victory for smart songwriting, heart and passion.” – Alternative Press (USA) 8/10 – JMag “They’re massive because these are good songs…” – JMag  The Amity Affliction have raised […]

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Dragonforce release ‘Seasons’ from ‘The Power Within’

Dragonforce release ‘Seasons’ from ‘The Power Within’

‘Seasons’ is the second single to be released from the latest and 5th DRAGONFORCE studio album The Power Within. Written by bassist Frederic Leclercq the song is accompanied by a montage video filmed during a series of shows played to introduce new singer Marc Hudson to the bands fan base prior to the commencement of The Power Within World Tour, including playing the […]

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