Three years ago From Ashes To New visited Australia for the first time for Good Things Festival, and now tonight in Sydney we are here for the bands first ever headline tour show in Australia. I missed them at Good Things, so I’m excited to finally catch FATN live! Banks Arcade open the night and these NZ via Melbourne boys […]

“Three down, I don’t know how many more we’ve got in us. So we’re going to be making use of every second on that stage…” From Release: Also flying the flag for Australian music at Good Things this year, SLOWLY SLOWLY have become firm favourites with their energetic brand of indie rock and pop punk that potently translates to a […]

There’s something exciting about a debut album from a band. You know they’ve put everything into making sure this is their perfect introduction to the world, so today we have unpeople, a band I wasn’t aware of before this, so I’m pumped to be introduced to a new band and some new music. The album starts with ‘clouds’ a great […]

“I think it was as pleasurable and joyful and amazing as it was painful and hard in equal measures …” From Release: Rapidly ascending four-piece unpeople announce their unifying, genre-spanning debut album we are unpeople – out October 9th on SharpTone Records – which takes the philosophy behind the band’s name and turns it into a powerful, uncompromising statement of […]

Time for some heavy! Who doesn’t love that to start your day?! So I’m looking forward to seeing what Wage War have done with this, their sixth album ‘Landfall’.  Shall we begin? An alert siren starts and this one explodes, immediately the title track ‘Landfall’ means business, this is the perfect way to start my day, oh wow, those clean […]

“We never expected to get huge, we just kept doing our thing and watching our friends get ridiculously famous…” From Release: Since forming in 1988, Mudhoney quickly became the flagship act for legendary independent label Sub Pop and to date has released over 25 official primary releases spanning over three decades. Their provocative debut single ‘Touch Me I’m Sick’ and […]

“Australia indulged our rock star dreams very early on, we were successful in Australia like very early on even before we were doing anything in Canada …” From Release: As one of the most culturally and commercially successful bands in rock, SIMPLE PLAN have spent over two decades cultivating and evolving their status as pop punk legends. Now in command […]

“I think our identity has always kind of been what it is, I mean it evolves but our identity is that we are a band that does rap and a band that does rock and pretty much everything else in between…” From Release: A band who have captured the hearts and minds of fans across the globe since first forming […]

Four years between albums is somewhat standard for bands these days, but it’s also exciting as that anticipation is there, the knowing that after hearing a few singles that the full length is coming, and for Miss May I, here it is. Their newest album ‘No Place For Me’, so let’s check it out. Almost what sounds like sirens ring […]

“We’ve always stuck to being a long form, art form band, an albums band and creating projects and really caring about the whole of the album…” From Release: Marking a decade of Nothing But Thieves last year, with four albums, billions of streams, thousands of worldwide live shows and a global dedicated fanbase, the Southend five-piece made their musical return […]

I love a tour like this, as it’s been 4 years since Bush have been here, and a whopping 16 for Shinedown, so this pairing tonight is exciting. There are two great bands and we are in for an amazing night of live music. Let’s get warmed up by Coast Arcade first… they did a great job and I’d be […]

“I’m filling in the blanks for all the stories that you’ve heard about Poison… not all of them but I’m sure I didn’t address everything in the book…” From Release: From the suburbs of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, to the neon glare of Los Angeles, Rikki Rockett’s journey is as raw and relentless as the beat of his drums. Before becoming the […]

“I always try to make time to speak about important things…” From Release: With emotional intensity and expansive soundscapes, Germany alt metal act FUTURE PALACE have been traversing the avenues of post hardcore, metal, electronica and synth pop since forming in 2018. From the vocal acrobatics of Maria Lessing through to their bewitching sonic output, FUTURE PALACE also just unleashed […]

“Who could’ve thought that these songs that we’d written almost 45 years ago that we’d still be playing them now…” From Release: German heavy metal legends ACCEPT celebrate 50 years of pure power, bringing together the scene’s A-list musicians for a landmark release. Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 stands as a definitive statement of the band’s legacy, forged in steel and driven […]

“We’re not a band that believes in a top, that’s never been a thing for us…” From Release: One of rock’s most revered live acts, SHINEDOWN‘s relentless energy and audience connection have been a staple of their performances for decades, with their diverse back catalogue balancing moments of spectacle with breaths of emotive finesse. Whether performing with Papa Roach, Halestorm, […]

“You’re getting the best version of us in Australia…” From Release: A band equally capable of delighting and devastating with their versatile take on bewitching and aggressive industrial flavours set against brooding soundscapes, HEALTH are the ultimate amalgamation of dexterity and modern ennui. The perfect band to lure you onto the dancefloor while an apocalypse plays out, HEALTH’s cult-like ascension […]

I love reviewing albums of bands I’m not hugely familiar with, so when Movements are releasing a new album it’s definitely worth checking out and let’s see how ‘Happier Now’ shapes up. ‘Pulse’ opens the album and it’s songs like this that annoy me in the fact that I haven’t delved into a band like this earlier. This is great, […]

I’ve had the chance to see Skindred a few times now, but only ever in a festival or special guest slot, so tonight will be my first time seeing them as headliners, and knowing what their show is like in those other environments then I can’t wait to see what tonight brings. Broken Earth did a great job of warming […]

“I just put whatever I’ve got out there and hope that somebody else listens to it and sees what in it I saw…” From Release: CRASH TEST DUMMIES are heading back to Australia in April 2027 — and they’re not coming quietly. After a sold out 2025 run that reminded audiences exactly why they became one of the most unmistakable […]

It’s been almost exactly three years since Avatar were in Sydney on their first ever visit where they blew us away. So I know that I’m ready to see one of the best bands I’ve EVER seen live once again. Pyrefly who stepped up last minute last tour are back and I’m looking forward to watching how far they’ve come. […]

Let’s check out the new Mastodon album! I’m doing a first listen review so this’ll be fun. Oh man I am immediately into this, the drums hit hard before a massive guitar rings in to open ‘Barbarians Blood’ and this is going to be good! That musical transition early on was a nice little twist as the song keeps that […]

“I get sometimes really scared going to rock festivals because I feel like I’m usually out of everyone on the lineup the least punk…” From Release: In a short space of time, Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based rising pop punk star LØLØ has already ticked off collaborating with Simple Plan, toured with Boys Like Girls, New Found Glory and Against The Current, […]

“You have to keep pushing… if you believe in your music and you believe in what you’re doing it will happen…” From Release: Billy Vincent has been steadily building momentum on social media for the past two years with consistent videos of him performing covers of songs, as well as his own. To build on the incredible fan community he’s […]

“It’s full tilt the whole time but there is a journey…” From Release: Australia, prepare to set your fazers to stun this September, with Welsh ragga metal legends SKINDRED primed to return to our shores for their biggest ever Australian headline tour! Wielding a formidable (and deserved) reputation as one of the best live bands on the planet, SKINDRED have […]

“When you don’t really know what you’re doing or why you’re doing it is when the best stuff comes out…” From Release: In 2026, one of Australia’s most prolific live performers will deliver mind-bending musicality across the country with guitarist, producer and composer extraordinaire PLINI today announcing a headline run on home soil, fresh off the release off his hotly-anticipated […]

“People come and tell me that that was the soundtrack to their childhood, stuff like that and those songs ‘The Touch’ and ‘Dare’ changed their lives…” From Release: THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE: THE SOUNDTRACK: THE REFORMATTED EDITION brings 10 re-recorded, reimagined tracks from the iconic film, where modern production techniques meet the raw spirit of 1986 to create something that […]

“We’re just a big loud rock band, I man that’s pretty much what it is, I always say if there’s one thing we’re good at it’s the live show…” From Release: Culture Wars is an Austin-bred alternative powerhouse bridging the gap between ’90s guitar grit and the cinematic polish of modern pop. Driven by “song-first” authenticity, the band rejects the […]

“I surrendered to when the art was finished in its entirety to tell the story that was the perfect snapshot of what my last few years has been like…” From Release: Capturing the contrast of life’s highs and lows, light and darkness, softness and grit, Beautiful Mess marks Wigmore’s first new album in eight years. The record was largely brought […]

“To anyone who’s never been there come with an open mind and let it go right through you…” From Bio: Regularly hailed as one of the greatest live bands in existence, QOTSA consists of Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore… What started off as generator parties in the desert has evolved into an undeniable […]

“We’ve never sounded in my opinion better than we’ve sounded now…” From Release: The UK metal titans TesseracT are widely regarded as pioneers, expanding metal’s vocabulary beyond all measure with off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies, bending grooves and disorientating atmospherics. Over the course of their career, the band have built a formidable reputation for powerful, mind-altering live shows and Australian legions […]