It’s been a long time coming, but virtuoso musician, songwriter and performer Steve Balbi, will release his debut solo album, Black Rainbow, on Friday 13th September. He’ll then take the album on the road in October, touring with the Baby Animals to Newcastle, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.     Balbi, the former bass guitarist for Noiseworks, Electric Hippies and […]

STEVE BALBI – BLACK RAINBOW Steve Balbi has lived a remarkable life. His is the sort of story that sells books, and shifts movie tickets. It’s a tale of incredible highs and rare lows, a rock ‘n’ roll reality with all the trappings that come with being a familiar face from one of Australia’s biggest bands of the late ‘80s […]

Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End, and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut, iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are thrilled to announce a new national Australian tour in 2013. Presented by Social Family Records and The Harbour Agency, the “Feed The Birds” tour will begin in Newcastle […]

Thanks to our good friends at Jaden Social, we have two copies of the new Divine Fits double A-side vinyl single to give away. These two new tracks from Divine Fits, “Ain’t That The Way” (written by Britt Daniel) and “Chained To Love” (written by Dan Boeckner) were produced by the multi Grammy Award winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, […]

Arctic Monkeys will release their fifth album, entitled ‘AM’ on Friday September 6, 2013. ‘AM’ was produced by James Ford and co-produced by Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording, LA and Rancho De La Luna, Joshua Tree.  The album was engineered by Ian Shea and mixed by Tchad Blake. Josh Homme, Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones all make guest […]

“Well for me after all these years of touring, and playing live I just wanted The Dead Daisies to be a true band, no bells and whistles, just keep it really simple and make it rock and good melodies and guitar riffs.” A legend of the Australian music scene for well over twenty five years now, Jon Stevens is of […]

Off the back of Aerosmith’s Australian tour, The Dead Daisies are now preparing an invasion of U.S. soil in August & September 2013 for the fourth annual Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival. Alongside heavyweight rockers Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction, the band will Headline the COLDCOCK Herbal Whiskey Showcase Stage which will also feature performances from breaking talent Beware Of […]

Recorded in Los Angeles at Blue Room Studios with producer Bob Marlette, FILTER‘s latest album The Sun Comes Out Tonight follows 2010’s The Trouble with Angels. The band’s decorated history also includes such platinum and gold recordings as Short Bus (1995), Title of Record (1999), The Amalgamut (2002) and Anthems for the Damned (2008). The album was written and recorded […]

Twenty years is a long time between releases and especially for a band that was so big in their hey day like the Baby Animals were, but here we are now in 2013 and Suze DeMarchi and Dave Leslie thought it was time to return, and what a time it is. ‘This Is Not The End’ sees Suze and Dave […]

You heard right, the Baby Animals are back with their third studio album, the first in twenty years. This Is Not The End will be released on Friday 31st May via Social Family Records.  To celebrate the release of the album the band have announced today that they will tour the East Coast of Australia this June, with tickets going […]

Fresh off ZZ Top’s Australian Tour, The Dead Daisies are set to release their lead single ‘Lock ’N’ Load’ (single artwork pictured to the right). Featuring the signature guitar riffs of Slash and laced with Jon Stevens’ trademark vocals this classic track will rock you to your very core. “Slash and I wrote ‘Lock ‘N’ Load’ which was recorded with […]