Sixx:A.M. have arrived, and by that I mean even after prior releases this is the first album the band are solely a band on, no other distractions from Motley Crue or Guns N Roses, this is straight up Sixx:A.M. and it shows! The collective of Nikki Sixx, Dj Ashba and James Michael as Sixx:A.M. have given us three albums prior […]

“It’s cool because we look at ourselves as a new band so to speak and we know we’re gonna have to roll up our sleeves and work our way back up to the top again and that’s exciting for us. So yeah we couldn’t be more pumped about it.” From Release: It’s a universal truth that true artists will always […]

Due to overwhelming demand, BRING ME THE HORIZON have announced a second Sydney show. With most tickets snapped up when they went on sale yesterday morning, to meet the massive demand Bring Me The Horizon have confirmed they will be performing a second and final show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Sunday 18 September. Tickets to this new […]

LIVE NATION, UNIFY and TRIPLE J present BRING ME THE HORIZON TOURING AUSTRALIA IN 2016. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. PLEASE TRY TO REMAIN CALM. BRING ME THE HORIZON have announced their eagerly awaited return to Australian shores for this coming September. The British rock band will perform arenas around Australia on their first tour Down Under since 2013. Since the release of their […]

After a highly successful 26-date album release tour, Sydney rockers GANG OF YOUTHS are set to embark on their most ambitious run of shows to date, announcing a national Australian headline tour for April 2016. Kicking off at the Tivoli in Brisbane on April 8, followed by all ages shows in their hometown of Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, the band will wrap […]

Armed with material from their eagerly anticipated third album, Limitless, Australian rock heavyweights TONIGHT ALIVE are set to play a run of intimate east coast shows in January, before embarking on European and US dates. A little bit older and a whole world wiser, today Tonight Alive are a band brimming with energy onstage and off – bursting with stories from the road and […]

“This is our sixth record in, Five Finger Death Punch has become a well-oiled machine and we do the things that we do and do them very well, everything is gelling in the sense that everybody writes together and all the ideas are bounced off one another, so pretty much a continuation of the process really.” From release: FIVE FINGER […]

Def Leppard are excited to announce the release of their new studio album, DEF LEPPARD, available 30th October 2015 on earMusic through Sony Music Entertainment Australia. ‘Let’s Go’, the first single from Def Leppard’s self titled album, is available now. DEF LEPPARD is the band’s eleventh studio album – the first since 2008’s SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE. From the […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have FIVE copies of the new BMTH album ‘That’s The Spirit’ to give away to five of our lucky readers. It’s an absolute rocker, we loved it and you can read what we thought about it HERE So if you want win one of the five copies, simply send us an […]

One of the perks of this ‘job’ is getting to hear music earlier than others, but never have I had the chance to hear an album two months before release and not only that, be one if the first in the world to hear it. That album was the then untitled Bring Me The Horizon album. One, Two, skip a […]

“We’re still all kind of young, we’ve got a fire, an ambition and we just want to be a timeless band, we want to be as big as we possibly can, reach as many fans as we can and just continue to make music, I mean that’s the main thing, right?” From Release: Over the course of their career, Bullet For […]

“…I’m enjoying this, I enjoy working with Adam, I’m very proud of the record we made and I think it’s only the beginning of what we’ll be able to do. There was two very hard decisions that we’ve had to make as a band, one was deciding on the name and figuring out what that was going to be, and […]

“…it’s hard to keep the ship floating in the right direction when you’ve got some people that are trying to lean it off to the side. So once we were able to get rid of the people that were the problem, everything really fell in line with myself, Tom and Chad, we’ve always been on the same page and we […]

Jim Adkins, lead-singer of multi-platinum rock band Jimmy Eat World, is excited to announce a series solo tour dates in Europe and a string of digital singles to be released this summer, beginning with ‘I Will Go’this Friday, July 10. Every Friday between now and August 14, Adkins will release a new digital single, with all of the singles being released as a set […]

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH have dropped their brand new song “Jekyll and Hyde” at radio and it made it’s Australian premiere last night (Tues, June 16) on Triple J’s The Racket. It is the first single from their highly anticipated sixth full-length album “GOT YOUR SIX” which will be released on August 28th via Eleven Seven Music/Sony Music Australia. The single premiered with an […]

UK metal titans Bullet For My Valentine unveil plans to release their long-awaited, 5th studio album, VENOM, on August 14th via Sony Music Australia.  The band’s global domination begins with the premiere of the album’s striking cover artwork and a stream of their first new song, “No Way Out”. Listen now to “Now Way Out”:  Watch the lyric video below A limited edition VENOM package will be available exclusively through […]

JOE SATRIANI  ANNOUNCES 15TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘SHOCKWAVE SUPERNOVA’ SET FOR RELEASE FRIDAY JULY 24TH NEW WORLD TOUR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 17TH IN EUROPE SATRIANI’S SCI-FI ANIMATION SERIES ‘CRYSTAL PLANET’ IN THE WORKS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW: ITUNES: http://smarturl.it/shockwave.IT SANITY: http://smarturl.it/shockwave.SAN JB HIFI: http://smarturl.it/shockwave.JBHIFI Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce legendary guitarist, JOE SATRIANI, is set to release his 15th […]

The Script are back in Australia, seems they’re here a lot and why not when you’re at the stage where you’re playing arenas! They’re here off the back of their new album ‘No Sound Without Silence’ and it’ll be great to hear some of these newer songs in this big room tonight… Colton Avery lit up Allphones Arena (literally) as […]

“So it was a challenge and it was exciting but we knew we had something, we knew the sound was fresh so we were just excited. We weren’t kids but we were much younger back then and I think we just wanted to get it done real quick and get out there and present it to the world…” From release: […]

Frontier Touring are proud to announce that the great Ryan Adams along with his band The Shining will treat Australia and New Zealand to headline shows this July, joined by very special guest Jenny Lewis for all Australian shows. This will be Adams’ first tour of Australia and New Zealand since 2012’s acclaimed sold-out Ashes and Fire solo theatre tour and his first time playing here […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have FIVE copies of deluxe version of the 20th Anniversary Edition of silverchair’s killer album ‘Frogstomp’ to give away to five of our lucky readers. It’s an absolute rocker, we loved it and you can read what we thought about it HERE So if you want win one of the five […]

Do you have a silverchair story? I do… don’t worry it’ll all be relevant to this review… so in 1994 I was going to school in St Kilda, one of the guys tells us to come to The Espy on Friday as ‘there are these kids that are unbelievable, they’re going to be huge…’ we look at him like ‘ok…’ […]

“To deliver their set with the energy and passion that Jebediah emanate is a tribute to each member’s talent and dedication. This old friend just reminded us all what we’ve been missing.” – TOM Mag This May /June Perth’s finest Indie Rockers JEBEDIAH invite fans to join in a 20th Anniversary celebration with a Metro City tour run and a compilation album, aptly titled ‘TWENTY’. […]

10 years ago an unknown band from Perth, Western Australia pooled their very limited resources and questionable facial hair, and got to work on their debut album. Recorded in various spaces, in various ways, with a slightly varying line-up, they borrowed gear, they borrowed money, they borrowed space and they used some tunings that perhaps haven’t been heard again. The […]

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce the release of the 20th Anniversary remastered edition of silverchair’s history making debut album frogstomp. The album will be re-released as the following packages – as a single CD, a 2CD/DVD deluxe set, 180 gram yellow vinyl as well as digitally on Friday March 27th 2015, which is exactly 20 years to […]

Sony Music Entertainment and Legacy Recordings have signed virtuoso guitarist/composer/producer Steve Vai to a new multi-album agreement which includes plans to issue two fresh Vai sets in 2015 beginning with the release of STILLNESS IN MOTION – VAI LIVE IN L.A. on April 10th, 2015. Vai’s first release under the new agreement will be STILLNESS IN MOTION – VAI LIVE […]

“The Scorpions have been doing this without a break, meanwhile other bands take a break for a few years or a member does a solo album while the others do nothing or whatever. We’ve been continuously touring or making albums and so we thought let’s get out of the routine, we didn’t want to split up, we were ready to […]

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce that Music For Nations, the celebrated and legendary Heavy Metal, Rock and Prog record label, will once again be distributed locally via physical and digital product. In a series of reissues, the label will be celebrating some of the most iconic records by some of world’s most influential bands. As well as reissues, […]

Exclusive pre-listening of the new Scorpions album – don’t miss the live streaming! Germany’s internationally most successful band celebrates their 50th anniversary on Thursday, February 19, with the release of their new album “Return To Forever“. For this unique event, the band invited fans and media partners to the Hard Rock Café in Hamburg, from where the night’s big party […]

HCSS’ COMING FULL CIRCLE It all started when a fan gave Martin a copy of a demo we recorded back in -94. We all got very surprised about the great vibe and how good we sounded that early. The tracks were litteraly drenched in sweat, excitement and inspiration. So when it was time for us to start working on songs […]