The Hoodoo Gurus recently announced on their Facebook page that Mark Kingsmill, their drummer for the last thirty years, is retiring from the band. The reason for his departure was Kingsmill had lost enthusiasm for continued touring. This Media Release is by way of making that informal announcement somewhat official. Mark Kingsmill joined the Hoodoo Gurus in 1984, replacing original […]

“…I think even just growing up as people, just on a personal level as well, the way we portray ourselves and our level of performance has come a long way as well and I’m ready to bring that back to Australia, I really want our fans to see that growth and change and really have the opportunity to reach out […]

Now, I’ve been a fan of Papa Roach for some time now, well actually all the time, since I heard ‘Last Resort’ I knew there was something about this band that was pretty cool, so 1, 2, skip a few and with a number of albums under their belt they are back in 2015 with their new album ‘F.E.A.R’ The […]

“We’re gonna play some old school classics and but then we’re going to play all this stuff we’ve been writing all the years but haven’t been coming down to Australia to tour on, so a lot of the fans will be hearing a lot of these songs for the first time live, so that’s going to be special.” Since the […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have five copies of the new AC/DC album ‘Rock or Bust’ to give away to our lucky readers. To win one of the five copies, simply send us an email to mtrbwy@maytherockbewithyou.com with the subject line of ‘AC/DC Giveaway’ and include your name and address and finish this sentence for us…‘For […]

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to release Hoodoo Gurus GRAVY TRAIN EP, out now. This is the second EP ever to be released by the Hoodoo Gurus in the band’s history. It features all eight past and present members, performing on four songs dating from the earliest days of the band’s career, three of them never recorded before! Back in September 2011, the Hoodoo […]

When the Foo Fighters announced they were going on hiatus after they finished touring for ‘Wasting Light’, many were surprised, not sure of what that meant or how long it would actually last, but thankfully not too long as when the band decided they were ready to come back, well, why not do it in a big way… A series […]

“… if we start paying attention to that and start focusing on what other people might think, then we lose ourselves. We always go into the studio and we always do things like this, we don’t listen to any managers, we don’t listen to any record company or anybody that want us to do the same things in a different […]

AC/DC’s recently announced album ROCK OR BUST, available for pre-order now, will have its first Australian public playback at midday on Sunday November 23rd, 2014 at the small Riverina town of The Rock, population 860, 5 days ahead of its official release on Friday November 28th. Sony Music and Alberts will be launching ROCK OR BUST at the Lockhart Shire’s […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have ten copies of the new Train album ‘Bulletproof Picasso’ to give away to our lucky readers. To win one of the ten copies, simply send us an email to mtrbwy@maytherockbewithyou.com with the subject line of ‘Train Giveaway’ and include your name and address and the answer to this question…‘What did […]

“For twenty years we’ve been dodging bullets and somehow consistently making music, then you think maybe all artists who have lasted time are Bulletproof Picasso’s at some point…” On their promo tour of Australia we were lucky to sit down with Pat Monahan and Jimmy Stafford of Train for our first video interview to discuss the band’s new album ‘Bulletproof […]

This weekend, the new HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways begins on GO!. Airing this Saturday, October 18 at 4:30pm – just hours after it premieres in the US. Fans can also catch encore screenings on Sunday, October 19 at 3:30pm on GO! and Wednesday, October 22 at midnight on Channel Nine. The official trailer- viewable below – features musicians involved in this incredible series […]

Frontier Touring are proud to welcome back multi-platinum selling band The Script to Australia and New Zealand to play a string of arena shows in April and May 2015! The Dublin-raised, London-based trio – Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power – are no strangers to Australia, having sold out multiple arena shows on their previous visits and currently in […]

Alberts and Sony Music Entertainment Australia proudly announce the release of ROCK OR BUST, the highly anticipated new studio album from AC/DC, available in Australia on November 28th, 2014. ROCK OR BUST is the band’s first studio album in six years and features 11 new tracks. ROCK OR BUST follows the immensely successful BLACK ICE album, which debuted at #1 […]

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce THE ENDLESS RIVER, the new PINK FLOYD album from David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason. Details were revealed today as the album artwork appeared on buildings in ten International cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Sydney.  The album will be released on Friday, November 7th, 2014 and is produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth, and Andy Jackson.   David Gilmour said “THE […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have TEN copies of the brand new album from Slash feat Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators to give away to ten 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 to set the world […]

To set this album up, all I need is one word… Slash. You get me? Ok, read on. I personally always enjoy it when the title track of an album is the one that leads it off, it makes the point known, it sets up exactly why the album is named after it and here we are, ‘World On Fire’ […]

Releases Lyric Video For Lead Track “You And Me” Today; Track Available On Spotify Tomorrow Click Here To Watch “You And Me” Alecia Moore and Dallas Green have announced today a new collaboration called You+Me(pronounced You and Me) and a new album entitled rose ave., which is set to be released on October 10th via RCA Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia.  The 10 track […]

When some bands stop making music you can eventually be ok with that and deal with it, but when a band such as The Tea Party decides that they’re going to stop making music, well in my opinion that’s just not cool. What is cool is a big break and a return, a return in the way of a massive […]

“…So going back to what I said about me being the captain of the ship is that I wouldn’t let that record become public consumption if I didn’t feel that it stood up to anything that we’ve done, the best of what we’ve done and here we are… The Ocean At The End…” From release: Canadian purveyors of rock THE TEA […]

The Script have today announced that they will be back in Australia October 9th to 14th to celebrate the release of their new album, NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE and will play one very special show whilst here. “Our Australian fans have been behind us from the very beginning,” said Danny O’Donoghue on their upcoming Australian visit. “We can’t wait to […]

“…that’s my favourite tour or festival show or whatever you want to call it, in the entire world, man. When we played there literally man that’s a story I’m going to tell my grandchildren is when we played Soundwave, it’s my proudest moment of being a musician…” From Bio: Most recent album, ‘Ungrateful’ was a rebirth of ESCAPE THE FATE […]

Multi-platinum alt-rock band BUSH has announced an October 21st release date for their highly anticipated new album, MAN ON THE RUN on Sony Music Entertainment Australia. The band’s 6th studio album will be introduced via lead single ‘The Only Way Out’, which hits radio, iTunes, Amazon and all major retailers on September 9th. BUSH (vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale, guitarist Chris Traynor, bassist Corey Britz and drummer Robin Goodridge) recorded Man On The […]

They may have only left the country two weeks ago, but UK outfit The 1975 will return to Australian shores in January 2015 for three massive east coast shows. Taking to the stage at Melbourne’sFestival Hall, Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion and their first headlining show in QLD’s capital at Brisbane’s Tivoli Theatre, the hysteria continues to grow for the four-piece on Australian turf. Last month the Brit-rockers toured […]

“This album is instantly recognizable as a Foo Fighters record, but there’s something deeper and more musical to it. I think that these cities and these people influenced us to stretch out and explore new territory, without losing our ‘sound’.”—Dave Grohl FOO FIGHTERS have confirmed the worldwide release date of the band’s long awaited follow up the 4X-Grammy-winning, international #1 Wasting Light: […]

“…we’re ready for anything that comes and I think the hardest part is that there was never a big scene in Japan, there wasn’t a lot of people that listened to a Japanese band that only sang in English, so there was a little bit of those kind of bumps but I think everything we’ve done over the years has […]

The Script this week have premiered their video for ‘Superheroes’, their brand new single, the first to be released from their highly anticipated fourth album NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE. Directed by Vaughan Arnell, the video was shot in Johannesburg, South Africa and premiered this week on VEVO. The three-piece were extremely thankful to all those they met whilst filming in one of […]

Nagoya, Japan rock band coldrain, have announced their upcoming full-length album THE REVELATION, will be released on August 8 Sony Music Entertainment Australia/VAP. Australian fans will be treated to an exclusive 16 track Australian Deluxe Edition of the album. Produced by the award winning David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember), THE REVELATION, is the band’s debut international album. “It’s hard to put in words […]

This October, the career of rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE will be celebrated with the Epic Records/Legacy Recordings MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN collections released in Australia through Sony Music Entertainment. Due out October 10, MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN (CD) serves as a career spanning audio release, featuring 17 of OZZY’s greatest hit singles compiled in one place for the first time in his career and will be available in a single […]

Sony Music is proud to support ‘The Making Of Midnight Oil’ exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum. After a triumphant opening on Friday June 20th the gallery has gone on to welcome thousands of visitors from right across Australia and internationally, and has now announced the following special events: SPECIAL FILM SCREENING EVENT: THE MAKING OF 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Wednesday 6th August, 6:30PM […]