Tag: Soundwave 2014

Ville Valo of HIM

Ville Valo of HIM

“…when we came the first time we didn’t have any idea whatsoever and all of a sudden the clubs and a few other places were sold out and we didn’t know why and we were like kids in a candy store, we were so giddy about it, and that’s the cool thing about music, you never know how it’s going […]

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Zach Lind of Jimmy Eat World

Zach Lind of Jimmy Eat World

“… I think Jim is an authentic, honest front man who isn’t full of shit and he gives off a lot of energy and I think it starts with him and everyone in the band just wants to play the best show possible and I think it’s just the mentality of wanting to play the best show that we can.” […]

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TERROR + LETLIVE. + YOUR DEMISE ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS

TERROR + LETLIVE. + YOUR DEMISE ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS

Prepare to go ape-shit as three banging, heavy hitting and all together powerful bands collide for Sidewave shows guaranteed to get you in the pit! Ten years, nonstop relentless worldwide touring and five albums under their belt, TERROR are heading to Brisbane and Perth so be prepared to be pulverized. ‘Live By The Code’, the band’s latest album and their most loved Vogel claims […]

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A DAY TO REMEMBER + THE GHOST INSIDE + I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES

A DAY TO REMEMBER + THE GHOST INSIDE + I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVES

Metalcore fans beware: the following lineup may cause dizziness, dilated pupils and increased heart rate as A DAY TO REMEMBER, THE GHOST INSIDE and I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN announce Sidewave shows Florida’s pop-mosh lords, A DAY TO REMEMBER are back and they will be bringing their crushing live show to Sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne. With 5 albums under their belt, each one further […]

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HIM + NOSTALGHIA + THE DEFILED SIDEWAVE SHOWS ANNOUNCED

HIM + NOSTALGHIA + THE DEFILED SIDEWAVE SHOWS ANNOUNCED

HIM ARE A FORCE LIKE NO OTHER! Their trademark Heartagram has left its indelible stamp on the globe. With over 8 million records sold and the distinction of recording the best-selling single of any Finnish artist to date with Join Me In Death from 1999’s Razorblade Romance, as well as being the first Finnish band to receive gold certification in the United States for […]

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RICHIE SAMBORA ANNOUNCES SIDEWAVE SHOWS!

RICHIE SAMBORA ANNOUNCES SIDEWAVE SHOWS!

Celebrated American rock icon RICHIE SAMBORA will play just 2 intimate Sidewave shows while in the country for Soundwave Festival 2014! For the first time since his first Australian solo tour in 1998, Australian fans will have the opportunity of a lifetime: To see one of the greatest musicians and singer-songwriters of our time performing material from his solo records with a few surprises thrown […]

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD + FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH  + ASKING ALEXANDRIA Announce Sidewave Shows

AVENGED SEVENFOLD + FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH + ASKING ALEXANDRIA Announce Sidewave Shows

Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to see the mighty AVENGED SEVENFOLD harken back to their club days, before they became one of hard rock’s premier headliners, and perform in a club setting for the first time in Australia since 2008. This is an incredible and rare opportunity created especially for Australian fans to experience the band up close and personal […]

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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN + GLASSJAW + DIR EN GREY Announce Sidewave Shows

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN + GLASSJAW + DIR EN GREY Announce Sidewave Shows

BE PREPARED FOR THE MONSTER OF ALL NIGHTS! The Dillinger Escape Plan have merely one prerogative: to go forward in ALL directions simultaneously. Following on from their ground-breaking 1999 debut full-length, ‘Calculating Infinity’ and the near-perfect pileup of craft and chaos on 2007’s “Ire Works”, The Dillinger Escape Plan have unveiled their latest masterpiece, ‘One of Us is the Killer’. It is consider by many the bands […]

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BLACK VEIL BRIDES Announce Sidewave Shows

BLACK VEIL BRIDES Announce Sidewave Shows

GET READY FOR A NIGHT OF FLAMBOYANT GLAM METAL ROCK WITH BLISTERING GUITAR SOLOS, MUSCULAR RIFFS AND DEEPLY KOHLED EYES AS BLACK VEIL BRIDES TAKE TO THE STAGE IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Black Veil Brides kicked off 2013 confidently with the release of their third full-length album, Wretched and Divine. This massive opus sees the Los Angeles quintet deliver a […]

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BIFFY CLYRO Sidewaves announced!

BIFFY CLYRO Sidewaves announced!

Firmly established as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia – BiffyClyro have announced two side-shows ahead of their appearance as part of the 2014 Soundwave Festival. Biffy Clyro’s live chops are well established internationally, the band having headlined the infamous Leeds […]

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EAGLES OF DEATH METAL + ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT + MUTEMATH Sidewave announced!

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL + ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT + MUTEMATH Sidewave announced!

Get ready for a ‘blissed out dirty rock ride’! EAGLES of DEATH METAL are bringing their unique blend of double – entendre boogie to Australian stages again for the first time in 7 years! Its Jesse Huges! Its sex, humour and fun! It’s churning guitars and hook-driven choruses and a band whose only agenda is to have a good time! […]

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ALICE IN CHAINS + DOWN+ WALKING PAPERS announce Sidewave shows!

ALICE IN CHAINS + DOWN+ WALKING PAPERS announce Sidewave shows!

Renowned for their distinctive vocal style Seattle rockers, ALICE IN CHAINS, have announced just 2 Sidewave shows that will see them bring their monster sound to Sydney and Melbourne stages! Having sold over 25 million albums the band emerged during the nineties as part of the Seattle grunge scene and crossed over with their critically acclaimed second album in 1992 […]

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS REGRETFULLY CANCEL SOUNDWAVE 2014

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS REGRETFULLY CANCEL SOUNDWAVE 2014

The recording of the new album has now gone beyond schedule and sadly the availability of the recording studio, engineers and the producer or lack thereof dictates that the band have had to cancel their upcoming engagements. In line with our commitment to bring you great replacements, we are pleased to announce that Australia’s finest live rock band, THE LIVING […]

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LESS THAN JAKE, BOWLING FOR SOUP + ZEBRAHEAD ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS

LESS THAN JAKE, BOWLING FOR SOUP + ZEBRAHEAD ANNOUNCE SIDEWAVE SHOWS

Effusive, cathartic, influential and brilliant, LESS THAN JAKE never fail to bring the good times and Australian fans will lose their shit as the band take to the stage in Sydney and Melbourne with pop punk perfectionists BOWLING FOR SOUP and the distinctively punk inspired ZEBRAHEAD! With over twenty years clocked up LESS THAN JAKE are a band obsessed with interacting with its fans, both online and […]

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Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan

Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan

“…we love Australia and we love coming and playing in Australia and I think particularly because it’s so far away, it’s a whole other world, it’s completely different environment yet culturally it’s so comfortable and it feels so much like home.” From Bio:  The Dillinger Escape Plan’s creative energy and unwavering artistic commitment has reverberated through underground subculture and in […]

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PLACEBO announce Sidewaves!

PLACEBO announce Sidewaves!

Having recently released their seventh studio album and with a career spanning 17 years, PLACEBOwill be playing just 2 very special side shows in Sydney and Melbourne. When Brian Molko – singer songwriter with bleak-hearted rock three piece, Placebo – began writing his band’s seventh studio album (LOUD LIKE LOVE) released in September last year, his intention was to sketch […]

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS announce two intimate shows only!

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS announce two intimate shows only!

“There’s a synergy between these four men that’s characteristic of all legendary rock ‘n’ roll” – ArtistDirect.com “I’ve loved STP since I was 13 years old and they’ve had a huge influence on me, when the opportunity came up to do something creative with them, I jumped at the chance” – Chester Bennington Having sold nearly 40 million records worldwide, STONE […]

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ALTER BRIDGE and LIVING COLOUR announce Sidewave!

ALTER BRIDGE and LIVING COLOUR announce Sidewave!

Rock juggernaut’s ALTER BRIDGE will be strutting the stages in Sydney and Melbourne and joined by none other than funk-metal royalty LIVING COLOUR for a series of incredibly special Sidewave shows!! ALTER BRIDGE have firmly placed themselves as one of the most routinely acclaimed and adored hard rock bands on the planet. With 3 brilliant albums already under their belt […]

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Oderus Urungus of GWAR

Oderus Urungus of GWAR

“All I want to say is great job keeping the pressure on Australia, one run through your country was not enough, we’ve only begun to infect your minds, and Gwar is returning for the next Soundwave festival, get ready for the biggest show in rock and roll history, get ready for GWAR!” From Bio: 2013 is a packed year for […]

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Kevin Skaff of A Day To Remember

Kevin Skaff of A Day To Remember

“The album as a whole, I don’t know, we all just get in the studio and do our own thing, and whatever comes naturally comes out and we don’t really go in to change anything when it comes to albums, we do what we do best and that’s just work off each other for every song, and it’s what we […]

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Skindred Release ‘Kill The Power’

Skindred Release ‘Kill The Power’

UK genre-straddling rock powerhouse SKINDRED will release their fifth long player ‘Kill The Power’ on January 31, 2014.   WATCH ALBUM PREVIEW VIDEO HERE The digital single for the album’s title track ‘Kill The Power’ will be unleashed on December 9 and  includes killer remixes from Cyantific, Rednek, Zed Bias, Subsource and Licarus.   In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing […]

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SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL 2014 SECOND ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT

SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL 2014 SECOND ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT

A DAY TO REMEMBER MASTODON HIM / PENNYWISE / JIMMY EAT WORLD / GLASSJAW / PANIC! AT THE DISCO/ EAGLES OF DEATH METAL / MAYDAY PARADE / SEVENDUST / CROSSES / SUICIDE SILENCE / THE PORKERS / GOJIRA / BLACK VEIL BRIDES / ZEBRAHEAD / SATYRICON / DREAM ON DREAMER / MUTE MATH / DESAPARECIDOS / STIFF LITTLE FINGERS / […]

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GREEN DAY’s Documentary Film ¡Cuatro! To Be Released On Friday 8 November

GREEN DAY’s Documentary Film ¡Cuatro! To Be Released On Friday 8 November

Green Day has announced that their documentary film ¡Cuatro! will be released on DVD on Friday 8 November.  ¡Cuatro! pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities around the U.S. to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their recent trilogy of albums: […]

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Chuck Billy of Testament

Chuck Billy of Testament

“… it was time to capture that and just showing where Testament is today in our career. I see a new fan base of new metal heads out there and I thought it would be more appropriate to where we are today, more of the style we’re writing today. So it just made sense that it was time to do […]

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Korn – The Paradigm Shift

Korn – The Paradigm Shift

In Summary: “They may not completely be the Korn of old, but they’re sure as hell on the way back…” There are a couple of things I’m intrigued to get into about this new Korn album, firstly after their last album ‘The Path of Totality’ which was interesting to say the least, it can’t be any worse, and the fact […]

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Hunter Burgan of AFI

Hunter Burgan of AFI

“Well, I mean physically we try to give 100% during our shows, that includes any festival shows, we don’t cut corners, we don’t usually have anything too crazy like lasers, or motorcycles on stage or anything, it’s pretty much music, that’s what people come for.” Four years after their last album, AFI are back, and if the first two releases […]

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Brian Marshall of Alter Bridge

Brian Marshall of Alter Bridge

“I’m just really excited to play these new songs and really digging into them and just now in the last week or so getting into the new material and we haven’t played together in over a year in front of an audience, so we’re just ready to just get this ball rolling man…” Alter Bridge are back with a new […]

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Bowling For Soup – Lunch. Drunk. Love.

Bowling For Soup – Lunch. Drunk. Love.

Bowling For Soup are one of my favourite bands and I’ve been there with them since back in ‘Nam… mind you, I actually wasn’t there when the honourable ones rocked on or when they did it for Johnny but I was there when they were drunk enough to dance and have been ever since, there for them, not drunk, well, […]

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Fox Trotsky of Nancy Vandal

Fox Trotsky of Nancy Vandal

“The Frenzal tour we did in 2009 did come out of the blue a little bit and like I said before that perhaps showed that it wasn’t all finished, but I can guarantee going forward we’ll be playing less than we will be more and I don’t know how much we have left in us.” From Bio: The year is […]

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS with CHESTER BENNINGTON To Release Debut Ep ‘High Rise’ Out October 11th

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS with CHESTER BENNINGTON To Release Debut Ep ‘High Rise’ Out October 11th

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS with CHESTER BENNINGTON have announced their debut EP will be titled HIGH RISE, and will be released via Play Pen LLC / Sony Music Australia on October 11th. The EP features 5 tracks, including the band’s US #1 mainstream and active rock radio single, ‘Out of Time.‘ The new line up of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS kick off their first US tour on September 4th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, […]

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