Rock luminary JACK WHITE will be performing two headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney this July to showcase material from his much anticipated solo debut Blunderbuss (out 20 April through Sony). Undoubtedly one of the world’s most prolific artists to emerge in the past fifteen years, Jack White has helmed some of the world’s most venerable musical outfits including The […]

Reviewed by: Paul Miles Date: 22 April 2012 Venue: The Bowery Electric, New York City, USA Website: Spread Eagle Facebook Full Photo Gallery (click link): http://rockshots.paul-miles.com/ As heavy rain and gusty winds buffeted New York City all day, a crowd of rockers ignored a flood watch warning and ventured down to The Bowery Electric in Manhattan’s East Village to see […]

Sat 23rd June 2012, Forum, Melbourne, Australia For more information visit the EXPERIENCE JIMI HENDRIX website. The guitar concert event of the year.  Australia’s hottest guitarists together on one stage for one night only to pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix.   Inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s unparalleled creative and musical influence ‘Experience Jimi Hendrix’ was originally conceived in Sydney by Empire Touring in […]

GUN are please to announce that our new album, Break The Silence, will be released on 11th June by earMusic, Edel’s international rock label home of artists such as BUSH, AVA, SKUNK ANANSIE, CHICKENFOOT, FOREIGNER, DEEP PURPLE, BLUE OCTOBER and many others. We will also be playing a couple shows in the lead up to the release in the following cities […]

Adler – the band featuring former Guns ‘N’ Roses drummer Steve Adler, has just released a new video/track from their forthcoming album simply titled Adler.  Featuring a May The Rock Be With You favourite, in Jacob Bunton of Lynam fame on vocals, The One That You Hated is a killer track. The band have launched the new video in association […]

While on a tour of Europe this month, L.A. Guns has been incorporating some tracks in the set list from the new record ‘Hollywood Forever’, out on June 5th through Deadline/Cleopatra Records. The cover art and final track list have now been revealed, and a sneak peek at the song “You Better Not Love Me” is now available below: http://soundcloud.com/brosseaupr/l-a-guns-you-better-not-love/s-exvIy […]

  Legendary female guitar icon LITA FORD’s new album Living Like A Runaway will be released June 15th in Germany, June 18th in Europe and June 19th  in North America via SPV/Steamhammer.  The album will be available in four configurations: a double LP, limited edition CD, standard CD and digital download.  Today the artwork for the album created by famed […]

RICHARD MARX TO RELEASE NEW CD EXCLUSIVELY IN EUROPE: ‘INSIDE MY HEAD’ RELEASED ON FRONTIERS IN JUNE Frontiers Records is honoured to welcome Richard Marx to the label for the exclusive release of “Inside My Head” – a 2 CD album set featuring rare and new material along with new recordings of his greatest hits – on June 1st in Europe. The first single […]

Shout It Out World Tour 2012 – Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane Shows Sell Out, New Dates Added!!! Australia has shown that its love for the brothers Hanson is as strong as ever with the sibling trio’s Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane shows in September selling out shortly after they were announced. The rest of the country isn’t far behind with all […]

LEAD SINGLE ‘THAT’S WHY GOD MADE THE RADIO’ OUT FRIDAY 27 APRIL Legendary Band’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Includes new Album, International Tour dates, & Commemorative Catalog Releases The founding members of The Beach Boys, one of the world’s most legendary bands, have reunited for a global 50th Anniversary celebration, including a new album release, a major international tour, and commemorative […]

Perth’s Make Them Suffer announce their national album launch tour and unveil lyric video for second single “Widower” from forthcoming album Neverbloom, out May 25th through Roadrunner Records Australia. “Widower” is the follow up single from title track Neverbloom.  You can watch the new lyric video for the track below: The official video for first single Neverbloom was released online […]

FANS TO PARTICIPATE IN A UNIQUE VIRTUAL EVENT. BROADCAST LIVE IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL THEATER, THE EVENT INLCUDES AN INTIMATE LIVE PERFORMANCE, PREVIEW OF THE UPCOMING LIVE TOUR FILM, SNEAK PEEK AT THE MARS DOCUMENTARY ‘ARTIFACT’ AND AN INTERACTIVE Thirty Seconds To Mars have announced that they are currently working on their 4th studio album, the follow-up to 2009’s global […]

The big question is not ‘why pay tribute to Rick Springfield?’, but rather ‘why did it take so long for someone to do so?’ And when you consider some of the many other tribute albums that have hit the market in recent years, and with Rick’s record of 17 Top 40 hits, it is a confounding question indeed. Thankfully all has been put right […]

PBS 106.7 FM, Radio Festival 2012, May 14 – 27 BE OUR HERO … with great radio comes great responsibility… It’s 2012 and Melbourne’s airwaves are in danger of being suffocated by the bland oppressive miasma of mainstream radio. Every day music loving citizens of this city are subjected to playlisted, formulaic pop pulp, constant ad breaks, and loud, overbearing […]

THE GHOST INSIDE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM Get What You Give Out June 22nd in Australia. Produced By Jeremy Mckinnon of A Day To Remember California’s most passionate and articulate exponents of hardcore will release their  exceptional third album, Get What You Give on June 22nd. The album, produced by Jeremy Mckinnon of A Day To Remember, embraces The Ghost Inside’s  powerful and affecting sound that […]

SET YOUR GOALS RELEASE NEW TRACKS PRODUCED BY CHAD GILBERT OF NEW FOUND GLORY New Songs Available For Purchase / Streaming Now Bay Area melodic pop punk heroes, Set Your Goals have released two brand new songs “Only Right Now” and “I’ll Walk It Off”. Produced by Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory, the new songs offer fans a glimpse of what’s to […]

OFFICIALLY UNLEASH THE BRAND NEW VIDEO LET YOU GO (Single available digitally) Following the success of the bands brand new single LET YOU GO, Melbourne band ZOOPHYTE officially unleash the stunning new video for the single. Filmed on the Victorian coastline by Hayden Guppy and Miles Bence, the songs soaring vocal hooks, catchy melody and uplifting guitar dynamics is the first taster from the band’s […]

Resist The Thought Announce Debut Album & Tour ‘Sovereignty’ set for release May 18 via Skull & Bones Records/Shock Entertainment Since 2007, Sydney’s Resist The Thought have been carefully engraving their name into the Australian metal scene. Thanks to a relentless touring ethos which found them forever on the road and sharing stages with the likes of Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain […]

“AUSTRALIAN TORTURE” OCTOBER 2012 presented by Soundworks Touring After three long torturous years, death metals titanic kings, CANNIBAL CORPSE, return to Australia for a sarcophagic frenzy of sordid and demented proportions! Their new ceaselessly hostile album release, TORTURE, proves that when it comes to combining unrestrained maliciousness, involved song writing and technical precision they still have no equal. The twelfth […]

The spotlights are on: on Friday 20th April, GOTTHARD released the first single from the album “Firebirth”, out on 1st. June. The single, with the name “Starlight” will appear in two versions, a rock and an acoustic variation. “Starlight” is the virtual shooting star of album song writing: the song was one of the first that the band wrote together […]

Three Decades Later… The Legacy Continues! ASIA RELEASE NEW STUDIO ALBUM “XXX” WITH ORIGINAL LINE-UP: GEOFF DOWNES, STEVE HOWE, CARL PALMER & JOHN WETTON BRITISH SUPERGROUP CELEBRATES 30th ANNIVERSARY WITH UK TOUR AND 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF DEBUT ALBUM Thirty years after its eponymous debut album, ASIA ascended to the top of the Billboard Top 100 chart (where it remained No.1 for […]

Remember Malice In Wonderland? The Norwegian rock band burst onto the Scandinavian rock scene with their self titled debut album in 2005. Led by hit single Lucifer’s Town the band was quickly labelled as one of the most promising underground rock acts and their fan base grew quickly with fan clubs and supporters in every corner of the world. The […]

The Exploited Australia – New Zealand tour cancelled / To be rescheduled. Unfortunately The Exploited tour in Aust-NZ is cancelled due to a very serious family situation of the bass player. Rob has travelled today back to Ireland to stay with his family for the next few weeks and therefore The Exploited is not able to make tour. The band is […]

Harakiri, the new studio album from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is set to be released July 6 on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. Look for a teaser video with a snippet of the first single, Figure It Out, on Serj’s website later this week. Harakiri, a Japanese word meaning ritualistic suicide, is the follow up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Imperfect […]

Monster Energy, Atticus Clothing, Propertyofzack.com and Blunt Magazine present…  HEROES FOR HIRE The “Just Shoe It” Tour with special guests LUCA BRASI and CARRY ME HOME HEROES FOR HIRE kicked off 2012 with a bang, touring nationally on the Soundwave Festival (alongside Slipknot, A Day To Remember, The Used, You Me At Six and many more) and playing to their biggest crowds to date. The group […]

The Strums Set Sail For New National Tour The Strums are getting ready to make play their way around the country by land and by sea in support of their second single Gimme Some Hope and you can check out the new video right here exclusively at May The Rock Be With You before anyone else!  Let us and the […]

Some bands talk their way into opportunities or use algorithms to feign blog hype.  Others drag themselves up by the teeth. Dubbed by The Daily Telegraph’s Kathy McCabe as “heirs apparent to The Living End”, electrified rock n rollers King Cannons are currently in the throws of launching their career in Europe via a 17 date tour spanning across Germany, […]

Hot on the heels of a sold-out tour of Australia and New Zealand, Xavier Rudd is proud to announce the release of his highly-anticipated seventh studio album, Spirit Bird. Already producing his highest-selling single to date with the beautiful Follow The Sun; Spirit Bird is Xavier’s deepest and most explorative album – finding the ever socially-conscience Rudd delving into his […]

Motion City Soundtrack Return Home to Epitaph to Release New Album Go – out June 15 Motion City Soundtrack return home to their long-time label Epitaph to release their fifth full-length studio album Go on June 15, 2012.  The new album is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed My Dinosaur Life and was recorded over an extended period of time […]

Pantera Honours The 20th Anniversary Of Vulgar Display Of Power – With Two-Disc Deluxe Edition Featuring Previously Lost Studio Recording “Piss” and Unreleased Live Video From The 1992 Monsters Of Rock Concert In Italy – CD/DVD Set Available May 18 From Warner Music February 25 marked the 20-year anniversary for Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, a landmark album widely acknowledged […]