Date: Wednesday February 25, 2015 Venue: The Factory Theatre, Sydney Presented by: Soundwave Tours Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Date: Wednesday February 25, 2015 Venue: On The Steps of the Sydney Opera House Presented by: Live Nation Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE  

Date: Tuesday February 24, 2015 Venue: The Roundhouse, Sydney Presented by: Soundwave Tours Photos by:  Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Date: Tuesday February 24, 2015 Venue: The Forum, Melbourne Presented by: Soundwave Tours Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Date: Tuesday February 24, 2015 Venue: The Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Presented by: Soundwave Tours Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE  

From infamous sold out shows at London’s Wembley Arena and around the globe, YOU ME AT SIX are hitting Australia with their incredibly energetic live show. If it’s anything like previous Australian tours, these shows will sell quickly, so don’t miss out! “YOU ME AT SIX’s set was phenomenal, to sum up in one word.” Reverb Magazine They’ll be taking very […]

Date: Monday February 23, 2015 Venue: 170 Russell, Melbourne Photos by: Eric ‘Chowie’ Chow – www.chowie.com.au Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Date: Monday February 23, 2015 Venue: Cherry Bar, Melbourne Support: Black Aces, Massive Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Date: Wednesday February 18, 2015 Venue: Whole Lotta Love Bar, Melbourne Support: Sisters Doll Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

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 SMASHING PUMPKINS have landed and with them, the great news that their Australian set will feature the band’s most star studded incarnation yet featuring Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine on drums and The Killers’ Mark Stoermer on bass guitar. The group have been wowing audiences around the world and have noted that for their Australian shows they […]

Australia’s Last Chance To See The Band Live Legendary rock icons MÖTLEY CRÜE have, at last, confirmed dates for the highly anticipated Australian leg of their Final Tour, bringing along shock-rocker ALICE COOPER as very special guest. The Final Tour marks the end of an era for the band. In January 2014, all four original members gathered to sign a binding ‘Cessation Of Touring’ agreement taking […]

Metropolis Touring & Tombowler are extremely excited to present AN EVENING WITH MACHINE HEAD Hailing from Oakland, California, Machine Head are one of the biggest names in Metal. Every worthwhile musical subculture needs its heroes and Machine Head have been just that for the past 20 years. Starting with the earth-shattering prescience of 1994’s “Burn My Eyes” and continuing up […]

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 […]

Summer waxes and the people lament – where are they? Where is Satan’s favourite party band? Do not ask where they have been, just know that they have returned, souls tanned by hellfire. And they need you to rock a bikini. That’s right, y’all – it’s going to be a Dark Arts Summer as Gay Paris hit select locations to handout a cocktail […]

When ANIMALS AS LEADERS burst onto the scene in 2009, few would have predicted the band’s meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the progressive rock/metal world. ANIMALS AS LEADERS is revered worldwide as a trailblazing pioneer of modern heavy music and the group’s genre-defying compositions have earned extensive praise as true innovators. This hard hitting, face melting band is not […]

Multi-national metal maestro’s DRAGONFORCE have announced the worldwide release of their debut DVD, In The Line Of Fire out July 10 through 3wise Records. The release will be a double disc package of the DVD, an accompanying Live Audio CD of the show and will also be available in Blu-Ray. Shot in High Definition during the bands Ultimate Stage headline […]

Multi platinum-selling and Grammy Award winning rock band, MAROON 5, embark on THE MAROON 5 WORLD TOUR 2015 later this month in support of their fifth studio album, V. Today, Maroon 5 and Live Nation are thrilled to announce the addition of Australian dates to the world tour, playing Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on September 26 and Sydney’s Allphones Arena on September […]

After relocating to the USA, formerly Melbourne based rock band Bellusira will be coming to do a return tour of Australia for the first time in over a year. Bellusira successfully raised over $35,000 AUD on their pledge campaign completed in November 2014, and will also be playing out the relevant acoustic pledge shows and bbq’s on top of their […]

Hot off the release of their new album ‘Happy People’, Peace have announced GTM Festival side shows starting in Perth at Rosemount Htl on Tuesday 28th April, then onto Melbourne at Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday 30th April, followed by Brisbane at The Zoo on Wednesday 6th May and finishing up in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory on Friday 8th […]

Multi-platinum alternative rock heavyweights Incubus have signed an exclusive worldwide recording contract with Island Records, and will debut on the label with a 4-song EP entitled “Trust Fall (Side A)” on March 24th. The EP’s digital pre-order is available here  on iTunes,  and the CD and vinyl versions of the EP can be pre-ordered now HERE. The first single from the EP“Absolution Calling” is available on iTunes (click HERE to purchase). After […]

Five albums in and still getting better – British India, one of Australia’s most popular and hard working bands, will release their latest album Nothing Touches Me on March 13. Featuring lead single ‘Wrong Direction’ and new single ‘Suddenly’, Nothing Touches Me carries on from British India’s forward momentum of fourth album Controller. It’s an album laden with polished musical arrangements and riffs, eclectic sounds and […]

ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE ONLY SIDEWAVES EXTRAVAGANZA FORGET SLEEP PEOPLE! In what promises to be a MASSIVE week, Soundwave announce a series of shows kicking off on MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 and continuing right through to FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 with a kick arse band playing in Melbourne EVERY SINGLE NIGHT OF THE WEEK! CHERRY BAR MELBOURNE Monday 23 February – The Treatment Wednesday 25 […]

Brisbane based singer/songwriter Clint Boge has been crafting his solo wares for over a decade, in between endless hours on the road and sold out shows, Clint’s love of the written word has always been a constant. The “Songs of a Delicate Nature” Australian tour will see Clint play 31 dates, across seven states and territories, throughout March, April and […]

Sol Invictus, Faith No More’s highly anticipated follow-up to Album of the Year, arrives on May 15 via Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings/ [PIAS]. “What I can say is that I think through our experience as musicians over the years, I think what we’re doing reflects where we’ve gone since we made our last record as Faith No More. I think this […]

Tassie’s sultans of the Shoey, Luca Brasi will release the Loose Threads 7” via Poison City Records on March 13 to celebrate their upcoming Australian headlining tour. This very special release contains three songs originally recorded for the By A Thread album and an acoustic reworking of the Borders and  Statelines single, featuring guest vocals from Craig Selak of The Bennies.  Key track In The Sight was one of the quartet’s favourite songs from […]

Songwriter, performer, and producer, Steve Balbi, is set to play two intimate shows in Sydney, on Friday 27th March at The Vanguard, Newtown, and Friday 24th April at Brass Monkey, Cronulla. Steve Balbi, current frontman for Mi-Sex, Noiseworks bass player and former Electric Hippies guitarist/vocalist, will be performing a collection of tracks from his debut solo album, “Black Rainbow”, as […]

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 […]

Aussie rock royalty, Baby Animals and The Superjesus, will be performing an extra show at The HiFi in Melbourne as part of the She Who Rocks Tour, with Saturday May 30 being added to the run of dates across the country. The tour kicks off in Suze’s hometown of Perth on Friday, May 22, followed by two show’s in Melbourne […]