Rock icon BILLY IDOL is returning to Australia and New Zealand for his first concert tour of Australia since 2002 and his first of New Zealand since 1987. The original punk turned global superstar will perform indoor shows and a day on the green winery events in March and April 2015. Idol’s band includes long-time collaborator and lead-guitarist Steve Stevens. […]

Today, Bluesfest Byron Bay, the highly awarded 5 Day Music Festival, held over the 2015 Easter long weekend (EVENT DATES: Thu 2nd to Mon 6th of April, 2015) reveals its 2nd group of outstanding artists to perform at its purpose-built festival & camping site just north of Byron Bay. The 1st Announcement for the 26th Annual Bluesfest that included THE […]

Indie pop-rock duo People On Vacation are back with their brilliant new album ‘The Chronicles Of Tim Powers’ The two Texans funded the release through a hugely successful PledgeMusic crowdfunding campaign and as a testament to their commitment to fan interaction, they even named the album after one lucky pledger! If you’ve not heard of People On Vacation it is the […]

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 […]

American rockers THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM return to Australia for four pulsating shows in January and February 2015. “So few hoist the flag of rock ‘n’ roll as proudly and explicitly as The Gaslight Anthem these days.” – Alternative Press. No stranger to blowing away audiences on the stages at some of the most iconic stadiums in the world – punters […]

Brisbane Show Announced & 2nd Sydney Show Added After selling out the previously announced Australian shows and adding an extra show in Sydney, ED KOWALCZYK will extend the ‘I Alone Acoustic Tour’ this November to include Brisbane due to the overwhelming demand from his dedicated Queensland fans. The legendary songwriter and former lead-singer of the multi-platinum rock band, Live, Ed […]

Three-time Grammy award winners and perpetual hit makers, TRAIN,are returning to Australia in April 2015 as part of a world tour in support of their seventh studio album,Bulletproof Picasso. The San Francisco-based group have been responsible for some of the most successful and loved pop smash hits of the past two decades, including “Drops of Jupiter”, “Meet Virginia”, “Calling All Angels” […]

Fans have eagerly been awaiting the return of Yellowcard to Australia and Frontier Touring can now confirm that we will be bringing them back to tour Australia in July. This time the band will also be taking Mayday Parade on the road with them! Back in action with their seventh studio album Lift A Sail (out through Cooking Vinyl Australia […]

LA based hard rockers In This Moment have announced that their eagerly awaited new album Black Widow will arrive in Australia on November 14 via Atlantic Records. Produced by longtime collaborator – and multiple GRAMMY® Award nominee – Kevin Churko (Five Finger Death Punch, Ozzy Osbourne), Black Widow will be available for pre-order on October 7th. The first single, Sick Like Me is available now. “Black Widow is definitely […]

In 2004, a time when baggy pants ruled, Daryl Somers believed in comebacks and two loved-up swamp ogres starred in the year’s highest grossing film, 4 friends from Perth known collectively as GYROSCOPE unleashed their first album on the world. Today, GYROSCOPE are proud to announce they are diving into the past and hitting the road to celebrate its 10th birthday with the Sound Shattering […]

Live Nation is thrilled to present Ed Kowalczyk – the legendary songwriter and former lead-singer of the multi-platinum rock band, Live, in two very special performances. Kowalczyk brings the “I Alone Acoustic Tour” to his Australian fans in Sydney and Melbourne. Stripped back, intimate and disarming – Ed Kowalczyk will appear onstage with an acoustic guitar, some of rock’s most […]

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 […]

The eccentric and musical mastermind that is Devin Townsend will be making his way to Australia this October to take part in a series of Guitar Clinics in association with Thump Music. Devin Townsend, now 30 records into an astonishing career has just raised the stakes, in the form of a new double album, Z, to be released worldwide in […]

American Post Hardcore/ Pop Punk outfit The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are gearing up to grace our shores once more, following sold out shows around the country last year. The U.S five-piece will once again bring crowd favourites ‘Face Down’, ‘Your Guardian Angel’, ‘False Pretense’and ‘Am I The Enemy’ down under, alongside a set of exciting new material from their recently released fourth studio album ‘4’ which, which will be […]

Yngwie J. Malmsteen has been blowing minds across the globe with his incredible guitar skills and showmanship for over 35 years and in February 2015, Yngwie and his band will be returning to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in a decade to strike awe into the legions of guitar fans. The Swedish born, but now US based, guitar legend is venerated […]

Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!! Rabid fans of TRIVIUM and IN FLAMES have already snapped up all available tickets to the 170 Russell show on Sunday 23 November! We are bloody stoked to announce that both artists have agreed to perform a second and definitely final Melbourne show! Tickets for the newly announced Monday 24 November show at 170 […]

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 […]

Presented by Crucial Music, Village Sounds and Music Feeds After dropping hints here and there, THE LIVING END are stoked to announce they are performing 3 very special shows in the general NSW area this October and November because, well, they bloody feel like it. TLE fans in Canberra,Wollongong and Sydney will be treated to very intimate, loud live shows featuring all of their biggest hits. These are THE LIVING […]

Contemporary classic rockers, The Dead Daisies, are set to hit the road again and do a number of huge shows across Australia and New Zealand in November and December, along with releasing a second single, “Angel In Your Eyes”, from their Face I Love EP.   The Dead Daisies will headline shows in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney, as well as a much-anticipated performance in […]

Contemporary classic rockers, The Dead Daisies, have released their new video for “Face I Love” – a tribute to their fans from around the globe.   The video features photo submissions from more than 5000 fans globally via the “Face I Love” App, which launched the single and invited fans to upload pictures of themselves, or any face they love, to […]

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 […]

With a swag of awards and sold out stadium tours across the globe left in their wake, TRIVIUM will be returning to Australia this November with very special guests IN FLAMES. Widely tipped for greatness (some prophecies come true!) after their successful sophomore release, ‘Ascendancy’ in 2005, Kerrang! declared it “the most skull-peeling collection of pulverising metal grooves and fretboard […]

Mariachi El Bronx – the alter ego of acclaimed Los Angeles punk outfit The Bronx – will release the third in its series of self-titled albums on November 7 via White Drugs/Cooking Vinyl. With Mariachi El Bronx (III), the band took a fresh approach. Not content to simply excel within the confines of the mariachi genre, they ditched the rulebook and dusted off old […]

THE ANGELS & CHEAP TRICK RE-UNITE FOR 2015 NATIONAL TOUR A Day On The Green Wineries & indoor shows in Melb & Syd. An infectious power-pop rock band with a flair for the absurd and one of Australia’s most treasured rock icons – that‘s the dynamic double happening when The Angels and Cheap Trick reunite for an Australian tour early […]

The Music, New World Artists, UNFD and teamtrick DEAD LETTER CIRCUS ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR Off the back of their Reimagine Acoustic tour, which was sold out a month in advance, and their stunning “acoustic and strings” Stand Apart EP, which dropped out of the blue into #24 on the ARIA Charts, Dead Letter Circus are pleased to announce a national […]

Venue: The Roundhouse, Sydney Supports: The Getaway Plan, Breakaway Photos by: Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE    

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 […]

Date: Saturday September 6, 2014 Venue: The Roundhouse, Sydney Supported By: With Confidence 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                

Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Presented By: XIII Touring Support: Calling All Cars Photos by: Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY Check out our review of the show HERE          

CALL THE SHOTS are a 5-piece pop punk band from Brisbane, Australia. The band is known for their infectious, high energy set from the moment they hit the stage. Right from the start the band found success touring the country supporting other Australian bands supporting the likes of Mest, Tonight Alive, Rufio, The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, The […]