This is the surprise tour announcement of the year for me. After their amazing appearance at Soundwave 2012 I thought we’d never see Limp Bizkit in Australia again, but here we are… So can this band that I secretly, hell it’s not even a secret, that I love, recreate what I saw in 2012 or for that matter 2001 when […]

“…you get to a certain point in your career, in your life, I’m always putting out records every couple of years, I had one out last year. I don’t know I think I just got to the point that enough people had said it to me over a enough amount of time and I said let me just think about […]

For the second time in a year, Fall Out Boy are back in Australia. Their last trip was a promotional jaunt that saw them play a show in Sydney and Melbourne prior to the release of their newest album ‘Save Rock and Roll’ and this time they’re back to showcase it in this live environment exactly seven months since their […]

“We’ve done four albums in five years and the best thing we could do is just put one out every year and just keep it going, as people’s attention spans now days just wavers because there’s just so much out there, so the important thing is just to get on top of it and put out new music all the […]

“…we’re not sure yet, I think it’s going to be a maybe a little faster and maybe leave out some of the more poppy hits and go more with the punk stuff and I guess we’ll see how that goes after the first show or two.” For close to thirty years now The Offspring have been making music, the kind […]

“It’s what we’ve been doing in America and what we’ve wanted to do since we wrote and recorded the album over a year ago. It was written as a theatrical piece to be performed in its entirety, so we’re trying to do it all over the world now.” From tour release: Between The Buried And Me are returning to Australia […]

“The first time could be the last time, so I just want to make sure this is going to be the most kick ass show ever, not that I don’t do that for the other shows, but this one I think we’re going to add a couple of songs we haven’t done for quite a while to spice things up […]

“It’s amazing because they said once upon a time that live music had died, actually what it seems like is that live music has lasted and there’s a few generations out there appealing to different crowds at the moment which is fantastic. It’s amazing the resurgence, people come out and the crowds are there and it’s really good for music.” […]

To think, it was only around eighteen months ago that I was at the ‘farewell’ shows for The Butterfly Effect, but how quickly things change as tonight we get to see the band with a new front man in the guise of Paul Galagher who steps into the shoes of Clint Boge who had left the band, so it’s such […]

Thanks to our good friends at Univeral Music Australia, we have five copies of the new Pearl Jam album ‘Lightning Bolt’ to give away to our lucky readers. This is Pearl Jam’s first album in four years and you can check out our review HERE to see what we thought of the album. To win one of the big five copies, […]

Welcome back Pearl Jam, good to have you back… before we start, let me tell you a quick story about Pearl Jam… it dates back to 1991, I hear a song called ‘Alive’ I think ‘uh oh… between this and that ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ song, something is happening here…’ at that time I was heavily in to the ‘hair […]

It’s been five years since Sleep Parade’s critically-lauded 2008 debut, Things Can Always Change, dropped. Since then the Melbourne rock act have journeyed extensively throughout Australia as hand-picked main support act for a number of bands, as well headlining their own tours on the back of songs like Carry On and Passenger which enjoyed extensive airplay on both Triple J […]

“I think Stratovarius has played a major part in the power metal genre or melodic metal or whatever you say it, I also like the fact it’s a band with a positive vibe, I think it’s a unit band, I think there’s a little slot in the history of heavy metal, I think the legacy can be found on the […]

“I was just doing that because I wanted to do it, and we’re very lucky as we’ve always had a very loyal fan base, they’re quite rabid our fans, they stick there, they want more and they never sway, so they’re reliable.” From Tour Release: Since exploding onto the scene in 1991 with the release of their first single, Early […]

“I don’t know if I’ll ever know my craft or if I’ve got my diploma on the wall or whatever, it’s one of those things I’m working all the time to just explore and get better at what I do or at least try to figure it out as to what I do.” From album bio: After 25 years in […]

“Seems to me every time we go down there and play Soundwave we come back and we’ve received so many more fans each time around. It’s just unbelievable how big of a festival it is and how smoothly it runs, it’s one of the top festivals in the world and we just love being in Australia and touring there.” From […]

It was only February when we saw all three of these acts grace our shores for the Soundwave Festival, but tonight we are in for a treat with what is sure to be a loud, metal filled evening when Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice & Men and Crossfaith team up for one hell of a bill. Crossfaith were the […]

1987 was a great year for music… just putting it out there… and tonight in Sydney we see the return of The Cult, who are here to perfrom their 1987 classic ‘Electric’ in full as well as some other tracks off their extensive body of work. I did see The Cult a few years back when they toured and I […]

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 […]

There are a few, but there aren’t enough bands out there making the kind of music Teenage Casket Company or TCC for those playing at home, make, but thankfully a band like TCC are one of them and aren’t scared to make an album that throws back to the bands they love, the bands of old that had fun making […]

“For our Australian fan base it’s great because it is the first time they are going to hear Amorphis songs and we’re going to play stuff you know, not only the latest songs, we’re going to play as much songs of the history as we can.” From Tour Release: Amorphis  has been at the forefront of the scene for well […]

In summary: Infectious, happy, energetic and what music is missing… My hand is up, yep, I admit it, I love Dashboard Confessional, there’s just something about Chris Carrabba’s words and music that resinate with me, and now with Dashboard on a break here he is with his new project called Twin Forks, and within its opening bars it’s here for […]

“If people like it, that’s great, that’s awesome, I make music for my fans, I make music for myself first, but I wouldn’t work so hard of it if I didn’t want to get it out to the world. I just do not care if there are naysayers or there’s the people that don’t like it or do like it, […]

“This is an album we can really put our stamp of approval on it and this is something we can really call Dream Theater because we felt like this is so representative of where we are as musicians and as people that if anybody asks ‘what is Dream Theater all about?’ well in 2013 this is our presentation, it’s who […]

“Well we didn’t really set out to make an album that sounds electro or anything like that, but for myself I listened to a lot of different types of music and we’d driven down that big guitar driven album a few albums now, and I think I was a bit bored of it, I wanted to do something different and […]

“In coming together it will always sound like Soilwork, but there’s always something, so for that it’s really exciting for me. So I’m grateful that I’m still excited about creating music and having to make that same damn album over again to be able to stay above the surface.” From Tour Release: Sweden’s SOILWORK have long been regarded by many […]

Bio: Your Favorite Enemies’ distinctive blend of dirty and polished type of sonic textures, along with their introspective poetry and symbolist type of lyrical approach gathered fanatics from all different musical backgrounds into a defining communion of high level noise, post-punk, psych, shoegaze and prog rock. Well known for their old school DIY dedicated ethos, for being fierce human rights […]

“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 […]

“The sound has definitely progressed and our song writing skills have definitely improved as well. We are growing up too! The last album was years ago and since then we have all grown up as musicians and more importantly as human beings. This does directly translate to the music.” From release: Crossfaith combine metal, hardcore, samples and electronica to create […]

“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 […]