Official Bio:  You’ve already missed the first year of the Strums… don’t miss the second. The band began with a song. One song, that demanded to be written. Singer Jai Sparks’s home was severely damaged in the devastating 2011 Brisbane floods, and at his lowest he turned to music. With friend Eric Mewburn he recorded Oh River, a brutally honest […]

“Justin really got himself together and now he’s fighting fit and a better guitarist and singer and performer than he ever was, even back then, it’s just great to be and I’m really privileged to be back with them.” The Darkness, have possibly the best biography out there at the moment: “There have been two albums. There has been a […]

“You can’t really say oh this band is really popular in Australia because they’ve sold a lot of albums, because you just don’t know what sales are worth anymore.  We’ve always done very well, we’ve never been a multi-million selling band but we’ve always done very well on the live circuit.” Swedish melodic death metal trash rockers Arch Enemy are […]

Welcome to the wettest night in possibly the last 100 years in Sydney which sees an entirely drenched crowd filling the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney with definite plans to see the legendary Cold Chisel tonight. Trust me, not even the flame trees can dry these dripping punters… (I know, bad pun, but they get better.) Lanie Lane was our support […]

“Well that’s kind of the feeling we had when we first got back together and all got in the same room.  We went into it realistically, knowing that there’s a great chance that it couldn’t work, but right when we started writing everything really clicked, so for us we were really confident after that first writing session.” With the ‘Tell […]

“It was just special, there were these anthems that made you feel like you were a part of something but at the same time you could just go and enjoy yourself and sing along.” Their album Radiosurgery has been out now for over six months and in support of it New Found Glory were back in Australia to play some […]

“We like to get into it from the get go! Big opening song and get the crowd involved as soon as possible. We like to get as close to the crowd as possible. I normally end up over the monitors and hanging off the front of the stage. I like to feel that connection with the crowd.” From Official Bio:  […]

From Official Bio:  Verusive formed in 2010 on the Gold Coast, erupting onto the Australian music scene with their explosive live shows. With a fusion of formidable heavy-hitting sounds and commanding emotive vocals colliding in every energetic performance, Verusive deliver infectious rock with influences ranging from Paramore & Evanescence to Foo Fighters & Metallica. Verusive are re-releasing their debut EP […]

From Official Bio:  Take your hair out, get a flask ready, and read on. If you blasted Black Label Society and W.A.S.P. simultaneously through two stereos and stood in the middle of an epic desert, you’d get exactly what you’re here to find out about, Galactic Acid. Instant hits on the scene early 2010, the band was quick to record […]

“You know, people want to hear a band be genuine and if they like what we’re doing, that’s great, if not, there’s going to be a percentage of people who do, and we’re a genuine band and that’s kind of our attitude now.” Train are most well-known for their amazingly friendly radio hits ‘Drops of Jupiter’ and of course the […]

It’s always something pretty cool when you get a four band line up that you’re pumped to check out, all the bands tonight complement each other and I can tell we’re in for a good night. This Time Next Year hit the ground running and didn’t slow down. Their energetic pop punk sound had the crowd pumped up in no […]

“We didn’t box ourselves in, we threw everything at the wall and basically I don’t know, we showcased nearly everything that we know that we’re capable of doing on this record, so I feel like since the last record, it’s your first record, you just kind of do everything and just throw everything out there.” In 2009 a band called […]

In 25 words or less: “Balls out rock, amazing ballads, modern rock songs, and balls out rock.  Yeah that’s right, said that twice, but it’s the truth.” It’s been three years since the release of Halestorm’s debut in 2009 and this new album has been a long time coming!  I’m happy to say that it was well worth the wait […]

“Controversy is always a positive thing even if it’s in a negative way, like any of that Government censorship crap where they try to stop people from doing what they want to do, it’s just like putting gasoline on the fire and it always works in our favour in the long run.” From Official Bio:  Returning with the ceaselessly hostile […]

“It wasn’t so much the fear of if it wasn’t going to work, because you can’t take the fact away that the fuckin’ songs sound awesome, but there was always that kind of question in the back of our head of ‘Oh, can we?  Can we? What if?’” TOUR PRESS RELEASE: Featuring founding members of Sublime along with new frontman, […]

“I guess it’s really song oriented music and I think each one of us really takes pride that we work really hard at being able to play our instruments, so there’s a lot of musicality and it’s kind of just four guys playing non synthesised instruments on stage.” Having received the patronage of both Jackson Browne and The Band’s Robbie […]

“On the G3 we have to do a lot things together, so on a typical show day I’m gonna be hanging out with the two Steve’s and we’ll be doing a lot of meet and greet, we’ll be doing a sound check and we’ll hang out for maybe eight hours together and it culminates with a jam.  So we’re always […]

From Official Bio:  Our Last Enemy are the dark horses of Australia’s heavy music scene – if you haven’t heard the name yet, remember it – you’ll be hearing a lot of it very soon. A brutal live reputation for theatrically unpredictable shows has created a strong live following and unparalleled local buzz – Our Last Enemy are known for […]

“This is an age of technology, of megabyte and gigabyte, etc and I think that it says older when you think in terms of electric, but when you think in terms of age I think it has a lot to do with a period of time and a long period of time.” From Bio:  “Although everybody seems to have a […]

“We feel really good about it, and to be honest I think some of the things were scary for everybody, we were taking risks and we were definitely all pushing ourselves, but we worked so hard and for so long that I think it worked out, so I’m very happy with it.” Since the late 90’s New Jersey thrash / […]

In 25 words or less: “This is a metal album from a band who know what they’re doing and do it well.” So on this nice Sunday afternoon I was looking for some music to set the mood and relax to. Of course the only choice was the new Soulfly album ‘Enslaved’, I mean, wouldn’t it be yours? This is […]

Official Bio:  January 2007 saw the launch of Kitchener, Ontario’s Alt-Rock quartet Breaching Vista. Since their inception, BV has found themselves sharing the bill with such notable acts as Our Lady Peace, Jack’s Mannequin, The Sheepdogs, Hedley, Matthew Good, Marianas Trench, Arkells, Finger Eleven, Protest The Hero, Down With Webster, The Reason, ill Scarlett, USS, and many more. The release […]

OK so I’m interested right off the bat with the intro to this album, a great guitar sound and leaves me intrigued as to if this is what I can expect for the remainder of the album. It flows straight into a song called ‘Sleep’ which has a great musical hook and great structure to this song that did far […]

In 25 words or less: “This is truly a great rock album, every song is as good as the next and it’s one that I’ll happily continue to listen to.” It’s been four long years since we last had a new album from US Rockers Shinedown and thankfully we now have some brand new music from them in the form […]

“It really fits Shinedown and who we are and where we are right now, because Shinedown the name means, sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down, it’s kind of a rebirth of Shinedown, this album, and it just kind of fits our mood right now.” One of the biggest rock bands out there at the moment is Shinedown, after their 2008 […]

“Everything’s there, it’s just getting to do it and as long as we keep doing what we do, and as long as we think that we’re doing the best we can with it and we’re not just fooling ourselves and we really are doing the best we can with it, then it’s all good.” The last time we spoke with […]

Rain rain go away. Seriously. Go away. It is awful tonight in Sydney yet people have come out in droves for yet another Sidewave. This time it’s Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber, Wednesday 13 and Motionless In White. I walked in the door three seconds before Motionless In White started to see the crowd at almost three quarters capacity which is […]

The sold out crowd tonight at Sydney’s Manning Bar are here to see one of the most perfect line ups on a sidewave yet, consisting of Relient K, Jack’s Mannequin and Dashboard Confessional. What to expect?!?! I unfortunately missed Relient K, hey, Soundwave week is busy, don’t yell at me… I was upset too… BUT, Jack’s Mannequin what can I […]

“I think we’ve come to probably enjoying playing together more than the early days, I think we got away with playing some less than stellar shows, but now that’s really on the top of the agenda to go out there and really play well and have fun.” You may know who Urge Overkill are, and if you aren’t aware of […]

After my mistake of not heading to last year’s Soundwave and the bruises from kicking myself, I was in no way missing Soundwave 2012. My biggest problem was how to split myself in to five people to be able to catch all the bands on this unbelievable bill. Seriously, what a line up. The trains were packed early and the […]