“The first time is always the first time, and it can only happen once, but it always has a lot of expectations and a lot of like things building up towards it…” From Release: Rock stars in their homeland of Finland since their first album, Peep, went Gold when they were just 16 years old, The Rasmus have built a […]

“It’s so hard to have an identity and for some reason Garbage has a very strong identity and now we look at that as an incredibly powerful asset.” From Release: Returning to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade, GARBAGE aren’t ones to rest on their laurels. Led by vocalist, guitarist and bonafide ’90s icon, Shirley Manson, the […]

“I tell people all the time, we’re your favourite band you just don’t know it…” From Release: Wednesday 13 returns on the back of a sold out Australian tour in 2023 celebrating his former band Murderdolls. The pairing of Kim Dracula and Wednesday 13 is a stroke of evil genius. Fast and dirty, raw, chaotic and macabre. It’s tongue-in-cheek horror […]

“No matter where we play it always feels like we’re doing it not for the first time but I treat it like it’s the first and last show all the time…” From Release: For the first time since their sellout 2001 Australian tour, multi-platinum and BRIT award winning, Scottish alternative rock band Travis is coming to Australia, to perform classic […]

“Some of them were a bit daunting just thinking about playing them, and then when you get into it you get the muscle memory back, and you just realise how screwy the songs were…” From Release: PIXIES have announced a 2025 Australian tour which will see the alt-rock legends perform two consecutive nights in each city. On the first night, […]

“It’s great because we have an opportunity to be able to play in front of a lot of people that normally would not see us, and some maybe never heard of us or for whatever reason never saw us…” From Release: Exactly two years since their last visit, Suicidal Tendencies return in late 2025 with a series of firsts, which […]

“It was cool because we were not under any pressure from the label or anywhere to do anything quick or fast, so we kind of took our time with this one…” From Release: SOULFLY has been spearheading the movement of groove metal for decades now, reaching into limitless directions while seamlessly retaining the expert quality and perfection that bears the […]

“I feel like I’ve been doing so many things on my own and doing as much as I can on my own, and now I feel like we’re going to go to radio for the first time and we’re going to be able to do things that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to do on my own anymore, and so […]

“We are in a chapter for this band that is in our minds is unheard of to be doing what we’re doing now and I think we’re truly if not already we’re very much on the cusp of this being bigger even than Ocean Avenue was…” From Release: ‘Better Days’ is the band’s first full feature length album in almost […]

“This time around I’m a bit nervous because I really care about this album, like I really do. I honestly didn’t think we were going to release another album…” From Release: ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ sees the band dig deep emotionally and musically for fans of Nothing But Thieves, You Me At Six and UK alt-rock. They’ve shared a number […]

“I’ve loved this band since I was a kid, I have not stopped singing these songs since I was a kid, and it’s a blessing for me to just share this again…” From Release: INXS fans, get ready – the Original Rockstar (and former INXS Frontman), JD Fortune will finally return to Australian stages for his first ever headline tour […]

“We always tried to do things that people liked, basically…” From Release: UK indie icons Kaiser Chiefs have announced their return to Australia this November, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their seminal record, Employment, one of the best-selling UK debut albums of all time. It will be their first visit to these shores since 2012, when they packed out venues […]

“You get back together, you start talking, you start playing the music you’ve played, you think about those times and it’s inevitable…” From Release: Renowned for their genre-defying sound and electrifying high-energy live performances, letlive. is set to triumphantly return to stages one more time, reuniting with fans and reigniting the fire that defined a generation of alternative music. The […]

“We have a certain thing with the band where the way everybody plays and everybody’s contributions makes it Nine Days and getting everybody on board at the same time to do it… we all want to it just hasn’t happened…” From Release: 25 years on from its release, ‘Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)’ remains a key entry of the US […]

“A record sometimes can feel like a secret that you’re holding back that you just want to tell people, it can feel like a gift that you bought somebody way too early… and this one especially I feel like we took our time with this one which I think was a good thing…” From Release: When the stakes could not […]

“That’s really what it’s about, when you’re making music and to help someone through a tough time or help someone relate to you and know that you’re not alone and what you might be feeling or going through. There’s some comfort in that…” From Release: For two decades, Pop Evil frontman Leigh Kakaty has needed to mine the deepest of […]

“I’m so appreciative of this band and the gifts it’s give me and the world being one of the very first all-girl rock bands…” From Release: As one of rock’s true pioneers, Cherie Currie exploded onto the music scene in the 1970s as the unmistakable teenage voice of The Runaways, delivering anthems like “Cherry Bomb” that redefined what it meant […]

“It was like a much-needed break to spend time with our family and friends, and have a bit of downtime really. It took us a few months to settle in to let’s start thinking about the next project…” From Release: When they were last here, Don Broco promised the fans they would repay their patience with their long absences and […]

“I want this record to connect with people, I want it to be there for people. The more people that connect with it the more sense it makes in my life…” From Release: I Beat Loneliness is a bold next step for BUSH in its fearlessness. The album delves deep into themes of isolation, mental health, and emotional endurance, offering […]

“We were kind of relentless in our pursuit of doing what we wanted to do the way we wanted to do it…” From Release: With 13 ARIA Award nominations to their name; over half a million records sold; countless Platinum accolades and a live reputation that is untouchable, Grinspoon’s impact is one that contemporary Australian rock bands can still find […]

“You know, you’ve gotta ask yourself too, it’s a fairly solid commitment and if you’re ready to sort of back it up. You know put your money where your mouth is sort of thing…” From Release: Beloved Adelaide rockers The Superjesus return with their new self-titled record, their first full album in 20 years. It’s packed with killer singles from […]

“We’ve done a lot and I guess this kind of like the new version of us that we haven’t really been able to present to the people in Australia yet…” From Release: Yours Truly’s latest album ‘TOXIC’ is a triumphant return born from adversity. Created amidst inner-band challenges that would derail most, the album emerged as a testament to the […]

“We are doing a lot, more than people have ever seen… especially Down Under.” From Bio: Silverstein enters its 25th year with two full-length albums set for 2025. The band that NME calls “legendary,” and Loudwire placed among the Most Prolific Rock & Metal Artists of the 21st Century, continues to innovate and inspire on forward-thinking records and at crowd-embracing live shows. We chatted […]

“I feel that we are more in control of our career than we ever have and the shows are growing. I see fans from the first era coming back to the shows, and I see younger faces as well kind of revitalising the whole scene…” From Release: In 2025, SIMPLE PLAN history will be made in Australia, with the revered […]

“For me personally I want the songs to feel like they were written in the room, like that’s been my whole thing…” From Bio: Jason Wade is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of Lifehouse, a band which, since forming in the West Valley of Los Angeles in 2000, released seven albums that have cumulatively sold more than 15 […]

“It was also like a very exciting time cause you’re in the pursuit of something and you’re shunning a conventional life with kind of quite real consequences…” From Bio: KT Tunstall has never been one for creative stasis. The Grammy® nominated Scottish Musician burst onto the music scene with her 2004 multi-platinum debut, Eye to the Telescope, which spawned the […]

“I got to the point of just like ok I’ve healed, and I thought about it and now it’s time to move forward…” From Release: Burton C. Bell, the iconic voice that defined futuristic anxiety, existential desperation, and steadfast resistance across the industrial metal world, is set to captivate Australian audiences this June 2025 with a special run of intimate […]

“When the band broke up it was starting to feel like, it was a darker period and it started to feel like it was feeling more like a job and wasn’t feeling as passionate and authentic…” From Release: THE JULIANA THEORY will forever hold a spot in the rarefied ranks of emo’s most influential artists. Like their peers Sunny Day […]

“Anytime something good happened to the band at home we would be playing toilets either in Europe or The States…” From Release: Iconic Australian band You Am I is gearing up to mark a significant milestone, as their critically acclaimed second album, Hi Fi Way, turned 30 on February 20. You Am I’s Hi Fi Daily Double Down Tour will […]

“It was an interesting process. There obviously was a lot of adjustment needed, logistically, emotionally, but at the same time it felt like a really natural evolution…” From Release: Four-time GRAMMY-nominated band The Fray, is bringing their highly anticipated “How to Save a Life” 20th Anniversary Tour to Australia this December.   These shows are part of an extensive global tour […]