“We love it (Australia) and it is a place we feel like we are just turning the corner.  We have introduced ourselves and given a little handshake, now we are ready to have a few beers and get the party started you know…..” Kasabian.  Is the band that formed in 1999 in Leicester, England, now the biggest rock band in […]

“I didn’t think it was going to go past 6 months!  Back then I was just doing it as a labour of love, I loved it.  I never expected anyone to understand the mutant ramblings of a person that just loves psychedelic and hard rock music……” For the second time in 2011, Monster Magnet will be hitting Australian shores.  This […]

“We always have the best time, the shows are amazing, the people are amazing so it’s just an important market for us.  For anywhere else in the world, Australia is like our home away from home…….” It’s just one of those special relationships, Anberlin and Australia that is.  Whilst Anberlin guitarist Christian McAlhaney tries to explain it in our interview […]

“I think people are really concerned about knowing who you are as an artist and seeing and hearing a continuity between what I am saying in my songs and representing myself as a person….” Michael Paynter, Melbourne singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and the man I have seen silence a room on many occasions with the mere sound of his voice […]

“One of the songs on the record called Say You Like Me, I actually wrote about a girl in Queensland who literally won me over.  Like every girl there is so incredible, their accents are amazing, they’re so beautiful and so much fun to hang out with…..” Delivering a much needed dose of sunny summer vibes during what has been […]

“Thanks for making us feel special at this moment in time. This is why we are doing this. We hope we don’t disappoint!  And, we truly appreciate you more than you know…..” Tower City, the American trio who formed in 1988 and best known for their album ‘A Little Bit Of Fire’ which has a cult following amongst AOR loving […]

“This time we knew what to expect and were way more prepared, things like experimenting with tones and sounds and we just had way more fun with it….” For Melbourne’s Calling All Cars, the second half of 2011 is destined to be an action packed number of months.  New album Dancing With A Dead Man was just released last Friday […]

“We bring a lot of energy and a lot of that is my job to try and pump up the crowd and get them involved!  So long as Australia is down to moving around, I think we are going to get along just great!…” Like many bands on the Soundwave Revolution lineup, The Word Alive find themselves in the enviable […]

“I feel like Australians that dig our music are pretty awesome people haha!  We love coming over and playing and we’re surprised people dig us so far from home, but the demand is there for us to keep coming back and we hope that doesn’t change…” Relient K may need introducing to some here in Australia, but for those who […]

“BETTER THAN THE RECORD. MANIC. VERY LOUD AND EXTREMELY BRASH….” The Aussie classic rock behemoth that is Electric Mary have just released their latest studio offering titled Long Time Coming. For those of you that have not seen Electric Mary do what they do best and that’s play live…the DVD that also comes part of the Long Time Coming release […]

“If you’re into ROCK, then you’ll find something to like with our latest album.  From arena rock, to riff-laden metal, to modern-ish rock, to power ballads, to AOR / melodic rock, it’s all there, all encompassed by the style and sound that is OUTLOUD….” Forming in 2008, Outloud blasted onto the melodic rock scene with their debut album We’ll Rock You […]

“We had the chance to play on the actual battlefield in Poland where we sung the song 40:1, exactly 70 years on the hour of the battle. That was really magical, there was about 10,000 people that came to see the performance…” Swedish epic power metal superstars Sabaton are soon set to release the first ever live album, World War […]

“It’s funny, songs and albums are like your children, you have certain ones that are your favourites on certain days and you have to make sure to buy them the same sized Christmas presents, you know.  This album (Fishin’ For Woos) though for me is one of the ones I am most proud of…” Bowling For Soup (or BFS for […]

“I can’t wait to hear once everyone is done with their parts completely and the whole thing is mixed, because mixing makes or breaks things for me, so I am really hopeful.  But as of now, it’s the best thing we’ve ever done by far, without a doubt..” It’s been a few years now since The Used released arguably their […]

“It’s the best situation for us to come over and meet the fans and new people who have never heard of our band.  Soundwave have so far been amazing at taking care of us, I’ve never been part of a Festival that has been so organised.  So we are extremely thankful and couldn’t ask for more really…” For pop rock […]

For all you Swedish sleaze rock loving people out there, then Sister are a band you need to get onto pronto, that is, if they haven’t already found you!  With their debut album Hated  dropping a few weeks ago, Sister are armed and ready to join the likes of Crashdiet and Hardcore Superstar leading the charge of the Swedish sleaze […]

Now into it’s 9th year, this year the annual Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin Celebration will arguably  see it’s biggest performance, with an impressive lineup of performers and shows in nearly every capital city.  Under the direction of the shows mastermind Joseph Calderazzo, those attending can expect to hear well over 2 hours of Led Zeppelin classics performed in ways never […]

“I remember one girl that was singing on the album didn’t want to sing it as they were bad words, so she denied to sing the bad stuff haha!” Age Of The Joker, the new album from German metal masters Edguy due out on August 26th is sure to be one of the most talked about metal releases in 2011, as […]

“I love The Damned Things because I get to sing a lot more which I love doing, but then playing shows with Every Time I Die is unparalleled, the energy there, you can’t ask for a better interaction with crowds than we get when we play club shows….” Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley is certainly going to be […]

“There’s that fear of people not caring anymore since I was stuck in that label mess for years and the fear of failing. But neither were really fears I let come true to life. After all I went through to get to this point, failing isn’t an option and I’m working my ass off to show the world who I […]

“Can I just say four words…Fist Fight, Pregnant and Drunk.  There we go, there’s my four words, I am sticking with that Scott!” For around 15 years Zebrahead have been delivering their rap flavoured punk pop to the masses worldwide and with new album Get Nice due out anytime soon, they show no signs of slowing down just yet.  Here […]

Now into it’s 9th year, this year the annual Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin Celebration will arguably see it’s biggest performance, with an impressive lineup of performers and shows in nearly every capital city.  Under the direction of the shows mastermind Joseph Calderazzo, those attending can expect to hear well over 2 hours of Led Zeppelin classics performed in ways never […]

“We just try to make it look like it’s going to come crashing down at any minute you know, its out of control, just mosh mayhem off stage and you’ll see us having a good time and hopefully that translates to the people viewing it.” Unearth have just unleashed their new album of pure Metal, their fifth studio album and […]

“A lot of great bands didn’t get the recognition they deserved.  We could be thrown into that category, but we should be thankful for the recognition we did get!  It at least got us to the point today where we can do what we are now doing!” One of the pioneers of thrash metal, Forbidden, are hitting Australia for the […]

“We fuckin’ rock and there’s a lot of bands out there that rock as well but they don’t look as sexy when they’re rockin’ as we do, so we couple the sexy with the rock.”….” How do you describe a band like Steel Panther, maybe in their own words? They proclaim themselves as “THE GREATEST HEAVY METAL BAND EVER” and […]

“Rock n roll isn’t meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it’s meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life….” Set The World On Fire is the name of the Black Veil Brides new album and with an […]

“The best thing I could say is that a lot of people who come up to us say “I was 15 when you put out your first record and I loved it, now I am 20 and in college and I love the new record and I feel that I have matured with the band”, that’s a huge compliment for […]

English band Young Guns in only two years have been on a whirlwind ride that not many bands get to live these days.  An EP and debut album followed by countless touring including spots at The Reading & Download festivals and now they have just been added to the amazingly monstrous Soundwave Revolution tour coming to Australian shores in September […]

“It was all about the energy of the punk and hardcore bands of the 90’s that really made us want to put everything into it (the live show) and run around and do everything possible to make people have fun and to also be into the music as well…” Story Of The Year are no strangers to Australia, with their […]

Kane Roberts – for some he may be best known as probably one of the most identifiable members of Alice Cooper’s band, the hulk like guitarist with an arsenal of machine gun guitars during Alice’s mid 80’s Raise Your Fist And Yell and Constrictor era. Co writing the majority of the songs with Alice on these albums, this era saw […]