ROB THOMAS has had an ongoing, 20-year long, love affair with Australian audiences – both as the frontman, lead vocalist and key songwriter for Matchbox Twenty and also as a major solo artist. In February 2016, that romance will continue as Thomas makes a very welcome return down-under for a national headline tour. Touring in support of his first solo album […]

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’s ‘Alive Or Just Breathing’ album was a watershed moment in metal in 2002 as it heralded the birth of ‘Metalcore’. An army of imitators was born and have all tried in vain to emulate this essential classic. In a Special Soundwave Presentation, we are thrilled to announce that KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will be performing ‘Alive Or Just Breathing’ in […]

SEVENDUST’s triumphant return to Australia marks the first shows on Aussie soil in six years and Atlanta’s brutal hard rock kings are back as heavy as ever. “They blew the audience away! …after about three minutes of their first song, the band managed to rock so damn hard that they shut everything down. It was awesome.” blogcritics.org SEVENDUST kicked off […]

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH (FFDP) have been announced as very special guest to Black Sabbath’s The End tour taking place across Australia in April 2016. The American metal juggernaut crashed into the ARIA Charts last month at #3 with their sixth album, Got Your Six, giving them their highest Australian chart position ever! Got Your Six is the follow-up to […]

Armed with material from their eagerly anticipated third album, Limitless, Australian rock heavyweights TONIGHT ALIVE are set to play a run of intimate east coast shows in January, before embarking on European and US dates. A little bit older and a whole world wiser, today Tonight Alive are a band brimming with energy onstage and off – bursting with stories from the road and […]

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY COMES TOGETHER TO SUPPORT TWO OF THEIR OWN WITH ‘ONE FOR THE ROAD’ Baby Animals, Hoodoo Gurus, The Superjesus, Noiseworks, 1927, Diesel with special guest Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Swanee, Thirsty Merc, Dragon, Wendy Matthews and MANY more confirmed to perform! #onefortheroad Last month the Australian music industry was devastated by the tragic death of well-known and […]

“…they’re just these young, broke kids who don’t give a fuck except to play music in front of people. I love it and it’s inspiring on a daily basis. That’s the spirit of rock and roll in those kids” Dave “The Snake” Sabo, SKID ROW Melbourne’s premiere hard rockers, Dead City Ruins will be returning home for a massive national […]

On ground in Sydney, Australia, Dallas Green today announced that City and Colour would be playing shows across Australia next year, adding to the already announced Byron Bay Bluesfestappearance in March 2016. Following on from their festival performance in Byron Bay, City and Colour will play an intimate show at The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 26th March, something special for his Queensland fans after his last […]

Australian audiences can see John Mellencamp during a seven-date tour of Australia inFebruary 2016, supported by a special guest, singer and songwriter Jewel. Also appearing on the tour is country artist Carlene Carter.The musician – whose extraordinary list of honours includes a 2001 Billboard Century Award, the Woody Guthrie Award in 2004, a Grammy Award and the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting – was inducted into […]

New Jersey-based post-hardcore / emo quintet, Senses Fail, have just announced that they will be returning to Australian shores for a full national tour in March 2016. The tour will mark the band’s fifteenth year anniversary and their first return down-under since the release of their latest LP  ‘Pull the Thorns from Your Heart’; the sixth full-length from their discography, which was […]

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN AUSTRALIA AT SOUNDWAVE 2016 TROY SANDERS (MASTODON) – MARK OSEGUEDA (DEATH ANGEL) ALEX SKLONICK (TESTAMENT) – MIKE PORTNOY (THE WINERY DOGS) PHIL DEMMELL (MACHINE HEAD) – MARK MENGHI (METAL ALLEGIANCE) More than an experiment, a one-off or a “super group”, METAL ALLEGIANCE is an experience. Like the comic book heroes of ‘The Avengers’, the […]

The name suggests that GINGERFEST is a day full of Fanta, carrots and sunscreen-dipped freckly youngsters going by nicknames like ‘Bluey’. But no, its not about congregating to celebrate the rare yet beautiful MCR1 Gene. Instead, Gingerfest is a straight up, balls out, no reservations, all inclusive punk rock festival held to honour the memory of one of Australia’s most dedicated punk […]

CITY AND COLOUR ANNOUNCES SPECIAL FAN EVENTS IN SYDNEY & MELBOURNE THIS MONTH! PRE-ORDER ALBUM AT GETMUSIC.COM.AU FROM 4PM TODAY FOR EXCLUSIVE ENTRY To celebrate the imminent release of City and Colour’s highly anticipated new studio album If I Should Go Before You (October 9, 2015), Australian fans are being offered the once in a lifetime opportunity to attend intimate […]

No strangers to Australian shores, New Zealand band SIX60 are pleased to announce they will be back in Australia this November and December visiting Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney. The first half of 2015 has been all about New Zealand for the band where their much anticipated second album was released in February and is now certified platinum. After […]

Forming in 2012, MOOSE BLOOD have quickly developed a buzz with their spirit of emo rock and pace of pop-punk across a handful of EPs. On the back of standout performances at Reading and Leeds Festivals and Vans Warped Tour USA, MOOSE BLOOD have just released their phenomenal new album ‘I’ll Keep You In Mind From Time To Time’. These […]

On the cusp of performing to an audience of millions at the 2015 Toyota AFL Grand Final next weekend, Frontier Touring are thrilled to confirm that Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Bryan Adams will return to Australia next March for the GET UP tour. In addition to arena performances at Sydney’s Allphones Arena and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, Adams will also play a series of a day on the […]

Today Bluesfest releases the second instalment of outstanding artists to perform at the 5 Day Festival, held annually over Easter, just north of Byron Bay (EVENT DATES: Thu 24th March to Mon 28th March 2016). Co-headlining the second announcement is the incomparable Tom Jones, a living legend who will be appearing at Bluesfest for the first time in 2016. Over […]

DEVIL YOU KNOW began as a journey into the unknown. Howard Jones (Ex Killswitch Engage), Francesco Artusato (All Shall Perish), John Sankey (Fear Factory, Divine Heresy), and Ryan Wombacher (Bleeding Through) all shared a determined strength born of the tension between tragedy and ambition, the fight between creative satisfaction and musical abandon, and the might of collective experience have coalesced […]

In celebration of the release of his highly anticipated new album Higher Truth tomorrow, CHRIS CORNELL has confirmed two additional shows for his solo acoustic tour of Australia this November – December. Cornell will head to the capital for one show only, playing Canberra’s Llewellyn Hall on Thursday December 3. Due to overwhelming demand, a third and final date has been added at the Sydney […]

It’s been a hell of a decade for Australia’s favourite beard-themed propaganda rock band, and to celebrate, The Beards will be embarking on an anniversary tour of Australia this October. The ‘Ten Long Years, One Long Beard’ Tour will take the band on a limited run of shows at selected venues in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.The tour will […]

Their current single “Black Rebel” is The Lazy’s second collaboration with Billy Talent guitarist Ian D’Sa, who co-wrote their debut Top 10 single “Shake It Like You Mean It”  last year.  Featured on their self-titled album, the track was produced by Garth “GGGarth” Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Mötley Crüe) and broke the Top 10 on the Canadian Charts, hit #2 on CBC’s Rock […]

Funeral For A Friend have announced the ‘Last Chance To Dance’ Tour, which will include dates across Australia, Europe and the UK in Feb-April of 2016. This will act as a curtain call on the band’s illustrious fifteen year career and each city they play will be treated to two shows. As Matthew Davies-Kreye elaborates – “It’s the natural end. […]

Rock legends IRON MAIDEN, whose new studio double album “The Book of Souls” just debuted at No 2 in Australia, will make a massively anticipated return in May on their enormous Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet Ed Force One, piloted by vocalist Bruce Dickinson and carrying band, crew and stage production and equipment. Their first Australian tour since 2011, Maiden will play […]

Where do you go next, when you’re on top of the world? For BRING ME THE HORIZON, the answer is simple: wherever they damn well please… BRING ME THE HORIZON’s  new album ‘That’s The Spirit’ is released today, and finds them shaping up to be the sort of band that won’t just conquer the world (again), but to become the […]

Ahead of this week’s sold-out performances in Melbourne and Sydney, Ohio natives Walk The Moon confirm their return to Australia in January 2016. The four-piece will take their incredible live show across the country on their third visit to Australia, kicking off in Perth at the Astor Theatre on 21st January, continuing through to The Gov in Adelaide on Saturday 23rd January, The Forum in Melbourne on Monday 25th January, then on to The Triffid in […]

It’s the Beginning of THE END. It started nearly five decades ago with a crack of thunder, a distant bell ringing and then that monstrous riff that shook the earth.  The heaviest rock sound ever heard. In that moment Heavy Metal was born, created by a young band from Birmingham, England barely out of their teens. Now it ENDS, the final tour […]

The team at SOUNDWAVE TOWERS are mighty proud to announce the 1st ever visit to Australia by Finland’s Metal warriors, LORDI!!! In 2006 they did the absolute unthinkable: Took their monstrous outfits and their loud guitars to the cathedral of anti-metal – THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – and conquered; metal was thrust onto the world stage and newspapers across the […]

All change is growth. And NORTHLANE’s monumental new album Node stands proudly as proof. Debuting at No.3 on the Aria charts, Node takes its cues as much from the band’s collective worldview as it does myriad artists from multiple generations. Rather than the existential examinations of their previous albums, Discoveries and Singularity, the album is fueled by passion and anger […]

REFUSED wasn’t just ruminating about the lasting impact of popular culture when it began its 1998 album ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’ with a lyric about classics never going out of style — it was also taking stock of its own turbulent existence, which met an ignominious end later that year in front of 50 kids at a basement […]

KillRockStar Entertainment presents San Diego melodic punk rock stalwarts Unwritten Law in Australia for their Love Is The Law tour this December, with very special guests, Adelaide’s Grenadiers. Formed in Poway, California, Unwritten Law were a major part of the power pop-punk movement that swept through America in the early 90’s.  With ferocious punk energy and rock solid quality song […]