For nearly 30 years, Germanys biggest export in thrash metal, KREATOR, have proven to be persistent, innovative and an unstoppable force. Their legendary status has influenced many current bands and they are part of the “Teutonic Big 4’’ alongside Destruction, Sodom & Tankard. Since their inception in 1982 they have released 13 raw, powerful and explosive studio albums. KREATOR successfully blended influences from US Thrash contemporaries Metallica, […]

THE DEAD DAISIES BACK HOME TO ROCK AUSTRALIA! Announce Tour Dates & Release anticipated self-titled Debut Album. Album: “The Dead Daisies” – Release date: 7th February, 2014 SYDNEY, Australia (January 13, 2014) – Australia will have the chance to welcome back one of their hottest musical exports in years when The Dead Daisies kick off a series of shows supporting […]

Big Day Out presents BEADY EYE Big Day Out 2014 Sideshows We are proud to announce that BEADY EYE will be playing one very special headline show while they are in Australia for Big Day Out 2014. Featuring Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock from the legendary OASISand Jay Mehler from Kasabian, BEADY EYE have picked up where Oasis left off, releasing […]

Big Day Out and Soundwave Touring present DEFTONES Big Day Out 2014 Sideshows The DEFTONES live show isn’t one that’s easily forgotten. After selling out their last Australian tour in support of their latest album Koi No Yokan, crowds of thousands were left desperate for more. “a gritty, grinding showstopper of metal and unapologetic energy.”  – Consequence of Sound As one of the […]

KillRockStar Entertainment and Tombowler present post-punk instigators Gang Of Four in Australia to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their classic album Entertainment! and all the hits that followed! Entertainment! was a rare bird for its time,  an enthralling amalgam of punk, funk and angular rock that signalled a changing-of-the-guard ushering in of the post- punk era. Released in 1979, this […]

Respected Aussie rock outfit The Superjesus is hitting the road for the Australia Day long weekend, celebrating in fine style with three live shows.  They’ll kick off on 24th January at Waves Wollongong, then head to Bateau Bay Hotel on the 25th, with a massive Australia Day gig on 26th January at Garrison Point, Bankstown. Following their successful ‘Reformation’ tour […]

Chugg Entertainment are thrilled to confirm that Pearl Jam’s notorious lead singer, Eddie Vedder, will be embarking on a long-awaited solo tour this coming February.  Following Pearl Jam’s headline slot on the Big Day Out’s national dates, Vedder will return to the stage in solo mode for a string of extraordinarily special theatre shows; live and intimate. The tour will […]

“We’ve never done as much as we did this year,” says Wil Wagner of a year that saw The Smith Street Band play shows in Europe, the UK and America, appear on the Big Day Out, Falls Festival and Meredith line ups and release a 10” inch EP, Don’t Fuck With Our Dreams.  As their profile has catapulted, it has […]

On Sunday December 1st KARNIVOOL won their first ever ARIA Award taking out the gong for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album for their current release and third album ‘Asymmetry’ which was also their first ever number one debut on the ARIA album charts. As announced in October KARNIVOOL and good mates Dead Letter Circus will hit the road on […]

SKID ROW/ UGLY KID JOE add AUSTRALIAN dates to co-headline tour SKID ROW and UGLY KID JOE bring their co-headline tour to Australia in April 2014. The bands are currently touring Europe together having completed a hugely successful run of dates across the UK. With combined sales of millions of albums, each band will play a full set of the […]

In a late blast and flurry Big Day Out is excited to announce three new artists to the 2014 lineup. So without any further ado… We have replaced our departing Brit pop band with other members of English rock ’n’ roll royalty BEADY EYE, who are heading to Australia for the first time ever. Founded in 2009 by Oasis members Liam Gallagher, Gem […]

After erupting back onto the scene with bold soul-rock shot ‘Under Your Skin’ — his first release in over four years, which was promptly added to high rotation on triple j — Dan Sultan and his band are thrilled to announce a capital city tour for February and March 2014. Dan’s upcoming tour will give fans an opportunity to hear […]

Hot on the heels of the news that The Rolling Stones will open Adelaide Oval, comes confirmation of another six spectacular Rolling Stones shows for Australia and New Zealand.  Frontier Touring & AEG Live today unveil a string of very special ONE NIGHT ONLY shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland and Victoria’s iconic Hanging Rock as part of the […]

“One of the pillars of British indie rock.” – The Guardian “To say that Edwyn is fêted by the UK indie community would be an understatement. The former Orange Juice man can barely walk down the street without a member of Franz or The Cribs bursting out of a café door and laying down their cape in front of him.” […]

With news just in that the necessary permits have been approved, Frontier Touring are happy to announce that a final release of Rear GA Standing tickets for both Melbourne AAMI Park Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts. Close to 60,000 tickets have already sold across the two Melbourne dates alone and this new release will see just an […]

  When it comes to an all energy show with world-class production, Grammy and ARIA Award winning Keith Urban certainly delivers, and this is exactly what Australian audiences can expect when Urban tours nationally in June 2014 on the Light The Fuse Tour Australia.  The all-new show will not only feature first-time performances of new music from his #1 album […]

Frontier Touring is thrilled to confirm that Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys will be landing in Australia and New Zealand next May to embark on their biggest tour of our shores to date! Arctic Monkeys first burst onto the music scene in 2006 with their award-winning debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.  The album became the fastest-selling […]

When talking about larger-than-life, trailblazing personalities they don’t get much bigger than Chris Jericho (WWE Champion) and Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo mastermind). FOZZY continue their love affair with Australia and are stoked to announce two intimate sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. “We love Australia so much that we decided five shows with Steel Panther & Buckcherry weren’t enough for us […]

For the last few months I Am Giant have been calling Biarrtz, France their home while recording their sophomore album, the highly anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed debut ‘The Horrifying Truth’. Co-produced by Forrester Saville (Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, Helmut), bassist Paul Matthews and drummer Shelton Woolright, the first single ‘Razor Wire Reality’ will be released on December 6th via Sony […]

Joining Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Blur, Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion, Flume, Tame Impala and Northlane… We are so excited to welcome back the one and only PRIMUS, whose appearance at the 3rd ever BDO still makes highlight lists of the festival’s best ever performances. Armed with what can only be described as a unique breed of spiral drum crazy, […]

Rockstar Productions, AndrewHaug.Com & Metal Obsession present CHILDREN OF BODOM – HALO OF BLOOD OVER AUSTRALIA TOUR 2014 Children of Bodom, a name that redefined a genre and made it their own and a name that continues to galvanise all walks of life and all Heavy Metal sub-genres within that culture, it’s a name that crosses genres and moulds them […]

Still buzzing from their sold out city shows to unveil their new vocalist Paul Galagher, The Butterfly Effect have bowed to pressure from fans and extended the tour to include visits to Newcastle, Wollongong and Mona Vale to welcome in the New Year. Delivering nearly an hour and a half of classic Butterfly Effect tracks as well as new material […]

Following hugely successful shows in February 2013, Mike Tramp returns to the stage in Australia for more solo concerts. A one man show telling the stories behind 30 years of music from his platinum days as lead singer of White Lion through his time in Freak of Nature and as a solo artist, when Mike Tramp takes the stage, you […]

Periphery has defied the boundaries of conventionality, bringing new life to the metal scene. Their meteoric rise to the upper echelon of the metal world will be in full display when they return to Australia in January/February 2014 joined by Animals As Leaders. Periphery push the envelope with an innovative brand of engagingly complex metal. The band’s latest offering, Periphery […]

Hailing from the dark lands of the deep South, better known as New Orleans, North America’s most uncompromising band EYEHATEGOD came to be In the year 1988, and have since created a 25 year legacy of sheer unadulterated, no holds bared, musical brutality. Their vision was pure and their approach was hostile, through the course of their four studio albums, […]

Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End, and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut, iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are thrilled to announce a string of new Australian tour dates in 2014 – a continuation of this year’s national capital city tour. Presented by Social Family Records, The […]

Melbourne’s HARMONY have unveiled a tempered, stark, sober, and ultimately haunting video for ‘Diminishing Returns’. Simple yet moving, and unmistakably Australian, it’ll give you shakes and shivers. Eerily disparate and gorgeously bluesy, it’s conclusion sneaks up on you and abruptly cuts short this immensely engrossing listen. Vocalist/guitarist Tom Lyngcoln’s perspective on the song also translates to its audio visual accompaniment; […]

A DAY TO REMEMBER MASTODON HIM / PENNYWISE / JIMMY EAT WORLD / GLASSJAW / PANIC! AT THE DISCO/ EAGLES OF DEATH METAL / MAYDAY PARADE / SEVENDUST / CROSSES / SUICIDE SILENCE / THE PORKERS / GOJIRA / BLACK VEIL BRIDES / ZEBRAHEAD / SATYRICON / DREAM ON DREAMER / MUTE MATH / DESAPARECIDOS / STIFF LITTLE FINGERS / […]

Returning to Australian shores this month in support of their latest release Mechanical Bull, Frontier Touring are excited to announce that Tennessee rockers Kings Of Leon will perform a one-off intimate show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday 20 November. No strangers to the land down under, Kings Of Leon have rocked some of Australia’s biggest arenas with shows selling […]

Merry fucking Christmas!  KING PARROT and GAY PARIS are set to smash their way through the East Coast in the perfect accompaniment to the impending holiday season. Melbourne five-piece KING PARROT is a force of nature unto themselves, smashing together thrash, death, grind and punk rock into something uniquely skull-shattering. Renowned for their aggressive, no-holds-barred, and always confronting live show,  […]