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,  […]

Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan, two of New Zealand’s most successful songwriters, will share a stage for the first time in Australia  later this year. On November 28 and 30 these respected and much-loved musicians will perform together in Melbourne and Sydney.  In these intimate, seated performances, Dobbyn and McGlashan will draw on a vast catalogue of songs written as […]

Some pairings just make sense: Summer and Beer. Chocolate and Banana. Hall and Oates. Rock and Roll, you just don’t need to even think about whether it’s right or not. Here at Karnivool HQ we are pleased to announce what is surely to be one of the tours of the summer, and will make the fans of both bands more […]

UPDATE: 24th October: The hottest double billing of 2014 just got hotter, with two final concerts added to the Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age Australia and New Zealand March co-headline tour.   Fans in Sydney score another concert on Friday 7 March at Sydney Entertainment Centre, while Melbourne fans have one last chance at tickets for Saturday […]

It is with heavy hearts that we announce that HOMEBAKE 2013 has been cancelled. From its inception in 1996 in Byron Bay, HOMEBAKE has been a staunch advocate and supporter of Australian music and of this country’s musicians. In 1998 HOMEBAKE began its long association with the Domain as the preferred venue of choice, and for 15 years on the […]

Vans Warped Tour Australia ‘The Best Day Ever’ just kicked it up a notch! With summer just around the corner the Vans Warped Tour is damn excited to announce another round of kick ass bands to join the already killer line-up! Esteemed punk rock juggernauts, MILLENCOLIN are spearheading the second announcement. Our favourite Swedes will be bringing their immense catalogue […]

Following the huge success of their first trip to Australia in 2012, ICED EARTH return to entrench their live reputation in this country with a blazing onslaught! Formed in 1985 by Jon Schaffer, ICED EARTH have released ten studio albums, cementing the band’s reputation for being one of the leading forces of Heavy Metal that withstands all trends and attempts […]

Brisbane hard  rockers  Like  Thieves,  fronted  by  powerhouse  vocalist  Clint  Boge,  have  announced  an East  Coast  tour from  15th  –  30th  November  taking  in  Sydney,  Melbourne,  Brisbane,  Adelaide  and  Newcastle.  This  tour  follows  the  band’s  recent success  of  their  stunning  EP  The  Wolves  At  Winter’s Edge.  Debuting  in  the  iTunes  rock  charts  at #2  and  remaining  in  the  top  ten  […]

Orlando based management and publicity firm Stephanie Christie Management and Publicity has announced that they have signed Australian rockers Bellusira to their roster. The 4-piece female fronted band will be co-managed by veteran manager Stephanie Christie and veteran rocker Will Hunt (Evanescence/Device). Bellusira has become a staple of the Melbourne, Australia rock scene , but recently garnered the attention of […]

Southern rock royalty LYNYRD SKYNYRD has heralded the calls of their devoted fans, announcing their very first Australian shows since the band’s formation. Boasting a rich and prolific history of more than 60 albums and sales exceeding 30 million worldwide, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s southern sounds are etched on the American rock landscape and their cult classics such as ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ […]

FOZZY JOIN THE S.T.D PARTY! “After playing Soundwave 2013, one of the best tours of our career, in front of the best Fozzy fans in the world, we had one mission on our minds- to come back to Australia on the Sin And Bones tour ONE MORE TIME! Now we have accomplished that mission and are stoked to be coming […]

Adelaide, get ready to rock… On Friday Rocktober 11th at The Promethean, this is a one time, killer line up that is sure to be talked about for times to come, so fasten your seat belts, be sure to turn up for this night of nights… Performing on the night is Melbourne’s KillShott , Sydney’s Sunset Riot and Aiz Lynch […]

‘Obsession’ is the brand new single from the upcoming debut album from Brisbanite four-piece, The Cairos, due out in early 2014. Recorded at Studios 301 in the paradise that is Byron Bay, the single and album were produced and mixed by Nick DiDia, who has worked with such greats as Powderfinger, Rage Against The Machine and Karnivool. ‘Obsession’ gives a […]

A message from Ken West of The Big Day Out… Hi all, Perhaps we were a bit ambitious expanding to two dates in Sydney for this year’s Big Day Out… The Sydney Big Day Out show scheduled for Monday, January 27 will now be merged into one show on Sunday, January 26, Australia Day. Fans who purchased tickets for the […]

Following the release of the bands fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action in August, and the daring, defiant and unmistakable FRANZ FRANZ FERDINANDwill be hitting Australia for east coast shows this November. The follow-up to Tonight (2009), Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is an exuberant, unencumbered record that sees the Glasgow band rediscovering the imagination, vitality […]

Canada’s Half Moon Run are returning to Australia, twelve months after appearances at Woodford and Peats Ridge last Summer gained them an instant and solid following. Turning into a successful national tour as news of their stunning show ignited social media, the spreading reputation ultimately led to the play listing of their debut single “Full Circle” on triple j. Fast […]

Returning to Australia for the first time since 2010, BRMC will be bringing their unique blend of rock and roll to the stag showcasing songs from their latest release SPECTRE AT THE FEAST. Their sixth studio album, Specter at the Feast, ventures into diverse sonic territory, delivering their most ambitious offering yet. It’s an album of impossible dichotomies; opposing sounds […]

“The reputation of the band – its iconic status, so to speak – was built up over constant touring, just this relentless approach to getting out there and playing for years and years and years. It was very much about being in a pub and having thousands of people jammed into a room, with this big, incredible sound. There was […]

Fans of acclaimed singer-songwriter and enduring solo artist, ED KOWALCZYK, are invited to be a part of a national tour of special performances celebrating 20 years since the release of Live’s seminal album ‘Throwing Copper’. Travel through the career of American rock royalty, ED KOWALCZYK, as he pays tribute to the hits of his past – as the driving force […]

DARREN MIDDLETON is best known from his previous life as guitarist and songwriter for POWDERFINGER.  The much loved POWDERFINGER played their last ever show in late 2010 and unsurprisingly Darren spent a bit of the time in a creative and emotional wilderness.  For the last 20 years, this band was as much who he was as what he did. As […]

Melbourne’s High Tension will tour the East Coast of Australia in support of new album Death Beat this November. The four piece – consisting of members of The Nation Blue and Young & Restless – will smash out a set in some of the country’s best rock venues; Brisbane’s Crowbar, Sydney’s Spectrum and Melbourne’s home of rock, The Tote. High […]

Mi-Sex – Computer Games, Blue Day, Castaway, But You Don’t Care, Graffiti Crimes, People, Falling In & Out, Space Race, It Only Hurts When I’m Laughing…………….. The guys are planning to once again Honour the pact they made with each other a couple of years ago: “We will get together and perform at least a few times each year.” Newcastle […]

Due to popular demand, Birds of Tokyo have announced an additional run of live shows for fans in November and December. As they make their way around Australia performing shows with Muse in capital cities, the band will also return to Coolangatta, Fremantle, Newcastle and Wollongong, with the full list of dates and venues listed below. Tickets for all new […]

Ladies and Gents …. Homebake – A Special Birthday Edition It’s 2013 and Homebake has come of age!  Eighteen years can virtually be regarded as a lifetime in any event lifecycle – and it’s especially true when the focus is entirely based on local artistic talent alone. Throughout the course of those 18 years, Homebake has witnessed many up and […]

TIME TO STOCK UP ON PROTECTION!!!  The Sunset Strip’s hottest exports, STEEL PANTHER, are infecting Australia this Summer on their Spreading The Disease (S.T.D.) Tour. “WALKABOUT? Don’t you mean ROCKABOUT! December is a time of giving…..and taking. This December, we in Steel Panther are planning on giving Australians the gift of our super bitchin songs in our super bitchin new […]

The name James Reyne conjures up images of one of Australia’s most accomplished and revered performers – co-founder and front man of legendary Australian rock band Australian Crawl, one-time “super group” member with Company of Strangers circa 1992, and enormously successful solo artist with a string of hits under his belt. James’s output in recent years has been prolific, his […]

With over 35 million album sales, LIMP BIZKIT are the undisputed champions of Rap Rock, and they will finally be bringing their ground shaking live show to Arenas around Australia this October! “Limp Bizkit are pure, unabashed, shameless, ludicrous fun. Their appeal is big, fat, fuck-off riffs and songs that earn word-for-word singalongs at every single gig. And that’s why […]

WEDNESDAY 13 is the undisputed leader in Horrorpunk. A grimly glamorous ghoul who first slithered from the cobwebbed shadows of Charlotte, North Carolina, WEDNESDAY 13 has established himself as the world’s premier purveyor of balls-out horror punk insanity. With a vivid and vile imagination that has endeared him to countless fans of riff-driven macabre over the last two decades, he […]

After 36 years in music, that icon of English folk rock BILLY BRAGG is still a work in progress. With an acclaimed new album, a fresh outlook and renewed inspiration, BRAGG returns to Australia for his first full band tour in five years an artist revitalised. And this time, it’s personal. “Most people, when they hear my name, think of […]

Seminal Aussie fuzz rock giants Tumbleweed are back with their eagerly awaited new album Sounds From The Other Side – set for release via Shock Records on Friday September 27, 2013. Twelve long days at Sydney’s Rancom Studio resulted in 13 songs oozing with heavy grooves, gigantic riffs and juicy analogue flavours – and Sounds From The Other Side was […]