Brash, unashamed, loud and in your face, GLAM FEST is here Australia. Catering to fans of throwback glam metal (think ‘80s era Sunset strip), sleaze, shock rock, hard rock and everything in between, GLAM FEST offers fans of the genre a platter of sleazy goodness. The first instalment in January 2023 serves diversity in both sound and style and is headed by the poster […]

Sting returns to Australia in February 2023, for the first time in nearly 7 years, on his critically acclaimed My Songs tour.   Sting’s concert at Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre on Wednesday, February 15 has sold out and due to overwhelming demand, a second and final concert is confirmed for Thursday, February 16. This follows last week’s announcement of a second show in Perth. Tickets go on […]

Frontier Touring and Arena Touring are delighted to announce Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, producer and best-selling author Richard Marx as he brings his 12-date The Songwriter Tour to New Zealand for the very first time and returning to Australia in February and March 2023. Having last toured Australia in 2018 and playing New Zealand for the first time, The Songwriter Tour will play Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland before Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Newcastle, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Wollongong, Penrith and Perth. Frontier Members pre-sale kicks off Tuesday […]

HARDLINE MEDIA are proud to present, direct from Canada, the mighty, the legendary, the Metal pioneers… ANVIL!!! Touring their latest release “Impact Is Imminent”, out now on AFM Records. ANVIL are heading down under for 5 shows in 5 days in 5 states!!! CANBERRA, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE and SYDNEY, Impact is definitely Imminent!!!! Having released 19 Studio albums in their career, including influential classic titles like “Metal On Metal”, […]

My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour. Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind, will return to Australian shores for the first time in six […]

Legendary vocalist GEOFF TATE is coming back to Australia after his highly successful shows performing OPERATION MINDCRIME in its entirety back in pre-Covid 2020. This time, Aussie fans are in for a real treat, GEOFF TATE and band will perform two classic QUEENSRŸCHE albums in their entirety, RAGE FOR ORDER, and EMPIRE!!! RAGE FOR ORDER was more progressive than the band’s previous releases, with a layered and complex musical structure that […]

Sting will return to Australia in February 2023 for the first time in nearly 7 years, on his critically acclaimed My Songs tour.  Sting’s My Songs concert is an exuberant and dynamic show featuring his most beloved songs, written throughout the 17-time Grammy Award winner’s illustrious career both with The Police and as a solo artist. Fans can expect to hear ‘Englishman In New York,’ ‘Every […]

Punk rockers of Australia and New Zealand unite! For the first time in history two of the most influential and enduring punk bands of all time are heading down under together. Fans never thought they would see the day so get ready to tick this off your bucket list as LA heavyweights Social Distortion and Bad Religion team up and hit our shores in […]

Who said Nothing Ever Happens? Del Amitri, one of Scotland’s finest exports, has announced their long-awaited return this summer. Not seen on our shores since the heady days of the 1990s, Del Amitri, will play theatres in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney through February 2023. My Live Nation members can be among the first to secure tickets during the pre-sale […]

Due to high demand, Grammy-winning hard rock band HALESTORM will perform a second show at Auckland’s Powerstation on January 30. The band are also excited to announce Canadian rockers THEORY (Theory of a Deadman) will be supporting them on all Australia & New Zealand dates next January. Tickets for the new show go on sale at 12pm (local), Thursday July 28. For complete tour […]

Following the release of their new EP is this what i look like? via UNFD last week, Sydney rising stars Yours Truly have today announced some special intimate performances this August, with three acoustic shows lined up to celebrate the new EP’s release. Already scoring acclaim at home and abroad with the likes of Kerrang!, Distorted Sound, Wall Of Sound, Hysteria Magazine and Heavy Magazine, is this […]

Japanese genre-blenders CROSSFAITH are thrilled to announce their return to Australian shores. That’s right, their Atlas Of Faith Would tour will be hitting the east coast in October with special guests DREGG. “We had so many great memories from festivals such as UNIFY, Soundwave and als supporting ‘The Amity Affliction’ to ‘Bring Me The Horizon’ and ‘In Hearts Wake’, but the only thing […]

They are Sweden’s premiere purveyors of thrash metal meets sleaze rock; they are HARDCORE SUPERSTAR and due to popular demand they are bringing the party back to Australia in November thanks to Silverback Touring for their 3rd consecutive tour in four years previously headlining in 2018 and with Buckcherry in 2019! Australia has certainly shown their love for HCSS! Fusing a base of hard, aggressive heavy metal with […]

Legendary rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers have today announced their return to Australia for 4 massive stadium shows in early 2023. The tour will commence in Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium on January 29 before heading to Accor Stadium, Sydney on February 2, followed by Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on February 7and concluding in Perth at Optus Stadium on February 12. Red Hot […]

Australia, we hope you are ready for what promises to be the biggest pop-punk tour of the year with an ultimate line-up. That’s right folks, New York pop-rockers STATE CHAMPS are returning to Australia this September with very special guests THE MAINE, HOT MILK & PAPERWEIGHT. Starting in bedrooms and basements in 2010, STATE CHAMPS quickly ascended as leaders of a new scene owing as much to […]

Over the past decade, One Electric Day has solidified its reputation as one of Victoria’s favourite one-day music festivals. Every year the show at Werribee Park sells out in a matter of minutes. This year, organisers are not only excited to be able to take the popular event interstate again for a run of shows, but have also announced an international headliner […]

Australia’s largest and favourite travelling music festival, aka Good Things Festival, is officially returning to ignite mosh pits and more along the east coast in December – and we can’t wait to celebrate with you! With so few things to celebrate over the past few years and a severe lack of live music and festivals, it’s about time we all had […]

GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT… GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS RETURN IN DECEMBER 2022 It’s a good thing that festivals and live music are back on the menu this year because you’ll be able to bring 2022 to a close this December in sensational fashion; yep, Australia’s largest alternative and favourite traveling music festival, aka Good Things Festival, is […]

Let the good times roll as SoCal icons and one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time, THE OFFSPRING reveal their new Australian Tour Dates with SUM 41 in December. With the original tour selling out nationally in a staggering 2 hours, new venues have been added due to phenomenal demand. “I’m super stoked, we’re all super stoked to finally be coming back to […]

The Mark Of Cain – the band dubbed least likely in their high school year book – return this August in celebration of being the South Australian Music Awards most recent inductee into the SA Music Hall Of Fame. In accepting the honour TMOC join previous recipients including Jim Keays and Masters Apprentices, Glenn Shorrock, Cold Chisel, Archie Roach, Bart Willoughby, Sarah McLeod, The Zoot and […]

Australian rock band Thirsty Merc have been patiently waiting these last two years for the chance to get back on the road and play live again…and now the time has come! Thirsty Merc announce a new album and tour that will see the guys get back on the tour bus and back on stage, performing their much-loved hits alongside songs […]

Chugg Entertainment and Frontier Touring are excited to announce American pop-rock trio HANSON will return to Australia and New Zealand this November with their RED GREEN BLUE 2022 TOUR. “This tour is an exciting chance to reunite with our fans all over the world and celebrate three decades of music. We can’t wait to come together with fans across Australia and New Zealand, and share music live on stage once again,” said Taylor […]

Sweden’s melodic death metal veterans SOILWORK are back with big news! A new album and a return to Australia!!! After their EP release back in December of 2021, it is time for theIR first studio album in three years. Proudly SOILWORK announce their twelfth and latest masterpiece Övergivenheten which will be released on August 19th via Nuclear Blast Records. Musically and lyrically evolved, SOILWORK release their most complex and elaborate album to date which […]

Such is the demand for critically celebrated Mongolian Hunnu rockers, THE HU, that they have added a second show in Melbourne after their first one sold out in record time! The new show is confirmed for Tuesday, August 2 – 170 Russell, Melbourne Tickets are on sale Wednesday, May 18 from 9:00 AM AEST Taking the total number of shows to five, the Australia Black Thunder Tour will […]

Enter: full-blown excitement, with avant-garde UK rockers ENTER SHIKARI today announcing a run of Australian shows this November, with some very special guests: fellow English groundbreakers Creeper and Aussie metallers Windwaker. “Australia was the last tour we did before the pandemic started, so shows have remained fresh in my memory throughout these difficult last few years. When our tours were constantly being cancelled and the […]

Multi-platinum UK rock icons The Darkness will be returning to Australia & New Zealand this October, playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland & Wellington.  Fans can access early bird tickets by signing up prior to pre-sale commencing here.  Pre-sale starts Friday, May 13 at 11am local time. General public tickets on sale Tuesday, May 17 at 11am local time. Brimming with their trademark blazing guitar riffs […]

Kings of Leon have announced their brand-new October and November 2022 dates and a very special, new regional show in Mildura, which kick-starts the band’s Australian tour. KINGS OF LEON NEW AUSTRALIAN 2022 TOUR DATES: ? Saturday 29 October, Victoria, Mildura Sporting Precinct * New Show ? Monday 31 October, Sydney Qudos Bank Arena ? Wednesday 2 November, Brisbane Entertainment Centre ? Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 (sold out) November, Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl ? […]

Australia, hold onto your seats as ALPHA WOLF are about to heat them up with the biggest metalcore tour of the year….and they’re not messin’ around. That’s right, Australia’s finest metalcore juggernauts will be embarking on their biggest national headline tour around the country in June. The Metalcore Snitches tour will be joined by their close friends in FIT FOR A KING (USA), GREAT AMERICAN GHOST (USA) and PALEDUSK (JPN). “We’ve […]

Journeyman, stalwart or just The Mayor of Rock ‘n’ Roll, John Corabi certainly needs no introduction. As the voice of The Scream, The Dead Daisies, Union and ESP but perhaps most notably, as the voice of Motley Crue during their brief departure from life with Vince Neil in 1994, anything featuring the raspy vocals of JOHN CORABI cannot be mistaken. On the eve of the release of his autobiography “Horseshoes and […]

It’s a new era for SKID ROW. With a new album, a new single and a world tour, the band has added a new voice as they welcome powerhouse vocalist Erik Grönwall, formerly from the band HEAT out of Sweden. Fans received their first glimpse of Grönwall in Las Vegas on 26 March as the band took up a residency in support of The […]