The Frontier Touring Company announce the return of triple Grammy® award winning Californian prog-rockers Tool to Australia and New Zealand in 2013. Taking time from recording their highly anticipated fifth studio album, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor will be performing a series of headline shows across Australia and New Zealand this […]

“Play it loud… it’ll make you feel like you can walk through walls” – NME Australia’s favourite LA punk band THE BRONX are back with their first album in five years, IV. Produced by Beau Burchell, IV marks the 10 year anniversary of the band and will see the band return to Australia this April to share it with fans all around the […]

FALL OUT BOY- RETURN TO MELBOURNE + SYDNEY FOR SHOWS Fall Out Boy’s recent hiatus left a void in our hearts. We missed the sharp lyrics and experimental compositions that became anthems for so many over a decade. So when the multi-platinum and Grammy-nominated band announced their return today with the first single ‘My Songs Know What You Did in […]

Destroy All Lines, Killyourstereo.com & Blunt present…. FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Australian Tour – May 2013 “…watching them onstage as they commit ungodly assaults on their instruments is an experience that doesn’t so much unite the audience as make them tremble in tandem.” – NME MAGAZINE   Over the course of a decade, Funeral For A Friend have remained one […]

McManus Entertainment are excited to announce The Darkness and legendary rock goddess Joan Jett and her band The Blackhearts for four very special co-headline shows in April. The rise, fall, and rise again of The Darkness contains all the ingredients of a classic rock opera. The basics are a matter of public record: unfashionable good-time hard rock band from Lowestoft […]

Soundwave Touring are thrilled to announce that Philadelphian troubadour DAVE HAUSE will be supporting THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM this May.  Now, as a budding solo artist (front man for The Loved Ones), DAVE HAUSE seems to have found his inspiration. Rock Sound described his new album ‘Resolutions’ as “an honest, open and fulfilling addition to the music shelf”, whilst Moon Back […]

Update 07 February 2013 Adelaide, put down your pitchforks! PENNYWISE will be playing in your fair city this April! TUESDAY 9 APRIL ADELAIDE, HQ – 18+ www.oztix.com.au / www.venuetix.com.au  Despite time constraints and limited venue availability, the band were desperate to appease their fans. PENNYWISE, along with Soundwave Touring, have come together with a plan to split the losses, and […]

In a musical realm where bands of a similar generation are happy to ape the classic acts, London based metal superstars DRAGONFORCE are operating in a world of their own. The increased heaviness and pace they have injected has made them a fresh voice in the world of metal, and one that fans have responded to as a result. DRAGONFORCE’s […]

ALL TIME LOW have succeeded where so many have failed; in bringing back the glory days of pop punk. Since the release of their sophomore album ‘So Wrong, It’s Right’, the Baltimore pop punkers have been amassing a feverish fan base across the globe. Their new album ‘Don’t Panic’ is a culmination of everything they have created up until now […]

“Killer now but undoubtedly the best band of 2014.” THE VINE Melbourne’s High Tension have announced a debut tour across the East Coast of Australia this March to launch their self-titled 7inch/Digital EP. Featuring ex members of Young & Restless (Karina Utomo – vocals, Ashley Pegram – guitar), The Nation Blue (Matt Weston – bass), and Love Like Electrocution &Heirs (Damian Coward – drums), the band have already made their […]

COUNTING CROWS IN THEIR FIRST AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR IN NINE YEARS DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND – 2ND MELBOURNE SHOW ADDED! FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2013 COUNTING CROWS, the multi-platinum American rock band, have confirmed a second and final Melbourne show due to overwhelming demand.  The seven-piece head Down Under for what will be their first national headline tour since 2004, following the April […]

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND THIRD & FINAL SYDNEY SHOW JUST ANNOUNCED NO FURTHER SHOWS TO BE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN TOUR! After selling out numerous shows across the country, it seems that Australia just can’t get enough Bruce!  A third and definitely final Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band concert will take place at Sydney’s Allphones Arena […]

Engaging musicianship, reaching far beyond the repetitive droning of most of the genre, has made THE WONDER YEARS a critical darling even before their legion of fans began to take notice. The band’s current success can largely be traced to ‘Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing’ “which deservedly launched The Wonder Years into a new stratosphere of […]

The four-headed and many-limbed beast that is MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE has woken up after a three year slumber to fuck up Australia with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying live performances. Sweeping away fans and critics like a class of Satan High School kids on a field trip, and with parents across the globe absolutely hating them, […]

Every generation of Metal bands has its pioneers – groups that re-define the genre musically and take it to a new level. SYLOSIS is one such band! It’s not for nothing that the quartet from Reading, England has been considered as UK’s greatest Metal export. Now the boys return with their new album ‘Monolith’. “Beautifully innovative and covertly stylish, this […]

GALLOWS will bring a genuine slab of working class anarchy to Soundwave this February and we are stoked to announce they will be performing two sidewaves with very special guests SHAI HULUD, CONFESSION and MILESTONES. GALLOWS are finally ready to unleash the next phase of their punk rock attack on the world with the highly-anticipated release of their follow-up to […]

FUCKED UP have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth that lies at the heart of the white noise maelstrom – things are different from what you expect. Despite having toured the world over for nearly a decade, FUCKED UP keep to intimate venues to give fans the chance […]

In a few short years, New Jersey quartet THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM have gone from punk rock bruisers to one of the most celebrated & prolific rock acts in the world today. Wearing their influences as badges of honour, it was the release of ‘The 59 Sound’ that saw them create a monster that would go down as “one of the […]

Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be – The Story of Bon Scott By Andrew Barker © On Tuesday 19 February the Corner Hotel will honour the 33rd anniversary of the passing of Bon Scott, who died at age 33 on this date, with the first ever non-theatre performance of ‘The Story of Bon Scott – Hell Ain’t A bad Place […]

OPETH have spent over two decades steadily amassing a body of work that can only be described as epic and iconic; inventing and reinventing the rules as they go along. OPETH’s transcendent live shows have gone down in music folklore. On their upcoming March tour fans can expect a career defining set featuring songs from across their expansive catalogue. Their […]

TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal – well, metal has ANTHRAX. ANTHRAX are that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band that – 30 years since the day Scott Ian and then-bassist Danny Lilker searched a biology textbook for the disease that would become their moniker – smiles back at you with a monstrous, upturned middle finger […]

In just a few short years, PERIPHERY have blazed a trail of originality that has sent a shockwave throughout the metal world. Exploring the complex uncharacteristic rhythms and technical precision of math rock with the brutality of progressive metal, PERIPHERY have defied the boundaries of conventionality. Breathing life into the metal scene, Absolutepunk.net proclaims “From beginning to end, Periphery’s self-titled […]

KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment  present: THE HAPPY MONDAYS Bez | Gary Whelan | Mark Day | Paul Ryder | Rowetta | Shaun Ryder KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment are thrilled to present Happy Mondays for the first time in Australia- the definitive original line-up! Fusing the euphoric elements of acid house and rave with joyous indie guitar pop, Manchester’s Happy Mondays […]

SILVERSTEIN – THIS IS HOW THE WIND SHIFTS OUT FEBRUARY 8 Silverstein have announced February 8 release of their seventh studio album, entitled The Is How The Wind Shifts out on Roadrunner Records. Active for over 12 years, the JUNO nominated band has written and recorded 79 original songs, released 5 LP’s, 3 EP’s, 1 mini-album and have performed over […]

COUNTING CROWS PRIMED FOR THEIR FIRST AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR IN NINE YEARS Following tickets for multi-platinum modern rock band COUNTING CROWS  going on general sale today, their Sydney Opera House show has now sold out. Due to overwhelming demand, Counting Crows and Live Nation are delighted to announce a second show at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday April 10. Tickets on […]

The UK’s reigning champions of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal and one of the very best live rock bands of all time, the mighty ORANGE GOBLIN are joining the mighty bill of Kyuss Lives! and Red Fang. ORANGE GOBLIN have been a permanent and universally admired fixture on the world metal circuit for the past 17 years.  They’re now back, with […]

BLINK 182 SUPPORTS ANNOUNCED! With 11 albums under their belt, and being one of the inspirational founders of the punk rock movement out of Southern California, THE VANDALS make their triumphant return to Australia in February. Not only will the lads be performing at the sold out Soundwave Festivals but they will also be joining Blink 182 for their sideshows. […]

Absolute Punk succinctly put what we all know about MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK. “From the raw earnest of I Am the Movie to the brilliance of Commit This To Memory to the experimentalism of Even If It Kills Me to the pop-punk clinic of My Dinosaur Life, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK has grown as musicians while never penning a disappointing album” The […]

OF MICE & MEN are on a mission. OF MICE & MEN continuously dominate the stage, whether they’re headlining, supporting or leading sing-alongs at festivals around the world. The group’s ampersand (“&”) symbol is as ubiquitous as it is synonymous with the group’s charismatic passion, unique creativity and pulsating energy. What’s the secret? And what is the OF MICE & […]

FLOGGING MOLLY have always defied categorisation. The infectious originality of their songs is a badge of honour and key to the band’s creativity, their urgency. They infuse punk rock with Celtic instruments—violin, mandolin and the accordion—and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music. FLOGGING MOLLY’s fans have always appreciated the social and political awareness driving the […]