As a massive thank you to their loyal and dedicated Melbourne fan base THE LIVING END are stoked to announce the addition of TWO EXTRA MELBOURNE SHOW DATES to their upcoming RETROSPECTIVE TOUR in November and December this year.Due to the unprecedented demand to see the band perform live in their hometown, THE LIVING END will now play a special encore performance of their second album ROLL ON. The show […]

Music Victoria presents Off the Beaten Track Regional Tour and Workshops There’s music out there. Out where? In the halls, clubs, RSLs, wineries, footy grounds and even a renovated substation. Music Victoria, in conjunction with anti-binge drinking campaign Live Solution, celebrates Victoria’s great live music in non-traditional venues in the inaugural Off the Beaten Track tour across regional and metro Victoria. The tour features two […]

LIVING THINGS AUSTRALIAN TOUR, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE SIDESHOWS ANNOUNCED! Since their 2000 debut album ‘Hybrid Theory’, LINKIN PARK have spent the last 12 years doing something popular artists just don’t do: going off-menu. The learning curve was arduous, but a necessary and welcome challenge for the band. ‘Hybrid Theory’ isn’t just the title of the first album, but a career mission […]

THE SCRIPT – New album ‘#3’ released today + Australian visit confirmed + Metro Theatre Sydney show The Script release eagerly anticipated new album #3, today, September 7th, through Sony Music Entertainment Australia, with killer new single Hall Of Fame feat. will.i.am storming up the airplay charts  around the country. To celebrate their newest release, the Irish trio will be […]

To all the Aussie bastards out there, READ UP as this is for you!!  BASTARDFEST is the self proclaimed festival of the bastard! “To the bloke who forgot his mums birthday, to the dude who makes his pregnant misses put out the bins, to all offensive, obnoxious and despicable individuals- this show is for you….BASTARDFEST will bring out your inner […]

Following a hugely successful Australian & Canadian tour with The Tea Party, JEFF MARTIN will top the year off by touring Australia – Solo – this November/December. The Tea Party’s Australian tour in July had the fans out in droves to capture the magic of the band that once was, and still remains.  After 7 years apart, the resurrection of the […]

Already touring major arenas across Australia with Kelly Clarkson this September, Chugg Entertainment is thrilled to announce an exclusive show for fans of The Fray. Intent on giving their Australian fans a chance to see the band in a more personal setting, The Fray will be visiting Sydney to play one headline show only. This one off show will take […]

  English singer/songwriter and famed front-man for super-groups The Babys and Bad English, John Waite heads to Australia for the first time ever for his national Greatest-Hits Tour, performing a collection of his hits that span a career of almost four decades. The Lancaster (England) born singer is instantly recognisable and is cherished by a wide range of audiences. His unique and pristine voice is just […]

Viv Lees, MAX TV, SPA & Faster Louder Present PRIMAL SCREAM AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012 “They have redefined music once and they’re not resting on their laurels” (Hit the Floor Magazine, June 2012) Last seen in 2011 performing their era-defining album Screamadelica in full, PRIMAL SCREAM return to Australia this summer armed with classics, fan favourites and brand new songs. After […]

Royston Vasie are getting set to release their anticipated debut album, Tanah Merah. The band are giving you a special taste of what’s to come with the highly contagious second single Come on, and an East Coast tour with friends Immigrant Union. Come On is a goodtime hit featuring flawless harmonies with the help of Courtney Barnett and Bob Harrow […]

Having made a welcome return to homes and supermarket aisles across Australia with their re-recording of their classic Down Down for Coles, Chugg Entertainment and Coles are today thrilled to confirm that British rockers, Status Quo, will be returning to our shores for a national theatre tour in March/April 2013. The tour will kick off in Sydney on Wednesday 27 March at the Hordern Pavilion, thenBrisbane on Thursday 28 March at […]

AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND TOUR JANUARY 2013 Holy whale barnacles! ALESTORM are hauling themselves back to AUSTRALIA!!! Having plundered the world mercilessly on the back of their ‘Back Through Time’ album, ALESTORM are sailing their way through the seas of time, to their favourite place on the planet with one last mission in mind…….the filming of their very first live DVD!!! To be titled “LIVE AT THE END […]

The incredible upward spiral of Perth Prog Metal masters VOYAGER continues as the band announces their “MEANING OF I” east coast tour of Australia in November, venturing into familiar popular territories, some new ones & two festival appearances! In support of their latest outstanding release ‘The Meaning Of I’, VOYAGER are riding high on the crest of the wave that ceases to lose momentum. With outstanding crowd reactions and rave […]

Already announced as a co-headline at this December’s Meredith Music Festival, Feel Presents are pround to announce additional shows for UK space-rock giants Spiritualized. Sunday 2nd December: Sydney Opera House Concert Hall – NSW Tuesday 4th December: Brisbane, The Hi-Fi – QLD Thursday 6th December: Melbourne, The Hi-Fi – VIC Jason ‘Spaceman’ Pearce and co. were last here in 2011 […]

There are only a handful of bands that people regularly talk about never getting the chance to see live. It burns in their soul and gnaws at them incessantly.  REFUSED fit perfectly into the category as one of those legendary bands however on January 9, 2012 they announced to the world that they were indeed… NOT FUCKING DEAD! REFUSED reunion […]

Norwegian death-punks Turbonegro return to Australia this December appearing at the Meredith Music Festival and for headline appearances in Sydney and Melbourne. It is the band’s second visit to Australia and their first since 2003. Turbonegro hit the high water mark in 1998 with the release of their fifth album, Apocalypse Dudes, an intoxicating mixture of glam, punk and US […]

On October 12, 2012 Evermore are set to release their fourth studio album, titled Follow The Sun, in partnership with Universal Music. It arrives after a three-year hiatus from the local scene, during which time they toured the world with Pink, then traversed the globe a second time to start the album writing process. Brothers Jon, Peter and Dann Hume built […]

Here’s a press release via the bands label, Epitaph Records: Due to a setback in what appeared to be the road to recovery for Zoli Teglas, Pennywise will have to postpone their upcoming appearances in Japan and Australia.  After being examined by multiple specialists Zoli has been advised to commence further treatments immediately. “We love playing in front of our […]

GARY CLARK JR ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR Texan Blues Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist to perform for the first time in  Sydney & Melbourne this September 2012] “Owing as much to Kurt Cobain and the Ramones as Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, indebted to hip-hop and psychedelia…. [Clark] is grounded in tradition while standing on the brink of change.”  – Rolling Stone […]

The city of Melbourne has well and truly shown its love and loyalty for hometown heroesTHE LIVING END. Tickets to the band’s RETROSPECTIVE TOUR shows at The Corner Hotel in December have now all completely SOLD OUT smashing the venue’s previous record of five sold out shows, which was held by both Megan Washington and Matt Corby. THE LIVING END will now play a record of NINE […]

Destroy All Lines and Australian Guitar Magazine present…Between the Buried and Me Australian Tour Metal heroes Between The Buried And Me have confirmed an Australian tour, kicking off this November in support of their forthcoming seventh studio album. The North Carolina five-piece will come straight off some serious US and European touring to make their first trip to Oz since 2010. They’ll […]

October 2012 marks the highly anticipated return of MATCHBOX TWENTY, heading south for their first Australian dates since 2008, following the release of their fourth full-length studio album ‘North’. In their sixth Australian tour, Matchbox Twenty headline arenas around the country, as well as playing a special open air show at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley. Be there to sing along […]

“An utterly furious assault of gritty doom riffs and whisky-addled power, chugging, twisting and thundering with an energy the band have not found in years.” – Q Magazine Underground thrash-sludge messiahs HIGH ON FIRE have set a new standard in doom metal. Boasting apocalyptic riffage and gravel-gargling vocals, their latest opus ‘Snakes for the Devil’ solidifies HIGH ON FIRE as […]

In the category of ´cult bands` ROSE TATTOO has been at the top of the pile for years. The band can take a punch and are full of vitality; they put every kick in the face behind them and still have the energy to carry on and deliver both live and on record. Their latest album, ‘Blood Brothers’, is a […]

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo present – THE SWELLERS – WITH ENDLESS HEIGHTS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012    Blue-collar, punk rock has seen a rise to prominence in recent years and at the forefront is Flint, Michigan’s The Swellers. And now, the quartet are set to return to Australia for the second time this October, coinciding with the 10 year anniversary […]

1927 Announce New Support Acts for Generation-i Tour Sydney, Australia – Tuesday, 14 August,  2012: Due to unforseen commitments in the US it is with great regret that The Rembrandts will no longer be joining 1927 on their Generation-i Tour later this month. We are pleased to announce that joining 1927 for their August 24 show at The Palms at Crown in Melbourne will be Dale Ryder Band. […]

ALEXISONFIRE REUNITE FOR A 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR Alexisonfire has always taken pride in keeping promises to fans. Exactly one year after the members of Alexisonfire announced they were going their separate ways, the band has announced a 10th Anniversary Farewell Tour.  Spanning the month of December 2012, beginning in London UK and ending in Toronto ON, the tour […]

NAT COL & THE KINGS Announce New Single ‘Coming Home’ & Accompanying Clip and Tour In 1996 Nathan Cavaleri performed at the Presidential White House in Washington DC, sharing the stage with Etta James, Bonnie Rait, Steve Cropper, Dr John, and Joe Lewis Walker. He was there as one of one of a few select guests personally invited to attend […]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA… NASUM – 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR with special guests: PSYCROPTIC (Tasmania) & DYSCARNATE (UK) Legendary Swedish grindcore band NASUM head to our shores for the first – and only – time this August as part of their world tour to celebrate their 20th Anniversary and final farewell. This is it…never to happen again. Nasum terrorized […]

In anticipation of their first ever Australian tour, Apocalyptica have revealed which local acts will accompany them on their string of East Coast shows this August/September. Brisbane’s Awoken Solace will lend their blend of orchestral power metal, medieval baroque and fantasy soundtracks to the August 30th show, while Sydney’s progressive doom five-piece Rise Of Avernus  will accompany them on August 31. Finally, Melbourne’s Be’lakor will return from their […]