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The Offspring: SUPERCHARGED Worldwide In ’25 Australia With Simple Plan

The Offspring: SUPERCHARGED Worldwide In ’25 Australia With Simple Plan

Once was not enough for punk rock icons THE OFFSPRING! Fresh off the release of their brand new album SUPERCHARGED and their earth-shattering one-off performance in Melbourne last night, the legendary five-piece have officially supercharged their 2025 plans, today announcing their return down under next May for the The Offspring: SUPERCHARGED Worldwide in ’25 Australia tour with SIMPLE PLAN. A jam-packed arena spectacular from […]

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FALLING IN REVERSE Announces The “Popular Mons(Tour) Australia 2025.”

FALLING IN REVERSE Announces The “Popular Mons(Tour) Australia 2025.”

Today, FALLING IN REVERSE announce the POPULAR MONS(TOUR) AUSTRALIA 2025. Kicking off at RAC Arena in Perth, the band will then head to Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, finishing off at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. The tour will see the band playing their biggest headline shows in Australia to date. Special guests on the tour are BLACK VEILK […]

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DROWNING POOL Replace CKY On ALIEN ANT FARM Australian Tour

DROWNING POOL Replace CKY On ALIEN ANT FARM Australian Tour

Due to recent events CKY will no longer be appearing on the ALIEN ANT FARM tour but we are delighted to announce the DROWNING POOL will appearing in their place. We are immensely grateful to DROWNING POOL for altering personal and professional schedules to join this tour as a co-headliner, helping us to not only maintain, but improve the value of the tickets for fans attending the shows. […]

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Pennywise & Millencolin Announce Co-Headline Australian Tour 2025

Pennywise & Millencolin Announce Co-Headline Australian Tour 2025

In 2025, two of the all-time punk greats will return to Australian stages, with pioneering California dynamos PENNYWISE and beloved Swedish trailblazers MILLENCOLIN set to co-headline a huge run down under next February and March. With both metro and regional shows on the cards next year, PENNYWISE and MILLENCOLIN will kick off on Saturday 22 February in Wollongong, before hitting Newcastle, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, and […]

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Wheatus Acoustic Tour Jan & Feb 2025. Local Openers Announced

Wheatus Acoustic Tour Jan & Feb 2025. Local Openers Announced

The Wheatus Acoustic Tour next January and February is shaping up to be the most fun you can have indoors this summer. Featuring  Wheatus frontman and incredibly nice guy, Brendan B. Brown along with his better half, fellow Wheatus member Gabrielle Sterbenz, the epic 14 date run also features founding member and former lead guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist of The Chats, Josh ‘Pricey’ Price Opening Acts have […]

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SHIHAD The Final Tour – Loud Forever 1988 – 2025

SHIHAD The Final Tour – Loud Forever 1988 – 2025

Forged in the fires of 1988’s thrash metal scene, Wellington’s SHIHAD quickly evolved into one of Australia’s most beloved bands. SHIHAD (Jon Toogood, Karl Kippenberger, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin) has sold over a quarter of a million records, released ten studio albums, received multiple ARIA nominations, won countless Aotearoa Music Awards and toured endlessly through the world’s most loved clubs, festivals, […]

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OPETH Announce Australian and New Zealand Headline Tour In November 2025

OPETH Announce Australian and New Zealand Headline Tour In November 2025

Swedish rock legends OPETH are excited to announce a headline tour in Australia and New Zealand set for November 2025. After 6 long years wait, the Nov ’25 tour promises to be groundbreaking – 7 absolutely massive concerts featuring 2 hours plus sets including landmark masterpieces and songs from Opeth’s darkest and heaviest album in decades – the critically acclaimed concept album, The […]

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Alexisonfire announce Australian return with Underoath & GEL for March 2025

Alexisonfire announce Australian return with Underoath & GEL for March 2025

Canadian hardcore luminaries Alexisonfire announce their Australian return for March 2025, alongside iconic US rockers Underoath and New Jersey punk four-piece GEL, in what will be an unmissable series of shows for local hard music lovers. Kicking off at Perth HPC (formerly HBF Stadium) on Thursday 6 March, the tour will continue down Australia’s East Coast, landing at Brisbane’s stunning Riverstage on Saturday 8 March, Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday 11 March and Melbourne’s Festival Hall on Friday 14 March. Frontier […]

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Short Stack 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black 2025 Tour Performing ‘Stack Is The New Black’ In Full

Short Stack 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black 2025 Tour Performing ‘Stack Is The New Black’ In Full

Ladies & Gentlemen…prepare yourselves for a pop punk celebration for the ages in 2025! Today, beloved Budgewoi trio SHORT STACK are pleased to announce a huge headline run celebrating their debut 2009 album Stack Is The New Black, with the 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black tour set to sway across the country next June. The tour will commence at The […]

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New Bloom Fest 2025 Feat. Basement, Balance and Composure, DRAIN, One Step Closer, Sweet Pill & Glitterer

New Bloom Fest 2025 Feat. Basement, Balance and Composure, DRAIN, One Step Closer, Sweet Pill & Glitterer

Bringing the golden age of DIY hardcore shows and all things alternative into a modern setting, in 2025 Australia will play home once again to the freshest up-and-coming artists in the scene with the return of NEW BLOOM FEST, a curated touring festival showcasing all things alt rock, post-hardcore, grunge, punk, and everything in between. Following its hugely successful inaugural year […]

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TESTAMENT Announce June 2025 Australian Tour

TESTAMENT Announce June 2025 Australian Tour

Bay Area legends TESTAMENT are set to lay waste to Australia in June 2025; their first headline tour since 2010. Since emerging from the San Francsico Bay Area TESTAMENT have delivered some of the greatest metal anthems of all time.  ‘Over The Wall’, ‘Practice What You Preach’, ‘Rise Up’, ‘Into The Pit’, ‘Brotherhood Of The Snake’, ‘Low’, ‘The New Order’, ‘First Strike Is Deadly’… […]

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The Good Things Festival Sideshows Are Here!

The Good Things Festival Sideshows Are Here!

Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival aka Good Things Festival? It’s fast upon us with it’s head-spinning lineup fit for a fever dream and we’re not kiddin’ when we’re saying tickets are selling fast with Melbourne at 86% sold, Sydney at 81% and Brisbane at 87%. As Good Things come to those who wait, we’re thrilled to announce […]

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METALLICA M72 WORLD TOUR – 2025 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND DATES ANNOUNCED

METALLICA M72 WORLD TOUR – 2025 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND DATES ANNOUNCED

Metallica has confirmed that its record-breaking M72 World Tour will be coming to Australia and New Zealand in November of 2025. This leg of the M72 World Tour will see the band visit stadiums in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland. These dates will feature Metallica performing at the end of each stadium and will include the infamous Snake Pit extending from […]

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KNOTFEST RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA IN 2025 & THE LINE-UP IS HERE!

KNOTFEST RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA IN 2025 & THE LINE-UP IS HERE!

KNOTFEST, the destination festival brand curated by SLIPKNOT, returns to Australia in 2025. The music and counterculture experience will hit the East coast of Australia starting on Friday, February 28th at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, then heads to Brisbane on Sunday, March 2nd at Brisbane Showground before wrapping up in Sydney on Saturday, March 8th at Centennial Park. Headlined by SLIPKNOT, the 2025 festival line-up […]

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Wheatus Frontman To Perform Acoustically In Dirtbags Across Australia Tour Jan/Feb 2025

Wheatus Frontman To Perform Acoustically In Dirtbags Across Australia Tour Jan/Feb 2025

Wheatus frontman and incredibly nice guy, Brendan B. Brown along with his better half, fellow Wheatus member Gabrielle Sterbenz will return to Australia for an epic 14 date run of acoustic shows through January and February of 2025. After a whirlwind 2024 that saw Brendan down under twice, once in February for acoustic shows with Art from Everclear and again with Wheatus in April for the Pandemonium Festival, […]

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Coheed and Cambria, Periphery confirm Monolith Festival Sideshows

Coheed and Cambria, Periphery confirm Monolith Festival Sideshows

With only weeks to go until Monolith hits venues along the East Coast with some of prog’s biggest and most exciting names, Brisbane fans can now celebrate with the announcement of two unmissable sideshows slated for November. Headliners Coheed And Cambria will be bringing their iconic catalogue and live show to The Triffid in Brisbane, supported by Canadian instrumentalists Intervals. Coheed And Cambria’s return to Australia is […]

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KORN Announce Only Australian Headline Show

KORN Announce Only Australian Headline Show

Calling all Adelaide KORN fans – It’s On! Today, the Gobal metal icons announce a special one-off Good Things Festival 2024 headline sideshow for Adelaide, taking place on Wednesday 4 December at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena. For decades, KORN have wielded a formidable reputation, spanning their early days spearheading the heavy music revolution of the mid 1990s through to their more recent works. In command of […]

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LINKIN PARK Unleash “Heavy Is The Crown,” Announced As 2024 League Of Legends World Championship Anthem

LINKIN PARK Unleash “Heavy Is The Crown,” Announced As 2024 League Of Legends World Championship Anthem

LINKIN PARK—Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Joe Hahn, Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain—continue their triumphant drive with a hard-hitting new single entitled “Heavy Is The Crown” out now. Listen HERE. Watch the music video HERE. The song serves as the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Anthem, marking the band’s first collaboration with Riot Games. The track kicks into a high gear as an anthem equally appropriate for the high-octane multi-dimensional competition […]

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Tremonti Releases Video for The Mother, The Earth And I – New Album Out Jan 10

Tremonti Releases Video for The Mother, The Earth And I – New Album Out Jan 10

As the Creed Summer of ’99 tour continues to play to sold out audiences across North America and anticipation grows towards the release of The End Will Show Us How, world-renowned guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Mark Tremonti is back with another song from his solo band, TREMONTI and their upcoming sixth studio album. “The Mother, The Earth and I” is a personal favorite of Mark’s and the song sets the tone […]

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City and Colour announces Australian tour with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats for January 2025

City and Colour announces Australian tour with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats for January 2025

In a huge coup, acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour announces he will tour Australia in January 2025, alongside dynamic US eight-piece Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Playing shows from coast to coast, City and Colour will kick off an all ages* tour at Brisbane’s iconic Riverstage on Tuesday 14 January, before heading through Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Local legend Alex Lahey will support on the East Coast and Adelaide dates, […]

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The Darkness announce a new album is coming & drop first single ‘The Longest Kiss’

The Darkness announce a new album is coming & drop first single ‘The Longest Kiss’

Legends of rock, The Darkness, have returned to bedazzle and amaze once more as they serve up their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast via Cooking Vinyl in March 2025. Pre-order the album now HERE. “You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist,” comments frontman Justin Hawkins. “God might […]

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Mike Tramp’s White Lion Announce 2025 Australian Tour

Mike Tramp’s White Lion Announce 2025 Australian Tour

Hard rock fans, the wait is over! Mike Tramp, the iconic voice of White Lion, is set to perform the songs of White Lion in Australia for the first time in 20 years. This marks Mike Tramp’s first tour of  Australia since 2008, and it promises to be a spectacular celebration of White Lion’s timeless hits. Mike Tramp’s White Lion has now released two volumes of reimagined White Lion classics (The […]

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Primal Scream announce Australian Tour – January 2025

Primal Scream announce Australian Tour – January 2025

Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce one of the most influential and exciting live bands in modern music – Scottish pioneers Primal Scream – will return to Australia in January 2025 for their first shows down under since 2018. Responsible for one of music’s most groundbreaking albums in 1991’s Mercury prize-winning Screamadelica, the legends behind a string of hits such as ‘Movin’ on Up’, ‘Rocks’, […]

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RED HOT SUMMER TOUR ANNOUNCES 2025 LINE-UP

RED HOT SUMMER TOUR ANNOUNCES 2025 LINE-UP

Get ready for a rockin’ RED HOT SUMMER TOUR as the first series for 2025 kicks off with a stellar all Aussie line-up.  The celebrated ICEHOUSE will headline and be supported by other crowd favourites Noiseworks, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi & Bachelor Girl.   These renowned outdoor shows, that continue to sell out year after year, will take […]

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John 5 to support Steel Panther on Aussie Tour

John 5 to support Steel Panther on Aussie Tour

Hollywood glam rockers Steel Panther have today announced the huge news to Australian fans that seasoned guitar virtuoso John 5 will support their On The Prowl tour, hitting the country in October. After many sold out and added dates across Europe and the US, Steel Panther are set to deliver On The Prowl down under with a series of shows […]

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GREEN DAY Announce Australian Leg of ‘THE SAVIORS TOUR’

GREEN DAY Announce Australian Leg of ‘THE SAVIORS TOUR’

Global rock superstars Green Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – have officially shared details of the Australian leg on their massive 2024/25 global stadium tour – The Saviors Tour, presented by Live Nation and Triple M. In their biggest live undertaking to date, the band has confirmed they will play Dookie and American Idiot in full, along with tracks from the new […]

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THE KILLERS return to Australia in Nov/Dec 2024

It’s 20 years since The Killers blasted on to the music scene with their iconic ARIA #1 debut album Hot Fuss.  In celebration, The Killers have confirmed they will be heading to Australia this November/December with shows in Townsville, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. In extra exciting news for fans in Sydney and Melbourne, The Killers are confirmed for two concerts in each city, […]

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Announce ‘PURPLE’ 30th Anniversary Australian Tour 2025

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Announce ‘PURPLE’ 30th Anniversary Australian Tour 2025

Legendary Californian rock royalty, Stone Temple Pilots have today announced their long-awaited return to Australian shores this February/March to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘Purple‘, the group’s chart-topping, multi-platinum sophomore album. To honour the impressive milestone, they’ll be performing this iconic album in its entirety at each show. Kicking off at ICC Sydney Theatre on February 28, the tour will then move […]

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KEITH URBAN Announces August 2025 Shows For His ‘High And Alive World Tour’

KEITH URBAN Announces August 2025 Shows For His ‘High And Alive World Tour’

Five-time ARIA and four-time GRAMMY© Award winner Keith Urban has confirmed his anticipated Australian tour dates, part of the HIGH AND ALIVE WORLD TOUR. Urban’s concerts are once in a lifetime events, that critics have referred to as, “ones not to be missed.”  The 9 arena shows for August 2025, featuring opener Chase Matthew, one of country music’s boldest emerging voices, are Urban’s first […]

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BRYAN ADAMS announces Australian & New Zealand ‘So Happy It Hurts Tour’

BRYAN ADAMS announces Australian & New Zealand ‘So Happy It Hurts Tour’

Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce the return of Bryan Adams who is bringing his So Happy It Hurts Tour to Australia and New Zealand in February 2025. From his very first concerts in Australia in 1984, Adams is a long-time live favourite Down Under. No stranger to being on the road, he is one of the best-loved performers of the last four decades, achieving a string of #1 […]

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