On Sunday December 1st KARNIVOOL won their first ever ARIA Award taking out the gong for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album for their current release and third album ‘Asymmetry’ which was also their first ever number one debut on the ARIA album charts. As announced in October KARNIVOOL and good mates Dead Letter Circus will hit the road on […]

SKID ROW/ UGLY KID JOE add AUSTRALIAN dates to co-headline tour SKID ROW and UGLY KID JOE bring their co-headline tour to Australia in April 2014. The bands are currently touring Europe together having completed a hugely successful run of dates across the UK. With combined sales of millions of albums, each band will play a full set of the […]

Thanks to our friends at Warner Music Australia, we have five copies of the new tour edition album of KID ROCK’s ‘Rebel Soul’ to give away to five of our lucky readers, check out what it’s all aboutHERE.  Kid Rock is in Australia for the first time on tour with Bon Jovi and has released this edition just for Australia.  Would […]

In a late blast and flurry Big Day Out is excited to announce three new artists to the 2014 lineup. So without any further ado… We have replaced our departing Brit pop band with other members of English rock ’n’ roll royalty BEADY EYE, who are heading to Australia for the first time ever. Founded in 2009 by Oasis members Liam Gallagher, Gem […]

Periphery represents the vanguard of addictive, chaotic, challenging and cathartically inviting heavy music for the modern era. Their triple-guitar attack and rhythmic dexterity has won them devoted adherents across underground subcultures, regardless of whether those fans were weaned on the passion-fuelled sounds of progressive rock from bands like Dream Theater or Rush or modern avant-garde rock bands like Deftones. The new experimental recording, Clear, represents […]

After erupting back onto the scene with bold soul-rock shot ‘Under Your Skin’ — his first release in over four years, which was promptly added to high rotation on triple j — Dan Sultan and his band are thrilled to announce a capital city tour for February and March 2014. Dan’s upcoming tour will give fans an opportunity to hear […]

Hot on the heels of the news that The Rolling Stones will open Adelaide Oval, comes confirmation of another six spectacular Rolling Stones shows for Australia and New Zealand.  Frontier Touring & AEG Live today unveil a string of very special ONE NIGHT ONLY shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland and Victoria’s iconic Hanging Rock as part of the […]

ARIA nominated Papa vs Pretty have unveiled their new single ‘Smother’ via a special hotline, ahead of its release this Friday 6th December.  Fans can call the Smother Hotline (1300-552-550) to hear the new single and in turn leave a message for the band. The video for ‘Smother’ will be revealed in the coming weeks. ‘Smother’ is the second single […]

“One of the pillars of British indie rock.” – The Guardian “To say that Edwyn is fêted by the UK indie community would be an understatement. The former Orange Juice man can barely walk down the street without a member of Franz or The Cribs bursting out of a café door and laying down their cape in front of him.” […]

“Where I’m going’s where I’m at.” So says Kid Rock on the title track of his ninth studio album. And considering everywhere Rock has gone during the past 22 years, we can have faith that we’re headed for another fascinating, galvanizing, eyebrow-raising, endlessly surprising, at the very least interesting trip when he lands in December for his very first tour […]

Canadian Rockers, Simple Plan are set to treat fans with their new EP, Get Your Heart On – The Second Coming!  available today.  The EP is a collection of songs the band wrote during the recording of their last album Get Your Heart On!  “We came up with over 75 songs for Get Your Heart On! and it was a […]

With news just in that the necessary permits have been approved, Frontier Touring are happy to announce that a final release of Rear GA Standing tickets for both Melbourne AAMI Park Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts. Close to 60,000 tickets have already sold across the two Melbourne dates alone and this new release will see just an […]

Of Mice & Men announced today their third studio album Restoring Force will be released on Friday 24 January on Rise Records. The album is the follow up to the band’s 2011’s acclaimed release The Flood, which solidified the California-based five-piece as a leading force in modern heavy music. Restoring Force was recorded at House of Loud in New Jersey […]

  When it comes to an all energy show with world-class production, Grammy and ARIA Award winning Keith Urban certainly delivers, and this is exactly what Australian audiences can expect when Urban tours nationally in June 2014 on the Light The Fuse Tour Australia.  The all-new show will not only feature first-time performances of new music from his #1 album […]

Frontier Touring is thrilled to confirm that Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys will be landing in Australia and New Zealand next May to embark on their biggest tour of our shores to date! Arctic Monkeys first burst onto the music scene in 2006 with their award-winning debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.  The album became the fastest-selling […]

Sydney-based Possum Records is proud to announce the signing of Sydney rock band Dead In A Second. “I was looking for a great rock band to round out our artist roster. After hearing the early mixes of the new Dead In A Second album, I was convinced I’d found the band I was looking for” – Philip Israel, CEO, Possum […]

When talking about larger-than-life, trailblazing personalities they don’t get much bigger than Chris Jericho (WWE Champion) and Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo mastermind). FOZZY continue their love affair with Australia and are stoked to announce two intimate sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. “We love Australia so much that we decided five shows with Steel Panther & Buckcherry weren’t enough for us […]

Bruce Springsteen’s new album ‘High Hopes’ has been set for January 17 release on Columbia Records.  ‘High Hopes’ finds Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the members of the E Street Band as well as guitarist Tom Morello and many additional players. The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks […]

UK genre-straddling rock powerhouse SKINDRED will release their fifth long player ‘Kill The Power’ on January 31, 2014.   WATCH ALBUM PREVIEW VIDEO HERE The digital single for the album’s title track ‘Kill The Power’ will be unleashed on December 9 and  includes killer remixes from Cyantific, Rednek, Zed Bias, Subsource and Licarus.   In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing […]

Right off the back of the massive success of the 4th Annual Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival, The Dead Daisies head to the U.K. and Israel In November and December 2013.  The Dead Daisies new single  ‘Washington’, recorded in L.A., will be released in Australia on December 5 through Spitfire Music for download on iTunes. ‘Washington’ will take you on a […]

For the last few months I Am Giant have been calling Biarrtz, France their home while recording their sophomore album, the highly anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed debut ‘The Horrifying Truth’. Co-produced by Forrester Saville (Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, Helmut), bassist Paul Matthews and drummer Shelton Woolright, the first single ‘Razor Wire Reality’ will be released on December 6th via Sony […]

Ladies and Gentleman they are back!  The most eagerly anticipated concert of years and the entertainment opening of the world class Adelaide Oval in 2014 were announced today as rock icons The Rolling Stones confirm their long awaited return to the stage in Australia with a spectacular show. The date, unveiled today, is Saturday 22 March 2014. This special Adelaide […]

Queens Of The Stone Age and The Creators Project, a partnership between Intel and VICE, have unveiled the interactive video for ‘The Vampyre Of Time And Memory’. This bold production, directed by Kii Arens and Jason Trucco and designed and developed by Darknet, re-imagines the classic music video in the context of a virtual art installation distinguished by horror, weird […]

Joining Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Blur, Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion, Flume, Tame Impala and Northlane… We are so excited to welcome back the one and only PRIMUS, whose appearance at the 3rd ever BDO still makes highlight lists of the festival’s best ever performances. Armed with what can only be described as a unique breed of spiral drum crazy, […]

Fresh of their win at the Music Oz Awards for Best Rock Album, Melbourne-based indie, rock band July Days have released the video for their second single “Photos” from their forth-coming debut album. The Video: The video for “Photos” is the collaboration of Melbourne filmmaker Jack C Levitt, Lawrence Henry and July Days. Conceptualised by Lawrence Henry (frontman for July […]

Rockstar Productions, AndrewHaug.Com & Metal Obsession present CHILDREN OF BODOM – HALO OF BLOOD OVER AUSTRALIA TOUR 2014 Children of Bodom, a name that redefined a genre and made it their own and a name that continues to galvanise all walks of life and all Heavy Metal sub-genres within that culture, it’s a name that crosses genres and moulds them […]

Still buzzing from their sold out city shows to unveil their new vocalist Paul Galagher, The Butterfly Effect have bowed to pressure from fans and extended the tour to include visits to Newcastle, Wollongong and Mona Vale to welcome in the New Year. Delivering nearly an hour and a half of classic Butterfly Effect tracks as well as new material […]

Following hugely successful shows in February 2013, Mike Tramp returns to the stage in Australia for more solo concerts. A one man show telling the stories behind 30 years of music from his platinum days as lead singer of White Lion through his time in Freak of Nature and as a solo artist, when Mike Tramp takes the stage, you […]

Periphery has defied the boundaries of conventionality, bringing new life to the metal scene. Their meteoric rise to the upper echelon of the metal world will be in full display when they return to Australia in January/February 2014 joined by Animals As Leaders. Periphery push the envelope with an innovative brand of engagingly complex metal. The band’s latest offering, Periphery […]

Hailing from the dark lands of the deep South, better known as New Orleans, North America’s most uncompromising band EYEHATEGOD came to be In the year 1988, and have since created a 25 year legacy of sheer unadulterated, no holds bared, musical brutality. Their vision was pure and their approach was hostile, through the course of their four studio albums, […]