Category: Music News

THE SUPERJESUS Announce New Line Up And A New Single For 2023!

THE SUPERJESUS Announce New Line Up And A New Single For 2023!

Following their recent tour announcement, Sarah McLeod and Stuart Rudd of The Superjesus have today confirmed a new band line-up, welcoming Murray Sheridan and Cam Blokland to the fold.  They have also announced the release next month of their new single, ‘Money (We’re Only In It For Love)’, with further details to follow. As treasured fans of the band know, the nucleus of […]

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Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (Solo)Announces February 2023 Tour

Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (Solo)Announces February 2023 Tour

Iconic indie-pop singer-songwriter, Andrew McMahon will be in Australia this February for a 3 date east coast solo tour. Andrew McMahon has been at the forefront of the indie-pop scene for over two decades. As the former frontman for influential alt-pop rockers, Something Corporate, Andrew McMahon’s unmistakable vocals, songwriting skills, and incorporation of the piano earned the band a place as legends […]

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THE CORRS Australian Tour Oct/Nov 2023 with Special Guests Natalie Imbruglia, Toni Childs and Germein

THE CORRS Australian Tour Oct/Nov 2023 with Special Guests Natalie Imbruglia, Toni Childs and Germein

Irish Celtic infused pop icons, The Corrs will return to Australia in October and November 2023 for a seven date national tour. Joining them will be Aussie pop royalty Natalie Imbruglia the legendary Toni Childs and Adelaide trio, Germein. After stunning the 13 000 strong crowd at the Hunter Valley’s Hope Estate Winery with their incredible and enchanting live show in late November, The Corrs are thrilled to return in 2023 and […]

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BOOM CRASH OPERA Announce The Bettadaze National Tour

BOOM CRASH OPERA Announce The Bettadaze National Tour

One of Australia’s most enduring bands, Boom Crash Opera, return with a national tour – Bettadaze – in June 2023. After a long hiatus Dale Ryder, Peter Farnan, Peter ‘Maz’  Maslen and John Favaro are back and ready to celebrate with a select run of shows in NSW, QLD and Victoria, from June 2 – June 17, 2023.  The band will unleash Onion Skin, Dancing […]

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THE ANGELS – ‘Kickin’ Down The Door’ doco – in cinemas now

THE ANGELS – ‘Kickin’ Down The Door’ doco – in cinemas now

Maslow Entertainment has revealed the trailer for THE ANGELS: KICKIN’ DOWN THE DOOR, an intimate and compelling music documentary feature about iconic Australian rock ‘n’ roll band The Angels, exploring the tensions that tore a band apart and helped them produce such classic hits as Take a Long Line, Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again and No Secrets. […]

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STRYPER Announce March 2023 Australian and New Zealand Tour

STRYPER Announce March 2023 Australian and New Zealand Tour

When it comes to groundbreaking bands in the Christian hard-rock genre, STRYPER is renowned for its distinctive brand of “heavenly metal,” extraordinary crossover success, with both Grammy nominations and Dove Awards to their name, and their venerable endurance. In 2023, the band celebrate their 40th anniversary and do so on the back of both consistent touring and consistent album releases with their latest release The Final Battle receiving rave reviews the world over. Sirius XM radio host Eddie Trunk says, “Stryper is more active than any other band from the ‘80s”, and they […]

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HED P.E. Announce 2023 Australian Tour

HED P.E. Announce 2023 Australian Tour

Over the course of their career, which commenced in 1997, genre bending punk, rasta, soul gangsta rockers, HED PE have remained constant with relentless touring and a genuinely unifying live show bringing together fans of the multiple genres which they so effortlessly fuse. The band returns to Australia for the first time since 2019, and for their third tour since 2018, much […]

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MALIBU, CA - July 12, 2016 - Helmet, rehearsal

HELMET – The Best of Helmet Australia 2023

Honouring the patience of devoted fans all over the country, Helmet have confirmed their long-waited return to deliver the very best of their celebrated catalogue. In April 2023 Helmet will storm Australian stages delivering career defining songs and all-time fan favourites, a complete evening of essential music from one of heavy music’s most essential bands. For over three decades, Page […]

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TOMMY EMMANUEL

TOMMY EMMANUEL to return for national tour May 2023

Australia’s internationally acclaimed acoustic guitar icon Tommy Emmanuel CGP will return to Australia in 2023 for a major national tour – his first here in four years!  He will undertake a packed three week national tour, including headlining the renowned Blues On Broadbeach festival on the Gold Coast.  Tickets go on sale to the general public from Friday 25 Nov via tommyemmanuel.com  Sun […]

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THE SCREAMING JETS Announce The Rock Vault Tour 2023

Back by popular demand, Aussie rock favourites The Screaming Jets have announced ‘The Rock Vault’ tour for 2023.  The shows will kick off on February 24, visiting capital cities and regional centres in NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, across to three shows in WA then wrapping up the tour on April 25 . These performances are the sequel to their hugely successful national tour […]

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THE POOR Unveil Video For ‘Let Me Go’. Forthcoming New Album High Price Deed Available For Pre-Order

THE POOR Unveil Video For ‘Let Me Go’. Forthcoming New Album High Price Deed Available For Pre-Order

Acclaimed Aussie rockers The Poor have unveiled the clip for their new single Let Me Go and confirmed their forthcoming album High Price Deed is now available for pre-order.  The album is scheduled for release on February 3, 2023 via Reckless Records. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW Let Me Go is the follow-up single to Cry Out and Payback’s A Bitch.   Following their UK/Europe tour with Rose Tattoo earlier this year, the […]

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ROD STEWART announces Australian tour with very special guest Cyndi Lauper

ROD STEWART announces Australian tour with very special guest Cyndi Lauper

Sir Rod Stewart has today announced he will hit the road in 2023 on a massive Australian Tour with support from very special guest Cyndi Lauper. Continuing his iconic reign, Sir Rod Stewart will perform a string of headline shows, kicking off in Perth on March 11, 2023 with additional stops in Melbourne, Geelong, Adelaide, Mount Cotton, Sydney, Hunter Valley and concluding […]

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Alexisonfire announce national Australian dates for February 2023

Alexisonfire announce national Australian dates for February 2023

Canadian hardcore five-piece Alexisonfire today reveal they will return to Australia in February 2023, playing their first Antipodean headline dates since their 2017 tour. This summer, the band will bring their powerful on-stage energy to Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Friday 17 February, followed by stops in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Local heroes Luca Brasi will open for Alexisonfire on all dates, warming audiences with their dynamic live set. One of the country’s most roadworthy […]

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GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL Announce Sideshows!

GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL Announce Sideshows!

Australia’s biggest alternative travelling music festival, aka Good Things Festival is almost upon us and it’s the biggest one yet! Good Things come to those who wait and Good Things Festival is thrilled to announce the headline sideshows from some of the artists on the huge festival line up. This is the first and only sideshow announcement and there will be no more sideshows announced. Set your alarm clocks as these tickets […]

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COUNTING CROWS announce The Butter Miracle 2023 Australian Tour

COUNTING CROWS announce The Butter Miracle 2023 Australian Tour

Much loved rock band Counting Crows announce their return to Australia in 2023 on The Butter Miracle Tour, following the release of the band’s latest record Butter Miracle Suite One, a four-track, nineteen-minute suite available now. The band has long had a strong relationship with Australian audiences, making a huge impression with “Mr. Jones,” harking back to 1993. The Butter Miracle Tour will take in Adelaide […]

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SLIPKNOT’S ‘KNOTFEST’ Set To Take Over Australia In 2023

SLIPKNOT’S ‘KNOTFEST’ Set To Take Over Australia In 2023

KNOTFEST, the destination festival brand curated by SLIPKNOT, is continuing its ever-expanding global domination with the announcement of its next location – KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA in 2023. The music and counterculture experience created by the multi-platinum sonic phenomenon SLIPKNOT, will hit the East coast of Australia starting on Friday, March 24th at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, before making its way to Sydney on Saturday, March […]

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CITY AND COLOUR returns to Australia for headline dates in February 2023

CITY AND COLOUR returns to Australia for headline dates in February 2023

Chugg Entertainment and Frontier Touring are delighted to announce that acclaimed singer-songwriter City and Colour (Canadian musician Dallas Green) will return to Australia in February 2023 for a run of headline shows. Kicking off at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday 1 February, City and Colour will traverse the East Coast, stopping at Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre, Melbourne’s Forum and The Tivoli in Brisbane. City and Colour will also appear at SummerSalt across Australia through January and February. The festival will visit eight cities nationally and see City […]

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BLINK-182 Tour Update: A Further Two New Shows Added To Australian Tour – Sydney And Melbourne Dates Expand Into Fourth And Final Shows!

BLINK-182 Tour Update: A Further Two New Shows Added To Australian Tour – Sydney And Melbourne Dates Expand Into Fourth And Final Shows!

Multi-platinum, award winning group blink-182 have announced their biggest tour ever, a colossal global outing with Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker reuniting for the first time in nearly 10 years. Produced by Live Nation, the worldwide trek includes their first ever performances in Latin America along with stops in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand starting March 2023 through […]

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HOT CHELLE RAE 10th Anniversary Tonight Tonight Celebration 2023 Australian Tour

HOT CHELLE RAE 10th Anniversary Tonight Tonight Celebration 2023 Australian Tour

Beloved pop rock three-piece HOT CHELLE RAE (HCR) finally return Down Under for the 10th Anniversary Tonight Tonight Celebration Tour in March / April 2023. Having grown up in musically inclined households, the three came of age among the song-writing community in Nashville. Hence the foundation upon which HCR was built all boils down to really good music. HOT CHELLE RAE – lead vocalist and guitarist Ryan […]

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Mudhoney

MUDHONEY Announce 2023 Australian Tour

Seminal Seattle four-piece Mudhoney return to Australia in 2023, marking nine years since their last local shows in 2014. A mammoth odyssey spanning April and May will see them playing headline shows across six states, with a handful of festival dates among them. Mudhoney have an enviable career spanning over three decades, thirteen studio albums, five live records, and endless headline shows around […]

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YOU ME AT SIX announce new album ‘Truth Decay’

YOU ME AT SIX announce new album ‘Truth Decay’

You Me At Six today announce details of their new album ‘Truth Decay’, which will be out on 27 January 2023 via Underdog Records / AWAL Recordings. One of the things that You Me At Six discovered whilst making their blistering eighth album ‘Truth Decay’ was that you don’t really know where you’re going if you don’t know where you came from. As the dust settled on the triumphant […]

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ARCH ENEMY Announce February 2023 Australian and NZ Tour

ARCH ENEMY Announce February 2023 Australian and NZ Tour

ARCH ENEMY are bigger and better than ever. Delivering a maelstrom of diamond-hard riffing wrapped around cinematic melodies, thunderous drumming and towering vocals, ARCH ENEMY are unstoppable and sound incredibly energized and they are headed back to Australia and New Zealand in February 2023. Here’s how Kerrang hailed the band’s new album Deceiver s– “Deceivers slays from start to finish and is essential listening for metalheads yearning for […]

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GLAM FEST January 2023 Australian Tour Announced (Faster Pussycat, Wednesday 13, Eclipse, Enuff Z’Nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd and Tuff)

GLAM FEST January 2023 Australian Tour Announced (Faster Pussycat, Wednesday 13, Eclipse, Enuff Z’Nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd and Tuff)

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 […]

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STING ‘My Songs’ Critically Acclaimed World Tour – Australian Tour In February 2023 Adds New Concert In Sydney

STING ‘My Songs’ Critically Acclaimed World Tour – Australian Tour In February 2023 Adds New Concert In Sydney

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 […]

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RICHARD MARX brings ‘The Songwriter Tour’ to AU/NZ in Feb/Mar 2023

RICHARD MARX brings ‘The Songwriter Tour’ to AU/NZ in Feb/Mar 2023

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 […]

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ANVIL – Australian Tour – February 2023

ANVIL – Australian Tour – February 2023

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”, […]

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JIMMY EAT WORLD announced as guests on MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE 2023 Australian Tour

JIMMY EAT WORLD announced as guests on MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE 2023 Australian Tour

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 […]

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Paramore - L-R: Taylor York, Hayley Williams, Zac Farro.

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PARAMORE Announce New Album ‘This Is Why’ For February 10th

Paramore are back with their first new music since 2017. The beloved Nashville-based trio of Zac Farro, Hayley Williams & Taylor York have returned from their hiatus – and the global pandemic – with “This Is Why“, one of the best songs of their already impressive repertoire. In what’s widely recognized as one of the most exciting musical returns of the year, the band have also announced […]

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DISTURBED Return With New Album ‘Divisive’ On November 18, Unveil New Single “Unstoppable”

DISTURBED Return With New Album ‘Divisive’ On November 18, Unveil New Single “Unstoppable”

Gearing up for another era, multi-platinum rock band Disturbed will release their eighth full-length album, Divisive, on November 18, 2022 via Reprise Records. Pre-order/Pre-save Divisive HERE. Bulldozing the way for the record, the group have unleashed an unpredictable and undeniable new single entitled “Unstoppable”. Listen to “Unstoppable” HERE and watch the lyric video HERE. About Divisive, Draiman noted, “Partisan tribal warfare has become a part of our regular existence nowadays. It’s one big battle […]

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GEOFF TATE – Tour Announcement – Australia 2023

GEOFF TATE – Tour Announcement – Australia 2023

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 […]

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