KISS have released two tracks from upcoming album Monster. Listen to Long Way Down and All For the Love of Rock & Roll below. Fans are expecting great things after the success of 2009’s Sonic Boom – the record they made after spending years insisting they wouldn’t return to the studio. Gene Simmons says it’s all down to the band’s […]

Consistently throwing one of the most exciting, energetic live rock shows you’ll ever witness, REEL BIG FISH, GOLDFINGER and ZEBRAHEAD are teaming up for a killer Australian tour this Summer. This is the kind of tour that these titans of rock thrive upon; twisted flesh, flailing limbs and a sea of swarming bodies…this will be one for the ages! Armed […]

Torpedohead’s new album “Greetings From Heartbreak Key”‘, is being released on October 26 via Woodhouse Records, contains 12 original tracks and features the new single “Gasoline”. Imagine a 70’s stadium rock n’ roll tape coming through a trashy 90s pop-punk stereo, digitally remastered today for speeding down the autobahn ! Combining a riff oriented sound, melodic supercatchy choruses and some tasty […]

Newcastle’s favourite adopted Melburnian JAMIE HAY has been dedicated to music for a vast portion of his life.  From house shows, to huge festivals, international tours and regional youth centres, Jamie Hay has seen it all. Now the Conation/A Death In The Family/Fear Like Us vocalist opens a new chapter., with debut solo album KING OF THE SUN (out November 2) and a tour to accompany […]

Serpent Sermon 2013 tour: Marduk / Portal / Order of Orias Tickets onsale NOW! Sweden’s kings of unholy black metal chaos MARDUK will be invading our shores, headlining the Serpent Sermon tour this summer. Joining them on the crusade will be Australia’s own curators of the abyss PORTAL, and Melbourne’s blackened horde ORDER OF ORIAS. Tickets are onsale now, and […]

As the national tour from recently reformed Swedish death metal legends At The Gates approaches, Destroy All Lines and Blue Murder are excited to announce the support acts that will make these bills even more brutal and thrilling.  Supports have been crafted carefully for each of the four lucky cities to host the band. Brisbane scores The Fevered and In Death, Sydney Katabasis and As Silence Breaks, Melbourne Be’Lakor and Eye […]

SHANNON NOLL will be releasing his biography ‘Shannon Noll So Far…’ on Monday October 1. Published by New Holland, the book is written by Shannon with Alan Whiticker, a Sydney writer. Shannon will also release a brand new single ‘Man I Can Trust’ on the same day. ‘Shannon Noll: So Far…’ tells the whole story … brother, son, husband, father […]

The best way to experience the almighty Machine Head is in the live setting. The Northern California band has established itself as one of the best live acts in the hard rock and metal world, bringing venues and crowds to their knees with flawless onstage execution of their songs. Few, if any, of their peers can deliver the type of sweat-soaked, utterly […]

Live Nation has announced that P!NK will make her hugely anticipated return to this country for what will be the hottest tour of the year – The Truth About Love Tour 2013. Renowned around the world as one of the most dynamic live performers of her generation – and by far the most successful female touring and recording artist ever […]

In an ingenious move often reserved for film, The Cult has announced they will be releasing a ‘prequel’ to accompany their latest critically acclaimed album, Choice of Weapon. The digital-only release Weapon of Choice reveals the songs at a stage of development that will be of interest to The Cult’s fans and followers. Weapon of Choice is a document of a work in progress and offers a unique opportunity to hear The Cult’s process. The material has not been previously released, […]

TSAR were formed in Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly planted their flag in the name of a new kind of rock at the center of the, then, exploding Silverlake music scene. Garage rockers, punks and glam babies alike flocked to eastside clubs to catch TSAR’s bombastic live performances and catchy power-pop/punk songwriting. A bidding war resulted in a major label […]

Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley Australian Tour  Legendary ex-vocalists of Iron Maiden Hardline Media proudly presents Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley – former vocalists of Iron Maiden – performing together for the first time ever in Australia and New Zealand. In a world exclusive, for their co-headlining sets both singers will be belting out only Iron Maiden songs – classic […]

The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965’ out November 2nd from ABKCO – Super Deluxe Box Set/Blu-ray and DVD Details Revealed ABKCO Films is proud to join in the celebration of the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary by announcing exclusive details of the release of the legendary, but never before officially released film, The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is […]

Thanks to our friends at Universal Music Australia, we have five copies of the cracking new Grinspoon album ‘Black Rabbits’ to give away to five of our lucky readers.  First single ‘Passerby’ has given us a taste of a newer Grinners sound and we dig it!  Want to hear what else they’ve come up with? Well you can by simply […]

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo.com present HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS WITH SIENNA SKIES AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are set to make their well anticipated return to Australia in December this year to celebrate the 2nd release in their EP trilogy – Hope. The Ohio quartet have been working solidly since they last hit our shores in 2006, releasing Fragile Future in mid 2008 and then their 4th studio album Skeletons hit shelves […]

From November 7 The Tea Party: Live in Australia will be available for lovers of epic rock on Blu-ray and DVD. Since the Canadian three piece exploded onto the scene in the early-‘90s the Tea Party has pursued a singular epic sound melding middle-eastern influences with cacophonous power for what has become widely dubbed as Moroccan Roll. After a brief breakup […]

THE SCRIPT ANNOUNCES NATIONAL ARENA TOUR! With smash hit album #3 (out now through Sony Music) tearing up charts and hearts across the globe, Frontier Touring Company is delighted  to confirm that The Script will return to Australia in 2013 with their biggest national tour to date! The Dublin natives make this announcement whilst in Australia for a sell out […]

English melodic rockers FM have issued the following update via their Facebook/Website: “Here in FM land we love our traditions and in the run-up to the release of our seventh studio album we couldn’t resist one particular FM tradition – on 26th November 2012 we will be releasing ONLY FOOLIN’ EP. We’ve had a great reaction to our EPs over the […]

Frontiers Records have issued the following update on upcoming 2013 releases for Snakecharmer, Cannatta, Seventh Key, Work of Art and James Christian! WORK OF ART Swedish AOR stars WORK OF ART have started laying down tracks for the anticipated third album which the band plans to title “Piece of Work” as a completion of the trilogy of album titles that […]

September 24th, 2012  – Adler, the new band led by former Guns N Roses drummer Steven Adler will be releasing their debut album “Back From The Dead” November 26th via New Ocean Media in North America. “Back From The Dead” was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, Dokken) and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour). The album consists of 11 tracks ranging from adrenaline pumping rockers […]

1976 Sunday night, 6pm …anywhere and everywhere in Australia: Countdown on TV. A giant appears on screen, black kohl eyeliner, flashy earrings, multi coloured hair, gap between two front teeth…’Gonna sit down and talk to myself’, he sings…camera pans out…two more very tall men, one willowy with long curly hair, the other rocking a steady bass rhythm nodding his bushy […]

‘The rock gods have again answered the prayers of rock fans Australia wide by blessing us with another tour from multi-award winning Canadian rockers, The Trews’ – Troy Culpan, May The Rock Be With You This October THE TREWS will be gracing our shores for a national tour in support of their highly anticipated new extended EP, “…thank you and […]

T&N reunites George Lynch, Jeff Pilson and “Wild” Mick Brown – aka “The Big Three” from Dokken – for this brand new 12 song disk that will surely be referred to as a classic in years to come! Returning to their roots, “Slave to the Empire” offers seven new original songs and five re-recorded classic Dokken songs that feature sensational vocal performances […]

GEOFF TATE, the acclaimed voice of Queensryche, will release his second solo album, KINGS & THIEVES, on November 6, 2012 in North America.  KINGS & THIEVES will be TATE’s first solo album in more than a decade and his debut release for InsideOut Music.  As one of the most well-known and respected vocalists in the history of hard rock and heavy metal, GEOFF TATE has sold over 20 […]

Redcoats announce the release of their debut self-titled album out 19 October. To support this release the band will be touring throughout November on their Who’s Rollin’ album tour, full dates below. Following from first single lifted from the album, Raven, Redcoats have also just released second single Evergreen to radio. Watch the psychedelic inspired clip here now! Their album […]

JIMI JAMISON – one of Melodic Rock’s most legendary voices – returns with his new solo album “Never Too Late” Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of JIMI JAMISON’s new solo album “Never Too Late” on November 2nd in Europe and November the 6th in North America. Often referred to as one of the American top Rock vocalists, Jimi […]

ARTISTDIRECT premiered a new Papa Roach song ‘BEFORE I DIE‘ (http://bit.ly/R2ZTzu) and a behind the scenes video yesterday, off of their upcoming album The Connection (October 2, Eleven Seven Music). Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix had been diagnosed with a nodule on his left vocal chord. At the advice of his physician, he underwent corrective surgery to remove the nodule and prevent further damage. “It’s no secret […]

Singer, actor and best-selling author : Rock icon RICK SPRINGFIELD to release in Europe his new album “Songs from the End of the World” on Frontiers Records For all his accomplishments as an actor, a best-selling author and the subject of a recent documentary, RICK SPRINGFIELD’s first love has always been music, since the first time he picked up a guitar […]

2012 proves banner year for American rock band heart with new studio album & hardcover memoir arriving this fall legacy recordings releasing “Fanatic”, the hard-rock successor to 2010’s top 10 debut red velvet car, on Tuesday, October 2 and “Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock and Roll,” The Revelatory Memoir by Ann & Nancy Wilson On […]

EXTRA DATES ANNOUNCED – 2ND & FINAL SYDNEY & BRISBANE SHOWS! THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 – MATCHBOX TWENTY make their the highly anticipated return to Australia next month, playing their first Australian shows in five years, with very special guests Aussie legends INXS at their side. Two extra shows have been announced for this their sixth Australian tour. Playing second and […]