Swedish heavy metal band BULLET will release the title track from their upcoming new record Full Pull on July 13th. The single will be available digitally and on colored vinyl. Track list: Side A: Full Pull Side B: Get On You can order the single by clicking here: ORDER SINGLE The album was recorded at Gutterview Recorders in Solna/Stockholm Sweden, […]

June 13, 2012 – “When Yellowcard decided to take a break in 2008, I had never felt so uncertain about my future,” recalls vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key, about the story behind the title of their new album, Southern Air. “I decided the best thing for me to do was leave Los Angeles and relocate to the East Coast to be closer […]

SLIPKNOT ANNOUNCE ANTENNAS TO HELL OUT JULY 20 – HEADLINING THEIR VERY OWN KNOTFEST THIS AUGUST For their millions of fans around the world, Slipknot are as much a culture and a way of life as they are a band. To completely engage with all of the perseverance, ingenuity, artistic integrity and holistic vision of Slipknot’s creative output in all of […]

OBEY THE BRAVE SIGN TO EPITAPH – Debut Album Young Blood Available 31/8/2012  Canada’s most exciting, adrenaline-charged metalcore band Obey The Brave have officially signed to Epitaph Records with plans to release their album, Young Blood on August 31st. In anticipation of the new record, the band have posted a video about the recent signing and have also posted an in-your-face video for their first track, “Get Real” that […]

GET READY TO GO ON A PSYCHOTRIP WITH NIKKI MCKIBBIN’S  LOVE STRICKEN  DEMISE.  AMERICAN IDOL FINALIST RE-SURFACES TO KICK YOUR ASS  Dallas’ new hard rock heroes Love Stricken Demise, featuring former American Idol finalist Nikki McKibbin, have released their debut Ep, Psychotrip through upstart label Down Boys, Inc. With LSD you won’t be getting any girly Top 40 pop songstress type material.  […]

Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release HESS new solo album entitled “Living in Yesterday” on August 24th in Europe and August 28th in the US. Best known for spending 17 years as frontman of Harem Scarem, one of the most well known and respected Melodic Hard Rock bands to come out from Canada, Harry Hess has been redesigning his career as music producer and […]

MATCHBOX TWENTY HEAD NORTH WITH NEW ALBUM MULTI-PLATINUM POP-ROCK SUPERSTARS RETURN ON FIRST ALL-NEW COLLECTION IN TEN YEARS ALBUM TO BE HERALDED BY THRILLING NEW SINGLE SHE’S SO MEAN AT AUSTRALIAN RADIO THIS WEEK  Matchbox Twenty has announced the release of their hugely-anticipated new album scheduled to arrive on Friday 31 August.  North marks Matchbox Twenty’s fourth full-length studio recording and first all-new album in a decade.  “The […]

After ten years, Australian heavy rock outfit HEAVEN are back and ready to kick ass once more with what’s sure to be a hell of a show at the Evelyn Hotel on Friday 22 June! Heaven found success in the US during the ‘80s, releasing three albums (Twilight of Mischief/In The Beginning, Where Angels Fear To Tread, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door) and supporting the likes of Motley Crue, […]

The incredible upward spiral of Perth Prog Metal masters VOYAGER continues as the band will celebrate its return to Australia on June 30th, with a welcome home show here in their hometown of Perth, WA. Currently touring North America supporting Rhapsody In Fire, VOYAGER are captivating larger than expected audiences at every show, winning over a multitude of new fans. […]

Australia’s The Amity Affliction have entered a Florida studio to work on their proper Roadrunner Records debut, Chasing Ghosts. Chasing Ghosts is scheduled to be released on September 14.  It follows the band’s previous album Youngbloods, which debuted #6 on the Aria Charts and was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at both the ARIA and AIR Awards. . The Amity […]

It took 13 minutes for STEEL PANTHER to completely sellout their Melbourne show at The Palace. The show moved to up to Festival Hall with nearly 3 times the capacity and sold out again! Shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide (YES! Adelaide!) were not far behind in the expediency with which “ticket allocations” were “exhausted” and the flood of e-grief […]

Def Leppard rocked the Sunset Strip on June 6th at the House Of Blues in West Hollywood for a one-time rare club gig in partnership with YouTube presents..   A FREE show on a first-come, first-served basis, the performance was followed by a Q&A of fan questions with the band. Def Leppard ripped through 7 songs including “Rock of Ages”, “Foolin’”, “Animal”, “Hysteria”, […]

Australian melodic metallers LORD reveal the title, tracklist and cover art from their forthcoming album. Stated LORD mainman LT: “We can now reveal the title of our forthcoming album is ‘DIGITAL LIES‘. The track listing is as follows: 1. Incipio 2. Betrayal Blind 3. Digital Lies 4. Point Of View 5. Walk Away 6. 2D Person In A 3D World 7. Final […]

The band formerly known as Sencelled is now The Spin.  With a new name, a UK tour in the pipeline and a second record on its way, Sweden‘s best melodic pop rock group are raring to go in 2012 and bring their “catchy melodic power pop addictiveness” to the world, in the name of The Spin! The band has split up with […]

Sydney, Australia – Thursday, 7 June, 2012:  It’s been 22 years since 1927 burst onto the scene with their debut album, …ISH, selling half a million copies in Australia and producing  the hit singles That’s When I Think Of You, If I Could, You’ll Never Know and Compulsory Hero.  … ISH remains one of the highest selling debut albums ever by an Australian band to this day. […]

The tale of a boy and a girl from the same small country town. They dated for a while but were more in love with the idea of each other. She was prettier than he was and he was more sophisticated than she. Realising that it was never going to work, the boy ended it and moved to Melbourne. Heartbroken the girl […]

ULVER STREAMING COVER OF WE THE PEOPLE’S “IN THE PAST” “Childhood’s End” out next week on Kscope   NORWAY – Norwegian avant-garde rock outfit, Ulver, has updated the Childhood’s End mini-site: http://www.kscopemusic.com/ulver/childhoodsend/ with a stream of the band’s rendition of We The People’s, “In the Past.” Childhood’s End, a 16-track collection of psychedelic rock covers recorded in unique fashion by one of Scandinavia’s most passionate and […]

“ROCK OF AGES” DELIVERS ANTHEMIC FILM SOUNDTRACK SONY MUSIC RELEASES SOUNDTRACK OF “ROCK OF AGES” ON JUNE 8, 2012 Features Hits of Iconic Rockers Def Leppard, Journey, Bon Jovi, Poison and Others Performed By Rock of Ages Cast Members Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary J Blige, Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise, and More Sony Music has announced the international […]

On Tuesday, June 5th the brand new music video for Bret Michaels single Get Your Rock On will make it’s premiere on www.bretmichaels.com! Get Your Rock On is the title track from Bret’s new solo album of the same name and features Phil Collen of Def Leppard/Manraze and Sal Coz Costa of My Darkest Days! Be sure to check www.bretmichaels.com on June […]

JAMES CHRISTIAN HOUSE OF LORDS singer James Christian is working on a new solo album, his third one after “Rude Awakening” (originally released on Now & Then Records in 1995) and “Meet The Man”. James announced on his website: “It’s been a long time coming but a new James Christian solo album is currently in the works. The as yet […]

The Beach Boys Historic 50th Anniversary Tour Australian Tour Dates Confirmed Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks, Touring Together For The First Time In More Than Two Decades Paul Dainty, Chairman of Dainty Group announced today that one of the worlds’ most legendary and influential bands of all time The Beach Boys, will tour Australia this year as part […]

It seems that fans of Canadian rock act THE TEA PARTY can’t wait for some new material from the recently reformed trio. With a catalogue consisting of eight releases in The Tea Party’s career so far (their last release was in 2004), fans on the band’s Facebook page & at recent live shows have shown an increasing amount of interest in a […]

WEDNESDAY 13 has firmly cemented himself as the undisputed leader in Horrorpunk. With an unruly live show of fun and debauchery, WEDNESDAY 13 manages to always turn any live event into a macabre party; “Everyone leaves sweaty, smiley and enthused by what they just witnessed…they are everything that is right with rock music today” – caughtinthecrossfire.com WEDNESDAY 13 will be […]

It’s been a little Slash crazy around here at May The Rock Be With You of late and why slow it down we say?  So in honour of the new album ‘Apocalyptic Love’ by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, as well as tickets going on sale for his Australian tour in August, our good friends at Sony Music Australia […]

Grammy winning trio Lady Antebellum have responded to strong ticket numbers by adding a second and final show in both Melbourne (September 26) and Brisbane (September 29) in addition to a third and final night at Sydney’s Opera House (October 3) to the previously sold out Australian leg of their headlining OWN THE NIGHT 2012 WORLD TOUR. These will be Lady Antebellum’s very […]

YELLOWCARD ANNOUNCE SECOND MELBOURNE SHOW FOR UPCOMING AUSTRALIAN TOUR ! Following unprecedented demand from Yellowcard loving Melbournians, the band’s first show at The Hi-Fi is all sold out! Tickets were quickly snapped up to see the fun loving five-piece when the shows were announced earlier this month. Luckily for fans, The Frontier Touring Company is thrilled to announce a second […]

EPITAPH GETS WARPED Punk’s Leading Label Represents at Vans Warped Tour with performances by Falling In Reverse, New Found Glory, Every Time I Die, The Ghost Inside and Skip The Foreplay New 2012 Epitaph Mixtape Sampler Out Soon Epitaph Records will be in full force on Vans Warped Tour ’12 with standout performances from Falling In Reverse, New Found Glory, Every Time […]

To coincide with the recent release of the brand new single ‘LET YOU GO’, ZOOPHYTE are proud to announce they will be joining Australian legends INXS on stage for selected shows and a slew of regional headline shows. Following the success of the brand new single ‘LET YOU GO’, Melbourne band ZOOPHYTE will hit the road for a slew of dates through QLD, […]

THE DARKNESS SERVE UP A TASTER & PRESENT THE FULL MENU FOR “HOT CAKES” THE DARKNESS return with the eagerly awaited release of their third album, “Hot Cakes”, on 17 August 2012. Today the band made album opener, “Every Inch of You”, immediately available via a lyric video posted at www.theactualdarkness.com and the track appearing on iTunes worldwide, providing an […]

New Empire scores a slot on the US Vans Warped tour East Coast acoustic tour dates ready to roll ahead of Olympics coup! New Empire is set to embark on one of the busiest periods of their burgeoning career, with live dates that commence in May and culminate in a perf0rmance slot on the prestigious Vans Warped Tour in the […]