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OLEANDER RETURNS WITH FOURTH ALBUM, ‘SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL,’ APRIL 16

OLEANDER RETURNS WITH FOURTH ALBUM, ‘SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL,’ APRIL 16

OLEANDER RETURNS WITH FOURTH ALBUM, ‘SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL,’ APRIL 16  March 26, 2013 — Even with an 8-year break between projects, OLEANDER never broke up, says bassist Doug Eldridge.   “We said, ‘Let’s sit back for a while and enjoy life.’”  That they did, and now they’re returning with their fourth album, SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, due April 16 on RE_IGNITE Records via Kobalt Label Services.  […]

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Alice In Chains announce new album ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here’

Alice In Chains announce new album ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here’

Alice In Chains have announced a May 24th release for highly anticipated new album‘THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE’. Those who can’t wait that long to hear new music can receive an instant download of new single “Stone” by pre-ordering the album on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BuyAIC The band, who grace the cover of this month’s Revolver  magazine in the US, will perform“Stone” April 10th on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”  “Stone” follows the album’s hugely […]

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Fall Out Boy – The Metro Theatre, Sydney – March 25, 2013

Fall Out Boy – The Metro Theatre, Sydney – March 25, 2013

It’s been four years since Fall Out Boy have been in Australia and just over three since the band went on a hiatus, but now Fall Out Boy are back and in Australia on a whirlwind promotional tour to promote their forthcoming album ‘Save Rock and Roll’ and tonight, we’ll see if they can in fact do just that… Now […]

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PRIMAL SCREAM set to release ‘More Light’ on May 10th

PRIMAL SCREAM set to release ‘More Light’ on May 10th

After debuting new track ‘2013’, Primal Scream return May 10th with one of the year’s most eagerly awaited albums; ‘More Light’, out on the band’s own First International label through Ignition Records / Inertia. An adventurous, 13-track collection of new songs – and the band’s first LP in five years – ‘More Light’ was written by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes […]

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Introducing The Dead Daisies: Australian Rock ‘Super Group’

Introducing The Dead Daisies: Australian Rock ‘Super Group’

The Dead Daisies take you to a time when you didn’t have a care in the world – remember the 70’s and the abundantly musical 80’s, there wasn’t a week that went by when you didn’t go and see a live band.  Bad Company, Free, Deep Purple and The Faces molded our musical foundation with big choruses, powerful melodies and […]

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Buckcherry announce Melbourne show at The Espy…on sale now!

Buckcherry announce Melbourne show at The Espy…on sale now!

KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment Presents: Buckcherry, Richie Ramone & The Art THURSDAY 18 APRIL, THE ESPY MELBOURNE !!!ON SALE NOW!!! KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment present for one night only in Melbourne Buckcherry, Richie Ramone & The Art. In a one-off show that offers salvation for all Melbourne disciples of rock, Buckcherry, Richie Ramone and The Art team up for a triple bill that […]

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Classic rock magazine debuts Black Star Riders new single ‘Bound For Glory’

Classic rock magazine debuts Black Star Riders new single ‘Bound For Glory’

2013-03-20 01:00 – BLACK STAR RIDERS, the new band featuring THIN LIZZY members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper, Megadeth), have announced All Hell Breaks Loose as the title of their debut album on Nuclear Blast Entertainment, which will be released in Europe on the 24th May 2013. You can […]

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Avantasia – ‘Sleepwalking’ single and video available now!

Avantasia – ‘Sleepwalking’ single and video available now!

2013-03-22 02:00 – Today is the beginning of a new era in the world of AVANTASIA: The new single “Sleepwalking” has hit the online stores (iTunes, Amazon, etc) Order here: http://bit.ly/avantasiasleepwalking   The video was shot in a magical forest in Germany on a snowy winter‘s night. Tobias comments: “It was far below freezing. And there we were, standing in the […]

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Ronnie Atkins of Pretty Maids

Ronnie Atkins of Pretty Maids

For over 30 years now, Danish rockers Pretty Maids have been at the forefront of European hard rock.  Back in 1987, they released their absolute classic album Future World and following on from their 2010 release Pandemonium, founding members Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer and co. deliver another slab of crushing melodic rock with new album Motherland.  All the trademark […]

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Enslaved announce Australian Winter Rite Tour…

Enslaved announce Australian Winter Rite Tour…

Enslaved ‘Australian Winter Rite Tour 2013’ With special guests Rise of Avernus Thursday 13th  June: Rosemount Hotel – Perth WA Friday 14th  June: The Hi-Fi – Melbourne VIC Saturday 15th  June: The Manning Bar – Sydney NSW Sunday 16th  June: The Hi-Fi – Brisbane QLD After spending over two decades amassing a striking collection of releases, Norwegian progressive black metal […]

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Children of Bodom announce new album title ‘Halo Of Blood’

Children of Bodom announce new album title ‘Halo Of Blood’

2013-03-18 22:00 – Finnish metal superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM have named their 8th studio album “Halo Of Blood” and have unveiled the album artwork.  Coverart was created this time by Sami Saramäki (Follow The Reaper, Are You Dead Yet?, Hate Crew Deathroll). Mastermind Alexi Laiho commented: “Halo Of Blood is the 8th studio album from Children Of Bodom and believe it […]

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The Poodles announce new album Tour De Force, out May 17th!

The Poodles announce new album Tour De Force, out May 17th!

Watch out for the unruly dogs coming from Sweden ! The Poodles are ready to rock the house with their new album “Tour de Force” out in may on Frontiers ! Frontiers Records is excited to announce the anticipated return of THE POODLES with the release of the band’s fifth album “Tour de Force” on May 17th in Europe and May 22nd in North America. “Tour […]

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Love Lust Faith + Dreams – The new album from Thirty Seconds To Mars set for May 17 release

Love Lust Faith + Dreams – The new album from Thirty Seconds To Mars set for May 17 release

Love Lust Faith + Dreams – THE NEW ALBUM FROM THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS SET FOR MAY 17 RELEASE New Single “Up In The Air” Premieres Today In Space And On Radio Worldwide “Up In The Air” Set For Global Release On March 20 As Album Pre-Order Goes Live  Love Lust Faith + Dreams, the new album from Thirty Seconds […]

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Kamelot: Announce Australian Tour for June

Kamelot: Announce Australian Tour for June

Having never visited our shores before, the announcement of a KAMELOT Australian tour is bound to excite hordes of melodic metal fans across the country! KAMELOT’s style has been described as a blend of melodic, progressive and gothic metal interwoven with classical elements that defines a genre all their own.  With a new album ‘Silverthorn’ released late last year and […]

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The Snowdroppers

The Snowdroppers

From Bio: Three and half years since their debut long player Too Late To Pray heralded the arrival of a charismatic new talent The Snowdroppers announce the release of their second album Moving Out Of Eden on March 22nd (FOUR | FOUR). Whilst their debut was naturally an extension of the band’s swampy blues-rock influences, Moving Out of Eden marks […]

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Travis Stever of Coheed and Cambria

Travis Stever of Coheed and Cambria

“I consider Coheed to be a rolling ball in a way, and every album has rolled through and collected the parts of that album, the experimenting and this and that and then we just rolled into what Afterman is. I think if I had to choose a record that represents that band, and I know most musicians would say this, […]

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Reverend Horton Heat Australian Tour 2013

Reverend Horton Heat Australian Tour 2013

Principal Entertainment presents the return of Texas psychobilly legends The Reverend Horton Heat, live in Australia in 2013. The Reverend returns with his white hot band to deliver the good word from the bible of high-octane rock ‘n’ roll for his Australian disciples this May. Long held as the last true masters of country punk laden rockabilly, The Reverend Horton […]

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Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys

Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys

“As a matter of fact I think the secret to our success is never looking to new, modern music because we’re never trying to change with the times or even from an engineering, sound standpoint, say well all the current albums sound like this. I think we want to sound as old and out dated as possible, that usually means […]

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Frank Turner

Frank Turner

“I wanted to make a record that sort of was a little bit more ambitious sonically, a big kind of guiding record for me was Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ which has always been one of my favourite records, but I was really pushing for that sort of vibe this time around.” After hitting the studio for the best part of 2012, recording […]

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Glenn Hughes Australian tour announced

Glenn Hughes Australian tour announced

Hot on the heels of his one-off performance at the Stone Festival as part of super group ‘Kings of Chaos’, legendary voice of rock Glenn Hughes will be performing 3 special solo shows up and down the East Coast in late April. Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane audiences will have the fortune of seeing Glenn perform a spectacular 2 set career […]

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SENSES FAIL to release new album ‘RENACER’ March 29th via 3Wise Records

SENSES FAIL to release new album ‘RENACER’ March 29th via 3Wise Records

SENSES FAIL will release their fifth full-length studio album entitled RENACER (ray-nah-serr) on March 29, 2013 on 3Wise Records.  Renacer was recorded in Los Angeles, California at both The Airport Studio and Red Bull Studio with producer Shaun Lopez (Far, Deftones) at the helm. LISTEN TO FIRST TRACKS ‘MI AMOR’ & ‘THE PATH’ HERE “We celebrated our 10 year anniversary […]

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HEROES FOR HIRE Announce May Australian Tour

HEROES FOR HIRE Announce May Australian Tour

Slave New World Group & Fetch Agency present HEROES FOR HIRE With Guests Nine Sons Of Dan & Forever Ends Here Sydney’s Heroes For Hire are hitting the road this May for a series of all ages shows with good friends Nine Sons Of Dan and Forever Ends Here along the east coast. These shows will be among the first […]

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FIDLAR

FIDLAR

“I think our lives shows are really based on that we just play really hard, it’s a lot of energy. Every show is 100% of us and I don’t know how it comes off actually.” From Bio: When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually having this exchange with one of them. […]

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Thy Art Is Murder & Cattle Decapitation (US) Australian tour announced!

Thy Art Is Murder & Cattle Decapitation (US) Australian tour announced!

THY ART IS MURDER AND CATTLE DECAPITATION AUSTRALIAN TOUR ANNOUNCED! Hot on the heels of their nomination in the Best New Band category at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in the UK, Western Sydney’s Thy Art Is Murder are proud to bring the hate home for their much anticipated headline tour in support of last year’s boundary smashing full […]

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Mötley Crüe – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

Mötley Crüe – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

Date: Sunday 10 March 2013 Venue: Allphones Arena, Sydney Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer Check out our review of the entire night’s show HERE  

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KISS – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

KISS – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

Date: Sunday 10 March 2013 Venue: Allphones Arena, Sydney Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee Check out the full galleries at facebook.com/GwendolynLeePhotography or flickr.com/photos/GwendolynPhotography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer Check out our review of the entire night’s show HERE

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Thin Lizzy & Diva Demolition – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

Thin Lizzy & Diva Demolition – Allphones Arena, Sydney – March 10, 2013

Date: Sunday 10 March 2013 Venue: Allphones Arena, Sydney Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee Check out the full galleries at facebook.com/GwendolynLeePhotography or flickr.com/photos/GwendolynPhotography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer Check out our review of the entire night’s show HERE  

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Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive

Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive

“We don’t get big heads about anything, I mean being Aussies it’s our humour to cut each other down, so we really appreciate it and we’re hugely grateful for everything and for everyone’s support worldwide but I think we’ve got a really high bar set for ourselves so we’re always working towards something.” From Press Release: After coming back off […]

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Andrew McKeag of The Presidents Of The United States Of America

Andrew McKeag of The Presidents Of The United States Of America

“I didn’t know that it was just a rock and roll band with some clever, silly lyrics too, but just a rock and roll band and then I started playing with them and they’re just so tight without ever really discussing being tight. It’s not like we practise all the time, it’s just that everybody’s ears are open and you’re […]

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Melodic rock fans, get ready for Summers in 2013….

Melodic rock fans, get ready for Summers in 2013….

UK melodic rockers Summers are VERY pleased to announce the release of our debut album 364 on Tuesday, April 2nd 2013. Of the album they say, “we’re very proud of the album, and are excited for you to hear and see all the hard work that has been put into its completion. We know you’ve waited a long time for this day! Finally, you’ll […]

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