KISS and Mötley Crüe. On the same stage. On the same night. It‘s the news Australian fans have been waiting for with the spectacle of all spectacles announced today, KISS with very special guests Mötley Crüe will tour Australia in March 2013. Presented by McManus Entertainment, the summer’s biggest, baddest rock tour will hit Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Mackay and […]

Official Biography: 2012 has been a busy year for Sydney 4-piece Battleships. Having received widespread acclaim for their debut single ‘In Retrospect’, Battleships delivers their captivating new single ‘Your Words’. Their debut single ‘In Retrospect’ landed on high rotation on Triple J, as well as receiving regular play on community-based and independent radio nation-wide. Battleships are also receiving international attention […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, they’ve given us five copies of the first Aerosmith album of all new material in eleven years ‘Music From Another Dimension’ to give to you, our ever loving, ever hungry for music, MTRBWY readers… But first, make sure you read our interview with Joey Kramer HERE as we need you to […]

THE BRONX (IV), THE FIRST ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS FROM THE LOS ANGELES-BASED PUNK BAND, SET FOR RELEASE IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ON FEBRUARY 8, 2013 through Shock Records “Ribcage,” A track from the upcoming album, is out today On 7” Vinyl and as a download The Bronx are back with The Bronx (IV), the first album in five years from […]

MONKS OF MELLONWAH ANNOUNCE MINI U.S TOUR, AWARD NOMINATION AND NEW FULL-LENGTH ALBUM Australian alternative rock group Monks of Mellonwah have announced that they will be travelling to the U.S.A for a 2nd time to perform at the 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards, (where the band has received 3 award nominations including ‘Best International Artist’), tour the California and New […]

“You know I think bands just have a tendency to get a little stagnate when they’ve been going for a little while and obviously the massive shake up for all of us about a year ago, so I think it just pushed everybody together and made us focus on how much we love music and how big a part of […]

INXS ….. THE TOURING ENDS ….. THE MUSIC LIVES ON Perth, Western Australia, November 11: It ended fittingly where it began 35 years ago, in Perth, when INXS drummer Jon Farriss declared to a 15,000+ capacity house on the opening weekend of the brand new Perth Arena and the final night of the Matchbox Twenty / INXS Australian tour that […]

In 25 words or less: Straight ahead, high octane rock n’ roll with massive hooks, sing-along choruses and blazing guitar solo’s, you know, all the fun, essential stuff, that’s what I’ve come to expect from Torpedohead. At May The Rock Be With You we take great pride in uncovering awesome rock from all corners of the globe to share with you, […]

We love having the opportunity of seeing a new band, well, new to us, when at a gig and think, OK, wow… That happened when at the Everclear gig in Sydney and when ‘Ashes’ took the stage.  A great sound, great presence and they clearly knew what they were doing.  So it was a no brainer that we wanted to […]

Thanks to our good friends at Universal Music Australia, they’ve given us five copies of the first Soundgarden album of all new material in sixteen years ‘King Animal’ to give to you, our ever loving, ever hungry for music, MTRBWY readers… You can read what we thought of ‘King Animal’ here before entering, or you can just make up your […]

In summary: “This to me is what an album is about, it takes you back to a time and a feeling, and it was kinda cool.” Here we have a band that have had for far too many years between drinks, ‘King Animal’ is the first album from Soundgarden in get this, sixteen years!  This album sees the Seattle Grunge […]

Whilst music has always been a lifelong passion of NRL legend Eric Grothe Jnr, retiring from the NRL at the end of 2010 allowed full devotion to his band Shinobi which he fronts as vocalist and guitarist.  The songs that he had been progressively writing over the course of the last 12 or so years now finally get their moment […]

Paul Simon to headline Bluesfest on Easter Monday! Today Bluesfest, Australia’s multi award winning Festival held over the long Easter Weekend (March 28 to April 1) treats its Audience and all Music lovers across the country to a massive Easter Monday surprise. Yes, it’s time to take a breath and sit down!! Paul Simon, multi-award and 13 time Grammy winner, […]

Noisecreep premieres ‘Saturday Night,’ the  first song from Drowning Pool’s upcoming album to be released this winter on Eleven Seven Music.  “The question I am most often asked is ‘What’s life on tour like?’ This song is my best description of a typical day on the road,” Drowning Pool bassist Stevie Benton tells Noisecreep about “Saturday Night.” Drowning Pool announced this summer that […]

THE ANGELS – TAKE IT TO THE STREETS TOUR 2013 “I thought it’d take a lot longer for our new songs to get as big a reaction live as some of our classics,” says The Angels rhythm guitarist John Brewster. “But we’ve got young fans at our shows now who only know The Angels from hearing new songs like Waiting […]

PUSCIFER is an exploit that could only come from the mind of Maynard James Keenan.  PUSCIFER’s latest album ‘Conditions of My Parole’ was recorded amidst the wine barrels at Maynard’s Caduceus Cellars. It was the culmination of a three year period that introduced PUSCIFER to music fans and challenged the concept of what a band can be. Kerrang! exclaimed “whereas […]

Well f$%k me swinging, if you will pardon my French, where the friggin’ hell did these guys come from?  Ok, matter of factly Hotel Diablo are from Hollywood, but hitting you smack between the eyes with a blazing red album cover, these guys have delivered one hell of a killer hard rock record from seemingly out of nowhere.  But if […]

In 25 words or less: “a powerful assault of anthemic modern rock meets metal, high on blistering guitar solos, massive choruses, intricate arrangements and topped off with a quality sound/production that belies their independent status.” Whilst the name Moments Apart may be a new entity in the Melbourne music scene, the members thereof will certainly not be new to those […]

CONVERGE UPS THE ANTE WITH BEST NEW MUSIC All We Love We Leave Behind Receives Acclaimed Reviews from Press Heavy music’s most established and innovative band, Converge will return to Australia in February 2013. Considered one of the most intense, important, and influential metal/hardcore bands of all time, the band’s latest album “All We Love We Leave Behind “ is the most integral album […]

News just in via: www.mcmanusentertainment.com “We know you’ve been waiting…….. And now we can confirm, KISS and Mötley Crüe are coming! It was announced this afternoon that KISS and Mötley Crüe will perform at the 2013 Clipsal 500 Adelaide on Sunday March 3 in the biggest concert the event has ever staged. The full itinerary for the summer’s biggest, baddest rock tour […]

  To those of you in the NRL obsessed states, to answer what I am sure is your obvious question – yes the Eric Grothe Jnr you are about to read about, is indeed the same person with a career of over 10 years in the NRL, mostly with the Parramatta Eels. Whilst music has always been a lifelong passion, […]

If there’s one thing you can expect from Gay Paris – the “dirty f*cking rock band from Sydney – it’s expect the unexpected.  So it came as no real surprise when front man WH aka Wailin’ H Monks called in whilst sitting in a park, bathed in sunshine, covered in ants…  The reason for the call, well there’s lots happening […]

NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE – ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR There have been a few whispers lately…the words ‘Neil Young’ and ‘Crazy Horse’, have been coupled tantalisingly with the word ‘tour’.  In the know fans have seen news about shows overseas and waited with growing anticipation for the official word. So it is with no small amount of delight […]

“We’re a lot more focused metal band now (laughs) well, we’ve always been a metal band despite what people say, if they want to tag us then fair enough, but we’ve always been a metal band and always will be.” From album press release: Cradle of Filth formed in Suffolk in 1991 and after a string of demo recordings released […]

True North Delivers Maximum Intensity with Stripped Down Sound Preeminent punk band Bad Religion will release their new album True North this January 25th on Epitaph Records. In a world still brimming with rampant anti-intellectualism, inequality and oppression, the band’s signature brand of sonically charged humanist dissent seems as relevant as ever. On their newest record, the storied band deliberately revisits and refines the powerful and […]

Already revealed to be representing the folk punk genre on the epic  2013 Byron Bay Bluesfest lineup, Dropkick Murphys and Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls will team up and take to the road next March/April, bringing with them Californian punks, Swingin’ Utters. Dropkick Murphys will come out swinging on the back of their new album SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD, due out […]

It’s the first time in over six years that Mike Tramp has taken the stage in Australia for a solo concert. In that time, Tramp has toured Europe consistently, released 3 albums and is now bringing his one man, one guitar, story teller-styled show to Australia. Over almost 3 hours, Mike will take his fans on a journey from his […]

KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment Present: Presidents Of The United States Of America Australia 2013 KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment are excited to present 90’s pop rock legends The Presidents Of The United States of America live in Australia in 2013 playing their classic, 5 x platinum, self-titled debut album in its entirety along with all their greatest hits. In 1995 Seattle […]

“I think that we’re at a point in our lives now that we’re old enough to realise that by virtue of the five of us staying together and continuing to do what we do, there’s something really special there and we’ve finally gotten that and decided that there really isn’t too much that we should let get in the way […]

News just in from www.crashdiet.org “The brand new DVD is finally on it’s way! It’s called “Shattered Glass And Broken Bones – Three Years Of Generation Wild” and we’re really damn proud of it! I´ve been working my ass off on this “live & behind the scenes” film together with Bear Productions for the past 2 years or so and […]