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 […]

Official Bio: “If Love Cream were to be described in one word it would be “LoveCream”. Love Cream come from the cozy eastern suburbs of Adelaide and into your ears. They are at the forefront of the Sex Rock musical genre. Having played the 2012 Adelaide Big Day Out in February and subsequently amassing a large and ever-growing cult following, […]

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 […]

From Official Bio: HEART ATTACK is a Hard ‘n’ Heavy band from Greece dedicated to 80’s-early 90’s sound delivering dynamic but also melodic songs straight from the heart for those who care…They were formed back in the dawn of 2010 by singer George Drimilis (ex-Raging Storm) and Stergios Ntikos on drums. The line-up was completed when ?ichael T. (keyboards), George […]

“We’re old school and keepin’ it real and every act on Long Way To The Top has come from those beginnings, where you had to actually be able to perform and play.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s greatest ever rock legends are set to soon take to the stage for the […]

“There are so many great artists and that’s what’s so great about this show and why it’s so important, it will possibly be the last time a lot of us will get to perform together.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s greatest ever rock legends are set to soon take to the […]

“It’s going to be great to get out in front of a few thousand people and perform, which is always nice.  The main thing about the whole thing is getting together again with colleagues and compadres that I’ve known and loved for a number of years.” In what promises to be a series of truly memorable performances, some of Australia’s […]

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 […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Entertainment Australia, in promotion of his new album The Story Of Light, we  recently had the opportunity to submit a bunch of interview questions to Steve Vai, who answered them via the video answers which now appear in the exclusive interview below. The Story Of Light continues on from where Vai’s most recent studio release, 2005’s […]

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 […]

Muse is one of those bands that are hard to categorise.  Simple as that and you know they are… are they rock?  Are they opera?  Are they electro?  Yeah, I know right?  So I’m calling Muse a new genre of music called Electrockera.  Here was have ‘The 2nd Law’ which is the their sixth as a band, each previous have […]

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 […]

“We’re trying to make our weak points stronger, so we worked harder on becoming a melodic rock band and not only a melodic rock band but a good one, even a great one as well, we wanted to make the songs really, really great as I think we’ve got the songs in us.” Seventeen years as a band and with […]

In summary – “If you think you know Grinspoon, you probably don’t. This new album is fresh, it’s rockin’ and it’s relevant.” When you’ve been a band for seventeen years, it must be tough to keep yourself motivated, to come up with something fresh, yes many bands go through the ‘what do I want to be today?’ phase, but Australian […]

UK rockers Jettblack first came onto my radar back in 2010 with the cracking song Two Hot Girls that came from debut album Get Your Hands Dirty.  Sometimes not much more needs to be said to describe a band than simply ROCK and that’s just definitely the case when it comes to Jettblack.  With influences stated as being “anything up […]

I remember seeing The Script back in 2008 when they came to Sydney on a promo tour in support of their debut album, playing in a small club to an attentive yet small crowd, just seeing them then you knew these guys had it. Now four years on and two albums and a couple of visits back since the debut […]

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 […]