FANS TO PARTICIPATE IN A UNIQUE VIRTUAL EVENT. BROADCAST LIVE IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL THEATER, THE EVENT INLCUDES AN INTIMATE LIVE PERFORMANCE, PREVIEW OF THE UPCOMING LIVE TOUR FILM, SNEAK PEEK AT THE MARS DOCUMENTARY ‘ARTIFACT’ AND AN INTERACTIVE Thirty Seconds To Mars have announced that they are currently working on their 4th studio album, the follow-up to 2009’s global […]

The big question is not ‘why pay tribute to Rick Springfield?’, but rather ‘why did it take so long for someone to do so?’ And when you consider some of the many other tribute albums that have hit the market in recent years, and with Rick’s record of 17 Top 40 hits, it is a confounding question indeed. Thankfully all has been put right […]

PBS 106.7 FM, Radio Festival 2012, May 14 – 27 BE OUR HERO … with great radio comes great responsibility… It’s 2012 and Melbourne’s airwaves are in danger of being suffocated by the bland oppressive miasma of mainstream radio. Every day music loving citizens of this city are subjected to playlisted, formulaic pop pulp, constant ad breaks, and loud, overbearing […]

THE GHOST INSIDE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM Get What You Give Out June 22nd in Australia. Produced By Jeremy Mckinnon of A Day To Remember California’s most passionate and articulate exponents of hardcore will release their  exceptional third album, Get What You Give on June 22nd. The album, produced by Jeremy Mckinnon of A Day To Remember, embraces The Ghost Inside’s  powerful and affecting sound that […]

SET YOUR GOALS RELEASE NEW TRACKS PRODUCED BY CHAD GILBERT OF NEW FOUND GLORY New Songs Available For Purchase / Streaming Now Bay Area melodic pop punk heroes, Set Your Goals have released two brand new songs “Only Right Now” and “I’ll Walk It Off”. Produced by Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory, the new songs offer fans a glimpse of what’s to […]

OFFICIALLY UNLEASH THE BRAND NEW VIDEO LET YOU GO (Single available digitally) Following the success of the bands brand new single LET YOU GO, Melbourne band ZOOPHYTE officially unleash the stunning new video for the single. Filmed on the Victorian coastline by Hayden Guppy and Miles Bence, the songs soaring vocal hooks, catchy melody and uplifting guitar dynamics is the first taster from the band’s […]

Resist The Thought Announce Debut Album & Tour ‘Sovereignty’ set for release May 18 via Skull & Bones Records/Shock Entertainment Since 2007, Sydney’s Resist The Thought have been carefully engraving their name into the Australian metal scene. Thanks to a relentless touring ethos which found them forever on the road and sharing stages with the likes of Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain […]

“AUSTRALIAN TORTURE” OCTOBER 2012 presented by Soundworks Touring After three long torturous years, death metals titanic kings, CANNIBAL CORPSE, return to Australia for a sarcophagic frenzy of sordid and demented proportions! Their new ceaselessly hostile album release, TORTURE, proves that when it comes to combining unrestrained maliciousness, involved song writing and technical precision they still have no equal. The twelfth […]

The spotlights are on: on Friday 20th April, GOTTHARD released the first single from the album “Firebirth”, out on 1st. June. The single, with the name “Starlight” will appear in two versions, a rock and an acoustic variation. “Starlight” is the virtual shooting star of album song writing: the song was one of the first that the band wrote together […]

Three Decades Later… The Legacy Continues! ASIA RELEASE NEW STUDIO ALBUM “XXX” WITH ORIGINAL LINE-UP: GEOFF DOWNES, STEVE HOWE, CARL PALMER & JOHN WETTON BRITISH SUPERGROUP CELEBRATES 30th ANNIVERSARY WITH UK TOUR AND 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF DEBUT ALBUM Thirty years after its eponymous debut album, ASIA ascended to the top of the Billboard Top 100 chart (where it remained No.1 for […]

Remember Malice In Wonderland? The Norwegian rock band burst onto the Scandinavian rock scene with their self titled debut album in 2005. Led by hit single Lucifer’s Town the band was quickly labelled as one of the most promising underground rock acts and their fan base grew quickly with fan clubs and supporters in every corner of the world. The […]

The Exploited Australia – New Zealand tour cancelled / To be rescheduled. Unfortunately The Exploited tour in Aust-NZ is cancelled due to a very serious family situation of the bass player. Rob has travelled today back to Ireland to stay with his family for the next few weeks and therefore The Exploited is not able to make tour. The band is […]

“Justin really got himself together and now he’s fighting fit and a better guitarist and singer and performer than he ever was, even back then, it’s just great to be and I’m really privileged to be back with them.” The Darkness, have possibly the best biography out there at the moment: “There have been two albums. There has been a […]

Harakiri, the new studio album from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is set to be released July 6 on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. Look for a teaser video with a snippet of the first single, Figure It Out, on Serj’s website later this week. Harakiri, a Japanese word meaning ritualistic suicide, is the follow up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Imperfect […]

Formed back in 1987 by former Waysted vocalist Danny Vaughn ; Brooke St. James (guitar), Jimi Kennedy (bass), and Michael Clayton (drums), Tyketto and their classic albums Don’t Come Easy and Strength In Numbers have forged the band a reputation over 20 plus years, that is still as strong as ever in 2012.  Since getting back as a touring entity […]

Monster Energy, Atticus Clothing, Propertyofzack.com and Blunt Magazine present…  HEROES FOR HIRE The “Just Shoe It” Tour with special guests LUCA BRASI and CARRY ME HOME HEROES FOR HIRE kicked off 2012 with a bang, touring nationally on the Soundwave Festival (alongside Slipknot, A Day To Remember, The Used, You Me At Six and many more) and playing to their biggest crowds to date. The group […]

“You can’t really say oh this band is really popular in Australia because they’ve sold a lot of albums, because you just don’t know what sales are worth anymore.  We’ve always done very well, we’ve never been a multi-million selling band but we’ve always done very well on the live circuit.” Swedish melodic death metal trash rockers Arch Enemy are […]

Welcome to the wettest night in possibly the last 100 years in Sydney which sees an entirely drenched crowd filling the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney with definite plans to see the legendary Cold Chisel tonight. Trust me, not even the flame trees can dry these dripping punters… (I know, bad pun, but they get better.) Lanie Lane was our support […]

The Strums Set Sail For New National Tour The Strums are getting ready to make play their way around the country by land and by sea in support of their second single Gimme Some Hope and you can check out the new video right here exclusively at May The Rock Be With You before anyone else!  Let us and the […]

Some bands talk their way into opportunities or use algorithms to feign blog hype.  Others drag themselves up by the teeth. Dubbed by The Daily Telegraph’s Kathy McCabe as “heirs apparent to The Living End”, electrified rock n rollers King Cannons are currently in the throws of launching their career in Europe via a 17 date tour spanning across Germany, […]

Formed in Malmo, Sweden back in 2002, Crazy Lixx have undoubtedly been one of the bands leading the charge in putting the Swedish “sleaze/hard rock” scene on the map worldwide.  Following on from the debut release Loud Minority, the bands second release New Religion saw Crazy Lixx come out with some massive anthemic rock.  Unfortunately however, one thing that has […]

Now where the hell did De La Cruz come from?  Well Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia for starters…  Seemingly blazing onto the local scene late last year (2011) with their free downloadable EP clocking up over 50,000 downloads worldwide (click here to get your copy http://www.DeLaCruzOfficial.com/Music.html), things have literally exploded for the band.  Fast forward a few months and the band […]

Date: Thursday 20 April 2012 Venue: Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia Photos by: Lens Of Rock (www.lensofrock.com) Check out the full live gallery right here… Check out our feature on the new Cold Chisel album ‘No Plans’…

Hot on the heels of a sold-out tour of Australia and New Zealand, Xavier Rudd is proud to announce the release of his highly-anticipated seventh studio album, Spirit Bird. Already producing his highest-selling single to date with the beautiful Follow The Sun; Spirit Bird is Xavier’s deepest and most explorative album – finding the ever socially-conscience Rudd delving into his […]

Motion City Soundtrack Return Home to Epitaph to Release New Album Go – out June 15 Motion City Soundtrack return home to their long-time label Epitaph to release their fifth full-length studio album Go on June 15, 2012.  The new album is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed My Dinosaur Life and was recorded over an extended period of time […]

Official Bio: “My Dynamite is more than just another Rock n Roll band.  My Dynamite is akin to a monolithic orb of white light and electric energy.  A congregation of highly tuned frequencies that weave and dance across your inner mind.  A living temple of radiant power.  A vehicle, for the Shining Ones to manifest into your astral plane, to […]

In 25 words or less: “This is the best album that The Black Crowes never released and for that, I am thankful that I now have a follow up to Shake Your Money Maker.” Being Melbourne based myself, I’m somewhat shamed to say that I’ve only been witness to one My Dynamite live performance, in what must be their 3 […]

Pantera Honours The 20th Anniversary Of Vulgar Display Of Power – With Two-Disc Deluxe Edition Featuring Previously Lost Studio Recording “Piss” and Unreleased Live Video From The 1992 Monsters Of Rock Concert In Italy – CD/DVD Set Available May 18 From Warner Music February 25 marked the 20-year anniversary for Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, a landmark album widely acknowledged […]

Twin rockers and honourary Aussies, Joel and Benji Madden, are set to announce an album under the moniker The Madden Brothers, slated for release later this year. The Maddens are in the studio recording music for the new project, which sees them work with iconic producer and sometime hip hop star Pharrell Williams. Good Charlotte co-frontman, Joel Madden, has of […]

T h i s   v i d e o   K I L L E D   t h e   r a d i o   s t a r Psych-rock prodigies Stonefield have taken a sharp turn at the dark end of the street with a revolutionary new interactive clip for their latest single ‘Bad Reality’.  Taking inspiration from provocative films such as Todd Solondz’s Palindromes the Findlay sisters play […]