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 […]

“From seriously the most dependable artist in my entire collection, I applaud Richard Marx for yet another exceptional release.” Whilst this observation hasn’t been completely lost on me over the years, sitting down to write this review, I was reminded that when it comes to albums I’ve owned, Marx’s bazillion selling Repeat Offender album would sit somewhere amongst the first 10 […]

“Dominated by melodic rock right to the very end, this is the album that many Hardline fans have most likely been waiting for since Double Eclipse.” Whilst the lineup of Hardline has changed much over the course of the bands 20 odd year history and 4 albums, there has been one constant – the unmistakable vocals of Johnny Gioeli, surely […]

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. […]

Date: 31 May 2012 Venue: Corner Hotel, Melbourne, Australia Photo’s by: Inside Edge Photography www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography Click here to check out the full photo gallery…

CHILDREN COLLIDE’S anticipated MONUMENT TOUR is kicking into the next gear this week, as national supports are announced and the band release an online video for album track SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. Presented by triple j, Channel [V] and Music Feeds THE MONUMENT TOUR will take in all Australian capital cities plus a bunch of regional centres, one of Children Collide’s most lengthy tours to date and […]

Official press release: “Critically acclaimed English troubadour Daniel Pearson trades in timeless and melodic songs that fuse the dynamics of alternative rock to the heart-on sleeve honesty of classic singer-songwriters, sung with a unique voice that’s equal parts confidence and vulnerability. Growing up in a small Yorkshire town he fell in love with both the 90s alt.rock of The Lemonheads, […]

“I can’t explain why it only took the opening 10 seconds of Wishing Well for Daniel Pearson to have me completely hooked, but it did.” Isn’t music just a wonderful thing, or more specifically, aren’t our own personal reactions to music an even more wonderful thing?  Like I often do, do you often sit and wonder why sometimes your ears and […]

Date: 26 May 2012 Venue: The Hi Fi Bar, Sydney, Australia Photo’s by: Inside Edge Photography www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography Click here to check out the full photo gallery…

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 […]

The Delta Riggs have been kicking around now for the best part of around 5 years or so, and on this, their latest EP, this really shows, for this is one heck of a great rock ‘n’ roll release from one very tight, highly capable band.  With fellow bands like Stonefield and My Dynamite currently blazing the trail of Aussie […]

Melbourne four piece The Hiding have recently released their debut EP, which given the comparative success of the anthemic, textured style of pop rock that they play, it’s an EP with a potential massive reach not only here in Australia, but undoubtedly the USA.  Million Miles Away opens the EP with it’s boundless energy and electro rock tinges, whilst 6 […]

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 […]

TOUR RELEASE:  Melbourne’s death-hop masters, Over-Reactor are hitting the road to celebrate the release of their latest single Mouth Of The Ghetto. Mouth Of The Ghetto is also the title of their forthcoming album, due in the second half of 2012. Since recently releasing their first single and video, the band have received over 5,800 views on Youtube and had […]

“I think for me it’s the reaction and hearing the kids sing every night, it kind of makes everything we do worthwhile, and it gives you a lot of cool emotions when you’re on the road for so long and you’re in the studio for so long and when you actually see the result in some ways.” Back in Australia […]

In 25 words or less: “It is the music of H.E.A.T that provides the soundtrack for the utopian world that I, Scott A Smith, Esquire lives, here in 2012.” When I first discovered Swedish melodic rockers H.E.A.T back in 2008 on the back of their self titled, debut release, there was something so magical for me personally in what H.E.A.T […]

“It’s not a very cool thing today to really have saxophone on an album and we were like is it “legal” to have a saxophone on the album, but me and Dave love stuff like Michael Bolton so we were like we have to have saxophone on this song.” When I first discovered Swedish melodic rockers H.E.A.T back in 2008 […]

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 […]

In 25 words or less:  Great songs, perfect harmonies, and an overall well-made modern country rock record. You should know by now that we cover a wide range of Rock music here at May The Rock Be With You, and one of my personal favourite genres is the new breed of ‘Country Rock’. Gone are the days of the traditional […]

Originating back in 2004, Melbourne’s 4ARM have taken all before them in 2012.  Having released new album Submission For Liberty worldwide, the response it has garnered has elevated the band to the status of one of the most exciting thrash bands in the world today.  On June 9th the band will be hitting the stage at one of the most […]

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 […]