Former EUROPE guitarist Kee Marcello has just released his controversial autobiography, “The Rock Star God Forgot”, in Sweden on October 19. Marcello just made headlines in the biggest Swedish newspaper with a painfully honest interview about the memoir, which is said to be “the first sex, drugs and rock and roll book ever written by a Swede. “The Rock Star God Forgot” […]

Package Includes Two Mini-Documentaries That Give Viewers A Rare And Intimate Look At The Canadian Duo’s Lives, Plus DVD and CD Of Live Concert Recorded in Vancouver Beloved Canadian pop-rock icons Tegan and Sara will release a very special DVD/CD package, entitled Get Along, on Warner Bros. Records on November 18th, 2011. Get Along is a collection of three films and a live album […]

Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of the anticipated new BEGGARS & THIEVES album entitled We Are the Brokenhearted on November 29th in North America and December 2nd in Europe. Beggars & Thieves debuted on Atlantic Records in 1990 with their self-titled album, a record that was critically acclaimed with the first single appearing in the top 40 Billboard Magazine Album Rock […]

Sydney music fans, we know it’s only a few days away but we’ve just been given 3 double passes to see a showcase by Tim Chaisson in Sydney on Wednesday night at Kit & Kaboodle in Kings Cross.  This will be a very special, rare opportunity to see Tim showcase music from his newest album ‘Broken Hearted Beat’ to a […]

“We are very aware of expressionism and its foundational role in music, and when we play shows we aim to express the emotions that make the songs.” The Devil Wears Prada in their six year career have released four albums, a DVD and an EP and have risen to the top of the Hardcore genre of music.   Their fourth, […]

The line up was already huge but lo and behold, a second announcement of bands for Soundwave 2012.  Joining the already amazing line up are the following bands: BAD RELIGION / STRUNG OUT / STAIND / WEDNESDAY 13 / UNEARTH / THE PRETTY RECKLESS / CATHEDRAL / SHADOWS FALL / TONIGHT ALIVE / MOTIONLESS IN WHITE / BREAK EVEN / […]

Multi-Platinum-selling hard rock band Disturbed will release its first ever B-sides collection, entitled The Lost Children, on November 11th on Reprise Records. The set includes a previously unreleased track, “Mine,” and “3,” which was released exclusively on the band’s website in April with all proceeds donated to the Damien Echols Defense Fund benefiting the West Memphis Three. A single from The […]

In 25 words or less: “Pop punks not dead”…this album proves it! With a history thus far spanning fourteen years and now seven albums, New Found Glory have certainly been one of the mainstays of pop punk and in 2011 with an uprising of young challengers to the pop punk throne, New Found Glory have hit back with 12 songs and […]

Jon Stevens is set to release his second album for the year TESTIFY! –a collection of songs including rare 60s soul tunes, plus new originals, injected with the same down-home ‘bluesy’ feel. TESTIFY! is a culmination of the many and varied musical influences that have been with him since his childhood. Growing up in a small town in New Zealand, the youngest […]

Western Australian traditional/power metallers Project X are offering a free download of the song ‘Last Man Standing’ in advance of the Halloween release of their second album “D Generation”. Project X features vocalist Matt Williams (Black Steel), drummer Richard Lovett (Glamnation), bassist Gareth Hughes (The Siren Tower, Graphic Fiction Heroes) and guitarists Jamie Page (Trilogy, Brian May, Black Steel, Black Alice), Sandy Calvezzi (Countdown), Leon […]

Back in 2010, Acey Slade, formerly of Murderdolls, Dope & Trashlight Vision fame and now current Joan Jett bass player, unleashed upon the world The Dark Party.  Cleverly bringing together and stretching the boundaries between both the rock and electronic genres, Acey himself described the release as ‘a non-hard rock album, for hard rock people’.  For me personally, The Dark […]

In 25 words or less: I couldn’t help but be mentally transported into some form of violent assault, where every guitar riff is just another slow and powerful bash to the head with a baseball bat. Lo! (yes there is a ! after the name, it’s not a typing error) originate from Sydney, Australia.  Just as does their music, Lo! have […]

Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Sunset Riot have spent the last few years forging their reputation as an explosive live act with an arsenal of big riffs and even bigger ambitions.  But unlike many who crash and burn, these ambitions in Sunset Riot’s case are matched with an ability to deliver some kick ass ROCK and a work ethic that has […]

Formed in Sweden in 2006, the mission of Grand Design is a simple one, to capture that big 80’s rock sound and songs…and that they certainly do!  Having released their first album Time Elevation in 2009, they captured the melodic rock world by storm and capped it off with an appearance at the iconic Firefest Festival in the UK. Now […]

From Bio:  With three solo albums under his belt and the independent musical gem ‘Broken Hearted Beat’ with his band Morning Fold, Chaisson is on a fast rise to dominating his genre. A quick glimpse of his achievements over the past two years reveals an enviable onslaught of accolades: a performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics, awards for Songwriter of […]

Today was the day that Shannon Noll releases his fourth album ‘A Million Suns’ and to celebrate this he is doing a run of what he’s calling preview shows in support of it.  He couldn’t have picked a better venue than that of The Basement in Sydney which tonight was packed to see Mr Noll.  More on him shortly… Supporting […]

“I just think that people are really hanging out for something that you can tap your feet to and relate to and get some kind of tingly feeling from, that’s what I love about music and there’s very little in new music that’s doing that for me at the moment so I’m trying to rectify that situation.” From Bio: The […]

Thanks to our good friends at RPM and New Empire we have two double passes to give away to the evening New Empire show in Melbourne on the 22nd October at the Royal Melbourne Hotel – this is an 18+ event.  This is your chance to check out an amazing band live for free, all you have to do is […]

In 25 words or less: ” If you like heavy, I mean really heavy music then you need to already have Dead Throne in your collection.” Wow. Not really knowing what to expect going in to this new album by The Devil Wears Prada I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a nice soothing dose of the fucking heaviest […]

In 25 words or less: “These guys need to get this heard, everywhere.” I love hearing about new bands that aren’t so new. In this case New Empire, see their name even tells me they’re new. But I digress. Symmetry is the bands newly released second album and wow! These guys need to get this heard, everywhere. This album has […]

“Over the past kind of five years everything’s been slowly moving up step by step and moving forward and the release of this new album has just taken everything to the next level.” From Bio:  If it was hard to ignore New Empire before, it’s impossible now. The runaway rock outfit have already clocked up a stellar 2011 with national […]

Davy Vain, as a singer, songwriter and performer is without doubt one of the most unique and captivating in rock n roll over the last 25 years.  This is no better illustrated than the regard Vain’s debut album No Respect is held today, some 20 odd years after it’s release, when many other albums released in that era have long, […]

Select Touring, Big Apachee, Street Press Australia and Sludge Factory proudly present The Damned Australian Tour 2012. Celebrating 35 years of living dead, UK gothic punk rockers, the Damned, make a triumphant return to Australia in January 2012. Lead by original members, guitarist/singer Captain Sensible and theatrical singer Dave Vanian, as well as long time members Monty Oxy Moron, Pinch […]

The Cranberries will released the new song “Show Me,” as a free download on Wednesday October 19th via the band’s official Facebook page located at  facebook.com/TheCranberries.  The track will be available from 10:00pm TONIGHT! “Show Me” is the first new music heard from the band’s forthcoming album, Roses, which will be released in time for Valentine’s Day 2012 Shock Records on February 10th. […]

“It’s going to be awesome coming down there and seeing how many of you guys turn up and we will have 2 great nights and see you at the bar after the show!…” A leading force in the Swedish “sleaze rock” scene of the 2000’s and now slowly conquering the world, Crashdiet in October will be heading to Australia for […]

“Putting ourselves out there and touring and releasing music, it’s a big thing to do and people are so easy to reject things.  But I guess if you ask yourself that question, then you can overcome that once you get there.  It’s amazing to do, instead of sitting at home and not wanting to put yourself out there and do […]

So there was a rhyme to the reason of posting the video clip first…yes These Kids Wear Crowns are the band who sing THAT song, yes the song you have probably had stuck in your head one way or another for the last few weeks!  Well the boys from Canada are coming to Australia in November to play some shows, […]

Metal Blade Recording Artists DC4 have been invited to participate in the first annual Monsters Of Rock cruise from February 25 – 28, 2012. Named after the legendary hard rock festival held at Donington Raceway near Birmingham, England, this time the Monsters Of Rock will wreak havoc on the high seas from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Nassau, Bahamas and (hopefully!) […]

Our good friends at EMI Music Australia know that we love ALL fields of rock and this proves it!  But seriously, check out some of the talent on here.  I mean Elvis is on here and he was as rock as they come!  Plus who doesn’t love the song ‘Amazed’ by Lonestar?  See that right there is enough for you […]

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