“Even if you are a considerate person to begin with, being in such small spaces with the same people so many days a year really tests your ability to co-exist with others. Maintaining a healthy relationship is the most important thing.” From Release: Every artist destined for greatness have that one defining album and for Touché Amoré it’s ‘Stage Four’. Named both in recognition […]

Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 21-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Sir Paul McCartney will bring his acclaimed long-running One On One Tour to Australia and New Zealand this December. In a first for both Paul McCartney and Frontier Touring, the announcement was made in a Facebook Live […]

Sydney has spoken first and loudest, the Industrial juggernaut  rolls on and the Show on Wednesday 27th September at the Metro Theatre has SOLD OUT.We are extremely happy to announce a second show on Friday 29th September at the Metro Theatre, tickets for this show are on sale NOW from: http://metropolistouring.com/ministry-filter Once again the mighty FILTER will be joining MINISTRY. […]

“I wanted it to be the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record ever. To make a gigantic rock record but with Greg Kurstin’s sense of melody and arrangement… Motorhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper… or something like that.” So speaks Dave Grohl of the mission statement made manifest in Foo Fighters’ ninth epic, the aptly titled CONCRETE AND GOLD, due out September […]

Candles, tattoos and distortion! MOTIONLESS IN WHITE will embark on their first national headline Australia tour this September in support of their new album, Graveyard Shift. Tickets for all shows including Meet & Greet Experiences go on sale at 10am Friday, June 23. An exciting 48-hour pre-sale is available exclusively for Telstra customers from 9am Wednesday, June 21 until 9am Friday, June 23 […]

1997 was an epic year. Steve Jobs returned to Apple, J.K Rowling published her first Harry Potter book and Pat Rafter won his first US Open. In Australia, fans of award-winning and genre-defying The Tea Party were celebrating the release of the band’s third studio album, Transmission. Transmission reached #3 on the charts – the highest charting album ever for […]

“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against—their villain—same as it ever was. You can’t control […]

“I think the thing is about The Bay City Rollers and the kind of thing that we did was such a brilliant thing, it was like a crazy thing we stopped traffic over there in Australia, we had hundreds of thousands of fans follow us regularly and they’re special memories for me that’s for sure…” From Release: Scotland’s greatest pop […]

Dustin Bates is the Albert Einstein of rock and the band’s epic cinematic music acts as the scores to equally epic science fiction tales.” – Kill Your Stereo One of today’s most innovative rock bands STARSET are heading to Australia for the first time this August in support of their stellar sophomore album,Vessels. STARSET’S musical vision is only understood by entering the […]

“I didn’t have anything to lose and wasn’t holding a gun to anybody’s head, so I thought fuck man I’ll give it a crack and it’ll be a cool experience at the very least and at the most come back with a cool record that people want to listen to and that I’m really proud of and a cool story […]

“I’ll actually do my best to play all of the songs that I feel people have heard before because as much as I want to expose people to new music and want to act artsy and stuff like that I think it’s my first job as an artist to play my fans the music that they’re here to hear first […]

“The whole is truly greater than the sum of the parts.” From Bio: Adelaide. There’s no time to wallow in the mire. If you do you’re just gonna get sucked away. Sucked up north through the city’s decaying fringe, past the closed Mitsubishi plant, past Snowtown, past Port Augusta and into the dry red nothingness Bad//Dreems know this. That’s why […]

TEG-DAINTY announced today that Queen + Adam Lambert will embark on a 5-city arena tour of Australia in February and March 2018.  The tour will showcase a spectacular new stage production and a set list which the band hints will provide some surprises. Members of both Queen and Adam Lambert’s Fan Clubs will be able to purchase tickets before the […]

As anticipation builds towards the massive national tour this October, fans who missed out on securing tickets to the Melbourne and Brisbane legs of the ultimate rock show, ‘Spend The Night With Alice Cooper’, will be delighted to hear that these concerts are moving to larger capacity venues, with extra tickets now available! The Melbourne concert will now take place […]

Following their First Ever Australian Tour in 2014, German Metal Legends ACCEPT return this September for one show only in Melbourne. With multiple Sold Out shows on their last visit, ACCEPT reward fans with One Special Exclusive Performance at 170 Russell on 17th September! THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT. ACCEPT’s 15th studio album, ‘The Rise of Chaos’, is set for […]

Today, Diamond-certified, global award winning rock band, Nickelback, released the music video for their new single “Song on Fire.” “Song on Fire” is taken from their ninth studio album Feed the Machine which will be released this Friday, June 16th via BMG. “As we were working on this song, a very personal one for me, we all instantly connected to […]

“… it’s just a place to release emotions and deal with all the negative stuff going on in your life and celebrating all the good stuff you’ve got going on in your life, and that’s what our shows are all about. I’ll say it’s a big release you know, release of tension and just taking the power back in your […]

This is gonna be fun!! The Apia Good Times Tour is back for its fifth installment and tonight the line-up of The Black Sorrows with Vika and Linda Bull, Colin Hay, Deborah Conway and Mental As Anything are taking the stage to give us what we already know will be good times (it’s in the title). Deborah Conway kicks things […]

With their new single, Thinking About The Universe, at radio now, The Art are ready to get back on the earthly plain this July for a run of spellbinding shows of pure rock’n roll, hitting Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, in support of their latest single and powerhouse rock album, All in the Mind. Produced by Stevie Knight of Electric […]

With the four members of THE DIVES hailing from both sides of the country and the middle, it might seem unlikely that these musicians would ever even meet, let alone form a band – until you hear them play.  After one listen, it’s nearly impossible to imagine them playing with anyone else.  Featuring tight harmonies and infectious hooks, THE DIVES’ […]

Following a wildly enthusiastic response to Issue 1 of his VERSUS ZINE, Australia’s pre-eminent music photographer KANE HIBBERD is proud to launch Issue 2, following Australian rock royalty THE LIVING END on tour, thanks to Melbourne Bitter. Barely stopping to draw breath following the debut of his high-quality photographic print zine, Kane packed his gear and hit the pavement again. A […]

Having gained a reputation as one of the best live bands in the UK, You Me At Six will be bringing their explosive live show to Australia this September in support of their fifth studio album Night People. You Me At Six will be joined by Sydney’s Hellions and Brisbane punks Columbus at all shows. ‘Each and every member of […]

World-renowned, multi-platinum rockers Everclear are thrilled to announce they will be touring Australia in September, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their best-selling album So Much For The Afterglow.  Everclear will perform the entire So Much For The Afterglow album, including hit songs “Everything to Everyone,” “I Will Buy You a New Life,” “Father of Mine,” “So Much For the […]

Multi-platinum selling artist Rex Brown has debuted an all new single and music video for the track “Train Song,” exclusively via Loudwire.com. This is the second single behind “Crossing Lines” that was released back in April. Directed by Justin Reich (Zakk Wylde, Ace Frehley), this is the first music video being released from Brown’s debut solo effort. “It was a […]

Sydney’s own TONIGHT ALIVE are heading home and to celebrate they’ve announced a very special Australian headline tour. Kicking off on October 31 at The Basement in Canberra, this run of dates will see Tonight Alive go back to where it all began and revisit all the rooms they used to play when they first started. Joining Tonight Alive upon their return will be their new […]

Australian alternative acoustic rock band, The Silencio, have released the infectious single and music video Been There All Along. Been There All Along is the debut single from ANATHEMA, the forthcoming album scheduled for release in June 2017, and will be followed by a national tour with dates soon to be announced. Singer songwriter Jan Nicholas Blom formed The Silencio […]

Date: Saturday June 3, 2017 Venue: The Big Top, Luna Park, Sydney Presented by: TEG Live Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY Check out our review of the show HERE

It’s been twenty two years since Body Count were in Australia and tonight is something I know I’m looking forward to as are the many here! The crowds were a little sparse for Void of Vision and A.B. Original but both bands even with their completely differing styles did a great job warming up the Body Count hungry crowd and […]

“So having that kind of team behind us gives us a bigger platform to stand on, and for me the whole point of being on this label is to get our music and get us in front of more people that have maybe never heard of us before. I say this all the time, we have a million fans out […]

GET PUMPED. Hotly tipped Milwaukee punk quartet DIRECT HIT! are headed to Australia for the first time ever. Still giddy from the international pick up of their 2016 Fat Wreck Chords LP WASTED MIND, these mind-bending giggos are going to be some of the year’s best. As PunkNews so succinctly declared upon the release of Direct Hit’s WASTED MIND LP […]