Las Vegas natives Escape The Fate have been slaying it on their current world tour and Australian fans will finally get their chance to witness a full headline tour this October… “We‘re coming for everyone and we aren’t taking any prisoners,”  says vocalist Craig Mabbitt  They’ve always done it their way and now Hate Me sees them coming together as a […]

Australia’s love affair with Floridian rockers Yellowcard is stronger than ever with pre-sale tickets being snapped up as soon as they went on sale. Due to overwhelming pre-sale demand, a second and final show at Melbourne’s Max Watt’s has been added on Friday 24 February 2017. Tickets to all Australian shows on Yellowcard’s The Final World Tour are on sale […]

Melbourne’s cheeky rock rascals, The Pretty Littles have slipped a sneaky single past the keeper this week, releasing the follow up to their much-loved slow burn anthem, Pride. Sleeping In Water is the 2nd single to be taken off the band’s forthcoming album and precedes a run of headlining tour dates this November.  Premiering on triple j’s Home and Hosed last night, […]

With the bands upcoming August release of ART ROCK TWO, the long awaited follow up to 2015’s ‘Art Rock One’, Melbourne’s cult art rock duo (now trio)THE STIFFYS will embark on a massive 17 date national tour! In what is likely to be a first for Australian rock and roll history, the band will be playing the entire tour in […]

A DAY TO REMEMBER will return to Australia this December for the Bad Vibes Tour featuring special guests OF MICE & MEN. The tour is in support of the forthcoming album, Bad Vibrations, which is available August 19 via ADTR/Epitaph Records. The shows will be their first Down Under since the epic BIG ASS TOUR which hit arenas last summer and […]

When the final note rung out on their triumphant Australian tour of 2014 they let it be known that they wanted to come back here and soon! Now thanks to Destroy All Lines and Chugg Entertainment: SUICIDE SILENCE make their return to Australia in September. Many of the greatest works of art throughout history were fashioned from grief, anger and overwhelming despair descending on […]

Each subsequent release has seen PANIC! AT THE DISCO push the boundaries and create unique genre bending albums. Their 5th album, Death Of A Bachelor, is no different. A grandiose and triumphant masterpiece with songs that both allude to the past and create a uniquely contemporary sensibility with a Sinatra-esque, dance-around-your-room-when-noone’s-looking feel. “A mix between Sinatra and Queen.” – Rolling […]

“When saying farewell, it is hard to know where to start, especially when there are so many reasons not to say it, but the time has come to share this news. After countless discussions and months of thought, we have decided that it is time for Yellowcard to come to an end. This will be our last album and our […]

Respected Australian composer, producer and performer, and founding member of Boom Crash Opera, Peter Farnan, has today lifted the covers off his new project, Pesky Bones, including details of the PledgeMusic campaign that will precede the release of the album, ‘Volume One’. Pesky Bones ‘Volume One’ is a collection of 12 songs, written, performed and produced by Farnan, with guest […]

Canberra’s most famous alt rock exports Hands Like Houses have kept the momentum rolling and dropped by the triple j studios last week as part of the coveted Like A Version segment. The past year has easily been one of the most successful on record for Hands Like Houses. In February they released their critically acclaimed brilliant third album Dissonants, which impressively debuted at […]

Venue: The Big Top – Sydney Date: June 17, 2016 Presented by: MJR Website: http://www.steelpantherrocks.com Support: Black Stone Cherry – http://www.blackstonecherry.com Photo By: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY Check out our review of the show HERE      

The first night of the 2016 Steel Panther Tour Down Under was a sold-out show at the Big Top, Luna Park, and the venue filled up pretty fast as the doors opened. Deep south rockers Black Stone Cherry, who had rescheduled their own dates to join this tour as the sole support act rolled out on to the stage to […]

triple j, Hysteria and UNFD Present UNIFY 2016 A HEAVY MUSIC GATHERING FEATURING: ALEXISONFIRE VIOLENT SOHO NORTHLANE EVERY TIME I DIE THE GETAWAY PLAN [playing Other Voices Other Rooms] LETLIVE. THY ART IS MURDER LUCA BRASI HOUSE VS HURRICANE I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN [playing Music For The Recently Deceased] MOOSE BLOOD STORM THE SKY COUNTERPARTS DEEZ NUTS TROPHY EYES […]

Buffalo, New York hardcore band Every Time I Die will release a new album Low Teens on September 23. The first new song shared is “The Coin Has a Say” which operates as an extremity test, with every gear-shift somehow pushing the band into inexplicably heavier territories. Listen to “The Coin Has a Say” HERE “The whole winter, the temperature […]

The Dead Daisies outstanding new single, ‘Long Way To Go’, released today, Friday June 17th, on Spitfire Music / SPV, more than whets the appetite for these celebrated hard rockers’ hotly anticipated third album, ‘Make Some Noise’, due out August 5th. The video for ‘Long Way To Go’, was shot at Hessentags Arena in Germany at a recent event with […]

“…we used to tour with Lemmy and Motorhead  in Scandinavia and Lemmy said we were the loudest fucking band he’d ever heard, so I think that apart from ‘Walking on Sunshine’ we could rock with the best of them, and a lot of Katrina and The Waves was very much a rock aspect…” From Release: KATRINA (UK) ex KATRINA & […]

“A lot of times now a singer gets a record deal and they build a band around them but with us all four of us got the record deal, it’s always been the four of us or nothing at all, we’ve always kept that mentality, we’re equal members of everything. It works, man, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, […]

Melbourne four piece MY SECRET CIRCUS (MSC) breath life back into rock metal with the release of their new controversial single ‘No Cigar’, which is turning heads and gathering fans world wide. MSC have played at both Australian and International premier live music venues, most recently the iconic West Hollywood landmark The Viper Room and Australia’s own ANZ Stadium. They […]

“…as the band we just grew and evolved and not to say that we all evolved or moved in the same direction artistically but we did certainly grow as artists and I think we started to find out different parts of ourselves creatively that were going in different directions and because of that we were able to put it together […]

“…as a matter of fact it looks like there’s going to be a reunion of the original three, John Crawford, David Diamond and I are writing together right now. David Diamond came and guested on some shows last year, and then John came in really kind of out of nowhere and I wasn’t expecting this but it’s happening and it’s […]

“I always thought it was cool like after the record came out I went into an LA rock club and some of the big hair rocker dudes were like ‘hey Martika that ‘Toy Soldiers’ is pretty cool man’ and I was like yeah, the rockers think I’m cool *laughs*.” From Release: Whether it was her synth-dance songs or power ballads, […]

Peter Garrett has just announced an intimate Australian tour in support of his forthcoming solo album ‘A Version of Now’. These special gigs will see Peter playing small clubs and theatres for the first time since Midnight Oil’s gritty pub rock era. Limited tickets are available from today for people who have signed up to his mailing list http://petergarrett.com.au/newsletter/ or […]

“You know, for us it’s a very fun thing and we’re other people up there and because of what it is we get to live this other thing up there, this other animal that we can’t get anywhere else. Probably that’s what keeps us semi-sane I think.” From Release: It is well-known that Karnivool records take a long time to […]

Toronto punk four-piece PUP are heading back to Australian shores in support of sophomore record The Dream Is Over out May 27 via SideOneDummy/Cooking Vinyl. Named for the first thing doctors told singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock after a recent examination of his damaged vocal chords, The Dream Is Over finds PUP as confident and as in tune with each other as […]

When a song starts instantly with vocals, I always get intrigued, and the opener ‘Riot’ from Rival Fire’s debut EP is surely one that intrigues me, I’ve had this track for a while now and I’ll be fucked if I can get the damn chorus out of my head! This track is a perfect introduction for a band, its groove […]

“If you are interested in something new, energetic and from the heart i would say there is a song on this Ep for you. The Riot Ep is very diverse and we wanted it to be so you have light shades and dark shades. The full album has all that and more.” With plenty of excitement and energy throughout their […]

Tasmania’s premier Post-Hardcore act, Save The Clock Tower, are today returning with their brand new track “White Cross”, the first track from their forthcoming full-length album “The Familiar // The Decay”, which will be released worldwide on July 1st through the USA’s Bullet Tooth Records. The firebrand track is available in iTunes and Spotify today Friday May 27th. The blistering single […]

Multi-platinum selling alternative rock band SWITCHFOOT announced their upcoming album, Where The Light Shines Through,  be released on July 8th, 2016 via Spinefarm/Vanguard Records.  Where The Light Shines Through, the band’s tenth album and the first since 2014’s highly acclaimed Fading West, was produced in collaboration with John Fields, who helmed the multi-platinum breakthrough The Beautiful Letdown. The band have […]

With a desire to capture the energy of their raucous live performance, Magnus set out to approach the recording of their debut album in a raw and unique way. The band spent a week in seclusion jamming from dawn till dusk in a sheep sheering shed near the regional town of Cootamundra NSW, where they laid down their demos before collaborating […]

THE AMITY AFFLICTION’s I Bring The Weather With Me Tour went on general sale at midday today with tickets selling out within minutes. Second and FINAL shows have now been added to all cities on the tour: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. There are no more shows to be added, this is your final chance to secure tickets. Tickets are on […]