Juno-Award winning rock outfit Monster Truck have just announced that their highly anticipated sophomore album, Sittin’ Heavy, will be released February 19, 2016 on Dine Alone Records/Cooking Vinyl in Australia and New Zealand. The album is available to pre-order now via the band’s webstore, Dine Alone webstore, JB HiFi and iTunes. Those who pre-order the record via iTunes will instantly receive Don’t Tell Me How to Live and the anthemic new track The Enforcer. Produced […]

The Dead Daisies new album, ‘Revolución’ has been received incredibly well in Australia.  Rave reviews from media including Rolling Stone Magazine’s editor Rod Yates stating, “This is up there with the best hard rock releases of the past decade”, reaching No. 3 on the Australian Independent Record Labels Association ‘Air Charts’, airplay on radio stations across the country with singles […]

“Really we just play a rock and roll show, there’s no tracks or trickery, we don’t even use a click track, we just kind of plug in play and what you see is what you get. We like it, we get to ride the wave of the audience…” From Release: Pennsylvania-natives Halestorm have left an indelible impression on the hard […]

“So I think what you really need to do is come with an open mind if you’ve never seen the band and participate and I think participation is really the key to having that combustion between that audience and the band.” From Release: From hell they came… in April 1977 at the dawn of the punk movement, THE MISFITS were […]

The Flatliners are about to be in Australia with Lagwagon! Before heading out to check out one of the below shows, check out this piece exclusively on MTRBWY written by Chris Cresswell of The Flatliners telling us about the best Canadian bands you don’t know! We know we’ll be checking these ones out ASAP! The Dirty Nil They are a […]

“It’ll be great family entertainment, I wrestle a great white shark and then after that we have dancing bears, grizzly bears and then we introduce everyone to the Black Label fall fashion line of men’s lingerie, so it’s a very exciting evening *laughs* there’s also a lot of choreography going on, it’s just a delight to the senses. *laughs*” From […]

“…we’re pretty much there just to have a good time, it’s not really about metal and it’s not about being serious, it’s just about having fun. So we appeal to pretty much everybody really which I think is pretty unique in the metal genre, so yeah, fun.” From Bio: Avast, ye landlubbers! From the deepest darkest depths of the Caribbean […]

Date: Tuesday November 17, 2015 Venue: Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney Presented by: One World Entertainment Support by: Live & The Baby Animals Photos by:  Annette Geneva – Every Day Is Saturday Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE  

Def Leppard are back in Australia, and what can you say about a band that has been doing it for almost forty years? Everything… but where to start? Let’s get to that after The Baby Animals and Live… The Baby Animals open with a newer one tonight. ‘Under Your Skin’ and it’s great hearing these guys in a big arena like […]

After a highly successful 26-date album release tour, Sydney rockers GANG OF YOUTHS are set to embark on their most ambitious run of shows to date, announcing a national Australian headline tour for April 2016. Kicking off at the Tivoli in Brisbane on April 8, followed by all ages shows in their hometown of Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, the band will wrap […]

Date: Saturday November 14, 2015 Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney 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  

Australia has always loved The Tea Party, and tonight they’re back and here for the twentieth anniversary of ‘The Edges Of Twilight’ and we’re getting it in full plus more. There’s also no support tonight just The Tea Party and I’m ok with that. Starting acoustically and with that unbelievable vocal, Jeff Martin sing a simple “you…” the crowd cheers and […]

ROB THOMAS has had an ongoing, 20-year long, love affair with Australian audiences – both as the frontman, lead vocalist and key songwriter for Matchbox Twenty and also as a major solo artist. In February 2016, that romance will continue as Thomas makes a very welcome return down-under for a national headline tour. Touring in support of his first solo album […]

Date: Friday November 13, 2015 Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Supported By: Aces 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  

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’s ‘Alive Or Just Breathing’ album was a watershed moment in metal in 2002 as it heralded the birth of ‘Metalcore’. An army of imitators was born and have all tried in vain to emulate this essential classic. In a Special Soundwave Presentation, we are thrilled to announce that KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will be performing ‘Alive Or Just Breathing’ in […]

It’s been many a year since I caught The Darkness live on their ‘One Way Ticket’ tour and more importantly eleven years since I first saw them at their headline show at The Gaelic Club in Sydney in 2004 and man, that was one hell of a show then so I’m looking forward to checking out their live set circa […]

Date: Friday November 6, 2015 Venue: The Factory Theatre, Sydney Supported By: Calling Mayday & Van Cooper Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

SEVENDUST’s triumphant return to Australia marks the first shows on Aussie soil in six years and Atlanta’s brutal hard rock kings are back as heavy as ever. “They blew the audience away! …after about three minutes of their first song, the band managed to rock so damn hard that they shut everything down. It was awesome.” blogcritics.org SEVENDUST kicked off […]

Would you like to see The Tea Party live in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane for free? Well, thanks to our friends at Jo Corbett Publicity we have 2 x double pass to give away for each of the below shows for The Tea Party’s upcoming ‘Edges of Twilight 20th Anniversary Tour’ Australian tour. So to be one of our six winners all you […]

“I think we used the new album to escape from the upheaval we went through, the upheaval with management. Obviously we did the comeback and when you do a comeback for us it wasn’t really a comeback, we just wanted to get together again and do an album…” From Release: THE DARKNESS, multi award winning, multi-million selling megaband formed in 2000 […]

“The idea mainly spawned from when we were away a lot over the last couple of years.  We always have to introduce ourselves and say here have a listen prior to going in and giving them sampler things and all that stuff. I don’t know, it kind of dawned on us that when you’re doing that sort of stuff how […]

“So after the first record I think we were like we’re not going to go through that experience again, I mean not that it was a terrible thing it wasn’t at all, this album sounds a lot truer to who we are, the each of us, and the people that have heard it so far have all said that, like […]

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH (FFDP) have been announced as very special guest to Black Sabbath’s The End tour taking place across Australia in April 2016. The American metal juggernaut crashed into the ARIA Charts last month at #3 with their sixth album, Got Your Six, giving them their highest Australian chart position ever! Got Your Six is the follow-up to […]

Gaining a reputation as the happiest punk rock band in the country, The Strums are back with a brand new pocket rocket cleverly titled Badass Teenage Moustache. Kicking out the jams and full of energy, Badass Teenage Moustache is a tongue in cheek stab at how people deal with their regrets in life, love and their dreams. Singer Sparks uses the analogy that […]

St Peters Lane is the new single from THE SUPERJESUS and has been taken from their forthcoming EP. At radio now and due for release on Friday, 6 November, the song was written by Sarah McLeod and bassist Stuart Rudd, and explores a different kind of lyrical content for the band. Instantly memorable and instantly recognisable as THE SUPERJESUS, this guitar-laden track draws from […]

Armed with material from their eagerly anticipated third album, Limitless, Australian rock heavyweights TONIGHT ALIVE are set to play a run of intimate east coast shows in January, before embarking on European and US dates. A little bit older and a whole world wiser, today Tonight Alive are a band brimming with energy onstage and off – bursting with stories from the road and […]

“…I mean it’s basically if you think about  rock concert that you’ve been to and you multiply it by ten, it’s kind of more, it’s louder and faster and more jumping *laughs* cooler clothes, better guitar playing, you know, the usual… it’s the same thing, just more and better *laughs*” From Release: Australian audiences require no introduction to The Hives. The five-piece […]

“…it’s mainly about performing and the atmosphere when you do perform and one of the most important things for us is to have this sense of well almost community, we want everyone to be involved and we don’t want anyone to feel left out and it’s more about everyone in the room than it is us…” From Bio: Pulled Apart […]

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY COMES TOGETHER TO SUPPORT TWO OF THEIR OWN WITH ‘ONE FOR THE ROAD’ Baby Animals, Hoodoo Gurus, The Superjesus, Noiseworks, 1927, Diesel with special guest Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Swanee, Thirsty Merc, Dragon, Wendy Matthews and MANY more confirmed to perform! #onefortheroad Last month the Australian music industry was devastated by the tragic death of well-known and […]

Date: Thursday October 22, 2015 Venue: Max Watts, Sydney Presented by: Metropolis Touring Supported By: Chasing Light & Vanity Riots Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY