Touring Festival  Set To Hit Melbourne’s Corner Hotel With Headline Sets from Electric Mary and Dallas Frasca. WALLAPALOOZA IS BACK! And it’s more fiery, exciting and poignant than ever. One of Australia’s longest running independent festivals remains an annual rockin’ good time for dedicated fans of live music. Taking inspiration from the recent furore raised in opposition to idiotic lock-out laws in the northern […]

To coincide with the bands forthcoming Australian Tour, New York’s legendary post-hardcore prog visionaries COHEED AND CAMBRIA are proud to unleash the 3rd single (ISLAND) taken from the bands first foray into non- conceptual albums. ‘The Color Before The Sun’ marks the bands first released outside of The Amory Wars story line which has to date, tied their music together. […]

On March 25th, 2016, multi-platinum Canadian rock artist Lee Aaron returns with her hotly anticipated new rock album, Fire and Gasoline Ever timeless, seemingly ageless, and artistically fearless, Lee Aaron has sustained a three-decade strong career based on the powerful songwriting and vocal delivery that are at the heart of Fire and Gasoline (Big Sister Records/ILS/Caroline). Featuring songs like the […]

The FEAR FACTORY machine is at its most confident and passionate than ever before and they will be bringing every sonic weapon in its arsenal to the fore when they stampede across Australia this June. With nine critically acclaimed albums under their belt Fear Factory will be reaching deep into their storied history to bring an unparalleled experience to Australian […]

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has partnered with VEVO to exclusively debut the much-anticipated official music video for their new single My Nemesis. The video concept was conceived by the band and realized by renowned director Nick Peterson who previously directed the band’s award winning videos for “Coming Down” (2012) and “Wrong Side Of Heaven” (2014). “My Nemesis” is the third […]

Touring Australia for the very first time in their distinguished and illustrious career, Primal Fear have one single goal and mission on hand: perform in Australia for the first time ever; perform the best ever show we can ever perform for Australia; and absolutely smash out a set that will destroy and completely rule the memories of the people that […]

Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed and fan adored sophomore release Cauterize, TREMONTI returns with the companion album Dust, scheduled for release on April 29th via Fret 12 Records/MGM. Recorded during same sessions as Cauterize, Dust features Mark Tremonti on vocals/guitars, Eric Friedman on guitars, Wolfgang Van Halen on bass, Garrett Whitlock on drums, and was produced by long-time […]

”You know I just think we’re a much, much more focused in what we want to do and we’ve got a really great way of making things sound better now, I think we’ve advanced as players, singers and all that stuff, musicians in general and we’ve just gotten better , we’ve naturally picked up the pace and that’s a good […]

Date Wednesday February 24, 2016 Venue One The Steps  Sydney Opera House Presented by Live Nation 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  

Rob Thomas most of you would know from his position as front man in Matchbox Twenty for the last twenty years, and he’s visited Australia many, many times since his first visit in 1997. Tonight he returns off the back of his newest solo album ‘The Great Unknown’ and he’s playing somewhat of an iconic venue, but more on that […]

Former King Cannons frontman leads Melbourne quartet back to punk rock roots Despite the multitude of ways the genre has been disputed and diluted, the spirit of punk rock has always remained, at its core, a state of mind. A conviction and attitude staunchly embedded in the soul that even the headiest of adult responsibilities cannot drown out. When King […]

Due to overwhelming demand, BRING ME THE HORIZON have announced a second Sydney show. With most tickets snapped up when they went on sale yesterday morning, to meet the massive demand Bring Me The Horizon have confirmed they will be performing a second and final show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Sunday 18 September. Tickets to this new […]

Grammy Award winning artist, Richard Marx, is returning to Australia in June to perform live with his band and will see his national Greatest Hits Tour kick off in Melbourne.  The international superstar last graced our shores in 2006, after playing to packed houses and sold out shows across the country. Richard Marx is a prolific singer, songwriter and producer […]

LIVE NATION, UNIFY and TRIPLE J present BRING ME THE HORIZON TOURING AUSTRALIA IN 2016. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. PLEASE TRY TO REMAIN CALM. BRING ME THE HORIZON have announced their eagerly awaited return to Australian shores for this coming September. The British rock band will perform arenas around Australia on their first tour Down Under since 2013. Since the release of their […]

As they prepare to thrill Australian audiences alongside BLACK SABBATH in April, American heavy metal giants FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH announce two exclusive all-ages shows in Melbourne and Sydney. Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday, February 26. Telstra Thanks is bringing an exciting 48-hour pre-sale just for Telstra customers from 2pm Monday, February 22 until 2pm Wednesday, February 24. […]

Massachusetts natives A WILHELM SCREAM will return to Australian shores this May for an epic Australian tour.   Recognised internationally for their relentless, energetic and downright exhausting live shows, this band is an riff-heavy, overwhelming assault on the senses. They never fail to disappoint. AWS, as they are affectionately known to their multitude of fans worldwide have been hauled “…one of […]

After traversing the outer limits of science fiction over seven acclaimed concept albums, COHEED AND CAMBRIA’slatest offering ‘The Color Before The Sun’ marks the bands first non – conceptual album and the first to be recorded live in the studio. Founder and songwriter Claudio Sanchez explores his emotions nakedly, plainly and unabashedly. Listen to tracks from the album: ”ATLAS” + ”ERASER” + ”GHOST” + ”PEACE TO THE MOUNTAIN” “This is the band’s […]

This month ROB THOMAS will make a very welcome return to Australia when he embarks on the Australian leg of The Great Unknown World Tour.  Touring in support of his first solo album in more than six years, the long-awaited The Great Unknown, Thomas’ summer tour will include a special night under the stars, ‘On The Steps’ at the Sydney Opera House, three winery […]

Reconstruction requires deconstruction. The institutions must be razed in order to clear space for the future to flourish. You tear down the old and build up the new. FILTER founder, singer, guitarist, and producer Richard Patrick knows this dance well. It’s what established the group as a multiplatinum industrial alternative luminary, and it catalyzed their seventh full-length album, Crazy Eyes […]

Lennard Promotions presents the long-awaited return of legendary vocalist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Eric Burdon and his band The Animals for their first Australian shows in nearly a decade. This year fans will have a chance to relive songs that became part of the foundation of rock & roll as Eric Burdon & The Animals play […]

With a swag of awards and sold out stadium tours across the globe left in their wake, we are thrilled to announce that US metal monoliths TRIVIUM will be shredding across Australia this April.  Widely tipped for greatness (some prophecies come true!) after their successful sophomore release, ‘Ascendancy’ in 2005, Kerrang! Declared it “the most skull-peeling collection of pulverizing metal grooves […]

“I think probably the only thing that we try and do is not copy ourselves to make sure that we set the scales for our own self critiquing to high, not to unobtainable heights because obviously that would kill any project but just to make sure we don’t take the easy way out and that we don’t copy ourselves.” From […]

With eight timeless punk rock albums and over 20 years of high intensity touring under their belt, Millencolin has come to help shape the skate punk sound that inspired them from the start. Millencolin fans are always waging wars, pitting so many of their brilliant records against each other to see which comes out the victor. It’s a war that […]

It’s about to get rowdy down under – Black Stone Cherry, Kentucky’s wild boys of hard rock done souther are hitting Australian shores in June 2016. The five dates in June see them hitting some of Australia’s biggest and best rock venues. Tickets go on sale January 20th. The tour will see them hit The Factory Theatre in Sydney, Max Watts […]

Get ready for the Best 80s Night Ever! TOTALLY 80’s! TOTALLY 80’s Stars 7 International 80’s Superstars – MARTIKA, BERLIN, LIMAHL of KAJAGOOGOO, PAUL LEKAKIS, KATRINA (ex KATRINA & THE WAVES), MEN WITHOUT HATS & STACEY Q will be together – live in concert – to perform all of their classic hits. Sharing the stage with them will be 2 of Australia’s own […]

Monsters of the Universe Australian Tour 2016 WEDNESDAY 13 has firmly cemented himself as the undisputed leader in Horrorpunk. With a vivid and vile imagination that has endeared him to countless fans of riff-driven macabre over the last two decades, WEDNESDAY 13 has been one of rock’s most prolific protagonists, spreading his credo of grave-robbing rock ‘n’ roll and Hallowe’en debauchery […]

Internationally renowned glam rockers STEEL PANTHER  have officially announced ‘Live From Lexxi’s Mom’s Garage’, the band’s first full length film, featuring a ten-song live acoustic concert interspersed with comedic vignettes showcasing the band’s unmatched shenanigans and debauchery. The album and film will be released on CD and CD/DVD by the band’s label Open E Records via Kobalt Label Services on February 26th.    PRE-ORDERS […]

KILLROCKSTAR & SOUNDWORKS PRESENTS BUCKCHERRY Australian & New Zealand Tour 2016 One of rock’s great bands, Buckcherry will return to Australia and New Zealand this March. Led by Josh Todd, a man who personifies rock n roll and anchored by guitarists Keith Nelson and Stevie D, drummer Xavier Muriel and bassist Kelly Lemieux, Buckcherry will deliver a night of straight up good time rock and […]

Date: Sunday December 13, 2015 Venue: Manning Bar, Sydney Presented by: Live Nation Supported By: Bellusira Photos 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    

OK, it’s fitting that it’s my last show of the year because this is also my most anticipated gig of the year, mostly due to the fact that I’m a huge fan of Halestorm and have been for around six years now. So to say I’m a little excited is an understatement, just a warning… Bellusira back from LA for […]