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

“…they’re just these young, broke kids who don’t give a fuck except to play music in front of people. I love it and it’s inspiring on a daily basis. That’s the spirit of rock and roll in those kids” Dave “The Snake” Sabo, SKID ROW Melbourne’s premiere hard rockers, Dead City Ruins will be returning home for a massive national […]

Brisbane ska/punk rockers ALLA SPINA are back from their club tour of Los Angeles and are ready hit the road again with their new single, GOODBYE. To celebrate the new single and music video, ALLA SPINA will be embarking on a huge 15-date Australian East Coast tour throughout November and December. The band will kick off the tour supporting Australian […]

Date: Sunday October 18, 2015 Venue: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Presented by: Dainty Group Supported By: Children of Bodom 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                      

On ground in Sydney, Australia, Dallas Green today announced that City and Colour would be playing shows across Australia next year, adding to the already announced Byron Bay Bluesfestappearance in March 2016. Following on from their festival performance in Byron Bay, City and Colour will play an intimate show at The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 26th March, something special for his Queensland fans after his last […]

Date: Thursday 15 October, 2015 Venue: Hidden Agenda Live House, Hong Kong Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY  

Megadeth are back in Australia, this time with Children of Bodom, so we’re in for one extremely loud evening, and for a Sunday, that’s just what we need! I made it in just in time… as the lights already dark went darker and ready for Children of Bodom as they thrashed their way onto the stage bathed in green lights as […]

Date: Friday October 16, 2015 Venue: The Big Top, Sydney Presented by: Metropolis Touring Support by: Stone Parade 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  

“…as long as we all enjoy playing together and coming up with new songs we’ve just got to keep doing it and enjoy it while we can because the realisation of Steve’s passing, were only here for one shot in life so we’ve got to do it while we’re here and enjoy it, so that’s kind of the path we […]

Thirteen years is a long time between tours, and although they almost made it back in 2013 we had to wait another couple of years for it to actually happen, but here we are, Lifehouse have made it back to Australia… Stone Parade are here to entertain the early comers and they’re doing it quite well at present, even managing […]

Megadeth are in Australia right now! Before checking out one of their blistering shows, check out this piece exclusively on MTRBWY written by Dave Mustaine about his tour hacks for tips for life on the road! Dave Mustaine’s Tour Hacks- Tips for life on the road. 1. “One of the first rules about travelling, whether you’re a musician or not, […]

“…so we wanted to go a little bit different with this one, deliberately not do a concept album and just write a collection of songs that have an uplifting message that have a colourful sound and a vibrancy to them and go for an energy that matches our live show as well because we have quite a physical and energetic […]

Australian audiences can see John Mellencamp during a seven-date tour of Australia inFebruary 2016, supported by a special guest, singer and songwriter Jewel. Also appearing on the tour is country artist Carlene Carter.The musician – whose extraordinary list of honours includes a 2001 Billboard Century Award, the Woody Guthrie Award in 2004, a Grammy Award and the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting – was inducted into […]

“I think it’s through and through a Coheed album in the sense that it explores different territories of the band. And in different way than we ever have before. And that is something Coheed had done with every record.” From Release: The Color Before The Sun is the outfit’s eighth studio album and their first non-conceptual release, with the previous […]

” It’s basically one on one with Dave Lombardo, you get to sit there with me and we basically have a conversation but it’s in a large forum with a lot of people. So it’s fun, I enjoy doing it.” From release: As an original and founding member of Slayer, Lombardo has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their ground-breaking […]

New Jersey-based post-hardcore / emo quintet, Senses Fail, have just announced that they will be returning to Australian shores for a full national tour in March 2016. The tour will mark the band’s fifteenth year anniversary and their first return down-under since the release of their latest LP  ‘Pull the Thorns from Your Heart’; the sixth full-length from their discography, which was […]

It’s time once again for the band that will never go away, and I say that in the nicest way, even after farewell tours, KISS can’t stay away and continue to draw crowds of dedicated followers, an army if you like, so tonight we’re here as a part of their 40th anniversary and as always I’m sure it’ll be a spectacle… […]

Promoter Garry Van Egmond announced today that critically acclaimed Swedish rock bandThe Hives and Australia’s own Kingswood will join AC/DC’s ROCK OR BUST Australia Touras special guests in one of the most coveted guest spots in the country. Following on from the release of their worldwide Number One album ‘Rock Or Bust’, AC/DC will play Australian stadium shows in November and December.     AC/DC NATIONAL TOUR DATES: […]

Date: Saturday October 10, 2015 Venue: Allphones Arena, Sydney Presented by: Empire Touring Support by: The Dead Daisies 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  

“I think we were worried for about a year but when it happened it felt like we were launched into space and our lives were never the same. It’s hard to explain but I can say that every boy hood rock and roll dream I ever had came true … and then some.” From release: In recent years, the tale […]

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN AUSTRALIA AT SOUNDWAVE 2016 TROY SANDERS (MASTODON) – MARK OSEGUEDA (DEATH ANGEL) ALEX SKLONICK (TESTAMENT) – MIKE PORTNOY (THE WINERY DOGS) PHIL DEMMELL (MACHINE HEAD) – MARK MENGHI (METAL ALLEGIANCE) More than an experiment, a one-off or a “super group”, METAL ALLEGIANCE is an experience. Like the comic book heroes of ‘The Avengers’, the […]

The name suggests that GINGERFEST is a day full of Fanta, carrots and sunscreen-dipped freckly youngsters going by nicknames like ‘Bluey’. But no, its not about congregating to celebrate the rare yet beautiful MCR1 Gene. Instead, Gingerfest is a straight up, balls out, no reservations, all inclusive punk rock festival held to honour the memory of one of Australia’s most dedicated punk […]

“This is our sixth record in, Five Finger Death Punch has become a well-oiled machine and we do the things that we do and do them very well, everything is gelling in the sense that everybody writes together and all the ideas are bounced off one another, so pretty much a continuation of the process really.” From release: FIVE FINGER […]