Date: Friday May 1, 2015 Venue: Allphones Arena, Sydney Presented by: Frontier Touring Photos by:  Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE    

The Script are back in Australia, seems they’re here a lot and why not when you’re at the stage where you’re playing arenas! They’re here off the back of their new album ‘No Sound Without Silence’ and it’ll be great to hear some of these newer songs in this big room tonight… Colton Avery lit up Allphones Arena (literally) as […]

There are a few iconic guitarists in the world, you can name them, but one that I’ll name is Ace Frehley. You know him from KISS, yeah, that band, but without the makeup Ace is still as iconic and he’s back in Australia for the first time in a while to treat us to his live show in support of […]

The Art have just released the video for new single ‘Dead Inside’ and it takes its place as ‘Video of the Week’ on MTRBWY for not only one, but four weeks because we love it that much! So for the month of May, our usual ‘Video of the Week’ for the first time becomes ‘Video of the Month’… So make […]

After winning over audiences across Australia supporting The Kooks in January,Catfish And The Bottlemen will return this July to play Splendour In The Grass Festival. The band have announced two Splendour side-shows; Wednesday 22nd July at Corner Hotel in Melbourne and Thursday 23rd July at Oxford Art Factory in Sydney. Catfish and The Bottlemen play loud, explosive, sexy rock and roll songs – full of […]

Australian hard rockers HANSEL will release their new album, “69 Minutes … with Hansel!” on June 15, 2015 via Prime EON Media on CD. HANSEL‘s “69 minutes … with Hansel” is a culmination of the album “Never Say Die” & their 2 hard to find EPs, “Mission To Rock” & “Fluorescent Blue Lights” that collects all the 20 roaring tracks that the band has recorded up to this point from way back when […]

The ‘dark horse’ springs from nowhere, claiming unexpected, sometimes shocking success. Having weathered a two year break up, member departures, various personal obstacles and almost five years without a recorded release, it’s easy to consider THE GETAWAY PLAN as such. Their anticipated third LP Dark Horses will be revealed on July 3. Working with longtime friend of the band Samuel K on production duties, this […]

Acclaimed rockers Stone Sour have released Meanwhile In Burbank… EP digitally. The release was previously as a Record Store Day exclusive and features five covers of legendary artists including Black Sabbath, Metallica, KISS, Judas Priest and Alice In Chains, and was recorded live at Room 237 in Burbank, CA. Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand commented on the EP, “Back in […]

Dead Letter Circus will release their new single ‘While You Wait’ on May 8th via UNFD, and will be doing a series of intimate shows in major capitals this coming July in support of the track. Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, the track is set to be the lead single from the yet-to-be-announced third album, expected for a late Winter release. […]

Would you like to see MÖTLEY CRÜE and Alice Cooper live in Australia this coming May, for free? Well, thanks to our amazingly awesome friends at Deathproof PR and Live Nation Australia we have 1 x double pass to give away for your choice of the below shows for MÖTLEY CRÜE’s upcoming farewell Australian tour. If that’s not enough, we’ll throw in a pair of Tommy […]

Gay Paris is a primitive beast, sleeping in a cave, chewing bones and growling out its dreams. Soon, it will sleep no more, called by the sound of Ember Season and the sound of Saints dancing in cornfields. One must admit – Gay Paris earned its rest the hard way. Birthed in 2009 from the corpse of something that kicked and screamed until […]

Straight outta Collingwood, Melbourne trio BATPISS have a searing new LP ready to blast outta your car stereo with the windows down and the heat turned up. ‘Biomass’ is coming your way via their new friends at Poison City on June 26. Lurching from doom to sludge to punk to drone and into spiritual styles, Batpiss produce a rigid and […]

“This time I promised my Dad that I wouldn’t paint on my spare time anymore, because I had about $40,000 worth of damages overall from hotels just fuckin oil paint stain on the rug and oil paint doesn’t dry for like four days so it fuckin spread everywhere and at the end of my Australian tour I was $40,000 in […]

KillRockStar & The Artery Foundation presents reformed Funk Punk Nu Metal legends “Snot” playing their classic 1997 debut album “Get Some” in full across Australia this October. When Snot released their debut album Get Some in 1997 it was heralded as one of the most melodic, groove laden offerings of the then popular nu metal scene.  Full on massive punk […]

Refused are fucking alive. There’s no escape. The Iconic Swedish hardcore band is releasing Freedom, their first new album in 17 years on June 26 via Epitaph.  Listen to the first new song Elektra at Pitchfork now. In 1998 Refused released their iconic album The Shape of Punk to Come. It was also the year that the band broke up and declared “Refused Are Fucking Dead“. Fourteen years later, the […]

Whether listening to a CIRCA SURVIVE album or attending a live show, one thing remains constant; the experience is both exhausting and exhilarating. CIRCA SURVIVE are a model of sonic and psychic consistency, ever since they brought us the explosive debut album Juturna in 2005. It should come as no surprise, then, that their fifth album, Descensus, falls in line […]

Melbourne melodic hard-rock titans from an era past Teargas, are releasing their seminal debut EP “Crazy” (2004). The youthful, 80’s infused anthems are finally being made available on iTunes, Spotify, and everywhere else online from April 28. Lead singer, Al Gammie remarks “this EP marks a special time our lives and we can’t wait to re-share our legacy with our […]

“So it was a challenge and it was exciting but we knew we had something, we knew the sound was fresh so we were just excited. We weren’t kids but we were much younger back then and I think we just wanted to get it done real quick and get out there and present it to the world…” From release: […]

Frontier Touring are proud to announce that the great Ryan Adams along with his band The Shining will treat Australia and New Zealand to headline shows this July, joined by very special guest Jenny Lewis for all Australian shows. This will be Adams’ first tour of Australia and New Zealand since 2012’s acclaimed sold-out Ashes and Fire solo theatre tour and his first time playing here […]

“We have always been a band that likes to let things come together organically you know what I mean? If you head into an album or head into a studio to write songs with something set in your mind of it has to be this or it has to be that or has to remain in the compounds of this […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Warner Music Australia, we have FIVE copies of the new Halestorm album ‘Into The Wild Life’ to give away to five of our lucky readers. It’s an absolute rocker, we loved it and you can read what we thought about it HERE – So if you want win one of the five copies, simply send […]

London’s YOUNG GUNS have ascended the ranks of rock rapidly over their two albums, and emerged as one of the most electrifying and successful acts to emerge from the UK’s crowded music market. In 2015, the band will continue their world domination with impressive third LP Ones & Zeros, out June 5. Gustav, John, Fraser, Simon and Ben have graced magazine covers, garnered heavy […]

“…it’s just the five of us playing the songs and we’re trying to play them as good as we can with as much passion as we can. I think what we have to offer is just more of a musical experience you know and very little eye candy, and some people probably find that very boring and they need that […]

“Instead of thinking about that we just went in and had a great time *laughs* and made some music that got us excited and put it together, so it was a different mindset, again I think that the only rules in place were we’re not going to record the record in the same way that we did the last two, […]

When the outspoken Gene Simmons of Kiss declared in an interview with Esquire last year that “Rock is finally dead”, a wave of response followed, both in agreement and dissent. Whether dead or alive, one thing is for certain: backstage at a rock concert is not the same as it used to be. Authors and photographers Paul Miles and Jason […]

Bombastic, hard-driving, generation-spanning rock n’ roll with instantly memorable, sharp-as-hell hooks propel Everclear’s new studio album, Black Is The New Black. Muscular but melodic, this is the sound of a band driven and united by singular, intense purpose. The songs rip forward with palpable swagger, supercharged by a mix of autobiographical exorcism and narrative storytelling, from the gut and throat of Everclear’s singer, guitarist, cofounder […]

During 2014 Birds of Tokyo based themselves in America; taking their music overseas for the first time. In between all the U.S. gigs and interviews they wrote and recorded four songs. Four songs about being a long way from home. Four songs about perspective being gained from distance. Four songs about trying to find connection in a strange new world. Now those […]

Tickets to the Australian leg of AC/DC’s massive ROCK OR BUST world tour went on sale this morning and due to huge demand extra shows were announced within minutes to keep up with the demand. AC/DC will now play 2 stadium shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.   NATIONAL TOUR DATES: SYDNEY – Wednesday 4 and *Saturday 7 November at ANZ Stadium Australia, www.ticketek.com.au BRISBANE – Thursday 12 and *Saturday 14 November at QSAC www.ticketek.com.au ADELAIDE – Saturday 21 […]

Award winning NZ artist Gin Wigmore has announced her third studio album ‘Blood To Bone’ will be released Friday June 26th. Diving into a variety of unchartered musical avenues with her new album, the first single ‘New Rush’, a clear example that of exploration, is available today on all digital partners. Co-written with Charlie Andrews (Alt J & Laurel Collective) […]

“So this time around we focused on how do we sound when we play live because when we play live that’s really what we are and those songs we choose to play from our records sound a lot like the songs on the new album, so it felt like it’s been a fun and great process trying to bring out […]