AFI lead vocalist Davey Havok and guitarist Jade Puget have announced November 21 as the release date for XTRMST,the self-titled debut album from the duo’s new straight-edge hardcore band. The first single from the album,Conformist is out now and you can listen to 4 other tracks via the band’s Soundcloud. “Jade and I have been talking about starting a straight edge […]

From the second this album begins simply with a violin, it’s a somber beginning, a mood is set with a two minute introduction called ‘Convocation’ and I listen and get taken away, taken away to a place that just feels nice, it gives me the feeling that Yellowcard have grown up, and I can’t wait to hear what this, their […]

It’s always funny to me when I know of a band but have never actually heard anything they’ve done, and after I do listen to them I kick myself and think why did I take so long to listen?! Why? So here I am today with Antiskeptic and their new album ‘Stare Down The Ocean’… you’ll see after reading this […]

Contemporary classic rockers, The Dead Daisies, have released their second single, “Angel In Your Eyes”, from their Face I Love EP, as they get set to commence their tour (of the same name) across Australia and New Zealand in late November. The Dead Daisies will hit Australia in November, ready to headline 5 massive shows across the country, taking in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, and […]

Date: Wednesday October 15, 2014 Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Support: The Superjesus 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  

In 2012 The Tea Party reformed, to a big Australian tour, recorded a live DVD and they were back. Went off to write and record an album and 1, 2, skip a few here we are two years on seeing The Tea Party again. This time in a theatre and I’m looking forward to seeing them here, as I feel […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have ten copies of the new Train album ‘Bulletproof Picasso’ to give away to our lucky readers. To win one of the ten copies, simply send us an email to mtrbwy@maytherockbewithyou.com with the subject line of ‘Train Giveaway’ and include your name and address and the answer to this question…‘What did […]

Eleven Seven Music Group is proud to announce the signing of Aussie rockers, My Secret Circus. “For a US label to sign an Australian band there has to be something special,” says CEO Allen Kovac. “When My Secret Circus releases their first album on Eleven Seven, the world will be introduced to a very special artist.” MY SECRET CIRCUS merge […]

Purveyors of quality rock’n’roll, Melbourne rock band Palace Of The King is set to release their debut album in April 2015.  Ahead of this, they will whet the appetite with their riff-heavy brand of psych-blues rock n’ roll, releasing a new track each month from November 2014 through to March 2015. Five months, five singles, all to be unleashed on […]

“For twenty years we’ve been dodging bullets and somehow consistently making music, then you think maybe all artists who have lasted time are Bulletproof Picasso’s at some point…” On their promo tour of Australia we were lucky to sit down with Pat Monahan and Jimmy Stafford of Train for our first video interview to discuss the band’s new album ‘Bulletproof […]

This weekend, the new HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways begins on GO!. Airing this Saturday, October 18 at 4:30pm – just hours after it premieres in the US. Fans can also catch encore screenings on Sunday, October 19 at 3:30pm on GO! and Wednesday, October 22 at midnight on Channel Nine. The official trailer- viewable below – features musicians involved in this incredible series […]

OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ & CEDRIC BIXLER-ZAVALA (At The Drive In/The Mars Volta) FORM ‘ANTEMASQUE’ EPONYMOUS DEBUT GETS AUSTRALIAN RELEASE ON NOVEMBER 7 (digital) / NOVEMBER 24 (LP/CD) ANTEMASQUE is a band. A very new band. As it happens, it is the most recent band formed by respected rock pundits Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At The Drive In and The Mars Volta fame. ANTEMASQUE will release their eponymous debut longplayer digitally […]

To say 2014 has been a bit of a whirlwind year for The Bennies would be somewhat of an understatement. And if you know anything about The Bennies, you’d probably appreciate that they’ve no time for subtleties.  In the midst of a mental touring schedule, The Bennies will release their brand new EP, Heavy Disco digitally on Poison City Records on November 11 before […]

Date: Tuesday October 14, 2014 Venue: The Metro Theatre, Sydney Presented By: Frontier Touring 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  

If there’s one thing I love about these small exclusive type shows it’s that the lucky 1,100 or so here are here as fans, they know these songs, they love this band and compared to an arena where you’ll get the casual ‘oh I’ll go and check them out’ type person, here we have fans who snapped up these tickets […]

Following the announcement last week of TRAIN’s Bulletproof Picasso Tour Australian dates, a last minute change to the band’s international travel arrangements have required the rescheduling of dates for both the Sydney and Melbourne shows. Train will perform now at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday April 1 (originally scheduled for Sunday April 5 – no change of venue). Sydney show […]

New version of 1977 studio recording contains previously unreleased demos, live tracks, 1977 Gene Simmons interview and liner notes by Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees KISS continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary with the release of a deluxe two-CD version of their 1977 U.S. platinum-plus album, Love Gun, coming out October 31, 2014 via […]

“I think the live shows and the energy of the crowd and everything has sort of driven the direction of the songs, things have sort of got a different heartbeat to it and yeah I think that the way the live shows has been going has directing our song writing a bit.” From Release: The Kin have established themselves as […]

Rock icon BILLY IDOL is returning to Australia and New Zealand for his first concert tour of Australia since 2002 and his first of New Zealand since 1987. The original punk turned global superstar will perform indoor shows and a day on the green winery events in March and April 2015. Idol’s band includes long-time collaborator and lead-guitarist Steve Stevens. […]

Today, Bluesfest Byron Bay, the highly awarded 5 Day Music Festival, held over the 2015 Easter long weekend (EVENT DATES: Thu 2nd to Mon 6th of April, 2015) reveals its 2nd group of outstanding artists to perform at its purpose-built festival & camping site just north of Byron Bay. The 1st Announcement for the 26th Annual Bluesfest that included THE […]

“I’ve been continually blown away but not only how much fun I have but by how much the fans enjoy it, and I really feel like I’ve gotten better at it over the years because like having done all the shows I’ve done to where the sets are really now these emotional trips over maybe over an hour and half […]

Indie pop-rock duo People On Vacation are back with their brilliant new album ‘The Chronicles Of Tim Powers’ The two Texans funded the release through a hugely successful PledgeMusic crowdfunding campaign and as a testament to their commitment to fan interaction, they even named the album after one lucky pledger! If you’ve not heard of People On Vacation it is the […]

Frontier Touring are proud to welcome back multi-platinum selling band The Script to Australia and New Zealand to play a string of arena shows in April and May 2015! The Dublin-raised, London-based trio – Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power – are no strangers to Australia, having sold out multiple arena shows on their previous visits and currently in […]

American rockers THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM return to Australia for four pulsating shows in January and February 2015. “So few hoist the flag of rock ‘n’ roll as proudly and explicitly as The Gaslight Anthem these days.” – Alternative Press. No stranger to blowing away audiences on the stages at some of the most iconic stadiums in the world – punters […]

Brisbane Show Announced & 2nd Sydney Show Added After selling out the previously announced Australian shows and adding an extra show in Sydney, ED KOWALCZYK will extend the ‘I Alone Acoustic Tour’ this November to include Brisbane due to the overwhelming demand from his dedicated Queensland fans. The legendary songwriter and former lead-singer of the multi-platinum rock band, Live, Ed […]

Three-time Grammy award winners and perpetual hit makers, TRAIN,are returning to Australia in April 2015 as part of a world tour in support of their seventh studio album,Bulletproof Picasso. The San Francisco-based group have been responsible for some of the most successful and loved pop smash hits of the past two decades, including “Drops of Jupiter”, “Meet Virginia”, “Calling All Angels” […]

“There’s something quite magic when you go out there and you live for the moment, in the studio everything is for eternity and you start thinking in those terms because I better be careful what I put down on this album because I have to live with it forever and ever, where with the live show it’s just for now, […]

“Yeah, this is it man, people who are fans of the band and see we’re playing or haven’t seen us yet, or want to see us for the last time, this tour is definitely one to attend.” From Bio: From the schizophrenic opening cut, the sarcasm-dripping, sound effect-laden “Hail to his Majesty” to the thrash-punk riffs and booming bass reverberations […]

“I feel like we have kind of this new beginning in a way, I feel like the band is closer than we’ve ever been, I also feel that one of the biggest things why I also love being in my band is that we can be who we are without having to worry about anything.” From release: New Found Glory […]

“Not that we’ve died and gone and came back but we feel that we’ve put a lot of what we used to be and things that we weren’t fond of and our mistakes of the past, we just buried them and let them die and came back as the new entity that we are now…” From release: Motionless In White […]