Iconic Australian rockers Thirsty Merc mark a 10-year milestone since the release of their self-titled double platinum debut LP with the announcement of their Acoustic Anniversary Album. Dubbed AAA the album is a collection of acoustic interpretations of fan favourites including ‘20 Good Reasons’, ‘In The Summertime’, ‘Someday Someday’, and ‘Mousetrap Heart’. These new recordings showcase the band’s exemplary level of musicianship and hearing […]

COMEBACK KID are an undeniable staple of the hardcore community. It’s been 11 years since their debut album and with the release of their fifth record, Die Knowing, earlier in 2014, the Canadian quintet are gearing up to bring their new stuff back to Australia this October for their ever growing legion of fans. Taking influence from their contemporaries in […]

The Dead Daisies Face I Love EP cover The EP cover art was created via the bands own innovative Face I Love App, which had fans uploading images of “faces they love” to help complete a photo-mosaic portrait of the band’s daisy-skull logo. The Dead Daisies much-anticipated new EP, Face I Love, is out today across Australia, as the band gets ready to […]

Commemorating the 25-year anniversary since the recording of their first EP, Sweden’s extreme musical deviants MESHUGGAH have announced the artwork and the track listing to their upcoming live DVD / 2-CD release ‘The Ophidian Trek’, due out worldwide this fall and also available in Blu-ray. With visual footage shot in the U.S. & Europe during ‘’The Ophidian Trek’’ tour and festival footage from Wacken Open […]

Sydney Alternative Rockers The Dead Love have just released their debut album ‘Transitions’, and are kitting up to bring their outstanding live show to venues across Australia. After two years in the making, The Dead Love successfully released first single ‘This is a War’, which received airplay on Triple J’s ‘Home & Hosed’, followed by second single ‘The Desert Sun’, which gained airplay on Triple J Unearthed Radio. The […]

THE MADDEN BROTHERS have taken Australia by storm with their platinum certified smash single ‘We Are Done’, from their debut album Greetings From California to be released on September 12.  Joel and Benji Madden will bring the live experience of their album straight to Australian fans when The Madden Brothers tour nationally in Australia kicking off in Melbourne on October 31, 2014.Joel and […]

THE TEA PARTY – THE OCEAN AT THE END – AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TOUR OCTOBER 2014 Canadian purveyors of rock THE TEA PARTY will return to Australia for a National Tour this October.  The Ocean At The End Tour marks The Tea Party’s fourteenth Australian visit and coincides with the release of the beast, that is, The Ocean At The End – the trio’s first studio album in ten […]

“I just want to keep playing music and keep having a good vibe in the band and that we’re still in ten years from now or twenty years from now that we still love playing with each other and writing songs and there’s fire…” From Bio: It’s been a long, hard and winding road for mankind, but in December 2011 […]

Nagoya, Japan rock band coldrain, have announced their upcoming full-length album THE REVELATION, will be released on August 8 Sony Music Entertainment Australia/VAP. Australian fans will be treated to an exclusive 16 track Australian Deluxe Edition of the album. Produced by the award winning David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember), THE REVELATION, is the band’s debut international album. “It’s hard to put in words […]

If there’s one band that unfortunately isn’t well known enough in Australia, it’s Theory of a Deadman, and what’s annoying is they should be all over the place. So it’s great to have their new album ‘Savages’ getting a run down here and fingers crossed that it leads to some airplay or god forbid a possible tour!! Opener ‘Drown’ is […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Universal Music Australia, we have FIVE CD copies of the awesome new John Mellencamp release to give away to five of our lucky readers. This is a live recording from July 31, 2003 and is a must for any fan of Mr Mellencamp. So if you want to win one of the five copies, […]

There’s just a vibe about this new Fozzy album, like that they feel they still have something to try and prove, and that may not be the case at all, as they’ve really come into their own over the last few years as they’ve made just kick ass rock and roll music, and this album is absolutely no exception to […]

This October, the career of rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE will be celebrated with the Epic Records/Legacy Recordings MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN collections released in Australia through Sony Music Entertainment. Due out October 10, MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN (CD) serves as a career spanning audio release, featuring 17 of OZZY’s greatest hit singles compiled in one place for the first time in his career and will be available in a single […]

Like, Metal Down Under. This book captures the past, present and future of the Australian metal scene and condenses it into 400 pages riveting, essential reading. The Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal is an attempt to chronicle the history of heavy music in Australia. From the heady psychedelic early days of Buffalo and bruising boogie of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo […]

The Dead Daisies are flawless as they show North America that new classic rock is well and truly alive With rave reviews pouring in, The Dead Daisies are impressing even the staunchest of classic rock fans with their lives shows, as they wrap up their support tour with Bad Company & Lynyrd Skynyrd, before heading off to join the juggernaut summer tour that […]

GODSMACK to release their new album ‘1000hp’ via Spinefarm / Caroline Australia on Friday August 29th, 2014 Few bands have so consistently and successfully championed the cause of hard rock as Godsmack. Since the release of their self-titled debut (1998), the Boston quartet have notched up a remarkable set of facts ‘n’ stats in the US and beyond: these include 4 Grammy […]

Sony Music is proud to support ‘The Making Of Midnight Oil’ exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum. After a triumphant opening on Friday June 20th the gallery has gone on to welcome thousands of visitors from right across Australia and internationally, and has now announced the following special events: SPECIAL FILM SCREENING EVENT: THE MAKING OF 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Wednesday 6th August, 6:30PM […]

Nonpoint are set to release their eighth studio album, “The Return,” In Australia on September 29 via Metal Blade/Rocket. After 17 years in the game, the Florida quintet sustains the same energy that sparked its foundation back in 1997. The riffs crack with intensity, the bass and drums forge an unmatched groove, and the vocals rapidly recount stories of pain and […]

US metal favourites PRONG will tour Australia for the first time ever this coming November for Nightmare Music. Founded by singer/guitarist Tommy Victor in 1986, the band has never made it to Australian shores at any point in their 28-year career. But all that is about to change… Tommy Victor: “PRONG has never been to Australia. In all the years of it’s existence. I personally haven’t been […]

THEY’RE BACK! RUSSO & JAMIESON TEAM UP FOR CHRISTMAS SHOWS They joined forces earlier this year for two SOLD OUT shows in Sydney and Melbourne, and now the rest of Australia will get the chance to experience Phil Jamieson and Scott Russo’s live show. The two front men will be giving fans an early Christmas present as they hit the […]

THE SCRIPT ANNOUNCE FORTHCOMING ALBUM PLANS – NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE – TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 19TH  NEW SINGLE SUPERHEREOS TO RADIO THURSDAY JULY 24TH The Script today announced the plans for their eagerly awaited fourth album. Titled NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE, the record will be released in Australia on September 19th, and is preceded by the single ‘Superheroes’. The plans were unveiled in an exclusive Google Hangout with […]

Busy kicking ass on Vans Warped Tour, Anberlin have stopped for a brief moment to drop a bewitching new video for Stranger Ways, a track taken from their seventh and final album,lowborn. Instead of recording the album together, each member of the band recorded their own parts with separate producers they each selected. The result is a diverse and lush collection of songs that […]

“…when you get a little momentum in this business you want to keep it rolling and we’ve got enough momentum each time to get our foot in the door and now that our foot’s in the door we want to kick the damn thing open and burst into the next stage…” From release: Led by the inimitable duo of guitarist Rich […]

Ha ha I love punk rock, purely for the fact that this eleven track album clocks in in just under thirty minutes, so good, actually by the time I finished this sentence the first two songs had finished… I kid, I kid because it’s Pennywise, they get jokes. What’s interesting about this album is the fact that these songs have […]

Platinum-selling pop rockers American Hi-Fi are set to release their fifth full-length album, Blood & Lemonade on Friday September 12, 2014 in Australia and New Zealand through Rude Records/Rocket. Australian pre-orders for Vinyl, CD and Digital album are available now at JB Hifi and iTunes. ‘Golden State’ is the second single to come off their forthcoming album, following on from the first single ‘Allison’, which kicked off the Boston band’s return from a semi-hiatus earlier this year. Front man Stacy […]

MELBOURNE SOLD OUT WITH SECOND SHOW ADDED! After the first Melbourne 18+ show sold out in a matter of hours You Me At Six, Tonight Alive (and the promoters) were inundated by fans to add a second show. We are now bloody stoked to announce a second and definitely final YOU ME AT SIX and TONIGHT ALIVE Melbourne show. Tickets […]

When a band has been making music for so long and with a few varied line-ups, I’m always intrigued as to what they continue to come up with, one of those bands is Corrosion Of Conformity or C.O.C. to the cool kids. My mate JD has always raved about C.O.C. (he’s one of the cool kids) and I’ve been aware […]

“…and it may throw some people for a loop because you’ve got the guys that are pure metal, they want to see metal, then you’ve got the guys that want to see punk rock, then you’ve got the guys that are into doom or whatever *laughs* and I think we’ve always tried to grab a little bit of all of […]

A band that defies categorisation and one of the most innovative indie bands, SAY ANYTHING are heading back to Australia this October for a series of headline shows. Forming in 2000, SAY ANYTHING has built a formidable and fiercely loyal fan base with their quirky, honest and eclectic take on rock. Since the release of their seminal album ‘ …Is A Real Boy’, SAY ANYTHING have […]

Possum Records CEO Philip Israel is proud to announce the formation of a new record label called Poison Thorn Records. Poison Thorn Records, distributed by Universal Music, is a subsidiary of Possum Records. The new Sydney based label will be genre specific, catering exclusively to both local and international alternative, rock and metal bands and artists. “There’s a wealth of […]