JOE SATRIANI has been an unstoppable force on the music scene for more than 27 years. Acclaimed around the world as one of the most technically accomplished and respected guitarists in rock music, the Australasian leg of his mammoth world tour brings the guitar professor back for his first headline shows since 2008. The tour, which is in support of Satriani’s […]

“I think that’s always the key, you’ve got to write great music and put all the entertainment stuff on the side and just try to concentrate on writing great music and you will eventually connect with your audience.” From Bio: One of the most influential and respected instrumental rock guitarists to emerge in the past three decades, Joe Satriani is that […]

New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem return with their eagerly-anticipated new album Get Hurt – to be released in Australia on 15 August. Recorded at the legendary Blackbird Studios in Nashville with producer Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys and Jake Bugg), ‘Get Hurt’ sees The Gaslight Anthem pushing their raw, stripped back rock ‘n’ roll into new territory, drawing on a fresh […]

Pop Will Eat Itself are set to return to Australia for the first time in 20 years!! POP WILL EAT ITSELF, aka PWEI, aka the Poppies stormed on to the late 80’s UK scene with their high energy, industrial tinged dance / rock anthems. They shared many a stage with such musical contemporaries as Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Jesus Jones, and The Wonder Stuff. However, […]

“I love the stage man, there’s no two ways about it. I love writing music, I love singing music, I love everything about music. I get up every day and all I do is listen to music, all day long until I go to bed and it’s every genre, man…” From Tour Release: While many bands in the modern era […]

DEVILDRIVER have been slaying their way across the USA in a string of sold out shows with the irrepressible WHITECHAPEL in tow. These two titans have joined forces and will be bringing their pure fuckin’ metal forces to Australia in September. While many bands in the modern era are already withering away, DEVILDRIVER have proven to mutate, grow stronger, deadlier […]

Date: Friday June 13, 2014 Venue: The Factory Theatre, Sydney Supported By: Yetis, The Soorleys Photos by: Gwendolyn Lee – Gwendolyn Lee Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY        

Legendary rock pioneer, IAN ANDERSON – best known as the flute and voice behind the genre-defying Jethro Tull – will breath new life into the best of his epic catalogue in Australia this December. When Jethro Tull released their iconic album Thick As A Brick in 1972, front man Ian Anderson led the way in revolutionizing the rock concept album. […]

“When we talk about solo albums or the identity of Jethro Tull vs Ian Anderson, it doesn’t to me, nothing changes, I’m just doing what I do, after all these years living on the increasingly, incredible, unbelievable identity theft of a historical character’s name I would prefer my twilight years to be performed as Ian Anderson rather than Jethro Tull…” […]

ARCHITECTS have unveiled the brand new video for the single ‘Gravedigger’, taken from the new album, Lost Forever // Lost Together, out now via UNFD. Click below to watch. The band have just been announced on The Amity Affliction ‘Let The Ocean Take Me’ national tour this August/September with Issues, Stray From The Path and Deez Nuts. PRESENTED BY TRIPLE J, BLUNT MAGAZINE AND CONVERSE IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNIFIED […]

July 4 will see the welcome return of one of the most notorious and thrilling punk bands to ever be spat out of the UK. Returning with a new single entitled ‘Chains’ (recently showcased as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record’ on Radio One), Watford punks Gallows are coiled and sprung and ready to detonate once again. “It’s been a quiet year so far […]

Rejoice! Saviours of truly excellent pop punk/rock, Philly sextet THE WONDER YEARSare winging their way back down under this Spring to deliver noisy, fist-pumpable tunes and all-round good guy funtimes. Riding the tsunami of success generated by their most recent third full-length record ‘The Greatest Generation’, The Wonder Years are famous for thrilling live shows and their unwavering dedication to always going the extra mile […]

Live Nation by arrangement with Artist Voice are thrilled to present bohemian rock’n’roll outfit, HOWLING BELLS in Australia this September. In support of their recently released fourth album, Heartstrings, the band will return for their first set of national headline shows since 2011. Tickets for all shows go on sale at midday Thursday June 19. My Live Nation members can be among the first […]

JOHN GARCIA (Kyuss & Slo-Burn) Australian Tour: September 2014 – with Waxy (USA) and Mammoth Mammoth (Melb) John Garcia is instantly recognisable as the voice of a genre. Single handedly bringing the California Desert Rock sound to the world via his works with Kyuss, Slo Burn, Unida, Hermano and Vista Chino and spawning a million copycats in the process His […]

SEETHER Reveal New Track, “Suffer It All” Available For Immediate Download With ‘Isolate And Medicate’ Pre-Order Lyric Video For “Words As Weapons” Released Today As Seether prepare to unleash their sixth studio album, ‘Isolate and Medicate’, to the world on June 27th, the platinum-selling alternative rockers have revealed a second track, “Suffer It All” for fans to stream and download today. One of the heaviest songs on the album, the track […]

The Amity Affliction have announced their biggest headline tour to date, in support of their recently released smash hit album “Let The Ocean Take Me”, which was released last Friday June 6. The tour will take in some of Australia’s most iconic venues and will include support from some of the hottest heavy music acts in the world. “Let The […]

Rock N Roll is truly a small world and THE STRUMS (Brisbane/Australia) and CAFEINE (Montreal/Canada) are heading your way in July to prove it. If you like your music energized and delivered by true believers, THE STRUMS and CAFEINE will be up your alley. It’s time to save Rock N Roll … again. THIS IS A FUCKIN ROCK N ROLL […]

Australian music royalty unite as, Rick Price opens for Rick Springfield on his Australian Tour in October 2014. These two iconic musicians have paved the way for many Aussie artists overseas over the years, and are a shining example to young singer/songwriters, that you can make your dreams come true with a guitar in hand! Rick Springfield, is a Grammy […]

Iva Davies has plenty to celebrate today starting with ICEHOUSE‘s WHITE HEAT: 30 HITS compilation officially being awarded Platinum sales status. Davies took receipt of the Platinum discs at an intimate ceremony at Universal Music Australia who distribute the ICEHOUSE catalogue for Davies’ Diva Records imprint*. “I can’t thank George, Liam, Shaun, Darren, Nadya and the UMA team enough for their support and encouragement,” says Iva. […]

“… I have to sort of become the person that is singing the song if that makes any sense, even though I wrote them and I’ve had Dave sing them, now I’ve got sort of go through what he does before each song he becomes the person of that song if that makes any sense.” From press release: As the […]

“… I’d almost go as far as to say we’re grownups now, possibly… I don’t know… we’re certainly the right age to be grownups, but I don’t know we’re mentally grownup yet, we kind of went from school bus straight onto tour bus, so that’s just put us in a perpetual state of adolescence…” From Tour Release: Biffy Clyro have […]

FOZZY have announced they will release their highly anticipated, new full-length studio album ‘Do You Wanna Start A War’ (Century Media Records) in Australia and New Zealand on July 25th! Fans can now pre-order the 12-track album at iTunes and receive an instant download of the song “One Crazed Anarchist.” Preview the track now and watch the new lyric video premiering exclusively at Revolver. Recently, the band unveiled a new lyric video […]

“Well, it’s like a metaphor but it’s also very straight forward as well. I live near the ocean and it’s a very calming place for me and a place where I find great escape from any sort of problems in my life…” From Press Release: Urgent, aggressive, and remarkably cathartic, Let The Ocean Take Me is The Amity Affliction at their most […]

You Know My Name – Courtney Love Lennard Promotions and Max TV present Courtney Love on her very first ever solo tour of Australia. Courtney Love has left an indelible lipstick-smeared mark on her generation, once described by Rolling Stone as the most controversial woman in the history of rock, Love’s artistic career has weathered deep human tragedy, fluctuating public opinion […]

Closure In Moscow have kindly provided you with the funkiest pop rock jam of the Winter, the tune to set your day alight, the hook to torture your poor skull for the next fortnight. Seeds Of Gold is the second single taken from the Melbourne band’s long awaited second LP, Pink Lemonade. It’s destined to leave newcomers and fans with gobs aghast, and […]

FOO FIGHTERS (AS-YET UNTITLED) EIGHTH ALBUM CONFIRMED FOR NOVEMBER RELEASE ON ROSWELL / RCA / Sony Music FIRST PEEK AT HBO DOCUMENTARY SERIES FOO FIGHTERS: SONIC HIGHWAYS LIVE NOW HERE  “This is a musical map of America.”-Dave Grohl This weekend Foo Fighter fans were treated to a surprise teaser preview of the new HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. The sneak peek – now viewable […]

The rumours of the Death of Rock n Roll have been greatly exaggerated. Darkc3ll are the living dead embodiment of it – and if anyone has say so over whether it is alive or dead, it’s the graven industrial metal gods from Brisbane, who have had a massive start to 2014. They embarked on the entire Soundwave Festival tour and […]

PENNYWISE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘YESTERDAYS’ VIA EPITAPH JULY 11 Jim Lindberg Returns as Front Man Southern California punk legends Pennywise will release their eleventh studio album,Yesterdays, on July 11 via Epitaph Records. Jim Lindberg is back as the front man, andYesterdays includes songs written by deceased bassist, Jason Thirsk. Listen to the first cut from the album “Violence Never Ending” in […]

“We go for catchy melodies and riffs, we try to say something we think is profoundly important in the space of one sentence, and we always try to put something special in there that people can sink into – like a groove, a breakdown, or a dancey bit.” From Bio: Bonney Read was born out of the teeth, nails, and […]

“The attitude to playing in a band is quite different now because when we started there was a very unique and healthy underground scene where bands like the Hard-Ons who were never really on TV or radio but they could still go around playing five gigs a week all around the suburbs and all the venues were packed.” From tour […]