AC/DC, the legendary multi-million-selling band, played their very first show on the 31st of December 1973 at Chequers Nightclub in Sydney. Now, 50 years later, AC/DC has thrilled their millions of fans by announcing the ‘POWER UP’ European tour for Summer 2024. To honour AC/DC’s 50-year reign as the world’s greatest rock and roll band, Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment Australia are proud to announce that the band’s […]

“One of the pre requisites of performing in Bon But Not Forgotten is to have a passion and great understanding of what AC/DC deliver.” From release: It will definitely be a High Voltage event when BON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, the ultimate AC/DC Tribute Act head out on a Nation-Wide run of shows, commemorating the 76th birthday of the legendary Bon […]

“Even though we’ve always been a political band wanting to sing about equality and against injustice and everything from the beginning, and still do.” If anger is an energy, then ‘Old Gods’ – Shihad’s 10th studio album – could singlehandedly power our capital city for a year. ‘Old Gods’ is a step into fury for frontman Jon Toogood whose lyrics […]

Oh hey everyone, it’s been far too long since I’ve done an album review (sorry!) But when something like this album comes along, I feel it’s my duty to get the word out. Now… If you’re not familiar with Rock Sugar, well how can I explain it? They take songs from different genres and put them together to make magic. […]

Tribute shows excite and polarise equally but there is no denying the thirst for nostalgia currently in Australia with the re-emergence of a vibrant tribute scene. Long gone is the stigma of “just a cover band” or as Danny Bazzi, from Silverback Touring, puts it, “tribute shows are now far from those which you would just catch, conveniently, while hitting your local […]

“The cool thing about it that’s really great is that if you ever liked anything about metal or pop or the 80’s this is your band because it takes the stuff that you already love and gives it to you in a new way combined with other stuff that you’ll love even if sometimes you won’t admit that you love […]

AC/DC will release their seventeenth full-length album POWER UP on November 13, 2020 through Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment Australia. This marks the legendary band’s first new music since 2014. POWER UP is available for pre-order HERE. To set the stage, they just unleashed a new single entitled ’Shot In The Dark’. The song sees the lineup of Angus Young [lead guitar], Brian Johnson [lead vocals], Cliff Williams [bass guitar], Phil Rudd [drums], and Stevie Young [rhythm guitar] firing […]

“We’ve been doing it basically as you said for our whole lives at the moment and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what I’m gonna do for the rest of my life.” From Release: For 30 years, BACKYARD BABIES has delivered top of the line dirty rock ‘n’ roll, both live and recorded. The fact that the original four […]

As they approach their 30th anniversary, one of Australia’s most loved and respected rock bands, The Screaming Jets, is gearing up for the release of a very special record – GOTCHA COVERED. Pre-order HERE Available from July 27, GOTCHA COVERED , the eighth full-length album from The Jets, was largely inspired by the band’s favourite radio hits of the last 50+ years, and songs that evoke […]

“It is seen as a ‘departure’ but for us it is a ‘progression’. There are certainly much darker themes and arrangements on Solas and the production and playing is very different to our normal rock n roll approach. We used our home studio much more and embarked on a journey of experimentation without being necessarily too worried about following the […]

“At the end of the day we’re not reinventing the wheel, people know what they’re gonna get with Airbourne because it’s rock and roll and we don’t go too far out of the boundaries of that, we’re not gonna go bring a keyboard in or something like that, we know the boundaries…” From Summernats release: Fun-loving, rip-roaring, hard-partying rock’n’roll band, Airbourne is […]

“…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 […]

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: […]

Everything is running a little late tonight, but as I had the chance to wait before doors opened I was able to chat to a number of fans doing the same and it was evident how much people were pumped for the show tonight and just how much there is a love for straight up rock and roll. So all […]

“At least from the album perspective, at least what I wanted to achieve with it was not stray too far from what we’ve done in the past because that’s obviously been working… but at the same time trying to evolve a couple of the songs a bit further in a different direction just because I think it’s important to kind […]

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 […]

ROCK OR BUST AUSTRALIAN TOUR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER DATES CONFIRMED TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 20 APRIL Promoter Garry Van Egmond announced the Australian dates for AC/DC’s ROCK OR BUST WORLD TOUR today.   Following on from the release of their worldwide Number One album ‘Rock Or Bust’, the legendary band will play Australian stadium shows in November and December.  AC/DC will blast their way through each of […]

“We just wanted to trust in our own song writing abilities and really enjoy the whole process, so we didn’t really have any fixed agenda as to what kind of record we wanted to make but then a couple of months into the process we started to get a really good feel that this record was going to be the […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have five copies of the new AC/DC album ‘Rock or Bust’ to give away to our lucky readers. To win one of the five copies, simply send us an email to mtrbwy@maytherockbewithyou.com with the subject line of ‘AC/DC Giveaway’ and include your name and address and finish this sentence for us…‘For […]

AC/DC’s recently announced album ROCK OR BUST, available for pre-order now, will have its first Australian public playback at midday on Sunday November 23rd, 2014 at the small Riverina town of The Rock, population 860, 5 days ahead of its official release on Friday November 28th. Sony Music and Alberts will be launching ROCK OR BUST at the Lockhart Shire’s […]

Alberts and Sony Music Entertainment Australia proudly announce the release of ROCK OR BUST, the highly anticipated new studio album from AC/DC, available in Australia on November 28th, 2014. ROCK OR BUST is the band’s first studio album in six years and features 11 new tracks. ROCK OR BUST follows the immensely successful BLACK ICE album, which debuted at #1 […]

“…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 […]

“We mix all the influences like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo and Judas Priest and Saxon and we make the music we like and all the influences should be in there.  It’s not that difficult, we never talked about how we should sound like, it’s just obvious.  It has to be that kind of style.” Doing the rounds of the Swedish […]

AC/DC’s Complete Catalogue Available Digitally for the First Time; All Tracks Mastered for iTunes (SYDNEY, Australia — November 20, 2012) Alberts, Sony Music and Apple today announced that AC/DC’s entire catalogue is now available digitally for the first time exclusively on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). From their 1976 international debut High Voltage to seminal classic Back In Black and 2008 smash […]

Devine Electric is an Australian Hard Rock band formed in Sydney, N.S.W. 2005. Emerging through the breakup of bands: Tommy Gun (Eli, Ivor), Dark Order (Zoran), Powerhead (Paul) and Zino who was at the wrong place at the right time.  At a time when pretentious and lack lustre acts were dominating the local Sydney venues – Devine Electric brought a […]