Legends of rock, The Darkness, have returned to bedazzle and amaze once more as they serve up their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast via Cooking Vinyl in March 2025. Pre-order the album now HERE. “You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist,” comments frontman Justin Hawkins. “God might […]

The Darkness have unleashed the first taste and title track of their forthcoming opus Motorheart out November 19th via Cooking Vinyl. Paying homage to a devoted sex robot, ‘Motorheart’ growls, pounds and stomps with Rufus Taylor’s drums, Frankie Poullain’s bass and Justin & Dan Hawkins’ guitars all turned up to 11, whilst Justin’s trademark vocals soar to ever more earthquaking levels. Regarding the […]

The Darkness have released their brand new single Rock And Roll Deserves To Die, accompanied by a brilliantly entertaining video. It’s the first taste of their jaw-droppingly ambitious new album Easter Is Cancelled, out on October 4 on Cooking Vinyl. PRE-ORDER EASTER IS CANCELLED HERE From chiming, acoustic beginnings, Rock And Roll Deserves To Die explodes into an epic five-minute masterpiece. It features some of Justin Hawkins’ finest lyrics […]

The All-American Rejects have released Send Her To Heaven, a three-song single, out today in partnership with Epitaph Records. LISTEN TO SEND HER TO HEAVEN HERE The songs were written and recorded over the last two to three years with different producers, a process that was a relatively new experience for the band. “The last couple of records were fun to make but they were […]

In the Year of Our Lord, 2019, while turmoil and chaos beset the world, a mighty force is about to be unleashed. As the spartan time of Lent unfolds, and society looks set to implode, it’s time to put away your chocolate eggs, say goodbye to the festive bunny and prepare for the sonic apocalypse… for Darkness spreads across the […]

MILLENCOLIN fans are always waging wars, pitting so many of their brilliant records against each other to see which comes out the victor. It’s a war that never will be won considering they are always shaking up their modus operandi and playing outside their comfort zone. The one consolation fans can take when the band tour here in March 2019 is […]

“…we needed to do something fresh for ourselves and we needed to reinvent ourselves a little bit, six records in can’t keep doing stuff that feels the same, because as I said then you just become a band that just sort of bit by bit blows into obscurity…” From Release: The band have notched up a list of considerable achievements […]

Famous for leaving a trail of exhausted, boozy, sweaty and supremely satisfied bodies in their wake THE BRONX will be unleashing a reckless level of energy; no barriers, no pause for breath, across regional Australia this October. For the first time ever The Bronx will be bringing their gut punch of fist-in-the-air, fire-in-the-belly anthems to towns up and down the East Coast. […]

You Me At Six have today revealed the official video for their latest single 3AM, one of the first tracks to be taken from their new sixth studio album VI, out October 5th. PRE ORDER VI HERE The video, that splits into two contrasting segments, spells out a night like no other and presents what frontman Josh Franceschi thinks happened (Act 1: Expectation), swiftly followed by the entertaining […]

You Me At Six today mark their return to the UK music scene with an exceptional double A-side of Fast Forward & 3AM, the first tracks taken from their brand new sixth studio album VI. Released on October 5th, the release of VI marks a new partnership between the band and Cooking Vinyl Australia, releasing under their new Underdog Records imprint. PRE ORDER VI HERE VI is not what you might expect a You […]

The Gaslight Anthem has unveiled further plans commemorating the 10th anniversary of their landmark second studio album, THE ’59 SOUND. The New Jersey-based rock ‘n’ roll band will mark the momentous occasion with the release of THE ’59 SOUND SESSIONS, a new companion to the classic LP featuring nine rare and previously unreleased songs as well an all-new 60-page booklet. THE ’59 SOUND SESSIONS will be available digitally […]

“We’ve been reborn, we’re playing really, really well right now and everyone’s hyped on the new record, the new songs sound just so mean live, everything is focused and really fuckin’ good right now if I can say that without sounding like an idiot.” From Release: Famous for leaving a trail of exhausted, boozy, sweaty and supremely satisfied bodies in […]

England’s most distinctive, multiple award-winning, platinum-selling, hugely entertaining rock gods – and one-time saviours of rock’n’roll turned national pleasures – The Darkness are back with their fifth album Pinewood Smile, due for release on October 6  through Cooking Vinyl. Marking the announcement the band have today unveiled the spectacular album opener All The Pretty Girls, across all streaming platforms. It’s also available for download with pre-orders […]

“I do like to say we’re a real high energy live show and everybody’s very happy to be there, everybody on stage is excited to be where we’re at and we’re all having the most fun. We take it seriously, it’s not goofy by any means but we take having fun very seriously too.” From Release: Celebrated American rock band Against […]

“Then you have other people who expect you to go somewhere and go somewhere new but only in the way they expect you to do it, so it’s a catch 22 there’s no way to please everybody so I just threw all that away and did what I wanted to do.” From release: STARSET’s story is unique. The band’s founder […]

Melbourne quartet Ceres celebrate selling out their Drag It Down On You album headlining tour by announcing 91′ Your House tour kicking off in February to support their brand new single and video taken from their stunning sophomore release Drag It Down On You. Since forming in 2012, Ceres’ infectious anthemic songs combined with endless enthusiasm and unmistakably Australian likability has resulted in the Melbourne quartet […]

I love finding ‘new’ bands, and I mean new to me, as this is Starset’s second album and all I want to do is go back and find their first now, and I will. So let’s get into an album I’ve already listened through about five times and discuss why I think this one is so rad! ‘The Order’ is […]

Influential Gainesville punk band Less Than Jake has announced plans to release a new EP titled Sound The Alarm on February 3rd with their new label Pure Noise Records. Fans can pre-order the record and stream a brand new song called Things Change HERE Speaking about the new song, lyricist and drummer Vinnie Fiorello says “the only thing constant is […]

  “It could take six years to write one song or magic could happen in five minutes, you never really know and that’s why it’s a weird thing but it’s the most rewarding thing because there is no better feeling than finishing a good song and sitting back and going ‘wow I made that, this is something from nothing’ it’s […]

“I always felt like when you make a record, especially like a second record you have to kind of go in and reinvent yourself as an artist and kind of rethink how you make music and what kind of music do you want to make. The band starts to change and evolve…” While in Sydney, Australia and only hours before […]

“Like most times you get solo artists or what have you, after twenty five years of doing it well no one tells you shit, like this is how I do it and to try and sort of step back from everything and say “maybe I don’t know everything here guys, what do you think?” was really challenging I’ve got to […]

Ceres, the charming Melbournians will hit the road in October and November for a string of shows to celebrate their sophomore album, Drag It Down On You out on September 2 via Cooking Vinyl Australia. Tickets go on sale Thursday 25 August at 9am. Ceres are thrilled to announce they’ll be releasing Drag It Down On You with US independent label,No Sleep Records. No Sleep Records is the […]

American heavy rockers BARONESS have announced their eagerly-awaited return to Australia, with their first ever headline tour taking them across the country this December. Kicking off their national tour in Sydney at the Metro Theatre on December 7, Baroness continue around the country playing shows at The Triffid in Brisbane on December 8, Melbourne’s Prince Bandroom on December 9, The […]

Following 9 months of touring in support of the critically acclaimed album, High Country, The Swordreturned to the studio to experiment with a stripped down acoustic presentation of the High Country songs. The result, produced by bassist Bryan Richie and mixed by J. Robbins, is Low Country which will see a worldwide release on September 23 via Razor & Tie.  The album […]

After topping the rock charts in 2014 and 2015, The Pretty Reckless return on October 21 with Who You Selling For, the band’s anticipated third studio album and the follow-up to Going To Hell, which spawned the biggest rock song of 2014 in Heaven Knows and a total of three #1 Mainstream and Active Rock hits. Produced by longtime collaborator Kato Khandwala, Who You Selling For is an […]

“…as the band we just grew and evolved and not to say that we all evolved or moved in the same direction artistically but we did certainly grow as artists and I think we started to find out different parts of ourselves creatively that were going in different directions and because of that we were able to put it together […]

FRNKIERO ANDTHE PATIENCE. have announced they’ll be bringing their punk fury to Australia on their first national tour in October with special guest from New York, WALTER SCHREIFELS. In January, FRNKIERO won the hearts of Aussie fans when he decided to come to Australia to perform free acoustic performances after the cancelation of Soundwave 2016. The overwhelming turn out blew […]

PIERCE THE VEIL, one of the fast rising and most electrifying rock bands on the music scene today, has announced their eagerly-awaited return to Australia to celebrate the release of their highly anticipated album, Misadventures. The San Diego natives will tour nationally this August with special guests SILVERSTEIN, BEARTOOTH and STORM THE SKY joining them on all dates. Tickets for all […]

NOLA metal band Cane Hill has premiered a video for the first new song, (The New) Jesus, from their debut record, Smile, which is due out on July 15 via Rise Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia. Watch Cane Hill’s provocative new video for (The New) Jesus Here: “(The) New Jesus is the beginning. It is the end. It is everything in between. It’s time to reconsider who […]

Parkway Drive gave fans the chance to name their Australian East Coast Regional tour, so why the fans? Winston says, “Honestly, we we’re just kind of stuck for names. We could have called it anything, but we figured if that was the case we may as well let our fans throw some names at us.” After sifting through hundreds of entries […]