It’s been too long since Bowling For Soup have been in Australia. Ten years in fact. See… too long. So here for Good Things we are lucky enough to have a sideshow in Sydney and that’s where we are tonight. Taylor Acorn is opening the show tonight and I’m stoked as her trip here in March was awesome so I’m […]

Rock icons THE USED have announced their Australian 25th Anniversary Tour offering an unforgettable experience for fans, with three nights in each city across Australia featuring a full album playthrough of the music they created that shaped the sound of early 2000s alternative rock. The celebration will highlight their first three albums performed in full: their self-titled record The Used (2002), In Love And Death (2004) and Lies For The […]

Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning, diamond-selling band TRAIN is fresh off the heels of an epic summer tour that took in nearly 50 U.S. cities, and today, announces their long-awaited return to Australia in May 2025. The national tour kicks off Sunday 18 May in Perth, which marks Train’s first Australian show in eight years, and will travel through Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney before concluding […]

You may have seen our “Good Things at Good Things” video but they all came from these full interviews below. We had a great opportunity to chat to a number of artists on the Good Things bill this year in Sydney and had a ball doing it. Sure if you watch them all you may hear some of the same […]

December 7th in Sydney at the Good Things Festival we were lucky enough to interview ten artists, and in each interview (they’ll be up in full soon) we thought we’d take the name of the festival and ask them just about that… so we asked each artist about a Good Thing that happened to them this year. Here are their […]

YELLOWCARD set to return to Australia for the first time since 2017, celebrating 20 years of their breakthrough album ‘OCEAN AVENUE‘, with support from MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK & PLAIN WHITE T’S Legendary US Alt Rock band Yellowcard will be returning down under in April 2025 – celebrating the 20-year anniversary of their platinum-selling album ‘Ocean Avenue‘. The Jacksonville 4-piece will be joined by legendary pop-punk […]

After months of relentless chaos and sold-out arenas, SLIPKNOT has announced two exclusive headline sideshows next year on the heels of KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA, visiting Adelaide’s AEC Arena on Tuesday 4 March, and Spark Arena in Auckland on Tuesday 11 March. As always, attendees can expect a performance unlike any other, from a band who only get more thrilling, exciting and cathartic as time […]

“It’s a really good time to be in a pop punk band and especially one that’s been around since the beginning and we’re honestly having the time of our lives…” From Release: Fresh off a pair of 2024 Download Festival performances, and celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their fan-favourite LP, 2004’s A Hangover You Don’t Deserve, Texan pop punks BOWLING […]

Once was not enough for punk rock icons THE OFFSPRING! Fresh off the release of their brand new album SUPERCHARGED and their earth-shattering one-off performance in Melbourne last night, the legendary five-piece have officially supercharged their 2025 plans, today announcing their return down under next May for the The Offspring: SUPERCHARGED Worldwide in ’25 Australia tour with SIMPLE PLAN. A jam-packed arena spectacular from […]

Today, FALLING IN REVERSE announce the POPULAR MONS(TOUR) AUSTRALIA 2025. Kicking off at RAC Arena in Perth, the band will then head to Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, finishing off at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. The tour will see the band playing their biggest headline shows in Australia to date. Special guests on the tour are BLACK VEILK […]

In 2025, two of the all-time punk greats will return to Australian stages, with pioneering California dynamos PENNYWISE and beloved Swedish trailblazers MILLENCOLIN set to co-headline a huge run down under next February and March. With both metro and regional shows on the cards next year, PENNYWISE and MILLENCOLIN will kick off on Saturday 22 February in Wollongong, before hitting Newcastle, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, and […]

“All of us if we weren’t playing in the band that was performing at the venue that night we’d probably be sweeping the place up after the show was done…” From Release: Dropkick Murphys proudly remain Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, Dropkick Murphys have created the kind of music that’s meant to be chanted at last […]

Ladies & Gentlemen…prepare yourselves for a pop punk celebration for the ages in 2025! Today, beloved Budgewoi trio SHORT STACK are pleased to announce a huge headline run celebrating their debut 2009 album Stack Is The New Black, with the 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black tour set to sway across the country next June. The tour will commence at The […]

Bringing the golden age of DIY hardcore shows and all things alternative into a modern setting, in 2025 Australia will play home once again to the freshest up-and-coming artists in the scene with the return of NEW BLOOM FEST, a curated touring festival showcasing all things alt rock, post-hardcore, grunge, punk, and everything in between. Following its hugely successful inaugural year […]

Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival aka Good Things Festival? It’s fast upon us with it’s head-spinning lineup fit for a fever dream and we’re not kiddin’ when we’re saying tickets are selling fast with Melbourne at 86% sold, Sydney at 81% and Brisbane at 87%. As Good Things come to those who wait, we’re thrilled to announce […]

KNOTFEST, the destination festival brand curated by SLIPKNOT, returns to Australia in 2025. The music and counterculture experience will hit the East coast of Australia starting on Friday, February 28th at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, then heads to Brisbane on Sunday, March 2nd at Brisbane Showground before wrapping up in Sydney on Saturday, March 8th at Centennial Park. Headlined by SLIPKNOT, the 2025 festival line-up […]

With only weeks to go until Monolith hits venues along the East Coast with some of prog’s biggest and most exciting names, Brisbane fans can now celebrate with the announcement of two unmissable sideshows slated for November. Headliners Coheed And Cambria will be bringing their iconic catalogue and live show to The Triffid in Brisbane, supported by Canadian instrumentalists Intervals. Coheed And Cambria’s return to Australia is […]

Calling all Adelaide KORN fans – It’s On! Today, the Gobal metal icons announce a special one-off Good Things Festival 2024 headline sideshow for Adelaide, taking place on Wednesday 4 December at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena. For decades, KORN have wielded a formidable reputation, spanning their early days spearheading the heavy music revolution of the mid 1990s through to their more recent works. In command of […]

“It’s a cool experience to go back in the old catalogue and be like this song is not how I remember us doing it…” From Release: Hailing from Tempe, Arizona The Maine has matured both personally and sonically from their inception – now sixteen years ago – without compromising their integrity or losing their sincerity along the way. The Maine’s […]

Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival? Good Things season returns with a head-spinning lineup fit for a fever dream. Across three East Coast dates, this year’s Good Things Festival will deliver a trip down the rabbit hole with a stacked bill of international heavyweights, old favourites, hungry up-and-comers, and Aussie staples. And in a boon […]

“At this age and this stage in our career if we’re not having fun, what’s the point? From Release: Spawning a global legacy and critical acclaim for over two decades, American rockers Story Of The Year are set to return down under this August, celebrating the 20 year anniversary of their debut album Page Avenue and performing all their greatest […]

Monolith launched on to the Australian festival circuit in 2022 to incredible success. Scenestr remarked “If I’m asked if the festival was good – that’d be a big hell yes! Monolith’s Brisbane leg was a crushing success” whilst Wall of Sound commented that “Leaving Monolith on that high, felt like leaving a church service, where you were praising at the altar of prog-rock/metal“. Monolith is thrilled […]

Celebrating 16 years and nine albums, quintessential Arizona rockers The Maine have announced their return to Australia this September for the Sweet Sixteen Tour! Tickets on sale this Friday May 17 at 10am local time via Destroy All Lines. Beginning on September 15, the band will play Magnet House in Perth, The Gov in Adelaide, The Tivoli in Brisbane, Liberty Hall in Sydney and wrap up at The Forum in Melbourne on September 22. The Maine have […]

Tonight is going to be fun!! Tonight Simple Plan return to Australia and they’ve brought along Boys Like Girls, We The Kings, and Jax to make the night even better. So let’s see how this night plays out… Jax is our early opener tonight and with ‘90’s Kids’ she’s fun, and this fun! Followed by a fun song called ‘The […]

Canadian hardcore punk legends Cancer Bats have just announced their return to Australian shores for the first time since 2019 with an eight-date national tour. The tour will include stops in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide, and is in support of their latest LP and seventh studio album, 2022‘s ‘Psychic Jailbreak‘. The beloved metal stalwarts once again stepped into new territory with […]

Here we are again! Knotfest is back in Australia for its second year. This year sees the return of Pantera as headliner, and who ever thought we’d see this day? So with a stacked lineup, let’s see how the day plays out in this heat. Started the day with a special tour in the Slipknot museum and man that’s something, […]

Halestorm are back (from the dead) I mean in Australia oh man that was terrible. Let’s start again… Halestorm are back in Australia for Knotfest and Sydney is lucky enough tonight to get one of the two side shows they have. It’s always a great night with Halestorm and tonight Skindred jump on board to make it even better. So […]

Two decades ago, a band that would go on to pioneer and dominate the landscape of heavy music was born on the sunny shores of Byron Bay. Now in 2024, Australian metal titans PARKWAY DRIVE will triumphantly return to home soil this September to celebrate their 20th anniversary with their biggest headline tour to date, with the 20 Year Anniversary Tour set […]

Florida’s WE THE KINGS are stoked to announce two headline shows at Stay Gold in Melbourne on Wednesday 10 April and The Brightside in Brisbane on Tuesday 16 April. This is your last chance to see WE THE KINGS if you missed out on tickets on the sold out SIMPLE PLAN tour. Tickets are on sale Friday 15 March @ 9am AEDT time and they won’t last […]

KNOTFEST, the music and counterculture experience destination festival kicks off in Australia next week with a whole horde of surprises lying in wait and KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders are in for a treat. We’re stoked to announce the return of SLIPKNOT for KNOTFEST 2025 to celebrate their 25th Anniversary, together with a huge line-up to be announced later in the year. Only KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders will receive exclusive access to the […]