“I’ve never really fit in with any scene that I’ve been involved with…” From Release: The inimitable Devin Townsend on Friday night announce the October 25th release of PowerNerd, out through Century Records. With a career that covers many distinct eras – he’s been the leader of Strapping Young Lad, the lynchpin of the Devin Townsend Project and the co-architect of country duo Casualties of Cool, all […]

SLASH, the iconic, GRAMMY-winning guitarist and songwriter, has announced his highly anticipated sixth solo album titled Orgy of the Damned, will be released on May 17 via Gibson Records, in partnership with Sony Music Australia and is available to pre-order now. Pre-order Slash’s ‘Orgy On The Damned’ from JB Hifi (available on Vinyl or CD –  May 17) and enter the competition, for your chance to win a Slash Signed Epiphone Les […]

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 […]

Today, Måneskin have shared their electrifying new single ‘Honey (are u coming?)’. Erupting with new offerings shortly after the release of the latest, chart-topping album RUSH!, ‘Honey (are u coming?)’ is tight with musical vibrancy, showcasing a mighty guitar riff and roaringly persuasive chorus. Listen HERE. The band held a livestreamed event at Gazometro, Rome, where they performed three tracks […]

June 30, 2023 marks 25 years since seminal, heavy metal band System of A Down released their debut self-titled album, featuring standout hits ‘Sugar’ and ‘Spiders’. The album entered the top 50 on the ARIA album chart and is 2x Platinum certified in the US. To celebrate, Sony Music Entertainment Australia are asking fans to be part of history and come along […]

Following last week’s release of their universally acclaimed new album But Here We Are, Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce 15-time GRAMMY® winners Foo Fighters will return to Australia and New Zealand this summer – bringing their unrivalled live show to stadiums in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane in November/December 2023, followed by Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in January 2024. The just-announced dates will be Foo Fighters’ first headline tour of both countries since 2018. Tickets go on […]

blackbear is set to release new album ‘in lobing memory’ on Friday August 26 through Sony Music Australia. While gearing up for its release, blackbear teamed up with multi-platinum selling superstar Machine Gun Kelly for the lead single ‘gfy’ which is accompanied by the star-studded video featuring Kelly, Aisha Mian, Benny Blanco, Mike Posner and August Maturo. ‘the idea’ serves as a preview of blackbear‘s latest metamorphosis. It was in the studio after recording ‘the […]

Ozzy is back. Mark September 9 on your calendar as the release date for Patient Number 9, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne’s new album and the first since his critically acclaimed, worldwide, chart-topping 2020 Ordinary Man release. The album’s self-titled first single has been released today. Listen to Patient Number 9 here. “Having worked with Ozzy in the past, I jumped at another opportunity […]

“Well this one the mandate was 100% to do it as live as possible…” A decade and four albums into their career, Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators haven’t been deterred by any obstacles in their path–including a global pandemic. Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have recently released their new album titled 4, via Gibson Records, in partnership […]

A decade and four albums into their career, Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators haven’t been deterred by any obstacles in their path–including a global pandemic. Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have announced today they’ll release their new album titled 4 on February 11, 2022, via Gibson Records, in partnership with Sony Music Australia. 4 is Slash’s fifth solo album, and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (Vocals), Brent Fitz (Drums), Todd Kerns (Bass & […]

“Well you know I was born in Detroit, that’s my home town and I think it’s in the DNA that when you’re born there you’re a hard rocker…” From Release: Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, “Detroit Stories” follows last year’s “Breadcrumbs” EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest […]

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 […]

Grammy nominated California rock heavyweights, blink-182, have dropped their brand-new track Quarantine – listen HERE. This relevant and timely song features strong drums and killer guitars matched with angsty vocals to stress just how hard we all have been hit by this time spent in isolation and social distancing. Alongside the song comes a music video that intermixes the lyrics and raw footage of […]

Evanescence will release their first album of new original music in nine years, The Bitter Truth (Sony Music Australia) over the course of this year, beginning with the first song and video, Wasted on You today. The video for Wasted on You was shot by each band member – lead singer-songwriter and pianist Amy Lee, bassist Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt, lead guitarist Troy McLawhorn, and guitarist […]

Joe Satriani’s new studio album, SHAPESHIFTING, is set for release on April 10, 2020 via Sony Music/Legacy Recordings/ Sony Music Entertainment Australia. Pre-order is available HERE SHAPESHIFTING was co-produced by Satriani and Jim Scott (Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) with longtime associate John Cuniberti on board handling the mastering duties.  Satriani enlisted a wide range of collaborators, both old and new, to help him bring the songs to life. […]

“There’s a line in ‘Ordinary Man’ where I sing, ‘I don’t want to die an ordinary man,’ which I don’t think I will,” OZZY says with a laugh. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter OZZY OSBOURNE has set Friday February 21st as the release date for his new ORDINARY MAN album, released on Epic Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia.  […]

Frontier Touring are delighted to welcome back one of the defining bands of American rock music: Jimmy Eat World, returning to Australia in March 2020 for their first visit in three years and in celebration of their recently released tenth studio album, Surviving, out now via Sony Music Australia. The Arizona band will perform three special headline shows only while […]

“…there’s always something that comes across that’s a way of testing yourself or a way of challenging yourself…” From Release: Jimmy Eat World announce the details of their 10th studio album, Surviving, to be released on October 18 via RCA Records. Surviving is the band’s most personal, ambitious album to date and front man Jim Adkins once again proves himself […]

“…doing this for Vinnie is our way to give back to all of our fallen heroes and stuff and to help embrace the metal community and be like come on you lean on me I’ll lean back on you and we’ll get through this shit together.” From Release: HELLYEAH was formed in 2006 by Pantera founder/drummer Vinnie Paul, singer Chad Gray (Mudvayne), and guitarist Tom Maxwell […]

Jimmy Eat World announce the details of their 10th studio album, Surviving, to be released on October 18 via RCA Records. Surviving is the band’s most personal, ambitious album to date and front man Jim Adkins once again proves himself as one of the most prolific songwriters in rock & roll. As Adkins himself puts it, “Surviving explores some of the different kinds of weights my ego tells me […]

Continuing their affinity for pushing the boundaries of physical packaging, the GRAMMY Award® winning outfit has created a deluxe, limited-edition CD version of Fear Inoculum. The collectible offering, which was conceived by and directed by Adam Jones, features a 4″ HD rechargeable screen with exclusive video footage, charging cable, 2 watt speaker, a 36-page booklet and a digital download card. Pre-orders for […]

TOOL CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE VIA DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THE FIRST TIME! https://smarturl.it/TOOLCatalogue NEWS OF OPIATE, UNDERTOW, ÆNIMA, LATERALUS AND 10,000 DAYS’ ONLINE DEBUT COMES AS ANTICIPATION FOR BAND’S NEW ALBUM, FEAR INOCULUM – SET FOR RELEASE AUGUST 30TH ON RCA RECORDS – BUILDS TOOL have released OPIATE, UNDERTOW, ÆNIMA, LATERALUS and 10,000 DAYS this afternoon on the various digital service providers for the first time – listen HERE. […]

“…we always fight to get to the next level, this kind of fire burning all the time, I think this is what you need as a band to reach somewhere, you really need to have this spirit to work hard and always look to what can we do next time…” From Release: Comprising 12 monstrous heavy metal anthems that bulge […]

The iconic, GRAMMY-winning guitarist SLASH and his band SLASH FT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS have released their brand new live video, Boulevard Of Broken Hearts. The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams video was recorded at Slash’s SOLD OUT live performance at The Eventim Apollo, London on Wednesday 20th February 2019. The stunning video features the album version of the song overlaid with intimate backstage footage and live footage from the […]

“I call ourselves a working metal band, and what I mean by that is it’s all relevant to making yourself relevant, and for as long as this band has been together we’ve always gone out on these big worldwide treks supporting our latest music. So this is like doing again what we’ve done since Rocka Rolla in nineteen seventy blah […]

Bring Me The Horizon are back and as I sit in a room with other writers at Sony Music in Sydney we’re all being treated to a very early playback of the band’s new album ‘amo’. So as we hush, they press play. The intro builds for ‘I Apologize If You Feel Something’ and sets the tone for the album, […]

Buckcherry will release their new studio album, Warpaint, on March 8, 2019. The 12 song album, featuring 11 new Buckcherry songs along with their cover of the Nine Inch Nails track Head like a Hole, was produced by Mike Plotnikoff, whose last collaboration with the band was the platinum certified album, 15. Preorders for Warpaint will begin on January 11. Singer Josh Todd comments, “Good things come to those who wait and […]

Grammy Award-winning, American rock guitarist Slash returns to Australian shores in January/February 2019 with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators in tow. The Australian Tour will support the release of Slash’s fourth solo album, Living The Dream released on Slash’s own label Snakepit Records in partnership with Sony Music Australia which debuted at #4 on the ARIA Album Chart. Slash Ft Myles […]

They’re back! ‘Living The Dream’ is Slash’s fourth solo album and third with his merry men of Myles and The Conspirators. I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve done here as when a band has worked together for a while they truly get into a groove and I get the feeling this album will be the one that will make […]

Acclaimed rock duo and basically everyone’s favourite band ever Tenacious D — comprised of Jack Black and Kyle Gass — will release not one but TWO incredible works this fall.  Both are called Post-Apocalypto.  Both are amazing.  Here’s what you need to know: Post-Apocalypto – THE SERIES – is an original, six-part animated video series from the minds of Tenacious D.  Each frame of every episode was hand-drawn […]