Nagoya, Japan rock band coldrain, have announced their upcoming full-length album THE REVELATION, will be released on August 8 Sony Music Entertainment Australia/VAP. Australian fans will be treated to an exclusive 16 track Australian Deluxe Edition of the album. Produced by the award winning David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember), THE REVELATION, is the band’s debut international album. “It’s hard to put in words […]

This October, the career of rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE will be celebrated with the Epic Records/Legacy Recordings MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN collections released in Australia through Sony Music Entertainment. Due out October 10, MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN (CD) serves as a career spanning audio release, featuring 17 of OZZY’s greatest hit singles compiled in one place for the first time in his career and will be available in a single […]

Sony Music is proud to support ‘The Making Of Midnight Oil’ exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum. After a triumphant opening on Friday June 20th the gallery has gone on to welcome thousands of visitors from right across Australia and internationally, and has now announced the following special events: SPECIAL FILM SCREENING EVENT: THE MAKING OF 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Wednesday 6th August, 6:30PM […]

THE SCRIPT ANNOUNCE FORTHCOMING ALBUM PLANS – NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE – TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 19TH  NEW SINGLE SUPERHEREOS TO RADIO THURSDAY JULY 24TH The Script today announced the plans for their eagerly awaited fourth album. Titled NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE, the record will be released in Australia on September 19th, and is preceded by the single ‘Superheroes’. The plans were unveiled in an exclusive Google Hangout with […]

“…we’ve always tried to improve and push and get better over our forty years, we’ve obviously matured and improved as individuals and as a band as well, and I think trying to do things differently, but we’ve never been afraid to try anything you know…” From release: There are only a select number of bands that have accomplished what Judas […]

“…we just kind of told ourselves that we’re going to do this with or without a label, so we kind of stopped caring about getting signed. Then when it happened and we saw the amount of power that it had and to have this team of people and capital behind you, it just fanned that flame that’s always been inside […]

RYAN ADAMS, SELF-PRODUCED, SELF-TITLED NEW ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 5TH AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ITUNES JB HI-FI “… he doesn’t seem to have lost a songwriting step. This thing is a total knockout.”—STEREOGUM on ‘Gimme Something Good’ Ryan Adams has confirmed September 5thas the release date of RYAN ADAMS, his new album released on Pax-Am / Columbia Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia. Produced by Adams himself at his […]

Canadian Rock trio THE TEA PARTY today announce the release of their single ‘Water’s On Fire’ through Anthem/Sony Music Entertainment Australia. This marks the band’s first new music since 2004’s Seven Circles and is a harbinger to a studio album in the coming months. The original line-up of Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood, and Jeff Burrows reunited in 2011 for selected […]

Perennial hit makers and three-time Grammy award winners, Train have premiered their new single, “ANGEL IN BLUE JEANS”, set for release on July 31.  This initial offering is from their forthcoming 7th studio effort, BULLETPROOF PICASSO, which is scheduled to be released on September 12. The track will be hitting Australia airwaves from July 24, and is available to stream now below… Audiences have come to expect a […]

“It’s funny how the years pass and you can think of the camaraderie and the busses and just the thrill of the band when things would take off and send a shiver up your spine on stage when we literally blew the roof off places or we just walked off the stage with 60,000 people out there knowing that every […]

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 […]

FIRST SINGLE & TITLE TRACK TO ARRIVE AT RADIO FRIDAY JUNE 13TH COVER ARTWORK DESIGNED BY RON ENGLISH. TRACK LISTING REVEALED! SLASH and his band mates Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators will release their new album WORLD ON FIRE on September 12thvia SLASH’s own label Dik Hayd International and Sony Music Entertainment Australia. Featuring the blazing title track as the first single which will be serviced to radio worldwide on June […]

FOO FIGHTERS TO COMMEMORATE EIGHTH ALBUM & 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH HBO SERIES DOCUMENTING EIGHT-CITY RECORDING ODYSSEY Foo Fighters have confirmed that the making of their upcoming eighth album–due out this fall on Roswell/RCA through Sony Music Entertainment Australia –will be accompanied by an as yet untitled HBO series documenting the eight-city odyssey during which the record was created. In the series, directed by […]

“…so our kind of mission was to make fans out of the rest of the audience and the general response every time I’d go to merch to meet people was ‘I’ve never heard of your band before’, and ‘I’m buying your album’, and ‘I really like what I heard tonight’ and that’s all you can ask for really.” From press […]

London based kiwi rock band I Am Giant is proud to announce the release of their sophomore album SCIENCE & SURVIVAL on July 4th  via Sony Australia. To celebrate the release, the band will complete a four-date Australian tour, beginning in Brisbane on August 6th, heading to Perth, Melbourne, and finishing in Sydney on August 9th. Tickets will be available from 9am Friday 9th May. Science […]

SANTANA COLLABORATES WITH THE BIGGEST NAMES IN LATIN MUSIC ON NEW STUDIO ALBUM ‘CORAZÓN’ – RELEASED TODAY! SUPERSTAR PERFORMANCES ON ‘CORAZÓN’ INCLUDE GLORIA ESTEFAN, ZIGGY MARLEY,MIGUEL, PITBULL AND MORE Ten time GRAMMY®-Award winning rock icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer CARLOS SANTANA releases his first ever Latin Music album today, entitled CORAZÓN. Superstar performances on CORAZÓN  include ChocQuibtown, Lila Downs, Gloria Estefan, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs,Juanes, Ziggy Marley, Miguel, Niña Pastori, Pitbull, Samuel Rosa of Skank, Cindy Blackman Santana, Romeo Santos, […]

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is excited to confirm the signing of Australian pop superstars, THE VERONICAS, to the global Sony Music Entertainment label. The Veronicas have returned to the studio over the past few months to record tracks for their third studio album set for release later this year. The Veronicas are an Australian pop-rock duo from Brisbane, Australia, comprising of twin sisters Lisa Origliasso and Jessica […]

With more than three million copies sold worldwide and ten studio albums to date, Swedish modern metal band In Flames has not only redefined the genre during the past years, but also made their mark far beyond its boundaries. Founded in 1990, they made their breakthrough already with their second album “The Jester Race” while at the same time delivering a genre […]

Sydney originated 5 piece GANG OF YOUTHS have been creating a stir over the past few months with their formidable live performances, touring throughout LA, NYC and playing SXSW with a review from NME declaring, “The band from down under easily won the prize for the most raucous show of the day”. Having relocated to the U.S at the end of last year […]

THE WHOLE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT NOTHING MORE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BAND SIGN GLOBALLY TO ELEVEN SEVEN MUSIC GROUP New York, NY – Allen Kovac’s Eleven Seven Music Group is proud to announce the signing of San Antonio, TX alt-rockers, NOTHING MORE. With soaring vocal melodies, meticulous atypical rhythmic structures, huge anthemic choruses and lyrical content that restores the art […]

RELEASED GLOBALLY ON APRIL 1st! PRE-ORDER NOW: http://smarturl.it/TonightAliveTheEdge Sony Music Entertainment Australia and Sony Pictures Releasing are excited to announce that Australia’s own TONIGHT ALIVE is set to release an electrifying new single “THE EDGE,” written exclusively for the Australian release of the new movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Rise Of Electro, opening in Australia on April 17th. “The Edge” is available to pre-order now ahead of its […]

Charismatic front man, Doc Neeson (The Angels, Red Phoenix) releases ‘Walking In The Rain’, his first studio recording in nearly 7 years. Originally recorded by Flash and the Pan, Doc’s recording was produced by ARIA Award winning producer Brendan Gallagher (Karma County, Jimmy Little ‘Messenger’) late last year at Albert Studios prior to Doc hitting the road with the RocKwiz Salutes Vanda And Young shows which toured the country last […]

On Sunday December 1st KARNIVOOL won their first ever ARIA Award taking out the gong for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album for their current release and third album ‘Asymmetry’ which was also their first ever number one debut on the ARIA album charts. As announced in October KARNIVOOL and good mates Dead Letter Circus will hit the road on […]

I’ve liked Daughtry since their first release and with each album they have grown and showed that they can make a great rock album each time and in the two years since Daughtry released ‘Break The Spell’ a revelation must have taken place and it’s ‘No Surprise’ sorry, pun intended… ‘Baptized’ opens with the title track and a distinct different […]

Bruce Springsteen’s new album ‘High Hopes’ has been set for January 17 release on Columbia Records.  ‘High Hopes’ finds Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the members of the E Street Band as well as guitarist Tom Morello and many additional players. The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks […]

For the last few months I Am Giant have been calling Biarrtz, France their home while recording their sophomore album, the highly anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed debut ‘The Horrifying Truth’. Co-produced by Forrester Saville (Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, Helmut), bassist Paul Matthews and drummer Shelton Woolright, the first single ‘Razor Wire Reality’ will be released on December 6th via Sony […]

Returning to Australian shores this month in support of their latest release Mechanical Bull, Frontier Touring are excited to announce that Tennessee rockers Kings Of Leon will perform a one-off intimate show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday 20 November. No strangers to the land down under, Kings Of Leon have rocked some of Australia’s biggest arenas with shows selling […]

Thanks to our friends at Sony Music Australia, we have one of these amazing The Clash ‘Sound System’ box sets to give away to one of our lucky readers.  This is the quintessential set for any fan of The Clash; seriously, look below for what you get in this set, no need for us to say anything more than that!  […]

Australian music legend DARYL BRAITHWAITE returns home to Sony Music – New Mini Album FOREVER THE TOURIST to be released 4th October, 2013 This is the next chapter in one of the of the most extraordinary stories in Australian recording history. Sony Music Entertainment Australia is proud to announce it has re-signed the legendary Daryl Braithwaite. Forever The Tourist will […]

“So it’s just little things like that that we’ve taken on board and made sure that this whole album is going to be good live, and we wanted to write something explosive and hit hard physically and sonically but also emotionally.” From Release:  After recording their 2011 debut album What Are You So Scared Of? in Los Angeles with Mark […]