AVRIL LAVIGNE SET TO RELEASE FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM ON 4TH NOVEMBER – THE SINGLE “ROCK N ROLL” OUT 28TH OCTOBER Album Pre-order Scheduled for Tuesday, September 24 Pop-rock songstress Avril Lavigne is set to release her first eponymously-titled album, Avril Lavigne, on Monday 4th November.  Co-produced by Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, Martin Johnson and David Hodges, Avril Lavigne came together in […]

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS with CHESTER BENNINGTON have announced their debut EP will be titled HIGH RISE, and will be released via Play Pen LLC / Sony Music Australia on October 11th. The EP features 5 tracks, including the band’s US #1 mainstream and active rock radio single, ‘Out of Time.‘ The new line up of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS kick off their first US tour on September 4th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, […]

“No matter what language or dialect or whatever that you speak, Heavy Metal Music means Heavy Metal Music and I want to make sure that everybody’s clear that if I’m going to do this again and go all the way in frickin neck deep, I want to make sure that there’s question as to what style I’m playing.” Jason Newsted, […]

Today, acclaimed hard rock band, Five Finger Death Punch release their highly anticipated The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 1 via Eleven Seven and Sony Music Entertainment Australia. The deluxe and standard editions of the album have already shot to the top of the iTunes metal charts in Australia at #1 and #2, and […]

TONIGHT ALIVE’s highly anticipated forthcoming album, THE OTHER SIDE, is available globally to pre order now through all major digital music retailers and the band’s official website (excluding Japan & North America). ‘Lonely Girl’ is the first official single to be taken from the album and is available to purchase digitally now. ‘Lonely Girl’ premiered globally last week to an […]

“There’s definitely a lot going on, so it’s hard to sort of capture exactly everything that we wanted to in a first listen. I think that’s where it comes from writing it over such a long time as well, you know songs do get quite complicated in terms of the textures and how much is actually present in a song…” […]

KARNIVOOL’S live show is one which has received the respect of their peers and the loyalty of their fans all over the world, so it would be beyond remiss of the band to release a new record without giving those songs the chance to breathe, morph and thunder as they should in the live arena. The “Asymmetry” tour starts in […]

JOHN MAYER’S NEW ALBUM PARADISE VALLEY TO BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 23rd , AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER  First Single “Paper Doll” Available Now Paradise Valley, the latest album from Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician John Mayer, will be released on August 23, and is available now to pre-order.  Mayer produced Paradise Valley with longtime collaborator Don Was, who also […]

TONIGHT ALIVE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM THE OTHER SIDE ON SEPTEMBER 6TH NEW SINGLE ‘THE OCEAN’ AVAILABLE FOR FREE NOW! Sony Music Entertainment Australia is excited to announce that TONIGHT ALIVE’s highly anticipated new album, THE OTHER SIDE, will be available from September 6th. The first single to be taken from the upcoming album is the edgy yet refined ‘The […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have five copies of the new ‘Mermaids Of Alcatraz Edition’ of the kick ass Train album ‘California 37’ to give away to our lucky readers. This edition features 6 extras tracks including a cover of the John Lennon classic “Imagine”. Track listing: This’ll Be My Year Drive By Feels Good At […]

“We all have a few different influences… I guess it’s all about the moment. We listen to all types of music we don’t have a partially genre or style. From old to new to right down the middle.” From Bio: ‘Power and grace, passion and dynamics, unique and memorable’, Melbourne five piece MY SECRET CIRCUS (MSC), breathe life back into […]

“I like to let each musician shine a bit in their own light, and I like to have a bit of an acoustic set and at least one part of the set that is a bit outlandish. This time I came up with something absurd. At one point in the show I invite a few audience members up to build […]

KINGS OF LEON CONFIRM NEW ALBUM, ‘MECHANICAL BULL‘, OUT SEPTEMBER 20th RCA Records announces the release of the new Kings of Leon record, MECHANICAL BULL, available in Australia through Sony Music Entertainment on September 20th, 2013.  Angelo Petraglia produced the album, which was recorded at the band’s studio in Nashville, TN. Kings of Leon are fresh off three acclaimed headlining […]

Live Nation is proud to announce the return of virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer STEVE VAI when he embarks on a national headline theatre tour this July. A sculptor of musical sound, with infinite creativity and technical mastery, with a career spanning three decades, more than 15 million album sales and three Grammy Awards, Steve Vai embodies the seamless, symbiotic […]

“It’s funny, when I sit down and play guitar I remember the feeling when I was fourteen, struggling on the instrument, and to some degree I still struggle, but I’m just at a different level, but I’ve had plenty of opportunity to quit *laughs* you know what I mean? You ask yourself, well why didn’t you quit? Then I realized […]

In my final Bluesfest sideshow I’m here at the Metro for a nice chilled out night of acoustic rock in the guise of Newton Faulkner, a performer I’ve not seen before and am looking forward to doing so as I’ve been a fan of his work for quite some time, always intrigued by the one man band aspect of his […]

So it seems like it was only a few months ago that I saw The Script at The Metro and it was, actually it was September. At that time I was surprised by their return so soon for this arena tour in April, but as I enter the Entertainment Centre tonight I am blown away by how many people are […]

Jimmy Eat World will release their seventh studio album ‘Damage’ on June 7th 2013. ‘Damage’ is the follow up to 2010’s critically-acclaimed ‘Invented’, and the first release on their label partner RCA Records. ‘Damage’ was produced by Jimmy Eat World and Alain Johannes (Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell) and recorded in Autumn 2012 at the producer’s Los Angeles home studio. Mixing […]

Thanks to our friends at Sony Music Australia, we have five copies of the amazing new Bring Me The Horizon album ‘Sempiternal’ to give away to five of our lucky readers.  You may have heard the singles ‘Sleepwalking’ or ‘Shadow Moses’ already, but if you want to hear what else they’ve come up with on this killer release, well you […]

In this day and age its almost inevitable, the album leak, I don’t like it, think it’s completely unfair, all I know is that artists take a lot of time and money creating an album for their fans and when those months of labour and love are just given away well you can kind of see how that’s a little […]

“We don’t get big heads about anything, I mean being Aussies it’s our humour to cut each other down, so we really appreciate it and we’re hugely grateful for everything and for everyone’s support worldwide but I think we’ve got a really high bar set for ourselves so we’re always working towards something.” From Press Release: After coming back off […]

“We try to cater these shows to the more hardcore Offspring fans that have been around for a while you know, the fans that grew up with ‘Ignition’ and not just ‘Smash’ and all the records since, it’s kind of self-indulgent but it’s fun *laughs* and I think the fans are loving it.” From tour press release: If you were […]

PLEDGEMUSIC TEAMS UP WITH SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA, BRING ME THE HORIZON AND RAW POWER MANAGEMENT GROUNDBREAKING DIRECT-TO-FAN PRE-SALE CAMPAIGN FOR BRING ME THE HORIZON’S SEMPITERNAL ALBUM RELEASE PledgeMusic has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment Australia, RCA Records, Bring Me The Horizon and Raw Power Management to launch a unique, direct-to-fan pre-sale campaign for what is tipped to be one […]

“Obviously you’re only as good as your last album, so we’ve improved and adopted a little less is more on this album, the songs only have what the songs need and we’ve matured a lot…” Bullet For My Valentine have been ripping it up now for almost fifteen years.  In that time have released three albums and helped pave the […]

JIMI HENDRIX’S PEOPLE, HELL & ANGELS COMING MARCH 8, 2013! Previously Unreleased Completed Studio Recordings from 1968-70 – Reveal Post-Experience Experimental Dimensions of Legendary Guitarist Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, proudly announce the release of People, Hell & Angels, an essential new album premiering twelve previously unreleased studio recordings completed by guitarist Jimi […]

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 […]

Thanks to our good friends at Sony Music Australia, they’ve given us five copies of the first Aerosmith album of all new material in eleven years ‘Music From Another Dimension’ to give to you, our ever loving, ever hungry for music, MTRBWY readers… But first, make sure you read our interview with Joey Kramer HERE as we need you to […]

“I think that we’re at a point in our lives now that we’re old enough to realise that by virtue of the five of us staying together and continuing to do what we do, there’s something really special there and we’ve finally gotten that and decided that there really isn’t too much that we should let get in the way […]

TRUTH ABOUT LOVE TOUR AUSTRALIA 2013, P!NK HITS AUSTRALIA FOR SIX! MORE SHOWS FOR BRISBANE, MELBOURNE & SYDNEY THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 2012 – Continuous calls for the hottest ticket in the country – P!NK’s The Truth About Love Tour Australia 2013 – have been answered with the confirmation of six extra shows! Overwhelming demand has brought two additional shows in each Brisbane, […]

“I think it kind of sounds like everything that’s been going on in the rock, metal, hardcore whatever you want to call it, scene in the past twenty years, it’s kind of just a massive roll up of all of that basically crammed in to one record.” Supergroup is a term that has been thrown around a little too often, […]