From humble beginnings the ‘Whole Lotta Love’ celebration of the music of Led Zeppelin has now been gripping Australian audiences for ten years. We talk to ‘Musical Director’ Joseph Calderazzo about the journey. […]
We all love our Australian Rock and Metal and support it as much as we can and to a lot of Australian fans LORD will be a familiar name. But let me tell you […]
Mark Jansen of Epica Talks to Mark about the upcoming Australian Tour, the latest album and more… Hi Mark and welcome to Australia, You touch down for your first tour of AUSTRALIA on […]
THUNDER the UK Hard Rock band is just about to make their first visit to Australia after 30 years! We will of course be catching up with the band shortly but in the meantime […]
Marco Mendoza is a helluva bass player with an impressive CV behind him; he’s also a helluva nice guy. Over the years I’ve caught up with Marco a number of times: twice at dates […]
Mike Tramp has had a long career in music staring off in his native Denmark before coming to the attention of the world with WHITE LION, a band from the era of big hair […]
Bob Mould Is finally in Australia! It was an honour to get to chat to the man behind Husker Du and Sugar about the tour which hits this week and which will be bringing […]
Wednesday 13 talks about coming back to see us later in the year and his latest release , plus we get to talk Murderdolls, e-bay and horror movies… Mark: Hi, Wednesday, how are […]
The Vandals seeming have always been with us. If you love your So-Cal punk then they are indispensible. If you just want to know where all this rekindled love with the pop-punk genre came […]
JAMEY JASTA frontman of HATEBREED and KINGDOM OF SORROW is uncompromising in his approach to music and relentless in everything he does. It’s great to have a new Hatebreed album out and to see […]
Saturday February 23rd is the day to put your money where your mouth is and get behind Local Live Music. SLAM DAY was born out of the SLAM RALLY where 20,000 people marched in Melbourne […]
Lullwater’s debut just soars out of the speakers with an urgency many attempt but few manage to sustain. There’s a rage and simmer to opening track ‘Oddline’, cut with melody and seared with strident hard […]
It’s at the end of the day when we catch up with Duff. Interviews at the end of the day can be some of the best if you ask the right questions, but they […]
Journey is ‘that’ band from the Seventies that just won’t go away. Fondly remembered by millions of Americans from their glory days in the early eighties; and impossible to resist ever since thanks to ‘that’ […]
John Corabi needs little introduction to many of our readers. You might have first heard his name as singer of the band ‘The Scream’ back in the late eighties, or later in the nineties when […]
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE needs no introduction for most: one of the upcoming new Metal bands seemingly only a whisker away from the major league audiences world-wide lapped up their last outing FEVER. We […]
Crashdiet is one of the new breed of Swedish Sleaze Metal merchants, and one of the best. They have also just inked a record deal with Australia’s own 3-Wise Records. So if you want […]
Whenever I here the song (It’s a) Monster by Extreme I am transported back to the days when Rock music was still fun and everyone had a good time: but EXTREME weren’t just about […]
Dragonforce is a huge band with a huge sound driven by crazy guitars and giant riffs they are loud and raw and will kick your ass – they are also coming this way soon. […]
Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier lays down the challenge to not ask him anything the last five interviewers have… so we make it all up as we go along and throw the questions out of the […]
Danko Jones tells us all about the new album ‘Rock and Roll is Black and Blue’ and coming downunder to play Soundwave and other pressing issues like ‘Has Rock and Roll been written off’? […]
From The Jam’s Bruce Foxton talks about the band’s upcoming tour of Australia, his new record and a never ending tour. It’s all good. Mark: Hi, Bruce, happy 2013. Thank you so much […]
Adler’s Lonny Paul talks about making the new album with Jeff Pilson at the helm, live debuts and plans for the new year. As one of our favourite albums frm the latter part of […]
They say never meet your heroes and also of course we all know full well that attempting to review anything by the bands you really love is far harder to do if you want to […]
Flogging Molly plays 2013’s Soundwave Festival here in Australia. They were a band at the very top of my list once the line-up came out. We caught up with Nathen late last week. This […]
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