News from the Australian music scene, from Perth to the East Coast and in between as well as New Zealand.
There’s that dreaded G word! Doug Galbraith’s penned biography of Kim Salmon entitled ‘Nine Parts Water One Part Sand. Kim Salmon And The Formula For Grunge’ has the word in its title! The subject […]
Rick, resides in Nashville, and returns to his roots on the ‘Heaven Knows’ Album cover-to-cover tour in solo acoustic mode. Rick tours Australia twice a year and in 2018 his ‘Heaven Knows’ cover-to-cover’ shows […]
Forming in early 2016 from the most unlikely late-night encounter, The Dead Amigos have been unrelenting in spreading their unique sound across Australia. A blend of blues-y stoner rock, psychedelia and funk, the St Kilda four-piece is back […]
The Hard-Ons are back with their rampaging 12th studio album “So I Could Have Them Destroyed” which is released on Friday 11th October via Music Farmers. Today, they deliver the next taster from the […]
Northlane are in full swing into their Alien world tour in support of their #3 ARIA Chart debut, Alien, hailed album of the year and receiving flawless reviews by fans and critics world wide. After slapping a […]
Having spent the past year between Australia, Europe and America, Melbourne’s Kingswood have finally returned. Confident, eager and energetic, the stadium rockers are back to reclaim a rock-and-roll crown that’s rightfully theirs with thumping […]
Wollongong prog act Are We Dreaming have released the single and video for the song Tranceformation. The band teamed up with studio owner, director & cinematographer Adam Jordan for the recording and filming of […]
Ahead of the imminent release of their second long player Rumour & Innuendo, WA favourites The Southern River Band have released the brand new single Do You Miss Me? The third single to be […]
The world’s biggest heavy metal battle of the bands is coming to Australia for the first time ever! The legendary Wacken Metal Battle will be making it’s triumphant debut in the great southern land, […]
BEACH PANIC! want you to get those hips shaking with them in their new music video for their latest single “Dance ‘Till Your Feet Bleed“, the second track off their forthcoming debut EP ‘Ride […]
Melbourne metalcore five-piece Thornhill today announce details of their hugely-anticipated debut full-length album The Dark Pool, due for release on Friday October 25 via UNFD. Introduced by pelting lead single and video ‘Nurture’ (which enjoyed a rabid premiere […]
Voyager have announced their brand new album, ‘Colours in the Sun’, set for a November 1st 2019 release via Season of Mist. To celebrate the launch of the band’s new opus, Voyager have launched a new music […]
Hearts will be stolen when singer-songwriter Corey Legge takes his new single ‘Rose’ on tour throughout September, playing major and regional centres backed by a three-piece band. ‘Rose’ is the second single to be lifted […]
Melodic Thrash Metal band Incrypt just released the animated video for the song Hordes of Hades. The song has been taken from their latest album Eyes Upon This World. Incrypt are playing shows around […]
One of the world’s largest celebrations of local original music, WAMFest presented by Act-Belong-Commit, returns in November for another multi-day feast of non-stop live music. WAM are excited to reveal the programming team-ups and […]
GET YA ROCKS OFF by name and by nature, it is just what we want you to do as Silverback Touring presents its first ever club event on Friday 30th August in Melbourne at […]
To hail 25 years since the release of their influential LP 10% Weird and a whopping 30 years as a band, Australian punk titans The Meanies have summoned the band back into Australia from […]
The Dirty Rats are ready to release their second full length album End in Tears on Friday, the 13th, December this year. End in Tears features 13 new hard driving original rock compositions from the […]
DEEZ NUTS are excited to share the first single and video clip taken from their upcoming album, You Got Me Fucked Up. You Got Me Fucked Up is the follow up to 2017’s, Binge & […]
Having shared the stage with Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper, Perth four-piece Amberdown are capable of holding their own next to rock’s biggest icons. Imaginative, confident and stunningly precise, their music takes searing vocal melodies and wraps them in layers of […]
Set in Margaret River – well known for its wine and fine arts – Strings Attached: The West Australian Guitar Festival is launching 11-13 October 2019. This one-of-a-kind event will attract guitar makers, distributors, […]
RTRFM is so much more than a radio station; it’s a place where people can come together, collaborate and create something truly spectacular and different. It’s a way to connect to your community and […]
Lethal Vendetta release today the song and official video for Battle Warcry from their latest album “No Prisoners No Mercy“. Battle Warcry was lyrically inspired by the battle of Hastings in 1066. As this […]
Sydney’s genre bending heavy groove exponents Black Rheno are stoked to announce they will release their debut album, Noise Smasher, on October 25. Right after they launch Noise Smasher out into the wild, Black Rheno […]
Australian metallers LORD release new video clip for “Kill or Be Killed.” LORD frontman L.T. explains: “We recently were out on the road doing an Australian tour, and ‘Kill or Be Killed’ was a consistent new live favourite. […]
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