News from the Australian music scene, from Perth to the East Coast and in between as well as New Zealand.
SummerSalt is set to shine in 2025, with two new shows being announced – one in Busselton WA and the other in Cronulla NSW. Other new shows were recently added for Batemans Bay NSW, Victor […]
California-based roots rock band, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse, who’s core is the dynamic duo of Greta Valenti & Robin Davey, have a house & motown-style recording studio on one of the coolest streets […]
Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning, diamond-selling band TRAIN is fresh off the heels of an epic summer tour that took in nearly 50 U.S. cities, and today, announces their long-awaited return to Australia in May 2025. The national […]
Rock icons THE USED have announced their Australian 25th Anniversary Tour offering an unforgettable experience for fans, with three nights in each city across Australia featuring a full album playthrough of the music they created that shaped […]
Australia! DETHKLOK, the groundbreaking extreme metal band from the animated series METALOCALYPSE, are inbound our way to wake us all the hell up! Having transformed from a screen sensation into a real-life dynamic force, these […]
Live Nation & Chinatown Cinema Corp are thrilled to announce that legendary Asian rock band, Mayday 五月天, is returning to Australia with their 25th anniversary tour. Following their electrifying, sold out three show Australian tour […]
Legendary US Alt Rock band Yellowcard will be returning down under in April 2025 – celebrating the 20-year anniversary of their platinum-selling album ‘Ocean Avenue’. The Jacksonville 4-piece will be joined by legendary pop-punk stalwarts […]
Get ready to ROCK this summer! Everybody’s favourite Aussie rock band The Screaming Jets are kicking off the new year with a full-throttle celebration and are set to deliver the ultimate holiday soundtrack to the East Coast […]
Denmark’s most celebrated rock band D-A-D return to Australia by popular demand in 2025 for a Greatest Hits Tour. Welcome to the wildest R‘n’R amusement park! Known for their lunatic personas and stage antics backed […]
Following a show-stopping run supporting British troubadour James Blunt on his national Australian arena tour, today beloved Melbourne indie folk duo Pierce Brothers are set to kick off 2025 by taking things back to a pivotal moment in their […]
Bands of renown all boast a number of great albums to their name. But within that body of work there is always that one album. That magnum opus. That genre defining, gravity defying masterpiece that […]
Destroy All Lines have announced Adelaide-based alt-rockers VERMANTICS as support for Highly Suspect for their show at Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide. Consisting of brothers Stefan (vocals/guitar) and Daniel Fedele (bass), Jack Stevenson (guitar) and Julian […]
Australian audiences will soon be able to enjoy the full Infinity Song experience when the band makes their debut appearances on the East Coast this summer with special guests just announced, SURELY SHIRLEY. South Coast […]
Set to bring his beloved catalogue of music, including this year’s NO MAN’S LAND EP, American singer-songwriter and actor Tyler Hilton will be back in Australia this summer. Touring for the first time since 2017, […]
Once was not enough for punk rock icons THE OFFSPRING! Fresh off the release of their brand new album SUPERCHARGED and their earth-shattering one-off performance in Melbourne last night, the legendary five-piece have officially supercharged […]
UK rockers Wunderhorse have revealed two Australian headline shows in 2025 alongside their scheduled performances in support of Fontaines D.C. The band will play at Metro Theatre Sydney on March 4 before concluding their sizeable AU/NZ […]
Rock n Roll Hall of fame inductees and legends of rock, ZZ TOP announce 2025 Australian and New Zealand dates for The Elevation Tour in April-May. The tour will see ZZ Top perform in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, […]
RED HOT SUMMER TOUR is thrilled to announce next season’s line up with classic rock titans, ZZ TOP, headlining along with the masters of American blues-rock, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, as special guests. They […]
Eora/Sydney-based punk rock quintet FANGZ have unveiled their fierce single ‘Wide Awake‘ – produced by Tim Maxwell (LOSER) and mixed by Jonathan Gardner (Front End Loader, Grinspoon). ‘Wide Awake’ detonates with rolling drums that set a feverish pace, paving the way for hard-hitting riffage to […]
Welcome to the 8424 Tour… 40 years of The Cult. Sometimes it seems like forever, but when that old friend returns you always greet them with open arms. The Cult is back in Australia for […]
Presenting the debut single from Melbourne’s most exciting young hard-rock band, Willie J’s 6v6s!! A 6V6 is a beam-power tetrode vacuum tube. A family of tubes that was first introduced in 1936, it is used […]
Having announced it last Friday, Kim Salmon’s latest new outfit Smoked Salmon have today released “Hell in a Handbasket”, the second single from their forthcoming debut album, which they are formally announcing today as well. The new single […]
Kathleen Halloran effortlessly closes the 20 feet between her storied career as a sought-after ensemble guitarist, and an exciting new solo chapter, today sharing her debut single, Free With Me – a self-assured and wide […]
The wait is finally over and OPETH‘s highly anticipated 14th studio album, The last WILL and TESTAMENT is now available worldwide via Moderbolaget / Reigning Phoenix Music! To celebrate this release, the Swedish prog legends are now sharing […]
Following the successful launch of their single ‘Ladder’ at The Bird in May, the release of their single ‘Scratch’ in August, and a string of rocking shows including RTRFM’s Fremantle Winter Music Festival, Boorloo/Perth indie-rock […]
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