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“TATTS: LIVE IN BRUNSWICK” OUT NOW Tatts: Live in Brunswick is a 14-track album recorded at Melbourne’s Bombay Bicycle Club in Brunswick in 1982 and mastered for loyal fans in 2017. Released via powerhouse indie […]
Adelaide-based Progressive Death Metal purveyors, Sun of Gaia have recently launched a new video single. Entitled “Peril,” the new single follows up the EP Corrode which was released in March last year. The “Peril” video is available on YouTube. […]
Vancouver, BC’s CRNKSHFT announce they will be unleashing their new self-titled EP produced by Daren Grahn (Metallica, Hedley, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi) on March 24, 2017 to follow their 2015 debut ‘Hard Fucking Rock’. Since the […]
Prairie Fire Events Ltd is proud to announce their 2017 line-up for Edmonton, AB’s loudest indoor metal festival and conference, SHREDMONTON. Featuring some of the heaviest acts from across Canada to rumble the Alberta prairies, this […]
Ottawa’s nerd-rock trio DOUBLE EXPERIENCE have toured the world, playing in front the masses, but nothing prepared them for their encounter with the monster known as Godzilla! Destroyer of worlds! The amazing story was all […]
In my humble opinion THUNDER is the UK’s greatest Rock band of the 80’s and I’ve been a paid up member of the ‘Thunder Channel’ ever since I saw them supporting AEROSMITH back on the PUMP tour. […]
It is rare to find a band who are a force of nature right from their outset. Forging their own sound and putting their own bent on their chosen genre from the inception of the band […]
Prepare yourselves music lovers: Perth’s most recent musical secret is fleeing the land of fifo employment and $5 lattes, destined to capture minds and hearts nation-wide. FOAM will release their debut album ‘Coping Mechanisms’ via MGM […]
Lennard Promotions Present BONNIE TYLER GREATEST HITS TOUR AUSTRALIA 2017 *With Special Guests Eurogliders & Rick Price Lennard Promotions present the Welsh queen of rock and blues, Bonnie Tyler on her Greatest Hits Australian […]
Metropolis Touring and Abstract Entertainment Proudly Present Bay City Rollers Re-live the excitement that was Rollermania! Scotland’s greatest pop / glam export, the BAY CITY ROLLERS Featuring Les McKeown will finally be back down […]
After 10 years on the road, three groundbreaking albums and multiple ARIA nominations, Dead Letter Circus are not the band they were at the beginning. They are a band at their peak… and ‘The Endless […]
There’s no denying Billboard’s ‘Rock Group of the Decade’, NICKELBACK continue to reign supreme as one of the most enduring and commercially successful acts of the past two decades. NICKELBACK’S Australian sales have hit 15-times-platinum with […]
Kent’s stormiest metal prodigies OHHMS have just announced two batches of shows with Hark and Bossk, to take place this April and May in the U.K. Hold on to your seats: the forces involved on these […]
Legendary AEROSMITH guitarist JOE PERRY is pictured here after being presented with the Les Paul Award at 32nd Annual NAMM TEC Awards. Perry presented with the prestigious honour by his Hollywood Vampires bandmate Johnny Depp, […]
Recorded in 1982, mastered for 2017: “TATTS: LIVE IN BRUNSWICK” out now. Tatts: Live in Brunswick is a 14-track album recorded at Melbourne’s Bombay Bicycle Club in Brunswick in 1982 and mastered for loyal fans in […]
Following the recent announcement of the Feb 24 release of THE GLORY DAYS OF AUSSIE PUB ROCK, VOLUME 2, Festival Records and Warner Music Australia are pleased to now announce the final track listing […]
Australia’s premiere incendiary extreme musical export, THY ART IS MURDER, recently welcomed back vocalist C.J. McMahon back into the fold. The band welcomed him back as a surprise onstage at their recent Unify Festival performance in Australia. Check […]
Melbourne’s much-loved cheeky garage-rock outfit The Pretty Littles are back kickin’ it on the road soon, with a bunch of shows to support super swell new single ‘Helluva Tuesdi’. In typical form, none of these shows […]
Australian singer/songwriter, Rick Price has walked the journey many musicians dreams are made of. In the 90’s very few southern hemisphere radio stations would go a day without a Rick Price song on high […]
Fast rising northern stars, The Jerry Cans, create music inspired by their hometown of Iqaluit, Nunavut in Canada’s frozen far north. They fuse their unique mix of Inuktitut alt-country, throat singing, and reggae with a […]
Melding brutality and brains into an unstoppable sonic force, San Francisco’s FALLUJAH (Nuclear Blast Entertainment) will be making their highly anticipated live debut on Australian shores with Killswitch Engage and now they have announced a […]
Sydney’s five-piece metalcore band POLARIS are thrilled to announce the re-release of their 2016 EP The Guilt & The Grief (which debuted at #34 on the ARIA album charts and #2 on the AIR charts) on 10″ vinyl […]
Vancouver thrashers TERRIFIER are proud to announce they will be headlining this year’s 2nd annual CEMR MetalFest in Calgary, AB on April 8th. The festival is presented by Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio, Voxx Promotions and The Forge featuring a […]
FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY have debuted a brand new music video for their newest track “Heads Will Hang” today exclusively via Alternative Press. Directed by Max Moore, (CODE ORANGE, OF MICE AND MEN) this is the […]
Groovin The Moo has announced its 2017 lineup, lined with a bunch of international and local favourites. The regional festival will trip around to six locations in Australia over April and May, and there are […]
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