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UK indie rockers The Vaccines and Everything Everything are banding together for a whirlwind co-headline tour this May, playing shows in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Returning to Australia for the first time since […]
GRAMMY Award-winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, James Taylor announces 3 further concert dates on his 2024 Australian tour, An Evening with James Taylor and His All-Star Band, to meet ongoing demand for […]
Alkaline Trio have released their 10th album, Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs, out now on Rise Records. Following the release of the albums first singles, the title track and Bad Time, the band have released a video for the […]
Udåd is the new act from Thomas Eriksen of current Norwegian black metal masters, Mork. As his main band evolves ever further into complex and elaborately textured moods and atmospheres, Eriksen reflected back on Mork’s […]
Blues-rock icon Walter Trout is exploding into 2024 with a new album, heavy touring and today he reveals the new video for Broken featuring powerhouse singer Beth Hart. You can watch the video HERE. The […]
With the new studio album, It Leads to This due for release, Friday 9 February and a fast-approaching UK & European tour, these are exciting times for The Pineapple Thief and lovers of modern, progressive, […]
Michigan Midwesterners Hot Mulligan announce they will make their long-awaited trip to Australian shores in March 2024 for their first ever string of Australian shows. Joining them will be Nashville special guests and fellow first time visitors Free Throw. […]
Brisbane alt-rock band Sunbleached dive into 2024 with new single, No Cure For Life, ahead of their appearance at New Bloom Festival in Brisbane this March. Tickets on sale now via Destroy All Lines. Swimming in sounds […]
Eora/Sydney-based alt-rock shapeshifters RedHook are launching into 2024 with one of their heaviest singles to date in ‘Scream 2’ – produced by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic) and mixed by James Paul Wisner (Underoath, Paramore). Conceptualised […]
After spending 2023 releasing their first new music since 2018’s debut album ‘No Chaser’, Ablaze are back and tearing straight into 2024 with a new single and tour! Intent on showcasing the band’s diverse writing […]
Boasting a lethal combination of razor sharp musicianship and blisteringly catchy anthems, Audio Reign are the epitome of classic heavy rock. After rocking the nation over the last several months with tracks like Motorway, Last […]
Jack J Hutchinson releases another fiery, fury-filled single from his new 10-track album, ‘Battles’ which is released Friday 9th Feb. ‘Battles’, was recorded at Momentum Studios in Plymouth and produced and co-written with Josiah J Manning […]
Australia, are you ready for round 2? While it’s been less than a year since beloved UK alt-rockers Nothing But Thieves were last down under for an entirely sold out run, the band are returning […]
All This Filth, the dynamic and trailblazing music group known for their industrial tinged groove metal sound and impassioned lyrics, recently set the stage ablaze with the announcement of their signing with US record label Brutal […]
In support of her latest album Stellaria, Platinum-certified American singer, songwriter, producer Chelsea Cutler is heading down under for the very first time, debuting her powerful live show on stages across the country this May, […]
The Sydney leg of the 2024 Pandemonium festival on Anzac Day April 25 will now take place at Cathy Freeman Park in the Sydney Olympic Park Precinct. Promoter Apex Entertainment today announced the venue change for the […]
Since 2008, Asking Alexandria have established a world of rock music that is completely their own. Now, over a BILLION cumulative streams and views later, with a new label behind them, the U.K.-based rock group […]
Founded in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, The HU blend traditional Mongolian instrumentation & throat singing with Western rock in what they call ‘Hunnu Rock.’Their debut album, 2019‘s ‘The Gereg’, debuted at #1 on the World […]
Halestorm have elicited emotional, physical, and spiritual reaction from audiences worldwide since it began as a childhood dream of sister and brother Lzzy and Arejay Hale. Led by charismatic vocalist/guitarist Lzzy, the Pennsylvania-based post-grunge/metal quartet […]
Across their career Lamb Of God have grown from basement shows and grimy DIY venues to headline arenas. The ‘New Wave of American Heavy Metal architects have earned a reverence akin to musical forefathers (and […]
Emerging out of Chicago at the turn of the century with an insidious, infectious, and inimitable vision without comparison, Disturbed have quietly dominated hard rock on their own terms. They make the kind of music […]
Pantera is regarded as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. The uncompromising quartet of singer Philip Anselmo, guitarist Dimebag Darrell, his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul and bassist Rex Brown quickly rose to […]
Take That have today announced their return down under with a huge live tour set for October and November 2024. Take That’s This Life On Tour will see the trio – Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald – take in seven dates across Australia and New Zealand, visiting a […]
A timeless indie rap-rock band with hit music spanning two decades, MG Live and Frontier Touring are excited to welcome Gym Class Heroes back to Australia and New Zealand for a series of headline shows this March. […]
Australian heavy vanguards Northlane have announced their new EP, Mirror’s Edge, out April 12 (Independent). Alongside news comes the colossal new single, “Miasma” featuring Winston McCall from Parkway Drive. “Miasma” is a throwback to Northlane’s […]
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