12 months ago, Kris Barras sold just 74 tickets to his album launch in the room upstairs at The Garage – this time there were more than 500 fans packed into the main room, […]
Belinda Carlisle opened her 30th Anniversary of Runaway Horses Tour tonight in Perth at a packed Astor Theatre to an adoring crowd who sang along with every word and made it their mission to dance […]
US hard rock act Trapt returned to Perth for a second run this past Monday night, less than 2 years since their debut tour on Australian soil. For those that caught them last time, […]
A little bit of Hollywood glam rolled into Sydney this past weekend as 80’s sleaze rockers Faster Pussycat returned down under after more than 10 years since their first and only visit. Led by […]
It’s summer, it’s a Saturday night here in Melbourne and tonight is as good a night as any for a massive dose of stadium sized rock courtesy of Nickelback and Bad Wolves. Out here […]
Valentine’s Day + Beth Hart = A pretty faultless combination and this was evident with a near full house at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre on Thursday night, as the singer songwriter opened her Australian […]
New Zealand native hard rock band Like A Storm came stateside to headline the first ever satellite radio stations Sirius XM Octane Accelerator tour. This tour was created to help up and coming rock […]
American band Soulfly fronted by former Sepultura vocalist Max Cavalera is currently on tour supporting their latest album Ritual which was released on October 18th, 2018. On February 11th the tour made a stop […]
Corrosion Of Conformity is a well-oiled metal machine. If you are a fan of metal, it’s impossible not to like this band. Typically, they would play First Avenue or The Myth in the Twin […]
It was the final show of the Australia & New Zealand tour for Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators in Perth on Sunday night. Never have these guys been a let down and […]
With the Dee Snider/Twisted Sister versus Clive Palmer stoush in the lead up to Dee’s long overdue return to Australia, pretty much every man and his dog would have known that Dee fucking Snider […]
South African origin, now state of Arizona based, alternative rock band Kongos are on tour supporting their latest album 1929, Pt.1 which was released on January 18th this year. They are supported by Los […]
Wednesday night was the wrap up of the Australian tour for prog rockers Monuments at the fantastic venue of Badlands. This past week was spent on the east coast as part of this year’s Progfest […]
The annual Perth Fringe Festival ‘Fringe World’ is in full swing and if you haven’t visited the month-long celebration of the live variety of local, national & international acts performing all around the city, […]
It may have been Australia Day but that didn’t stop music fans from rocking out to some metal as Canadian prog/thrash pioneers Voivod returned to Sydney after a couple of decades to remind people […]
Butch Walker – a name in some circles that is synonymous with musical genius, and to others, despite his 30+ years in the music industry, is still a complete unknown. For me, it’s the […]
Seriously, with Friday night marking the start of the Australia Day long weekend, what right minded West Aussie would be caught dead in Perth and not in the snarling traffic of the herds heading […]
In their first show of their Australian tour, Berliners The Ocean wowed Perth with their progressive majesty. Dodging past a small army of people wielding pamphlets for Fringe shows, I made my way to […]
If ever you’re in Perth on a Tuesday night and have a thing for a bit of live blues music then look no further than The Charles Hotel, where the Perth Blues Club host their […]
Pop Evil returned to Oklahoma City and the historic Diamond Ballroom this past Saturday. After several opening acts, including comedian Don Jamieson, they hit the stage a bit after 10:00 to a crowd ready […]
With Melbourne melodic rockers The Radio Sun’s last hometown show close to 3 years ago, there’s not much better way to return to the stage than supporting Canadian legend Paul Laine at his only […]
After coming off an electrifying show at the Red Hot Summer festival in Western Australia this past weekend where “they pumped out a 60 minute set of her back catalogue including the now iconic […]
The second show of the Red Hot Summer Tour (Series One) rolled into Perth’s Swan Valley with a 10,000 sell-out crowd eager to see the star studded line-up perform in the natural amphitheatre of Sandalford’s […]
You can always count on finding Saving Abel performing somewhere. The seemingly always touring band recently made a stop at the famous New Jersey roadhouse in Stanhope and were joined by local bands such […]
Having only been in Australia less than 9 months prior when Cradle Of Filth spread their gothic black metal across Australia, it was a nice surprise to see keyboardist and solo artist Lindsay Schoolcraft […]
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