Due to popular demand from Australian fans and following a hugely successful concert tour of UK & Europe the world’s greatest Dire Straits show returns to Australia in October 2016 to perform the incredible […]
Billed in the press release as the missing link between The Sisters of Mercy’s classic ‘First and Last and Always’ and The Mission’s own debut ‘God’s Own Medicine’ by Wayne Hussy himself expectations were necessarily […]
Killer Bee is a Swedish-Canadian hard rocking band formed in the early 1990s by songwriters Anders ‘LA’ Rönnblom and Brian ‘Bee’ Frank. After a number of years in hibernation from 1997 to 2011 the band […]
After returning from a 2 year stint in the UK, Brisbane based multi-progressive rockers Osaka Punch have come out with a new EP titled “Death Monster Super Squad” which quickly follows the full length […]
Margaret Court Arena on a chilly Spring Melbourne night was the scene for RSO, aka the pairing of former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Adelaide born guitar shredder Orianthi, on their headline National […]
Joe Bonamassa never disappoints, whilst some artists trot out the same show and the same songs year in year out every time Joe reaches our shores it’s with a new setlist and a new […]
I’ve travelled overseas a few times in recent years to see particular bands and being based out here on the West Coast of Australia we even have to make that long trip over East […]
Aussie hard rockers Airbourne release their fourth album “Breakin’ Outta Hell” on September 23rd, the first full length to actually be recorded in Australia with the help of Bob Marlette and Mike Fraser on […]
Yonkers, New York death metal kings Immolation have finally made it to Australia for the first time ever in 28 years and the first stop on the tour was Perth, here is how it […]
HARDLINE MEDIA & BIG DEAL TOURING PRESENTS THE APPICE BROTHERS DRUM WARS Sydney & Melbourne February 2017 The audience did not know what to expect, Let just say it was more than they […]
Finnish cello masters Apocalyptica returned to Australia, less than 2 years after their explosive appearance at the final Soundwave Festival in 2015. This time around they came back as headliners for a club tour […]
After three years of vigorously touring the world, Red Fang re-emerge with their latest full-length album, Only Ghosts. Produced by the legendary Ross Robinson (At The Drive In, The Cure, Slipknot, and many more) […]
Immolation have been delivering some of the most unique, and creatively dark, death metal the underground has witnessed for over 25 years. Spewing forth unrelenting, chaotic and twisted sonics while continuing to push the […]
Hard Rock Heroes BLACK STONE CHERRY have had a dynamite year. They’ve dropped their latest record KENTUCKY worldwide, they’ve toured Australia with Steel Panther and they have done the biggest show in the world, Wembley […]
Classic British punk / mod-revival act From The Jam hit Perth on their national tour of Australia on Saturday night, a spectacular show of rocking tunes and more from the legends of rock as […]
Their legend has proliferated for nearly three decades. When Brujeria first emerged from the sunbaked hellscape of Los Angeles in 1989, the city was on the brink of chaos. Daryl Gates ruled the LAPD […]
HARDLINE MEDIA & BIG DEAL TOURING PRESENTS NUCLEAR ASSAULT Australian Tour: February 2017 One of the most iconic bands of the US Thrash Metal movement, Nuclear Assault, will be coming to Australia for their […]
There are great guitarists, great vocalists and great songwriters, but Monte Pittman is one of the elite few who can truly lay claim to all three titles. With his fourth full-length, Inverted Grasp Of […]
Tonight saw the the return of California Deathcore king Suicide Silence’s last stop on the Australian tour was Perth, here’s how it went down. Perth based Iconoclast kicked off proceedings in style warming […]
It’s almost 20 years now since Led Zeppelin released the BBC Sessions, an acclaimed two-disc set of live recordings selected from the band’s appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. September 16 2016 sees […]
Like any ‘singer and band part ways’ story the Geoff Tate and Queensryche saga will be playing out for years, but acrimony and law suits aside one thing is clear musically Queensryche 2016 and Operation […]
It’s always interesting trying to dissect what makes a Rock Icon – Punk bands like the Ramones can essentially make the same songs over and over again and become legends and media darlings, whilst those […]
I don’t get ‘Ghost’ – not the image or the sound, but the appeal. Light Melodic pop-laced and sweetly sung it may be, but there are hundreds of other bands out there that do this […]
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ autobiography was the top-selling book in multiple countries last week, earning raves from fans and critics worldwide. ‘Chapter and Verse,’ the audio companion to the gripping 528-page memoir, is 2016’s […]
Well let’s get the formalities out of the way first shall we.. I think my hometown Melbourne boys The Radio Sun have just released my album of the year with their third release, Outside Looking […]
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