News from the Australian music scene, from Perth to the East Coast and in between as well as New Zealand.
Post-rock trailblazers sleepmakeswaves are still riding high from the success of their epic triple j Like A Version of ‘Children’ by Robert Miles and have now announced a headlining national tour of Australia for […]
The Jezabels have just released a brand new video for their new single, The Others, today as premiered on Clash mag in the UK. Recorded with the band’s long time producer, Lachlan Mitchell, and […]
Calling all hard working musos. Victoria Bitter and FBi Radio are teaming up to bring you VB Hard Yards – an opportunity for local bands to play with rock heroes Cosmic Psychos this November. […]
Kickass San Fran punk rock quartet HEARTSOUNDS are headed south this Spring, bringing their critically acclaimed LP Dualistic Nihilist to Australia’s east coast. The album, a singular 20-minute piece of punk rock perfection is […]
Caligula’s Horse, a band at the forefront of Australia’s progressive rock scene, recently debuted the track Will’s Song (Let the Colours Run), the first track taken from the forthcoming new album In Contact out 15th […]
The Cherry Dolls have announced a run of September tour dates in support of their debut album, Viva Los Dolls, out now through indie rock label, Golden Robot Records, with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, […]
The Ruminaters kicked off 2017 with their ‘Summer Vacation’ Tour featuring appearances at Mountain Sounds, Secret Garden, Surfing World Camp and Party in The Park Festivals alongside their biggest headline shows to date and […]
Sydney’s Arteries are gearing up to release their long awaited debut album, This Will Destroy Us on September 29 Melding melody and melancholy by way of dual eight-string guitars, Arteries are more than the […]
Blind Love, the sonically infectious, ethereal and groundbreaking new album from AWAKEN I AM is set for release on September 29th, 2017. Today, the Australian melodic powerhouse are streaming their new single “Black Dreams.” […]
While a thousand trends have come and gone, straight-up rock has endured them all… galvanising fans worldwide with its strict no-bullshit approach. With everything dialled in at maximum, pure rock is larger than life, and […]
The Divinyls reunite in less than a month for a history-shattering fashion and music extravaganza to celebrate iconic Australian label Wheels & Dollbaby’s 30th anniversary. Closing this year’s Telstra Perth Fashion Festival (TPFF) on September 17, […]
Melbourne two-piece metal machine, Contrive, consisting of twin brothers Paul and Andrew Haug are set to return with their brand new Contrive album, Slow Dissolve on September 1. Today, they release the music video for […]
Tropical Fuck Storm would like you to meet their debut 7″ single, ‘Chameleon Paint’ b/w ‘Mansion Family’, to be released on September 22 as a label collab between TFS Records and Mistletone Records. This limited […]
Melbourne rockers Riff Raiders launched their debut original single Live It Like You Mean It earlier this week; listen to it HERE They music video for the track has also been released Watch It Here! […]
Sydney’s Sienna Skies are about to head out on the road alongside Hawthorne Heights and River Oaks (Shane Told from Silverstein‘s solo project) across Australia. To celebrate, they are today dropping a video for […]
Local doom metal band Dirty Pagans are set to reinvent the face melting sounds from the 70s metal scene with Sydney’s Americana doom fuzz outfit The Lockhearts, Glam rockers Laced in Lust and rock […]
Australian metal veterans, Frankenbok recently returned with their triumphant new album entitled Vicious, Lawless The band made headlines with the video for the albums first single Stalker, Stalker, which brought to the screen a real […]
In case you weren’t excited enough for your yearly live music pilgrimage to Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct for a sensory overload of music, BIGSOUND Festival has shown all its cards, dropping all the […]
Sydney’s Endless Heights are taking new single You Coward to the road, the follow up to their Pray I Fade EP of late 2016. “This song came about from the frustration of watching myself […]
Following the success of their recent tour of Germany, including a well received performance at the Headbangers Open Air Festival and to promote the release of their re recorded debut album The Masterplan, Perth […]
Brisbane’s DARKCELL have released a new video for Hail To The Freaks to be released on August 11. The video was made by Red Boss Productions know for their epic videos for Thy Art […]
Satellites are today rolling out new song ‘Thread’ and unleashing details about ‘Black Dog’, their new EP, produced by Troy Brady. New single ‘Thread’ premiered on the radio Wednesday night on triple j’s Short […]
With Confidence have released Better Weather B-Sides, which consists of two new tracks titled “Here For Nothing” and “Poison”. Fans can listen to the new songs here. The bands most recent album Better Weather, […]
Majora are makers of beautifully heavy music – instrumental pieces crafted with care and intricacy that take the listener on deep journeys of introspect and bliss. Today they are returning to the fore of […]
Sydney’s Lo! literally made a splash last year with the ingenious video clip for ORCA, produced by bass player Adrian Shapiro himself: The clip showed vocalist Sam Dillon as a vicious creature emerging from […]
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