News from the Australian music scene, from Perth to the East Coast and in between as well as New Zealand.
2018 has been a mammoth first year for Tropical F*ck Storm! They released a run of limited edition 7inch vinyl’s and their anarchic, apocalyptic debut LP ‘A Laughing Death In Meatspace’ to worldwide critical […]
High-energy duo Hat Fitz and Cara are one of Australia’s most enduring, popular and talented roots artists. The husband and wife team have clocked up 10 years of touring, festivals and album releases from […]
Whether with his classic outfit ‘The Fro’, or in various other guises, Byron Shire local Marshall Okell has become one of the most enduring faces of the blues and roots festival scene in Australia, […]
Former Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon, Charlie Owen, Boris Sujdovic, Tony Pola and Tex Perkins reinvent themselves in a recorded project entitled ‘The Beasts Still Here’ and will be touring nationally performing tracks from […]
From the fields of Unify Gathering, to stages all across Europe, Sydney’s Justice For The Damned have proven time and time again that their stomachs are just as big as their eyes. The hunger […]
Brisbane progressive maestro’s Opus of a Machine released their highly praised new album, Stray Fire, in early August. The first single off Stray Fire was Up.Out. – A video for the track has just […]
Melbourne punks Amyl and The Sniffers are coming home for a run of dates in December, dragging their mates Surfbort (US) along for the ride. Amyl and The Sniffers have been touring across Europe, the […]
Download Festival hits Melbourne and Sydney next March, and while heavy music fans Australia-wide wait for the international headliners to announce gigs near them, Australia’s punk rock also-rans Frenzal Rhomb have inexplicably decided to […]
Alt-hard rock heavyweights Red Bee will return to reign supreme at The Roxy Room in Katoomba’s Hotel Gearin on Saturday, December 15! It is their first hometown show since the May release of their […]
Troubadour Music, in association with K2 Agency, are proud to present kiwi thrash metal band Alien Weaponry back to Australia after some sell out shows in July. The trio from Waipu, Northland will bring […]
Trophy Eyes have announced an Australian Regional Tour to take place in January 2019. Kicking off in Victoria prior to their highly anticipated UNIFY Gathering appearance in January, the tour hits regional centres in […]
Incomplete are a hard rock punk band from Perth WA. All members have been playing in Hard Rock, Punk, and Metal bands for years which has devolved into this thing they call “Incomplete”. Incomplete’s […]
Museum of Fire is an Australian Rock band based in Perth, Western Australia and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Walker. After 15 years as a front man, natural progression led […]
Perth’s #1 Nineties Rock event – NEVERMIND THE NINETIES makes its way to Bar1 Nightclub THIS FRIDAY to blow the roof off with a night of grunge and alternative rock. Catch THE SPACE NEEDLES […]
The VAST project united some of Australia’s finest songwriters to collaborate, write and record songs in the historic deserted settlement of Cossack (BAJINHURRBA), in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Bernard Fanning, Sally Seltmann, […]
Melbourne riff heavy melodic metallers, To An End have released a new video for the track Fracture which is off their forthcoming debut album Redefine, out Fri Nov 23! Watch the video Fracture below. […]
Perth indie rock outfit The Reductors have today released double single Practical Girl/Tremors, its arresting dose of post-punk energy and biting social commentary marking a thrilling sonic evolution for the band. The group stamped […]
Sydney indie rockers, The Iron Horses, recently released their latest single, Salvation, through Golden Robot Records. The band have been touring no stop through 2018 in support of their three singles and will be […]
The Last Martyr are Melbourne’s newest melodic metal sensation. Their debut single, ‘Into The Black‘ was released late July 2018 via HEAVY Magazine – and now they return with a brand new single ‘Stay […]
The Pinheads return from a multi member sabbatical with a new single, ‘Not Like You’ A tune about our divergent world of round the clock connection, resulting in chronic isolation, the mingling pot of […]
Brisbane’s inovo are today releasing something that has been in production/the creation phase for over a year. A mammoth undertaking of indie film-making, not even to mention the carefully-crafted, brooding and atmospheric prog/rock music […]
2018 has been pretty bloody good to Perth’s Black Stone from the Sun; the release of their debut album Dreamalysis, national touring, festival slots, airplay far and wide…the grunge-punk duo have a lot to […]
Last night, triple j’s The Racket premiered the brand new single from Diamond Construct. Hailing from the quiet town of Taree on the New South Wales central coast, the young four-piece have been tipped […]
Final Gambit are a three-piece punk rock band from Sydney consisting of vocalist/guitarist Nick Burgmann, bassist Lauren Dawson, and drummer Aleksi Monaghan. They have been playing together for over a year but have taken […]
Melbourne’s (MSC) My Secret Circus have been chained, poked and probed these past couple of years, having battled through hurdles beyond their control which has seen them pause. But the PLAY button has been […]
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