News from the Australian music scene, from Perth to the East Coast and in between as well as New Zealand.
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 […]
Sydney’s Mercury Sky are back with new music – and though the single is called ‘Nausea’ – it won’t make you nauseous. It’s the first single from their forthcoming ‘Infra’ EP. The EP will […]
Melbourne is the spiritual and physical home of pure bread rock n roll in Australia and the Riff Raiders are testament to that! They play like they mean it, with monstrous riffs, thundering drums […]
After nine years performing live and producing three acclaimed studio albums, The Peep Tempel announce a final run of national dates before entering a period of hiatus. Australia has a happy knack of throwing […]
Caligula’s Horse, a band at the forefront of Australia’s progressive rock scene, will hit the road for a national tour over September and October in support of their new album In Contact, to be […]
It’s been 7 years and 9 months since Mammal collectively drove their raw brand of Lamborghini rock ‘n’ roll straight off a cliff, but today the flaming fireball of visceral energy and groove known […]
The ball has well and truly begun rolling for Sydney’s Justice For The Damned, and now there is no sign of it slowing. Half way through their sold out tour with Ocean Grove, they’ve […]
Destroy All Lines and Friends Like Us proudly present “HEAVY: MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH” on Saturday 19th August. An open invitation for friends, family and even strangers to create awareness and break down the stigma of mental […]
Sydney punkers SPEEDBALL have just completed their 3rd release, titled How Will I Slam Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Mosh Today. The EP has all their crowd favourites finally committed to tape. Tracks like […]
The Brave are thrilled to announce they are heading out on a long awaited headline tour! Hitting the east coast in September, The Brave are also taking their new single “Ethereal” along for the ride too. In […]
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