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Following a sensational 2018 UK tour, legendary guitarist Steve Hackett has announced the release of a 2CD + Blu-Ray digipak titled ‘Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live at the Royal Festival Hall’ on 25th […]
Perth heavy rockers Tempest Rising today release their brand new album “Alter Ego“, available on all digital platforms and through Nerve Gas. The album. comes ahead of Perth monthly metal club Hornography’s first anniversary […]
NIRVANA, put simply, changed the course of music, over a few short years, defined a genre, and maintains an unscarred legacy with their biggest hits being a staple of rock radio all over the […]
One month out from their highly anticipated national tour to celebrate their new double live album, SUMO 20 LIVE, The Superjesus have today unleashed The Impossible – their kickass new single and wildly hilarious […]
SoCal alt-rockers Dirty Heads have just released their seventh studio album, Super Moon, through Five Seven Records. The 10-track album sweeps you away into a world of chill vibes and a nostalgic reggae influence with […]
Guitarists Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction) and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol) have confirmed the star-studded line-up for the second annual “ABOVE GROUND” benefit concert on Monday, September 16 at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. Navarro and Morrison […]
Three weeks prior to the release of Tarja’s brand new studio album “In The Raw”, the official video for “Tears In Rain” sees its premiere today. Taking you to the world of Roller derby, […]
Music Theory Recordings / Mascot Label Group and Flying Colors have announced the global release of the band’s third studio album THIRD DEGREE on October 4. The band’s self-titled debut launched a career that […]
Jonathan Zazula, known the world over as Jonny Z, has lived an intense life. Born in 1952, he began his extraordinary journey as a renegade youth who went from living on the streets of […]
Dave Mathews Band, Crowded House, Patti Smith And Her Band, and others have been announced in Bluesfest’s first line-up announcement for 2020. The 31st annual Byron Bay Bluesfest is taking place from 9th – […]
Saint Asonia – featuring vocalist Adam Gontier, guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist Cale Gontier, and drummer Sal Giancarelli – have just dropped “The Hunted,” the first single from their forthcoming second album and Spinefarm Records debut […]
Emerging in the early 1980’s in Los Angeles, an American Heavy Metal legendary lead guitarist named CHRIS HOLMES was spawned in the iconic W.A.S.P.! and is finally making his debut appearance in Australia in […]
Crossover thrash unit TOXIC HOLOCAUST will release its long-awaited new full-length, Primal Future: 2019, on October 4th via new label home, Entertainment One (“eOne”). The band Terrorizer called, “a whirlwind of booze, denim jackets […]
The Butterfly Effect return! Clint, Kurt, Ben and Glenn have not released new music together for 10 years – since the release of their 2008 album Final Conversation of Kings. Earlier in 2019 – […]
Puddle of Mudd rise from the ashes with their sixth studio album in nearly a decade, entitled Welcome to Galvania. Formed in 1991, Puddle of Mudd has sold over seven million albums and has […]
Iconic shock rocker and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper has announced he’s returning to Australia in February 2020 with his all-new “Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back” show. Special guests with Alice Cooper on the Australian leg of […]
Two of Australia’s greatest rock bands, The Angels and Baby Animals will hit the road together this November and December for a string of shows nationally, ‘They Who Rock 2019’. Fronted by Dave Gleeson and Suze […]
On the heels of the recently announced new album and headline tour, California’s greatest export and relationship experts Steel Panther are back with another music video from their upcoming album, Heavy Metal Rules. “Always […]
Dutch metal titans EPICA have launched a lyric video for ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ which is taken from the band’s upcoming re-release of »Design Your Universe« – Gold Edition. Mark Jansen comments: “’Kingdom of Heaven’ […]
Nuclear Blast Records is proud to welcome the worldwide signing of AS I LAY DYING. The band’s seventh album, »Shaped By Fire«, will be released on September 20th via Nuclear Blast. AS I LAY […]
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST second single and video ‘Sleeping With The Light On’, KADAVAR release epic western music video for first single off For The Dead Travel Fast, DESTRUCTION release music video for “Inspired by […]
After two very successful releases with PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS and countless live shows with rock giants like GUNS N’ ROSES among others, legendary long-time MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell has finalized work […]
British heavy metal icons DIAMOND HEAD are pleased to unveil a lyric video for “The Sleeper.” The tune comes by way of the band’s critically-lauded The Coffin Train full-length, released earlier this year via […]
‘White Wedding’, ‘Dancing With Myself’, ‘Rebel Yell’, ‘Flesh For Fantasy’, ‘Eyes Without A Face’… with a huge list of global hit singles to his name including 8 x US Top 20 hits, rock icon Billy Idol needs little introduction to […]
Clem Burke, Blondie’s original drummer joins Bootleg Blondie to celebrate the classic Parallel Lines album (Heart of Glass, One Way Or Another, Sunday Girl, Hanging on the Telephone, Picture This) They will play the […]
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