Australia’s finest purveyors of melodic noise Trophy Eyes have had a busy year already. After the success of their ARIA Top 10 release Suicide and Sunshine in 2023, the band then headed on a capital city run promoting the album, selling out shows right around the country. This was followed up with a raucous regional Australian victory lap with their mates Dear Seattle, then finally the band managed to take one deep long breath.   I guess they knew what 2024 had in store for them. The band are currently half way through a sold out European tour, their fir ..read more

GRETA VAN FLEET are set to make their highly anticipated return to Australian and New Zealand shores this August for the first time since 2019. GRETA VAN FLEET will open their tour at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on August 21st before heading to Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on August 24th and the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on August 27th before jumping over the ditch to Auckland to play Spark Arena on August 30th. Tickets for all shows go on sale on Friday April 19 at 1pm. Australia and New Zealand are in the firing line of the hugely successful Starcatcher World Tour!  ..read more

14 April 2024 – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane – words by Sara Rose – pictures by Bec Harbour Night One of the tour with no name had a stacked lineup of Jax, We The Kings, Boys Like Girls and of course headliner Simple Plan. It was packed and busy, but the crowd was happy and absolutely enjoying themselves. I grabbed a spot on the balcony at the Fortitude Music Hall and watched as the crowd started to grow. There was a range of ages, but I feel like the main age group was the 30 plus year old emo kids that have grown up but still love these bands (myself included). The vibe of the room was gre ..read more

11 April 2024 – The Zoo, Brisbane – words by Lucas Bell – pictures by Bec Harbour In the band’s first Australian shows in over eleven years, British metal crew Orange Goblin made their long overdue return to Australia last Thursday. To put that into perspective, they’ve released two records since, and have a third on the way later this year ready to go. Bolstering the show on the support slots though, are two incredible acts, including Melbourne based doom metal band Dr Colossus, and the self described Sydney Heavy Sludge-Grunge duo, Astrodeath.  Astrodeath were the first cab off the rank ..read more

Frank Turner has just released a brand new single ‘Letters‘, the latest track following ‘Girl From The Record Shop‘, ‘No Thank You For The Music‘ and ‘Do One‘ to be taken from his tenth album Undefeated, out 3 May 2024 via Xtra Mile Recordings. On the single he says, “‘Letters’ is a song that I’ve been working on for a long time; in some ways I’ve been writing it since a genuine pen-friendship of mine dried up when I was a kid, when the mix-tapes stopped coming through the post. It’s a song about communication and its breakdown, about nostalgia for teenage ro ..read more

Today, Sydney powerhouse act Stand Atlantic announce the Was Here tour, hitting the east coast of Australia this August. The Was Here tour will see the band headlining their biggest shows in this country to date, which is testimony to one of Australia’s hardest working bands right now. Supporting Stand Atlantic on this run will be Sly Withers & VANA. Full tour details below.  Bonnie from Stand Atlantic on the upcoming tour:“it feels like its been forever since we were able to showcase a proper headline show in the motherland of austral ..read more

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have announced their new album Dark Rainbow for release on 26th January 2024. The band are also sharing the album’s lead single ‘Man of the Hour’, which was given its airplay debut by Clara Amfo on her BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds show last night. New single ‘Man of the Hour’ makes it clear that we are entering into a whole new era for The Rattlesnakes. Self-evaluation and reflection are very much on the agenda throughout Dark Rainbow, and they pave the way for a sound that puts southern gothic balladry and crooning alt-rock to the front. A sonic ..read more

Like a neon high on pastiche ways to incandescent schemas… all overripe with contracted pulps of fiction. Slices of noir lightly squeezed liberally over deserts of modulated rhyme. Pupils set to a glaze in the salmon pink skies and ochre horizons… nigh on a peaking runaway of psychosis. From the dark nights of Regurgitator’s INVADER emerges the COCAINE RUNAWAY. “One evening in London I was invited by a Circus friend to watch her perform at the Tate Modern. After closing, when everyone had left, she took my hand and lead me through the gallery. We wandered togeth ..read more

7 April 2024 – The Princess Theatre, Brisbane – words by Alessandro Ambrosi – pictures by Charlyn Cameron What’s better than a metal concert to kick the Sunday night blues right in the &#$@??? Tonight, on the menu, we have UK’s Carcass with their 40+ years career (give or take a 10-year break from 1996 to 2006) of pioneering grindcore early on, to death metal and whether it was the former or the latter Carcass has always set the rules to follow. Supports The Black Dahlia Murder might have sounded quite different, if it wasn’t for Carcass.  Citing the UK band as on of their major influ ..read more

The undisputed godfather of underground rock, Bob Mould, finally returns to Australia for the first time since 2012! The US singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader extraordinaire will play three exclusive shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this November and December. The former frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, Bob Mould has forged a successful solo career and cemented his status as one of the undisputed forefathers of alternative rock,. With 15 solo studio albums under his belt, Bob has explored multitudes of sounds from guitar-driven rock to electronic dance music. Tackling topics li ..read more