Melbourne’s Grim Rhythm are dedicated to ze rock, and souped up to serve their debut LP to lovers of riffage across the nation. ‘What Do You Know About Rock’n’Roll’ is out June 9 via the band’s own label, Suspect Records. For six years, Grim Rhythm was a strictly live band only. Eschewing the conventions of […]
Gothic Doom Metal band Paradise Lost to play first headline Australian shows in six years. Rare is it for a band to have had such a long lasting effect on the musical landscape they exist within. Since their formation in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Paradise Lost have thrived in perpetual darkness: a place where rays of light […]
BIGSOUND Festival, the southern hemisphere’s biggest celebration of new music held in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley from September 5 – 8, has unveiled its first round of tastemaker attendees and speakers, drawing from a massive pool of buyers, talent scouts and A&R from around the globe, along with some inspirational local legends. Heading the announcement are two […]
Philadelphia shoegaze/alternative rock quartet NOTHING has announced an Australian tour this January in support of their new album “Tired Of Tomorrow” (Relapse Records) “Tired Of Tomorrow” is a modern, nihilistic take on the triumphant fuzzed-out guitar rock of the ’90s, replete with huge hooks and brooding melodies. Much like the events it’s based on, the […]
Scott Reynolds, the legendary punk rock vocalist who sang for the highly influential pop-punkers ALL between 1989 and 1993 is currently in Australia as special guest of Anti-Flag on their national tour. Scott will be performing some side shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during the tour. Having spent the better part of 25 years […]
Award-winning English rapper, singer, songwriter and producer, TINIE TEMPAH, returns to Australia for his first headline shows since 2014. The inimitable Tinie Tempah shot to prominence in 2010 with his debut album, Disc-Overy – featuring two UK No.1s “Pass Out” and “Written in the Stars” – and followed with his sophomore album, Demonstration, also home […]
Brisbane prog-metallers THE STRANGER are today carving their mark in the Australian heavy music landscape with the release of their new single DIVINE INTERVENTION. Divine Intervention is the first salvo of an assault-via-album due early 2017 and sets the tone sonically and thematically for the album. Drummer for the outfit, Daniel O’Brien said of the […]
Philadelphia garage punk outfit The Menzingers will return to Australian shores in February 2017 kicking off at The Rev in Melbourne, Friday 10th followed by Crowbar in Brisbane, Saturday 11th and finishing up in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory on Sunday 12th. The Menzingers have also finished recording their fifth album ‘After The Party’ due […]
Easily one of the wilder bands working in psychobilly today. With his signature coffin bass and chilling baritone, frontman Kim Nekroman founded Nekromantix in Copenhagen in 1989. Nekromantix fast emerged as a feverishly cherished underground act, first unleashing their unstoppable debut Hellbound in 1989! I’m bloody stoked to announce the spookiest Friday the 13th Brisbane […]
An Emmy Award-winning TV writer, Dan Harmon is most famous for creating cult comedy shows Community and Rick and Morty. After getting fired from his own show, Community, in its third season (he was brought back for its celebrated fifth), he turned his attention to his live comedy show and podcast, Harmontown. The weekly show – co-hosted in LA by Jeff B […]