American rock legends Motley Crue has announced it's final tour - including confirmation of an Australian leg, although no set dates are available yet. The band will perform its "last ever" show at LA's Staples Centre on New Year's Eve, 34 years after their career began. In the meantime, however, dates have been announced for Japan … Continue reading Kickstart My Heart
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STIFI Fans Get Sticky
Sydney quintet Sticky Fingers ruled the Aus music scene in 2014 - and they've kicked off 2015 in equally awesome fashion. After their sophomore album Land of Pleasures debuted at #3 on the ARIA charts and became the triple j feature album (with two of the highest-played singles of the year), the band played to 20,000 … Continue reading STIFI Fans Get Sticky
Ace Frehley to KISS Aussie Shores
Lead guitarist and founding member of KISS, Mr Ace Frehley, will tour Australia and New Zealand later this year - his first Aussie shows in five years, and his first ever solo shows in NZ. Performing two hours of classic tracks from KISS and his solo records, including the new Space Invader, Frehley will be joined … Continue reading Ace Frehley to KISS Aussie Shores
Driving Dez Fafara
Dez Fafara might have been in Florida when I caught up with him today, but he was far from being on holiday. The enigmatic DevilDriver front man was enjoying a rare day off on a gruelling six-week US tour that ends in Arizona on 27 June. There'll be no more days off for almost a week. … Continue reading Driving Dez Fafara
Gargantua(n) Grunwald Goes Solo
Ash Grunwald is one busy man. Speaking from the Bathurst stop on his current Australian tour, Grunwald had just returned from a whirlwind tour of Canada, which was fresh off the heels of the Gargantua album tour with Scott Owen and Andy Strachan from The Living End. "Canada was fun, but it was a pretty … Continue reading Gargantua(n) Grunwald Goes Solo
DOA – Still Alive and Kicking
Joe 'Shithead' Keithley, founding member of Canadian punk forefathers DOA, took time out ahead of their Aussie tour next month to talk about everything from Canada and punk politics to Vegemite and Willie Nelson. What was the Canadian punk scene like in the early '80s? It was very vibrant and political with bands like DOA, … Continue reading DOA – Still Alive and Kicking
Wayne Static’s Death Trip Revisited
Wisconsin Death Trip is the album that started it all for Californian industrial metal band Static-X, and while the band members have gone their separate ways, former front man and namesake Wayne Static will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the album with a worldwide tour. Static released his debut solo album, Pighammer, in 2011, and … Continue reading Wayne Static’s Death Trip Revisited
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Return
American punk-thrash crossover legends Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I.) is one of the few bands remaining true to its dirty, noisy punk origins of the early 1980s. The band is in the middle of its extensive worldwide tour, and will hit Australian shores in early May, keen to remind local audiences what the Thrash Zone is all about. … Continue reading Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Return
D.O.A. Live Across Australia
Canadian hardcore punk pioneers D.O.A. will venture to our shores at the end of next month, for a whirlwind East Coast tour. One of the greatest punk bands to emerge from the late 1970s, D.O.A. can list amongst their influential contemporaries bands like Black Flag and The Germs, cited as an influence by bands like … Continue reading D.O.A. Live Across Australia
A new brand of Terror
Terror frontman Scott Vogel is notoriously vocal. Not only is he known across the industry for his desire to keep hardcore 'pure' and 'fun', he's also famous for his penchant for stage diving and rambling on and off-stage banter. The story of Terror began in the early 2000s. "From my perspective anyway, the band formation … Continue reading A new brand of Terror
