Triple J announces Money For Rope as the winner of the Triple J Unearthed Push Over competition. Scoring a spot on the line up of Victoria’s longest running all ages music festival, Money For Rope were announced as the official winners today on Lunch with Lewis McKirdy.
Electric carnival is an amusement show that is made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, animal acts or sideshow curiosities and of course the best entertainment Australia has to offer.
After a short summer break, Tropical Underage is back again in Altona this March. Add to the excitement the theme will be a fluro party! Don’t forget to dress in fluro colours!
Black Veil Brides are a 5 peice hard rock band from Los Angeleas, USA. Touring all around the world with there explosive shows and rebel attitude. The band consits of Andy Six, Christian ‘CC’ Coma, Jeremy ‘Jinxx’ Ferguson, Jake Pitts and Ashley Purdy. Rocking the world over they’re bringing the ‘glam’ back into rock, influenced by bands such as Motley Crue and the Misfits.
Tickets to Lady Gaga’s upcoming Australian tour hasn’t even gone on sale yet but already Live Nation, the touring company behind the Born This Way Ball has announced three additional shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Fronted by the multi-talented Taylor Momsen, The Pretty Reckless are blazing a trail throughout the rock world that is hard to ignore…“She is physically and vocally everything that a frontwoman could wish to be…”
Little monsters unite, the journey continues… 5-time Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga is returning to Australia with The Born This Way Ball. In this brand new tour, Lady Gaga will perform her latest album Born This Way as well as music from both The Fame and The Fame Monster. The Born This Way Ball, produced globally by Live Nation, will begin in Brisbane this June.
Racing hard out and running wild, Break The Ice Fest 2012 is the real deal. A combination of killer international bands and the best Australian hardcore has to offer, this is a festival of a different breed. Broken Hive in collaboration with Ash Hull Management have put together a line up that boasts new and old artists, bands from round the corner and around the world.
Madonna has confirmed that she will tour Australia for the first time since her tour in 1993. Touring agent Live Nation and the Material Girl announced that her latest tour which will kick off in Tel Aviv on the 29th of May and will take dates in North America, South America, Europe as well as Australia “Where she has not performed for 20 years.”
Evanescence are finally set to make a long overdue return to Australia. Evanescence, renowned for their classically influenced haunting, hammering hard rock sound, beautifully lead by Amy Lee’s wrenching vocals ranging from delicate to dramatic, primal to passionate. Piano-led broodings swell at pace upon intricate, hammering guitars, creating stunning hard-driving tunes.
Lipstick Underage returns to Frankston this April school holidays. After a long string of successful events, this is the definitive event for partygoers in the South Eastern suburbs. This event will be headlined by Melbourne’s masked duo Slice N Dice.
As opposed to the majority of their stale contemporaries, New Found Glory are continuing their dominance in a genre they pioneered well over a decade ago, providing a breath of fresh air in a scene starved of creativity.
At the turn of the millennium, Slipknot stormed onto world stages proceeding to reset the course of metal. On the 10 year anniversary of their breakthrough album ‘Iowa’, Slipknot are set to unleash their malevolent fury upon Australia. Touring as one of the headliners of Soundwave 2012.
When August Burns Red unleashed their 2009 breakout album, Constellations, they became a band that could no longer be ignored. They debuted in the Top 25, co-headlined the AP Tour, headlined Warped Tour and connected fiercely with a colossal legion of fans. Suddenly the Pennsylvania-based metalcore giants have found themselves in some rather unexpected places. From the cover of Alternative Press to Fox’s American Dad, from the sands of Dubai to Japan to South America.
Skrillex is turning 24 today! And as you may already know, he is also co-headlining the biggest under 18 festival in Victoria, The Good Life Music Festival. So we decided to write a special piece on him!
If you have been hiding under a rock for the past 18 months, Sonny John Moore, A.K.A Skrillex is an American electronic music producer and former singer – song writer. Raised in Northeast Los Angeles, California, Moore joined the American post–hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004, and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount (2004) and Heroine (2006)) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007. He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and The Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press annual 100 Bands You Need to Know issue.
