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Harry Styles Announces ‘Love On Tour 2023’ Australia And New Zealand

GRAMMY Award®-winning, global superstar Harry Styles announces the Australia and New Zealand dates for his LOVE ON TOUR 2023 world tour, confirming stadium shows for the first time. Kicking off at Perth’s HBF Park on February 20, the tour then heads to Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on February 24, Gold Coast’s Metricon Stadium on February 28, Accor Stadium in Sydney on March 3, before concluding at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on March 7.

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CMC ROCKS QLD Reveals Full Artist Lineup For 2022 Festival

FULL ARTIST LINEUP 

BRAD PAISLEY (USA) – KANE BROWN (USA) – MORGAN EVANS

JIMMIE ALLEN (USA) – BRELAND (USA) – BLANCO BROWN (USA) 
MACKENZIE PORTER (CAN) – NIKO MOON (USA) – TENILLE TOWNES (CAN) LINDSAY ELL (CAN) – LEE KERNAGHAN – TROY CASSAR-DALEY 
CASEY BARNES – RESTLESS ROAD (USA) – JAMES JOHNSTON
ABBY ANDERSON (USA) – BRAD COX – BROOKE McCLYMONT & ADAM ECKERSLEY  KAYLEE BELL (NZ) –  LACI KAYE BOOTH (USA) – CORNELL & CARR 
RACHAEL FAHIM – HURRICANE FALL – SOUTHBOUND xo – MELANIE DYER 
CHARLIE COLLINS – IMOGEN CLARK – SINEAD BURGESS – LINDSAY RIMES 
AMY SHEPPARD – SAMMY WHITE – GEORGIA STATE LINE 
DJ GRIZZLY ADAMS – DEE JAYE BUX

HOSTED BY STORME WARREN & MIKE CARR

CMC ROCKS QLD 2022 – WILLOWBANK, IPSWICH
WEDNESDAY 21st*, THURSDAY 22nd*, 
FRIDAY 23rd, SATURDAY 24th & SUNDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 2022 

*Campers entrance only

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Live Review : Bluesfest Byron Bay 2022 – Day 5

By Wanda Hill

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Take three and the 33rd annual Bluesfest actually happened, much to the relief and joy of the entire Bluesfest community. Five days of celebrating some of the world’s finest musicians amongst old and new friends came to an end on Monday night. The festival grounds will be glad to see us gone, the trodden grass can regrow and the wildlife can get some much needed sleep.   

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Alpha Wolf Announce The Metalcore Snitches Tour With Very Special Guests Fit For A King, Great American Ghost & Paledusk

Australia, hold onto your seats as ALPHA WOLF are about to heat them up with the biggest metalcore tour of the year….and they’re not messin’ around. That’s right, Australia’s finest metalcore juggernauts will be embarking on their biggest national headline tour around the country in June. The Metalcore Snitches tour will be joined by their close friends in FIT FOR A KING (USA), GREAT AMERICAN GHOST (USA) and PALEDUSK (JPN).
 “We’ve been waiting patiently to be able to do a tour of this size and it feels so good to finally see it come into fruition. Having made friends with each of the bands on this lineup from past tours, it brings us great joy to be able to invite them to Aus and have them join us in our home country. For whatever breakdowns tickle your fancy, this lineup has you covered and you’re guaranteed to remember this night forever. This is the Metalcore Snitches tour and we can’t wait to see you there!” – ALPHA WOLF
While the road has been far from easy for ALPHA WOLF and they refuse to let anything stand in their way. Throughout the chaotic and turbulent times they find themselves, the band released their sophomore album ‘a quiet place to die’ to critical acclaim including a #6 spot on the ARIA charts and a nomination for Best Heavy Album at the ARIA awards. Selling out multiple sold out runs around Australia and two European runs under their belt, the band have just wrapped up a huge 5 week tour in the USA supporting Polaris. ALPHA WOLF know how far they have come, but it’s what lays ahead of them that’s keeping the band hungry.

The heaviest and catchiest extreme metal act from the Lone Star State since the original cowboys from hell, FIT FOR A KING will be making their long awaited return back to Australia after 8 long years since their last visit to down under. Having steadily built a ferociously dedicated following through determination, classic American Metalcore breakdowns, lyrical courage, and steadfast conviction. Their 2018 full-length Dark Skies has been streamed nearly 50 million times, in 2019 having over nearly two million listeners on Spotify and released album six, The Path in 2020 which was hailed as a definitive masterpiece. Bigger, bolder, and overwhelmingly epic. Incredible for an underground group who self-released their EPs just over a decade beforehand.

Boston’s harshest and most furious export, GREAT AMERICAN GHOST will be touring Australia for the very first time. The group Metal Injection calls “always hateful, always pissed” steadily built a devoted following with the bleak and punishing Power Through Terror (2019) and most recent, Torture World EP (2022). Directing old-school hardcore wrath at hypocrisy, apathy, and self-loathing, delivered in a dark cloud of relentlessly bludgeoning riffs. It’s that potent concoction of the push and pull between hardcore spite and metal ferocity that makes GREAT AMERICAN GHOST so undeniably exciting. 

For a lot of bands, chaos & insanity are used as colourfully descriptive words for their character; for Japan’s PALEDUSK, they’re somewhat of an understatement. The electronic-metalcore powerhouse leaves absolutely nothing behind as they carve a path that is truly one of a kind. Since the release of their EP Happy Talk, their signing to Greyscale Records and most recent single ‘Slay!!!’, word has spread like wildfire about these young kids from the Japanese island of Kyushu and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. With this being PALEDUSK‘s first trip outside of Japan, this is sure to be the next exciting leap in their journey before they become the next global sensation that everyone is talking about. 

The Metalcore Snitches tour is the hottest metalcore tour of the year.  You don’t want to be a fool and snooze on this one, the tickets won’t last and don’t say we didn’t warn ya.
Pre-Sale tickets on-sale Tuesday 19 April @ 5:00pm local time
General tickets are on-sale Friday 22 April @ 10:00am local time
www.destroyalllines.com 

Destroy All Lines & Greyscale Records Present

ALPHA WOLF
THE METALCORE SNITCHES TOUR
WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
FIT FOR A KING (USA)
GREAT AMERICAN GHOST (USA)
PALEDUSK (JPN)

2022
 
THURSDAY 9 JUNE – AMPLIFIER BAR, PERTH (18+) *
FRIDAY 10 JUNE – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE (18+)
SATURDAY 11 JUNE – THE GOV, ADELAIDE (LIC AA)
SUNDAY 12 JUNE – UNI BAR, HOBART (18+) ^
WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE – THE BASEMENT, CANBERRA (18+)
THURSDAY 16 JUNE – FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY (LIC AA)
FRIDAY 17 JUNE – CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE (18+)
SATURDAY 18 JUNE – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE (18+)
SUNDAY 19 JUNE – ELEVEN DIVE BAR, SUNSHINE COAST (18+)

* ALPHA WOLF & FIT FOR A KING ONLY
^ PALEDUSK NOT APPEARING

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Album Review : Lee Kernaghan – Live At Deni Ute Muster

Review by David Jackson

Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022

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Released on April 15, 2022, to coincide with his birthday. Lee Kernaghan has provided his thousands of country fans with an opportunity to cruise the highway listening to his past thirty years of hits and memories.

Recorded Live in 2019 at, the Deni Ute Muster live is a compilation of Kernahans greatest hits recorded in one of the unique places on the planet. 

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Live Review : Bluesfest Byron Bay 2022 – Day 4

By Wanda Hill

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Crowded House lived up to their name at the Crossroads as they could have filled two big tops with the amount of people trying to get close to the action. Parking sold out early for what was this year’s biggest day at Bluesfest. Pretty much the entire festival patronage gathered to see this much loved band. Despite most people choosing to sing along with Crowded House there was still plenty of awe and devotion for George Benson over at the Mojo,where he was filling the cool night air with romance and nostalgia, perfect for lovers.

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Live Review : Bluesfest Byron Bay 2022 – Day 3

By Wanda Hill

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Well it’s not a dream, it is real and it’s happening again. After so long without festivals it doesn’t seem possible to see live music, five consecutive days in a row. Day three and everything is smooth. The parking and traffic situation has been sorted, the long queues are a thing of yesterday and everything just feels a bit more relaxed. Families are out with their kids, many having their first ever festival experience.

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Album Review : THUNDER – Dopamine

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

THUNDER – Dopamine  
Double LP 
Released – April 29th 2022 via BMG

Thunder may be the band who will just never give up – having been a fan from the earliest Terraplane days in the late 1980’s, and having been lucky enough to be present at the 10th Anniversary “farewell” tour in 1999, and the 20 Years & Out show at Hammersmith Odeon in 2009 (despite moving to Australia in 1998) and even getting to shoot the sold-out Hammersmith Apollo show in March 2015, we felt thrilled to get the band to Australia in 2017 for some intimate, but very raucous club shows.

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Live Review : Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022

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Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022
Shepparton Showground Victoria  
Review by Natasha Rachow 

Photo Gallery : Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022

Driving down to what was a hometown gig, I was full of excitement. Nobody parties like a country crowd, and boy, was this a long time coming. From the beginning, I must compliment the promoters’ commitment to bringing this event to the town; after two years, who would not be excited.

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Live Review : Bluesfest Byron Bay 2022 – Day 2

By Wanda Hill

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Bluesfest has been reborn in full glory after years of pandemic restrictions preventing the festival from going ahead. Friday’s epic line up saw the venue packed with music lover’s eager to feast on the gods of Australian rock music as well as welcoming international artists who have waited a long time to grace our shores. 

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Where the Devil – Beaten Down Broken Crown (Official Video)

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Newcastle’s Where the Devil is back with a vengeance on single number six, ‘Beaten Down Broken Crown’. The chameleonic Aussie five-piece has enjoyed widespread praise for its efforts straddling numerous metal sub-genres and its newest single and frenetic new music video is set to turn things up to 11. 

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