I must be honest; this is one event I have been looking forward to for a long time. This festival has been on fans’ lips for over eighteen months. A sell-out confirmed this day would be enormous, and I was excited to be a part of it.
KING BROWN bring a smooth swagger in latest single ‘MY LOVE’
At the annex between suave and grit, WA rockers King Brown return with latest single ‘My Love’. Steadfast rhythms guide an unctuous dive-bar sound whilst honey coated melodies soften and smooth.
LONDON GRAMMAR Announce Australian 2022 Tour Supports Lastlings (Melbourne), The Kite String Tangle (Brisbane), George FitzGerald (LIVE) All Shows Tix on sale now via Secret Sounds
Casey Barnes has been around for more than 15 years now since appearing on Australian Idol in 2009, after releasing his debut album in 2007. Spending the next 10 years as a hard-working journeyman, recording EPs 3 more studio albums, he released Live As One in 2017 which spawned a couple of solid singles in Just Like Magic and The Way We Ride, as well as the video for the title track.
Journeyman, stalwart or just The Mayor of Rock ‘n’ Roll, John Corabi certainly needs no introduction.
As the voice of The Scream, The Dead Daisies, Union and ESP but perhaps most notably, as the voice of Motley Crue during their brief departure from life with Vince Neil in 1994, anything featuring the raspy vocals of JOHN CORABI cannot be mistaken.
With infectious energy & charming demeanors, Perth indie-rockers South Summit have returned from their breakout singles ‘River Days’ & ‘Runaway’ to hit their stride with their most prolific release to date, ‘Tired of Waiting’. The quintet have been plying their trade for less than three years now, operating with a songwriting maturity that belies their youth. ‘Tired of Waiting’ marks the continued refinement of the South Summit “sound”, emerging from sparkles of reggae, rock & indie with the band performing with a sharpened clarity across the entirety of ‘Tired of Waiting’. Soaring lead lines are blended with reverberant guitars, whilst the enigmatic frontman Isaiah Reuben sings of haunting themes of heartbreak.
It’s back! CRONULLA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL is set to return for its second year and boy, do we have an incredible line-up & loads of good times in store for you.
Thursday 14th April 2022 featuring Tanya Trotter of The War and Treaty, Roshani, Tijuana Cartel, Ross Wilson, Felix Riebl – The Cat Empire Photos by Ant Ritz
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.
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