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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS REGRETFULLY CANCEL ALL UPCOMING SHOWS –
THE LIVING END STEP IN STONE TEMPLE PILOTS regretfully cancel all upcoming shows
Due to a scheduling conflict, STP w/ Chester Bennington regretfully has been forced to cancel all tour dates.
In line with our commitment to bring you great replacements, we are pleased to announce that Australia’s finest live rock band, THE LIVING END , have come to Soundwave’s rescue and have joined the fray.
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Legendary Bon Jovi guitarist, RICHIE SAMBORA, known for his raw vocals, indelible song writing and world-class guitar playing will be be no doubt joined by an all-star band featuring Alice Cooper/Michael Jackson guitarist Orianthi Panagaris. Get your lighters up in the air and prepare for the mother of all sing-alongs!
After a protracted saga they are finally confirmed! Industrial rock heavy weights and renowned for their stereophonic assault, FILTER have joined up.
Continue reading Soundwave 2014 Third Line-Up Announced!
Come Australia Day, traditionally there will be a BBQ set up in the backyard with the Hottest 100 playing all afternoon. Or rather than that the family will be taken out for some inspiring journey to revitalize the bunch after the recent holiday celebrations. Though, while others were off to their own devices, many faithful punters attended the Sydney Showground in preparation for BDO. With fans as varied as the artist playing today. This day out offered its signature range of music genres to accommodate for everyone’s taste in music.
There was already a significant amount of water flowing under the bridge by the time Flemington’s famous iron gates were flung open for this year’s Melbourne chapter of the Big Day Out. With ownership wrangling continuing into a second year, a buy-out by one of Australian music’s most polarising characters, a line-up to end all line-ups only to be tarnished late in the day by the pull out of Blur, and now speculation that the national festival will once again be curtailed by Perth’s inability to get its shit together as a cultural collective. In some ways, 11am on the Friday before the long weekend was a welcomed event, if only to end the continual news feed of the daily life of Australia’s biggest orgy of rock.
In the 90’s the English town of Stourbridge became known for spawning three of the countries finest bands– Poppies aka Pop will Eat Itself, Neddies aka Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and of course the Stuffies aka The Wonder Stuff.
Due to overwhelming demand — and a stroke of Irish luck — a second Glen Hansard performance has been announced to take place at the Opera House on Monday 17 March, St Patrick’s Day.
Sports fans and action sports fans all over the world are gearing up to witness the world’s best athletes coming together on the shores of Bondi Beach, Sydney to celebrate the 10th birthday for Vans BOWL-A-RAMA™ Bondi 2014, the largest professional concrete skateboarding event in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Never Ever will host a unique live experience to celebrate the release of their new single “In Or Out” (available digitally with a bonus acoustic version of the track on January __ 2014) which is featured on the band’s third EP “Ghosts and Ghouls” (out now). 
In a night guaranteed to make fans salivate, ROB ZOMBIE and KORN will take to the stage in Sydney and Melbourne with a feral, fiery and live ferocity that will be unmatchable!
Rock juggernaut’s ALTER BRIDGE will be strutting the stages in Sydney and Melbourne and joined by none other than funk-metal royalty LIVING COLOUR for a series of incredibly special Sidewave shows!!
After flexing their weary music muscles during a triumphant December Ashes series, The Gin Club’s tenth anniversary year run fest shows no sign of letting up. They are back on the road in February and March for another run of shows about the place, and they’ll be giving fans a sneak preview of their upcoming fifth album, tentatively entitled “All Of Your Bases Are Now Under Our Control”. Thrillingly, they will be joined once more by prodigal Scandinavian all-rounder Ola Karlsson, who’s back in the country for another shot at the title.
Metropole is the first album in 8 years from the Chicago bred trio. It’s a blistery, hook-heavy sound with a lyrical narrative that captures what vocalist/bassist Brendan Kellys calls “that alone-in-a-crowd, stranger-in-a-strange-land kind of shit—a feeling of such weird solitude that you don’t even know what’s up and what’s down”. Brendan Kelly, Chris McCaughan (vocals/guitar), and Neil Hennessey (drums) took their wide range of influences and inspirations from both classic punk/hardcore bands including Jawbreaker, NOFX, Propaghandi, Bad Religion and late-’90s hip hop like Outkast’s Aquemini to create their most dynamic record to date. The samples heard throughout the album are sound recordings of street musicians, recorded by the band on their cell phones. Take the horn at the start of “Acheron River” that Kelly describes as “a dude on his back in the middle of the road, so drunk he couldn’t even see.” Or the piano at the end of “Seventeener (17th and 37th) that was a grand piano someone was playing in the middle of the street. Everything from accordion to bagpipes helps capture the urban isolation that saturates so much of Metropole.
Travel through the career of American rock royalty, ED KOWALCZYK, as he pays tribute to the hits of his past – as the driving force of multi-platinum band Live – through to his solo career including the forthcoming album ‘The Flood and The Mercy’ featuring current single ‘Seven’ (out September 27 through Sony Music Australia).