The Mark Of Cain Announce Supports and Drummer for 2013 Australian Tour

When The Mark Of Cain presented their fifth studio LP, Songs of the Third and Fifth in November last year, the reaction of music lovers across the country was indicative of a fan base who had been starved of the style of music TMOC make for far too long.

They responded fast, making the record the highest selling album from the FUSE group in 2012, while the critics lavished it with praise and allocated slots on their ‘best of’ lists for the year …

“Six years in the making and worth every bit of the wait. A career high point” – Rolling Stone★★★★ .5
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Anthrax Sidewaves announced!

TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal – well, metal has ANTHRAX.

ANTHRAX are that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band that – 30 years since the day Scott Ian and then-bassist Danny Lilker searched a biology textbook for the disease that would become their moniker – smiles back at you with a monstrous, upturned middle finger and refuses to fucking die.
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LOWRIDER announce ‘Black Stones’ National Tour

Acclaimed local four-piece Lowrider make an emphatic return this February with their third studio album, ‘Black Stones’. Recorded throughout 2012 between the famed Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles and Chapel Lane Studios in Adelaide, the album presents a bold and exciting sonic progression for the band. To celebrate the release of ‘Black Stones’, Lowrider will take their renowned live show on the road, hitting a series of spots all across the east coast throughout March and April and kicking things off in their hometown of Adelaide on Saturday February 16th.
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SILVERSTEIN (CAN) with SIENNA SKIES – This Is How The Wind Shifts Australian Tour – April 2013!

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo.com present
SILVERSTEIN
with SIENNA SKIES & GUESTS
THIS IS HOW THE WIND SHIFTS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2013

There will be no time to rest for Silverstein as they return to Australia this April to unveil their seventh studio album This Is How The Wind Shifts (Roadrunner Records).

Formed in 2000 in Burlington, ON Canada, Silverstein has become as close to a household name as you can get in the post-hardcore scene. Having played more than 1500 shows in 34 countries Silverstein have been a staple on many festivals and tours. Which have included the likes of Vans Warped Tour, Take Action!, Taste of Chaos, Rock Am Ring (Germany), Soundwave, Give it a Name (UK), and also co-founded the Scream It Like You Mean It tour in 2010.
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The xx Australian tour announced – April 2013

The xx Australian tour announced – April 2013

Young UK indie trio The xx have quickly become one of the most in demand acts on the planet, and they’re bringing their incredibly atmospheric and captivating live show back Down Under this April. Tickets for the general public will go on sale Tuesday the 15th January, 12.00pm midday AEDT.

First hitting Australian shores as part of the Laneway Festival back in 2010, the precociously talented trio – Jamie Smith, Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim – pre-empted the release of Coexist in July of this year by playing two triumphant Australian shows which sold out in minutes. Not to be outdone, Smith – who under his alter-ego Jamie xx is rapidly building a global reputation as a formidable producer and remixer – also sold out two solo shows in the same cities in next to no time.
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Motion City Soundtrack – Sidewave shows – February 2013

Absolute Punk succinctly put what we all know about MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK.
“From the raw earnest of I Am the Movie to the brilliance of Commit This To Memory to the experimentalism of Even If It Kills Me to the pop-punk clinic of My Dinosaur Life, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK has grown as musicians while never penning a disappointing album”

The journey continues with MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK as they are in the midst of a career renaissance with their latest release ‘Go’, the most mature and developed album of their fourteen-year career. ‘Go’ is triumph in every way imaginable, from its tight thematic coherence and smart exploration of an emotionally complex topic, to its whip-smart arrangements and hook-filled song writing…“it might just be the best album MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK have crafted to date.” – Property of Zack
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Counting Crows Announce Headline Australian Tour for 2013

Multi-platinum modern rock band COUNTING CROWS have announced their long-awaited Australian theatre tour for 2013, their first national headline tour since 2004.

Following the April 2012 release of their first new album in more than four years, ‘Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)’, the American seven-piece head Down Under for a national tour beginning in Brisbane on March 27, and moving on to Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, before winding up at Sydney’s iconic Opera House on April 9.
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Derrick Carter Australian Tour – January 2013

Illusive have announced the Australian return of enigmatic Chicago house icon Derrick Carter. He’ll touch down for a whirlwind five-date tour over four days in late January. At the forefront of Chicago’s house movement since the mid-‘90s, he has since grown to one of the most recognised and respected names in the world of house – touring internationally near non-stop for almost two decades.
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Sleeping With Sirens + Woe, Is Me + Memphis May Fire Sidewaves announced!

Sleeping With Sirens + Woe, Is Me + Memphis May Fire.

Now three years into their existence, the post-hardcore quintet SLEEPING WITH SIRENS continue to evolve and mature as artists, gradually shaping their unmistakable blend of fury and melody into a sound that’s wholly their own. The band’s new five-song acoustic EP, ’If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack’, presents another crucial step in the band’s ongoing journey toward their sonic destiny. “It continues to show off their knack for creating killer pop melodies while displaying some versatility in their songwriting. It’s easy to hear why this band has been deemed one of the next big things in the scene.” – Absolute Punk

With a live energy that matches the intensity of their albums, SLEEPING WITH SIRENS will be tearing up Sydney and Melbourne for two Sidewaves only!
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Civil Civic (UK) Announce ATP and Australian Tour‏ – February 2013

Singhala Touring Presents Civil Civic 2013 Australian Tour.

Two part Human and one part machine (The enigmatic ‘Box’) CIVIL CIVIC have been creating quite a stir in Europe over the last couple of years. Touring like animals playing festivals with the likes of Spiritualized and The XX, hyped up by UK press (NME, Q, Artrocker, The Guardian, Clash) and buzzing around the blogs with enough speed to land them at the pinnacle of blogdom: Number 1 on the HypeMachine charts.
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Blink 182 Supports announced!

With 11 albums under their belt, and being one of the inspirational founders of the punk rock movement out of Southern California, THE VANDALS make their triumphant return to Australia in February. Not only will the lads be performing at the sold out Soundwave Festivals but they will also be joining Blink 182 for their sideshows.

Rounding out this killer punk bill, British rock ‘n’ rollers SHARKS are a band with absolute heart that embellish their hardcore D.I.Y ethics with the raw power of the soul. With an explosive edge tempered by intricate riffing and hypnotic harmonies SHARKS are pure, poetic, and powerful.


It took 3 minutes for BLINK 182 to completely sellout their Melbourne show at the Myer Music Bowl. Brisbane fans were not far behind in the expediency with which tickets were feverishly snapped up.

The Blink army has spoken, so Melbourne fans have a second and definitely final show at the Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday 27 February. Brisbane fans now have an extra allocation for their show at the RNA Showgrounds on Friday 22 February.

Tickets for both these shows go on sale Friday 23 November, 9am.


It has been 8 long years but pop punk titans BLINK 182 have finally announced their triumphant return to Australia!

To make up for lost time, as well as performing at all 5 sold out Soundwave Festivals, Mark, Tom and Travis will be bringing their monstrous live show to sideshows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne!
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