WAAX are hitting the road with a new touring mini-festival, and frontwoman Maz DeVita is putting the next generation of Australian talent front and centre.
Dubbed The Femme Values Tour, the four-date run will hit Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane in February and March 2027, with WAAX headlining every night. Taking inspiration from the notorious Family Values tours of the 1990s, DeVita has flipped the concept to champion women and diverse voices in Australian music.
And she’s not simply picking the bands herself. Opening slots in each city will be decided through a social media campaign, with fans encouraged to nominate their favourite artists using #femmevalues. It’s a chance for lesser-known acts to get in front of new audiences at a time when opportunities for Australian musicians are increasingly difficult to find.
The lineups will be revealed city by city, beginning with Sydney’s Crowbar on November 16, followed by Melbourne’s The Night Cat on November 23, Adelaide’s Lion Arts Factory on November 30 and Brisbane’s Crowbar on December 7.
For DeVita, the tour arrives at a particularly significant point in her career. WAAX’s third album, Angel’s Mess, has earned a nomination for Best Hard Rock Album at the 2026 ARIA Awards, marking a powerful return for a project that has undergone considerable upheaval.
Written over three years and recorded in Los Angeles, Angel’s Mess emerged from a period of fractured friendships, industry setbacks and uncertainty about the band’s future. DeVita relocated to LA in 2024, reconnected with longtime producer Miro Mackie and spent two intensive months recording in North Hollywood.
The result is an album that channels those experiences into some of WAAX’s most direct and personal songwriting. Lead single ‘HANDS’ has already found an audience beyond rock radio, landing placements in Amazon Prime Video’s NBA and WNBA coverage.
DeVita has also been making her mark behind the scenes, co-writing ‘All I Am’ for Ninajirachi’s acclaimed album I Love My Computer. It’s another example of her increasingly wide-ranging work, even as WAAX remains her main creative outlet.
The band have spent much of 2026 on the road, including two US tours that delivered their first sold-out headline shows in Los Angeles and New York. Back home, they’ve built a formidable reputation through festival appearances, national tours and shows alongside acts including Fall Out Boy.
Now DeVita is using that experience to give other Australian artists a platform. Rather than simply taking another headline tour around the country, she’s turning the spotlight towards the bands coming up behind her.
With WAAX at the top of the bill and a fresh lineup of local talent in each city, The Femme Values Tour looks set to deliver four nights of loud guitars, new discoveries and a welcome boost for Australia’s independent music scene.
Early bird tickets are available to WAAX mailing list subscribers, with general tickets on sale from 10am AEDT on Thursday 12 November.
The tour runs through February and March 2027, with shows at Crowbar Sydney, The Night Cat Melbourne, Lion Arts Factory Adelaide and Crowbar Brisbane. Exact performance dates are yet to be confirmed in the supplied announcement.
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