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Live Gallery: Bar Italia Cast a Quiet Spell Over Sydney’s Metro Theatre with a Taut, Oblique Performance 10.12.2025
At Sydney’s Metro Theatre, bar italia turn the mystique of their early years into something bold and theatrical, delivering a blistering set that proves just how far they’ve evolved since their underground days. Powered by the new album Some Like It Hot, the trio move with confidence, heat and a newfound muscularity—transforming their spectral indie into a force built for big rooms.
Live Review: Electric Six / Enjoyable Listens — Leeds O2 Academy, 1.12.2025
The night opened with the wonderfully eccentric Enjoyable Listens, a two-piece who immediately won the Leeds crowd over with humour, charm and a deliberate touch of the theatrical. Singer Luke Duffet’s vocals carried clear shades of Japan — that cool, arch tone — while the music channelled the New Romantic / synthpop spirit and pulled …
News: You Am I Frontman Tim Rogers Plots East Coast Solo Run Next March and April
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Tim Rogers has announced the Le Charme Defensif tour, a set of intimate solo shows across the east coast in March and April, promising the wit, warmth and sharp songwriting that have cemented his reputation as one of Australia’s most distinctive performers.
Track: Jet’s Nic Cester Joins Måneskin’s Thomas Raggi and Tom Morello for High-Voltage New Single ‘Getcha!’
Nic Cester joins forces with Thomas Raggi, Tom Morello, Beck and Chad Smith on the powerhouse new single ‘Getcha!’, taken from Raggi’s debut album Masquerade. After a massive Australian tour with Lenny Kravitz, the Jet frontman steps boldly into a fresh creative chapter.
Live Gallery: Heat, Blood and Holy Noise: Good Things 2025 Burns Sydney Alive
Good Things 2025 arrives in Sydney like a heat-stricken carnival, pushing thousands of fans through a day of blistering sets from Garbage, Refused, Wargasm, Fever 333, Weezer, and Tool. From GWAR’s blood-spray theatrics to Shirley Manson’s searing stage presence and Maynard’s shadow-lurking mystique, the festival turns Olympic Park into a furnace of sound, sweat and defiance.
News: Tokyo Indie Breakouts DYGL Announce First Australian Tour
Tokyo indie outfit DYGL will make their long-awaited Australian debut in January 2026, bringing their sharp hooks, global pedigree and new album Who’s In The House to East Coast stages.
News: A Day To Remember and Papa Roach Announce 2026 Arena Tour
A Day To Remember and Papa Roach will team up for the Big Rock Tour in April 2026, a six-city arena run across Australia and New Zealand with Landmvrks joining as special guests.
Live Review: Halestorm / Bloodywood / Kelsey Karter and the Heroines – London O2 Arena 26.11.2025
Halestorm’s headline show at the O2 felt like one of those gigs where you just know you’re in for a wild night the second you walk in. The place was packed, the crowd was buzzing, and even before the main lights dropped, everyone seemed ready to blow the roof off. But first up were the …
Track: PistonFist Hit the Highway on New Single ‘The Road’
PistonFist’s new single ‘The Road’ draws from their recent two-month tour through Europe and the UK, capturing the grind, freedom and late-night momentum of life lived in transit.
live review: lacuna coil and nonpoint. the stylus, leeds. 25/11/2025
There are nights when a venue feels restless before anything even happens, humming with a kind of low-voltage anticipation that seeps into the walls. Leeds Stylus had that charge the moment the first bodies filtered through the doors, the kind of energy that a bill comprising of Nonpoint and Lacuna Coil can conjure. With the …