The sold out 2017 ARIA Awards with Apple Music, held at The Star Event Centre, Sydney and broadcast nationally only on The Nine Network, capped off an extraordinary year for the Australian music industry and showcased the talent and diversity of this year’s nominated artists. What a night for Sydney band Gang Of Youths, taking home the prestigious Apple Music Album …

Sydney rockers, The Iron Horses, have released their latest single, April Rain, through Golden Robot Records, as they get ready to hit the recording studio for their 2018 album. A track about the regret and remorse that takes over the morning after a heavy night, the alter ego taking over and people seeing that ugly side. “I think everyone can …

Frankie’s Pizza, that fine establishment in a basement on Hunter Street in Sydney’s CBD turns 5 years old this weekend! The saviour of rock n roll and providore of some seriously excellent pizza, has played host to global rockstars, local yet-to-be stars and their fans for half a decade and is throwing a huge party to celebrate! From the first …

  NEW SINGLE, THIS DON’T LOOK LIKE VEGAS – OUT NOW!   Guns N’ Roses keyboardist, Dizzy Reed, has dropped the lead single, This Don’t Look Like Vegas, from his upcoming 2018 debut solo album, Rock ‘n Roll Ain’t Easy, out on digital, CD and purple vinylthrough Golden Robot Records on 16 February. Written by Dizzy Reed, Ricky Warwick (Thin Lizzy, The Almighty, Black Star Riders) and Del James, This Don’t …

In a week that almost couldn’t get any better, Gretta Ziller who was announced on Tuesday as a finalist for the 2018 Golden Guitar Awards for her brilliant debut album, Queen of Boomtown, nominated for Alt Country Album of the Year, has also been longlisted for The Australian Music Prize in an announcement earlier today, putting her in the running to win $30k. In partnership with Mountain Goat Beer, The …

From old school through to modern country, Liam Kennedy-Clark’s new EP, aptly namedTravelling Lines, has something for everyone and incorporates all that makes this young musician stand out. A multi-instrumentalist as well as gifted singer-songwriter, Kennedy-Clark has spent a lot of the past few years touring with the likes of Adam Harvey, Lee Kernaghan, The Bushwackers, James Blundell and more, as well as a …

You would have to have been living under a rock to not know this legendary band. My memories of UB40 go so far back that I still get images of my older sister’s 45’s being thrashed on the old record player. Needle comes up, needle goes back down, repeat, repeat again. Try not to scratch it, can’t risk this precious …

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Legendary singer-songwriter, JACKSON BROWNE returns to Australia in March 2018 for a massive headline national tour. Jackson Browne has written some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music including Running on Empty, Take It Easy, Somebody’s Baby, These Days, Lawyers in Love, For a Rocker, Doctor My Eyes and The Pretender and was inducted into the Rock and …