NEWS: Get Up Kids to tour Australia
This morning I interviewed Matt Pryor from The Get Up Kids for Mixdown Magazine (look for the interview in the June issue). The band’s touring Oz in August for Soundwave Touring - I saw them about a...
View ArticleNEWS: Periphery announces Oz tour
Periphery are heading back to Australia (home of I Heart Guitar and some of the most deadly creatures you ever heard of) with their ‘The League Of Extraordinary Djentlement’ tour with Tesseract,...
View ArticleOpeth Australian tour
Woohoo! Opeth are coming to Australia this December to kick our collective Antipodean asses with material from their killer new album Heritage as few as a few old favourites reworked in the vein of the...
View ArticleDevin Townsend Project Oz Tour
Woo! Devin Townsend is heading back to Australia in October to once again spread his particular and peculiar blend of intensity, good vibes, crushing metal, haunting melodicism and fart jokes across...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend is many things: composer, lyricist, vocalist, guitarist, producer – hell, you could even stretch that to ‘humourist,’ and in the process draw some pretty solid parallels to Frank Zappa....
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland
Limp Bizkit are stayers, alright? They’ve had their ups and downs, their band member comings and goings, and they’ve ridden out a particularly intense backlash against the genre they helped to define –...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Killswitch Engage’s Joel Stroetzel
Killswitch Engage are in an enviable position as one of those metal bands who have survived the steady rise to fame of their youth and managed to sustain their audience 15 years into their career...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Kill Devil Hill’s Rex Brown
With Pantera, Rex Brown has created a legacy which serves as a sort of ‘how to’ on heavy metal bass playing. His heavy attack and his ability to simultaneously lock in with Dimebag Darrell’s guitar...
View ArticleMastodon Australian Headlining Tour!
File this in the ‘About Fucking Time’ folder: Mastodon have just announced their first-ever headline tour of Australia. They’ve been here before but with festivals, supports (SLAY-ER! SLAY-ER!),...
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