All posts tagged "punk"
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3.8KArtsThe Offspring to play Adelaide show: huge 2025 tour announced with iconic support act
Coming hot off the release of brand new album Supercharged, the iconic US punk band is coming to Adelaide for a four-stop 2025 Australian tour.
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1.2KFilm & TVFilm Review: Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist.
This solid documentary offers a starting point into Vivienne Westwood's enigmatic life.
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1.1KArtsThe Meanies Announce National Tour
Seminal Aussie punk band The Meanies have announced a run of National tour dates this coming June / July, with 8 shows across 4 weekends taking in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Townsville.
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894EntertainmentInterview: Lookout Australia, Stan Lee & The Dickies Are Finally Coming!
If you were a child of the 70’s 80’s and remember the classic kids TV show ‘The Banana Splits’, then it’s highly likely you would have heard The Dickies’ famous (or infamous) punk cover of the theme song Tra La La.
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4.3KEntertainmentIrish Stock – An Interview With The Rumjacks’ Frankie McLaughlin
It would be an injustice to call Sydney band the Rumjacks conventional, celebrating their Celtic musical roots through their own unique mix of folk punk rock
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720EntertainmentRadio Birdman Descend The Gov Into The Maelstrom
The Governor Hindmarsh saw the much anticipated return of seminal 'sub-pop' pioneers, Radio Birdman on Saturday Night, and although the band has been through several lineup changes in recent years the current crop really hits the mark!
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1.5KEntertainmentDead Kennedys Kill Adelaide
Still creating chaos after more than 30 years despite some lineup changes and a few dramas along the way, American punk icons The Dead Kennedys have returned to Australia to create havoc once again. Original members D.H Peligro, East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride , and Ron "Skip" Greer on vocals are every bit as hard as they were in their formative years with Jello Biafra leading the charge.
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700EntertainmentDead Kennedys Announce Australian Tour Supports
Ahead of their Bedtime For Democracy Australian tour which kicks off at the end of the month, punk legends Dead Kennedys have just announced the full line up of local supports that will join The Bennies as supports for each capital city show. At the special all-ages show in Adelaide up and coming indie rockers Young Offenders will join The Bennies in warming up the crowd ahead of Dead Kennedys’ triumphant return to Australian shores
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552ArtsPundik’s New Found Glory and Resurrection
With a career spanning 20 years, Pop punk rockers New Found Glory are back with a new album titled ‘Resurrection’ (released October 10) and have released a new music video for their single off the same album, called ’Selfless’. Lead singer Jordan Pundik is feeling stoked about the new album and being part of Soundwave 2015, and remained cool about where the band are at currently as a four piece
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810LatestAlbum Review: Meet The Vamps
Meet The Vamps is the debut album from self described UK pop-punk-accoustic-driven band The Vamps. Having met and formed through the magic of Internet and social media, the group have quickly become a sensation with their cheerful, youthful sound. Meet The Vamps isn’t your average boy-band, screaming-teenage-girl-magnet, over-played-on-commercial-radio series of tunes; but it is certainly for a younger demographic.
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505LatestThe Gaslight Anthem announces new album ‘Get Hurt’.
New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem return with their eagerly-anticipated new album Get Hurt - to be released in Australia on 15 August.
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552LatestAlbum Review- My Echo’s self titled EP
Melbourne outfit My Echo’s self titled EP is a blast of energy as it throws down a blend of rockabilly, punk, and rock in a release that should turn a few heads and gain them a legion of fans.
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1.1KLatestDune Rats dig in for a long, cool ride.
The Dune Rats are Brett, Danny and DC, and if there’s a genre that can be assigned to them it could fit somewhere in the realm of punk rock with a boppy tinge. Think Dead Milkmen blended with early Blink 182 and that’s the cool and fun sound of ‘The Dunies’.
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538LatestInterview: Vinnie Caruana from I Am The Avalanche
In the lead up to their newest album release 'Wolverines', Front man Vinnie Caruana from American indie/punk/rock outfit I Am The Avalanche took some timeout to speak with Music Editor Darren Hassan about the influence for the album, to answer some questions about the current music industry, and what he does to chill when not performing.
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568LatestAlbum Review: I Am The Avalanche ‘Wolverines’
Just released today, I Am The Avalanche's (IATA) latest offering 'Wolverines' released through Rude Records is sure to be a winner with its indie/punk rock edge and meaningful lyrics reflective of Vinnie Caruana's physical and emotional pain after an injury sustained on tour. From the opening riff of 'Two Runaways', reminiscent of AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell', it is clear that IATA have launched full throttle with this album and given it all from the get go
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583LatestQueens may rule, but Reznor gives whole Nine Inches. NIN/QOTSA Adelaide Mar 13
Confirming that Mad March is indeed still upon us, Adelaide hosted two big names in alternative rock in one loud and thrashy evening at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Supported by the raw punk band of Aussie expat Brody Dalle (who is also Mrs Josh Homme), the night started as overdriven and distorted as you’d expect from a combination of Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age (NIN/QOTSA)
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Album Review: Bayside ‘CULT’…out Feb 21
Bayside have always been the band that fans can rely on, the alternative punk long-stayers who will deliver their distinct sound time and time again to the splendour of their countless followers worldwide. ‘Cult’, the quartet's sixth album (almost hard to believe right?) is once again exactly this, but more grand and for the better.
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Interview: Bayside’s Nick Ghanbarian
Glam Adelaide music writer Will Oakeshott spoke to punk outfit Bayside’s Nick Ghanbarian on their upcoming album ‘Cult’, and a possible tour of Australia this year!
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Iggy Pop and The Stooges Australian Tour
A decade after the Godfathers of Punk reunited, IGGY AND THE STOOGES will return to Australia in March 2013 for three headline shows. Iconic frontman Iggy Pop will once again lead guitarist James Williamson, drummer Toby Dammit, bassist Mike Watt and sax player Steve Mackay into rock and roll battle.
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Interview With Soundwave Act: I See Stars
Glam Adelaide Music Editor Ranjani Stengewis caught up with Devin Oliver, lead singer from US punk band 'I See Stars' after their inclusion into the 2011 Soundwave Festival line-up. Soundwave Festival hits Adelaide on 5th March, tickets on sale now.
