From Session Players To Contenders: The Rise And Rise Of NIGHTDIVE
Interview by Ali WilliamsNIGHTDIVE may be a relatively new band, but its members are hardly wandering into BIGSOUND armed with blind optimism and three rehearsals. Jack Robert and Mitch Clews have spe...
19 Sep 19min
Mayhemic Resurgence: An Interview with MORTAL SIN’s MAT MAURER
When you talk about the foundation of Australian heavy music, one name immediately commands respect. Mortal Sin. Emerging from Sydney in the mid-1980s, Mortal Sin became the undisputed pioneers of loc...
19 Sep 20min
YELLOWCARD: Reinvigorated, Recharged, And Ready For Even BETTER DAYS
Few bands can drag a generation by the heartstrings quite like pop-punk royalty Yellowcard. When they wrapped things up a decade ago, it felt like the final curtain on a sound that defined the sweaty,...
18 Sep 20min
JD Fortune Returns to Australia: Carrying the INXS Torch Once Again
JD Fortune is returning to Australia this October, bringing a full band and a set packed with the songs that helped make INXS a defining force in Australian music.Following the sold-out response to hi...
16 Sep 26min
The Kings Of Freaks Head North: LIZARDMAN And CAPTAIN RUIN Talk CIRQUE LE STRANGE
Forget everything you know about the traditional, sanitized big-top circus, because a beautifully twisted, punk-infused counter-cultural storm is rolling through regional Australia. Straight from the ...
16 Sep 16min
Leave Expectations At The Door: BANKS ARCADE Talk Aussie Tour And New Album
Melbourne-via-New Zealand heavy hitters Banks Arcade are a band completely devoid of boundaries, systematically smashing the modern metalcore blueprint to pieces and rebuilding it in their own chaotic...
16 Sep 10min
MUDHONEY: STEVE TURNER On Surviving Seattle Without Losing The Plot
Interview by Ali WilliamsAustralia has been claiming a little piece of MUDHONEY for longer than most of the world had worked out exactly what to call them. The Seattle band first made it down here in ...
15 Sep 28min
FROM ASHES TO NEW: Personal Warfare, Scrapped Demos, And The Aussie Invasion
When it comes to genre-bending, heavy music demolition, few bands have lit up the global landscape quite like central Pennsylvania's rap-rock juggernauts From Ashes To New. They didn't just crack the ...
15 Sep 15min
