The Living End are officially back. Following on from the release of new single Monkey, the band have revealed details of their new album and accompanying national tour. New album Shift will be the follow up to 2011’s The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating and drops on Friday May 13. The band will tour throughout June with Bad//Dreems and The 131’s, hitting The Forum in Melbourne on Friday June 24. Tickets are on sale on Thursday morning.
Pinch Hitter and Cleveland’s Meridian will join forces this May to tour Australia together. A chance meeting between Meridian’s Max Stern (Signals Midwest) and Pinch Hitter’s Dave Drayton in 2013 lead to a friendship and Australian tour with Wil Wagner in 2014. Now they pair up and smash out an east coast run, arriving in Melbourne to play The Old Bar on Saturday May 14 and then The Reverence on Sunday May 15. Tickets are available at the door.
San Francisco’s Deafheaven released New Bermuda last year to massive critical acclaim. Anti Records put the much-adored album out and now the band are headed to Australia for a run of club shows complimenting a slot on Sydney’s exciting VividLIVE lineup. See them play at Corner Hotel in Melbourne on Friday June 3. Tickets are up for grabs now.
Against all odds, Legion Music Festival has confirmed that it will go ahead as planned in 2017. Though the crowdfunding campaign never reached its target, founder John Sankey says that the festival is all systems go. Headlining artists are expected to be announced shortly with organisers promising “something truly special and unique for the fans.” Melbourne’s date remains on Thursday January 26, Australia Day next year.
Leftover Crack will be at The Bendigo Hotel this weekend and they’ve ensured the night will be most memorable by adding Wet Pensioner, Phat Meegz and Jerkbeast to the lineup on Sunday night. Monday’s all ages lineup is just as impressive, featuring Weedy Gonzales, Wolfpack, Phat Meegz, Terror Mullius and Servo Burger. Tickets are still available for both shows.
Millencolin are bringing Adelaide’s Grenadiers on tour with them when they hit the road next month. Grenadiers are pretty much the perfect support for the punk rock rollicking that will go down at the last remaining Melbourne show on Monday May 2. Tickets are available now.
Uber fans frothing over At The Drive-In’s reformation are not stoked that founding member Jim Ward won’t be joining the band in 2016. The band simply announced the he will not be joining them on future tours and they “wish him well.” No further details were added. At The Drive-In are yet to announce their return to Australia but one would anticipate it won’t be far off.
