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Victoria’s longest-running all ages live music festival Push Over returns to Melbourne’s Abbotsford Convent on Monday 12th March with a killer line-up of upcoming Aussie talent, the freshest young Victorian acts, some of the country’s most fast and furious hardcore and metal bands and a full arena of bouncing hip hop music and break dance!

Japanese experimantal rockers Boris have announced a brief run of East Coast dates in February next year. The tour will mark the band's first return to Australia following their sold out appearances at 2010's Sydney Vivid Festival, and will see them performing intimate club shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Florida Christian metalcore band Underoath have announced via a revealing tweet that they have entered a hometown studio to begin recording new material. The songs will presumably be a part of the band's follow-up to 2010's well-received 'Disambiguation', which marked the first time the band had released an album without long-time drummer and vocalist Aaron Gillespie in tow.

Australian metalcore giants Parkway Drive have announced an extensive regional tour across the east coast this summer. The Sick Summer 2012 Tour will feature stops in many small towns that are neglected all too often by the touring circuit, kicking off in Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast on February 16th.The shows will mark a rare return to more intimate venues for the band, with many of the rooms holding little more than a few hundred kids. It's final stop will be Melbourne's Pushover Festival on March 12th.On the inspiration behind a second Sick Summer Tour, frontman Winston McCall said:"For us it means a chance to hit the road in the country we love and play as many of those places we don’t get to stop at as much. We figure the major cities have had their chance so its time to bring the show back to regional Australia, and lets see how crazy the small towns can get. These tours always end up some of the funnest shows we play anywhere. Sweaty venues, stage dives, sing alongs, bea...

Adelaide heavy band have posted a second video update from their debut album, "Chapters"

Ohio pop punkers Light Years have posted a stream of a new song called 'To Live and Die'. The song is taken from the band's upcoming EP 'Just Between Us', which will be released on December 22nd. 'To Live and Die' has also been released as a free download.

The Downtown Fiction have announced via Twitter that they have entered the studio to begin recording a new EP. The EP will be the follow-up to their third studio album, 'Let's Be Animals', which was released earlier this year via Photo Finish Records. 

KYS talks to Neige, the musical mastermind behind experimental French black metallers Alcest. As anyone who has listened to Alcest’s music knows, black metal is just the starting point for their sound, which envelopes shoegaze, ambient and post-metal. The band recently performed their first Australian headlining tour, selling out several dates, quite a feat for a former studio project that has only been performing live in the last 18 months. Here Neige discusses how he gets his distinctive guitar sound, the band’s future direction and his motivations behind writing Alcest’s personal music.

Yet another harrowingly beautiful self-portrait from Mike Kinsella.

AL4W are proving why it is okay to deviate from the mould sometimes.

A decade down and still going strong.