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Popular goth rock identity Marilyn Manson will headline a run of sidewaves.

Eyehategod have cancelled their Australian tour.

We've brought you some of the best shady spots of some killer artists around Aus thanks to Pretty Shady. Check out our latest Spotify playlist.

Notorious musician and chief comment maker Phil Labonte has found himself in more online debate brought upon by typically forthcoming comments made in a recent interview.

A mid-year tour for Title Fight to celebrate their new album, Hyperview.. With their new album Hyperview due January 30 on Anti Records, Pennsylvania four-piece Title Fight have this week dropped a new video for the single Rose Of Sharon, and announced a pretty massive run of Australia tour dates in the middle of the year. In the summer of 2014, the band bunkered down in Studio 4 in Conshohocken, PA with producer/engineer Will Yip (who they had made their last three records with) to make Hyperview - the follow-up to 2013's Spring Songs EP. Hyperview is massive leap forward from the group's previous releases, and our excitement for it is fortunately being tempered somewhat with the moody clip for Rose Of Sharon. Check it below, and take in the huge run of dates below that, which tickets go on sale for Friday 23 January. AUS' TOUR DATES:  Friday 19 June - The Brightside, Brisbane (TICKETS)  Saturday 20 June - The Lab, Brisbane AA (TICKETS)  Sunday 21 June - YAC, Byron Bay AA (TICKETS) 

Christopher Taylor AKA SOHN, takes five with Liam Apter ahead of Laneway and some sideshows.. Interviewing SOHN was not easy with phone lines dropping (mostly due to my useless phone) but with the conversation taking place across multiple continents it made for an interesting insight into the man under the hood, Christopher Taylor. And what was most intriguing for me was his versatile use of light within his set despite the fact that he was colour-blind - it's mind-blowing to think of the hugely different interpretations he could take away simply because he saw colours in a different light. SOHN is in Australia this month appearing at the Red Bull Music Academy x Future Classic Stage at St Jerome's Laneway Festival and a couple of sideshows, and will be playing a couple of special sideshows too:

Tobias Jesso Jr. continues to break hearts much the same way Godzilla does Japanese cityscapes - effectively.. Come 2015 blogs will keenly you tell about the next rapper to watch with his cunning ability to 'bitch' lots of times in one song, or about some soppy English indie-synth band, but here at Pilerats we're not doing that, we're just telling you to pay attention to Tobias Jesso Jr. And that's for a few reasons: his past releases such as Hollywood will probably melt your senseless heart, his debut album is called Goon and uh the obvious which is that he writes brilliant piano ballads reminiscent of John Lennon and early Billy Joel. Putting aside the fact that the man named his debut album Goon, Jesso Jr. is American so he is probably unaware of the Australian connotations, and earning his position as an honourary Australian his latest single How Could You Babe showcases his talent but also a willingness to develop it. Previous releases like Hollywood presents a bare but endearing

Converge drummer Ben Koller has posted a brief preview of the band's upcoming DVD.

Locals With Confidence have announced a run of shows to coincide with the release of their new EP.