ANYBODY who saw Amyl & The Sniffers' Newcastle debut last September at 48 Watt Street's Small Ballroom knows the Melbourne punks lived up to the hype.
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The room was absolutely heaving that night as rabid frontwoman Amy Taylor and her bandmates whipped a crowd of young hipsters and middle-aged punks into a frenzy with their tracks like Cup Of Destiny, Got You and Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled).
If you missed the gig, have no fear. The reigning ARIA Award-holders for Best Rock Album have announced they're returning on March 14 for a show at the Newcastle Hotel.
ALANIS' RETURN DOSE OF PILL
BLUESFEST have announced '90s pop-grunge queen Alanis Morissette will perform her classic album Jagged Little Pill in its entirely at the Easter music festival in Byron Bay.
It's been 25 years since Jagged Little Pill was released, selling more than 33 million copies, earning five Grammy Awards and catapulting the Canadian to cultural icon status. The album features Morissette's best-known songs You Oughta Know, Ironic and Hand In My Pocket.
ROCKING RETURN
MELBOURNE band Kingswood have vowed their forthcoming third album Juveniles will be a return to their rock roots.
Last Friday the four-piece dropped their new single Bittersweet, which embraces a driving desert rock style reminiscent of Queens Of The Stone Age. Juveniles will follow on March 13.
Kingswood burst onto the scene with an alt-rock sound on their debut album Microscopic Wars in 2014, before introducing more mellow and soulful textures on their 2017 follow up After Hours, Close to Dawn.
Newcastle fans can sample the new songs when Kingswood return to the Cambridge on March 21.
ASHTON DOUBLE
SOUTH Australian Music Hall of Fame inductee Gywn Ashton is in Newcastle on Saturday to deliver two separate performances of his electrifying blues rock.
You can hear Ashton play tracks off his latest album Sonic Blues Preachers at Wallsend's Hiss & Crackle Records from 2pm, before he performs a full set at the Stag and Hunter Hotel later that night.
STAYING RAD
UNLIKE their name suggests, Teenage Bottlerocket have long hit middle age, but they remain committed to their skate punk roots. The Wyoming four-piece are returning to Australia to support their eighth album Stay Rad, which includes a May 3 show at the Hamilton Station Hotel. Teenage Bottlerocket are best known for their 2009 hit Skate Or Die.
