Artist News
Catch up on the latest news about New World Artists and see what our artists are up to.
Formed in 2012 by high school friends, With Confidence made a name for themselves in their hometown of Sydney, Australia with two highly esteemed self-released EPs that led to a Hopeless Records deal in 2015. Three successful full length albums and 200 million Spotify streams later, With Confidence have established themselves as an international touring band running over 200 shows across the world to North America, UK & Europe, SE Asia & Japan and Australia alongside artists such as 5...
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Featuring a stellar line-up of some of Australia’s best indie-folk musicians and bands, Road Trip music event returns to the stage this September.
Starting at NightQuarter (Sunshine Coast) on Saturday 17 September before hitting the highway to Miami Marketta (Gold Coast) on Sunday 18 September, the 2 stage mini-fest will showcase the best of the current crop of singer-songwriters who are making (and surfing) some serious waves.
Celebrating the indie folk lifestyle, Road Trip is set to bring together a...
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After a three-year wait, one of Australia's leading alternative music festivals, Good Things Festival returns to the calendar in 2022 with three gargantuan events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December that will be headlined by British metalcore masters Bring Me The Horizon.
It's also been three years since the BRIT and Grammy nominated rockers last graced Aussie stages, the band continually pushing sonic boundaries as witnessed on 2020 release 'Post Human: Survival Horror'.
Set to join BMTH will be...
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The National Rugby League (NRL) today announced that ARIA-winning Australian rock band, Grinspoon, will headline the pre-match entertainment at 2022 Ampol State of Origin Two, at Perth’s Optus Stadium on Sunday 26 June.
The band, who are currently headlining sold-out festivals across the country, will help build an electric atmosphere as sport’s greatest rivalry returns to WA for the first time since 2019.
NRL CEO Andrew Abdo, said: “We are excited to have iconic Australian band, Grinspoon, add to the...
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Hey Adelaide! If you’ve been feeling a little left out with all the Falls Festival action happening on the east and west coasts, you can get ready to grin again. A huge one-day festival is being launched in early January next year, called — appropriately — Heaps Good.
The Heaps Good line-up will pinch the best bits of the Falls Festival line-up, including British faves the Arctic Monkeys, techno icon Peggy Gou, Chvrches, and Jamie xx. On the local front,...
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The wait is over for music fans, with the first artist announcement for Caloundra Music Festival 2022.
In its milestone 15th year and without Covid restrictions, this year’s festival will be an event for the ages.
Organisers are delivering an outstanding line-up of artists with wide-ranging appeal to satisfy music tastes of the generations of fans who attend the annual entertainment feast.
The family-friendly festival returns to the beachside Kings Beach Amphitheatre where it all began from September 30 to...
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Three year’s after it’s mammoth debut, Festival X will return to Australia this November/December.
In 2019, Festival X brought together over 100,000 attendees and played host to some of the biggest names in dance music including Armin van Buuren, Calvin Harris, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Vini Vici, Tchami, Alison Wonderland, Steve Aoki and many more. Following two years of lockdowns and a global pandemic, Festival X is returning to Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth and bringing a stacked roster of...
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It’s been a hot minute since Fit For An Autopsy ventured across Australia supporting Thy Art Is Murder and Emmure back in 2018 (yes, we were there too!) and now the gang are heading back for their own headline tour in support of their stellar new album Oh What The Future Holds and some of Australia’s best heavy upcomers are tagging along in support.
The band will be tearing up stages all over Australia, kicking things off in Perth on...
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The Faim have announced a nine-date national tour in support of their forthcoming second album, ‘Talk Talk’.
Kicking off with two back-to-back shows in their stomping grounds of Mooro/Perth – an all-ages gig at Vision Studios on Friday July 15, then an 18+ one at Jack Rabbit Slims the following night (July 16) – the band will take to stages in Meeanjin/Brisbane, Mulubinba/Newcastle, Eora/Sydney, Woolyungah/Wollongong, Ngambri/Canberra and Naarm/Melbourne throughout the rest of July, wrapping up in Kaurna/Adelaide on Sunday July...
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The Falls Festival 2022/2023 lineup has been announced, with some of the biggest international artists set to perform.
A great mixture of Australian festival favourites, rising stars, and household names will play the festival across three main stages, including at new fresh locations in Victoria and Western Australia (see full details below).
The El Capitan Stage will showcase the biggest global headline artists across hip hop, indie, rock, and pop. Sugarloaf Resort, featuring high end production and custom structures, is...
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Australian heavy music act In Hearts Wake are stoked to announce a massive national tour in celebration of their new feature length documentary, GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK, which has recently finished screening across the country and internationally alongside Earth Week 2022.
The huge 27 date GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK tour will be hitting cities and regional towns across Australia throughout August, September and October 2022 and will also feature some of the most exciting heavy acts in...
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The full line-up for this year’s edition of Spilt Milk has been announced, with Stormzy, Toro y Moi and The Wombats among those set to appear at the festival.
Organisers confirmed the return of Spilt Milk last Friday (April 22), locking in dates for Canberra, Ballarat and the Gold Coast – the lattermost a first for the festival – at the end of the year. It comes after both the 2020 and ’21 editions were cancelled due to the ongoing...
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