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30/09/2025

🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: HELMET – AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2026 🚨

NYC noise-rock instigators HELMET are back! 🔥 Known for stripping away excess and redefining heavy music with hostile riffs and precision grooves, the band returns to Australia in 2026 for an unmissable tour.

Tour Dates:

16th April – King Street, Newcastle
17th April – Metro Theatre, Sydney
18th April – Tivoli, Brisbane
19th April - The Northern, Byron
21st April – Magnet House, Perth
22nd April – The Gov, Adelaide
24th April – Altar Bar, Hobart
25th April – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne

🔥 Presale Starts on Wednesday October 1st 11 am AEST
Register HERE: https://arep.co/m/helmet-presale

29/09/2025

HARD ROCK HARD Playlist 29/09/25
🇦🇺🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻🇦🇺 SWR 99.9 FM fans

Missed the show or want to listen back on the go? Link for the last 4 shows in the comments section below 👇

Sierra Pilot - Zeroed
By A Thread - Void
Verticoli - Milk & Honey
NOFX - What Are We Doing This For feat. Codefendants
Poppy * Amy Lee * Courtney LaPlante - End Of You
Rise Against - Damage Is Done
Dead Mall - Real World
COG - Walk The Line
Reba Meyers - Certain Uncertainty
Aggressica - Wasted
The Hot One Two - The Reaper
Noon Shift - Universal Wealthcare
Soen - Primal

“COVER SONG OF THE WEEK”
P.O.D. - Don’t Let Me Down (The Beatles)

Baltimore Gun Club - Archangel
Bodyjar - Here Lies Caroline
Sign & Ragnar Zolberg - Hyldýpi
Mudvayne - Sticks and Stones
Flatwounds - case logic
Hell For Leather - Alive Again
Torizon - Hold On (pictured below)
Blind Eliza - Over My Way
Beautiful Stink - Rise
Gyroscope - 4YRLV
Quicksand - Thorn In My Side
Tumbleweed - Wildfire
AnamCara - Broken Time
Code Orange - Take Shape feat. Billy Corgan
Steve Welsh - If SOAD wrote ‘A Thousand Miles’
(Vanessa Carlton)

28/09/2025

I found an alternate cover photo for Death Angel’s The Moth.
None more metal! 🤘🏻

24/09/2025

Hi you wonderful friends and followers of WHITEFORD here on the interwebs!
The limited run of the WATER and SHE JOINS LOVE shirt designs will ending soon.
Don’t miss out on them!
( Aus music shirt day is 27th November or maybe as a Christmas present for someone?)
Follow the link to grab yours now…..

https://xmusiclabel.bigcartel.com/whiteford

As always, thanks for the love and support.
Zarz, Shorty, Aaron and Nate
With Xmusic

22/09/2025

HARD ROCK HARD Playlist 22/09/25
🇦🇺🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻🇦🇺 SWR 99.9 FM

The Hot One Two - The Reaper
The Smashing Pumpkins - Chrome Jets
Karnivool - Aozora
Noon Shift - UNIVERSAL WEALTHCARE (pictured below)
Soen - Primal
Part Paladin Take the Crown feat. Jason Brown
Big Red Fire Truck - Testarossa
Verticoli - Milk & Honey
PRESIDENT - band - Destroy Me
Grizzlyshark - Waiting for Y2K
Thornhill - Mercia

“COVER SONG OF THE WEEK”
Slash - Oh Well feat. Chris Stapleton (Fleetwood Mac)

Hell For Leather - Alive Again
Alice in Chains - I Stay Away
Mudvayne - Sticks and Stones
Torizon - Hold On
Mergatroyd - REDACTED
MammothWVH - I Really Wanna
The Lovebombers - Scream
Deadheat - 3 out of 4
Kerbdog - End Of Green
Clutch - A Quick Death in Texas
Ammonia - Suzi Q
Grinspoon - Boundary
Avalanche - Second Hand Band
Scowl - B.A.B.E
Life Of Agony Famiglia - Hope
Chinchen - Shall.E.Mar

Missed the show or want to listen back on the go? Link for the last 4 shows in the comments section below 👇

22/09/2025

22/09/2025

𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 🎪

After three incredible years—made unforgettable by the fans and the artists that shared the stage across each lineup—we’ll be taking a short break in 2026. This time off will allow us to come back in 2027 with the best Knotfest Australia yet.

Thank you for your passion, patience, and loyalty. We can’t wait to share what’s next and to make 2027 a truly unmissable experience.

KNOTFEST, Destroy All Lines & TEG

22/09/2025

2025 is a massive year for new hard rock
and that makes for another massive new music hour (& a half 🤫) tonight @ 10pm on SWR 99.9 FM 🇦🇺🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻🇦🇺

Featuring a new single from Tasmanian band Verticoli (pictured below).

Listen via the radio, iHeart radio & the CommunityRadio Plus apps, or the podcasts found on the SWR 99.9 program guide when you click on Hard Rock Hard.

19/09/2025

Find us at

Doonside Festival Saturday 20th of September
9am - 3pm

This weekend

15/09/2025

HARD ROCK HARD Playlist 15/09/25
🇦🇺🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻🇦🇺 SWR 99.9 FM

Missed the show or want to listen back on the go? Link for the last 4 shows in the comments section below 👇

Dead Mall - Real World
Big Red Fire Truck - Testarossa (pictured below)
Deadheat - 3 Out Of 4
The Lovebombers - Scream
Rise Against - Damage Is Done
MammothWVH - I Really Wanna
Testament - Shadow People
PRESIDENT - band - Destroy Me
The Smashing Pumpkins - Chrome Jets
Deftones- infinite source
Part Paladin - Take The Crown feat. Jason Brown
Atticus Chimps - Heartbreak Debris
DRAIN - Who’s Having Fun

“COVER SONG OF THE WEEK”
Brass Against - Hey Man Nice Shot (Filter)

Drastic Park - Patience Wearing Thin
WARRANT - Cherry Pie
Alter Bridge - Silent Divide
Slipknot - (sic)
Miltown - Cleverer
By A Thread - Void
MUDRAT - MUD25 (interlude feat. Emile Battour Music)
Mudrat- MUD25
Lorna Shore - Glenwood
Baltimore Gun Club - Archangel
robotmonstermusic- About To Get Real
Grizzlyshark- Waiting For Y2K
The Party After - What’re Waiting For
Big Wreck - Holy Roller
Frenzal Rhomb - Bird Attack

15/09/2025

10pm (AEST) on SWR 99.9 FM I have loads of new and used music to play from the 90’s to Now including new PRESIDENT.

Listen via www.swr999.com.au or the wireless, or through the Community Radio Plus or iHeart radio apps.

13/09/2025

Gove FM is the number one radio service of local events and music to the Gove Peninsula.