The Offspring and Incubus head up a huge bill for summer's Soundwave Festival.
Spanning the hippest young indie, rock, metal, emo and whatnot bands, the Soundwave back up last year's alternafest with another mammoth line-up of US talent. It's like the last however many Warped tours hitting us all at once.As well as metalcore, emo and punk heroes Killswitch Engage, Social Distortion, Coheed & Cambria, As I Lay Dying and Motion City Soundtrack, see US acts The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Saosin, Plain White T's, Jim Ward of Sparta, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Shadows Fall, The Dear Hunter, Bleeding Through, From Autumn to Ashes, The Starting Line, Divine Heresy (featuring ex-Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares), Mindless Self Indulgence, The Receiving End of Sirens, Socratic, Kevin Devine, Halifax, Arthur Enders of The Early November, Chiodos, Mewithoutyou, My American Heart, Dan Nigro of As Tall As Lions, Envy on the Coast, Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Fall of Troy, Sugarcult, Mae, Cartel, Still Remains, Haste the Day, Madina Lake and The Matches.
They've announced one Australian act: Carpathian. You can register for early bird tickets to the little-known emo band parade at www.soundwavefestival.com.
Tour Dates:
Saturday February 23 - Riverstage & Parklands, Brisbane
Sunday February 24 - Sydney Park, Sydney
Friday February 29 - Showgrounds, Melbourne
Saturday March 1 - TBC, Adelaide
Monday March 3 - Steel Blue Oval, Perth
