Machine Girl announce Australian tour dates alongside Dark Mofo this June
PRAISE FOR Machine Girl
“It’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl”
“Their sound is undeniably shaped by growing up with unlimited internet access, exposed to the raw frontier of image boards, shock sites, and Limewire”
“Relentlessly smashing together bits of punk, grindcore, rave, industrial, and more, the Pittsburgh duo’s maximalist music echoes the cruel momentum of the modern world”
MACHINE GIRL TOUR DATES
Presented by Future Classic, Astral People, Handsome Tours
Sat 14 Jun – Dark Mofo – nipaluna / Hobart
Mon 16 Jun – Northcote Theatre – Naarm / Melbourne
Wed 18 Jun – Metro Theatre – Eora / Sydney
Thu 19 Jun – Triffid – Meanjin / Brisbane
Sat 21 Jun – Powerstation – Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Tickets on sale 2pm local Thu 17 Apr
Sign up for pre-sale HERE
Digital hardcore outfit Machine Girl today announce additional tour dates to their upcoming Dark Mofo appearance. Sign up for pre-sale access now with tickets on sale 2pm local tomorrow Thursday 17 April. BUY TIX HERE.
Some music moves you. Some music rearranges your DNA. Machine Girl does the latter — a full-throttle sensory overload channelled through breakneck BPMs, live drums, digital distortion, and raw, unfiltered emotion. Activating rave weapon and noise ritual equilibrium, the project has become a lifeline for freaks of every breed — ravers, metalheads, gamers, goths, industrialists. It doesn’t fit into genre. It tears genre apart and feeds it back to you, pixelated and burning.
With percussionist Sean Kelly on live drums and Lucy Caputi on guitar adding to Matt Stephenson’s unrelenting digital barrage, Machine Girl’s live sets are notorious — sweat-soaked, feral, and unpredictable. That chaos will touch down at Dark Mofo, the perfect playground for their dystopian rituals, before detonating across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Auckland.
Now signed to Australia’s own Future Classic, Machine Girl returns to the Southern Hemisphere after their newly released album, MG Ultra — Machine Girl’s most mind-bending chapter yet. Equal parts anime nightmare, B-horror hallucination, and dystopian social commentary, the record dives deep into themes of alienation, dysmorphia, and the commodification of thought. The title is no coincidence — a nod to the MK Ultra CIA experiments and the fractures it left behind. Music designed to move something buried deep inside of you. Catch Machine Girl this June before we all burn.
The Machine Girl narrative bridges the divide for all types of freaks. Becoming widely known for their vitriolic, organic, massive grassroots following, developed through a sense of aesthetic maximalism, both online and BUT MAINLY off. Founded by Matt Stephenson and percussionist Sean Kelly, the union of their frenetic sound, DIY ethos and distinctly hi-fi, widescreen vision has garnered profound resonance throughout culture and across fans worldwide.
Machine Girl have become dually infamous for their cathartic, unpredictable, acrobatic performances and their uncompromising, genre-oblivious catalogue, boasting a reputation as one of the most compelling performance offerings of the underground. Kerrang! listed them as one of the “bands expanding the definition of hardcore,” and described the project as, “a particularly… ferocious breed of the electronic sub-genre breakcore that could easily pass for hardcore when they rip it live.”
In 2022, Machine Girls’ first worldwide tour hit 24 countries and 34 cities, over 41 days with their first ever UK and Aus runs sold out entirely in pre-sale. Come 2023 they teamed up with 100 gecs for a sold out six week run across the US. In the time since, as an entirely independent group Machine Girl have cultivated over 125 million monthly listeners on Spotify culminating in their signing to like minded label innovators, Future Classic.
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