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A new one-day festival is set to light up The Goods Shed on Hobart’s waterfront on Friday, December 19th with Lutruwita Live unleashing Wolfmother and Kingswood as headliners with support from local legends Lennon Wells, the up-and-coming Spooky Eyes, neo-R&B powerhouse Tai Harlii and the genre-bending funsters, Ekidna. Wolfmother are celebrating 20 years since the …

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Melbourne’s classic, psychedelic rockers, Seedy Jeezus made a triumphant Tasmanian debut at their 3 band show at Hobart’s Grand Poobah last Friday evening. The evening was presented by Psychedelic Salad Records. Psychedelic space rock was at its’ finest with the Melbourne trio (regular collaborators with Isaiah Mitchell from US psych giants, Earthless and Tony Reed …

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Folk ‘Til Ya Punk Records have a proud history of bringing international folk-punk bands to tour Australia off the back of their annual festival, HOBOFOPO. Over a number of years they have brought The Taxpayers, Days N Daze, Apes of the State and Pigeon Pit to Australia, as well as working with AJJ and Crywank …

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It was with a huge amount of anticipatory excitement that I listened to this album from one of Australia’s premier blues players, given the extraordinary legacy that this particular recording contains. Not only is this an early recording of Fiona Boyes which follows on closely from being the first non-American, and first female, to win …

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Marcus King Band’s highly anticipated 4th album, Darling Blue, is out now via American Recordings/Republic Records. Alongside the release, the band is sharing the new track ‘The Shadows’ featuring GRAMMY-nominated artist Noah Cyrus.  Ahead of the album, the band shared songs ‘Heartlands’ and ‘Here Today’ featuring Jamey Johnson and Kaitlin Butts. The band has also …

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Triple Juno Award winner, Ron Sexsmith, one of Canada’s most accomplished singer-songwriters, will make a more-than welcome return to tour NZ & Australia with his band in April 2026. The tour is presented by DRW Entertainment and Gaynor Crawford. Eleven years on from his last visit Down Under, his fans will once again be able …

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On a beautiful Hobart winter’s Thursday, Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) brought his ‘murder-folk’ brand of song-writing to the stage of Altar Bar. One year on from his previous tour to Australia, he once again returned, this time hitting bigger stages and ensuring he made it to every corner of the country. A crowd …

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Jimmy Barnes‘ iconic album, For The Working Class Man, is turning 40 years old, and to celebrate, Barnesy, as he is affectionately known, has announced that he is taking to the road to present the album in its’ entirety, along with other hits from across his illustrious career. Released in December 1985, For The Working Class …

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The Black Sea Carnys held the launch for their latest offering, the EP (more of a mini-album, in reality) Cultland at The Grand Poobah here in Hobart on Saturday evening. As a follow-up to my EP review (here), I decided to go and listen to the band playing all of their new material at their …

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Following on from the release of their debut EP, Nistar (read about it here), The Black Sea Carnys, Tasmania’s kings of all things dark and industrial have announced the impending release of their second EP, Cultland. Cultland sees The Black Sea Carnys continue to shape their already unique sound as they add a further 6 …

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