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Album Review: Psychlona’s ‘Warped Vision’ elicits the distinct clarity of a band on a steep upward trajectory

UK stoner rock giants, Psychlona are set to release their fourth long-player, Warped Vision in the coming days, with the album set to cement them into the upper echelons of…

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Live Gallery: MONA Foma Festival – QOTSA – MONA lawns 16.02.2024

Very privileged to have had Queens Of The Stone Age play twice in Hobart during the Museum of Old & New Art’s MONA Foma Festival 2024. These shots are from…

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News: Niger’s psych-rock guitar sensation Mdou Moctar announces debut Australian tour in 2023, including the iconic WOMADelaide festival.

Mistletone proudly present, for their very first appearances in Australia, Niger’s Mdou Moctar, with the full band performing across a number of dates in March 2023. A self-taught Tuareg guitar…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Los Palms – Skeleton Ranch

Arriving following their self-titled debut 7″ released last year, Los Palms have set LP Skeleton Ranch loose on the world via Fuzz Club Records. It serves up an infectiously hedonistic…

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Mali’s “Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré returns to Australia with new album ‘Les Racines’ in tow.

Legendary Malian guitarist, Vieux Farka Touré, along with his band, has announced a full Australian tour in 2023 from February 24 until March 11. One of the world’s most respected…

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Live review: Tamikrest play breathtaking set at the Nolan Gallery, MONA, nipaluna/Hobart, 26/10/2022.

I am a relatively recent convert to some of the “desert rock/desert blues” that has come to notice in increasing amounts in Western countries over the past 5 years or…

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News: Malian Desert Rock Icons, Tamikrest, announce inaugural tour to Australia.

Over the last 30 years, there has been a slow, yet steady emergence from the Malian, and Western Sahara regions of a top-flight style of world music known as ‘desert…

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ALBUM REVIEW: PSYCHLONA – PALO VERDE: UK ‘DESERT ROCKERS’ UNLEASH POWERFUL THIRD LONG PLAYER

UK psych rockers, Psychlona are set to unleash their third long-player, Palo Verde, their first on Psycho Waxx, the in-house record label of the Psycho Las Vegas Festival, timing the…

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Album Review: Noori & His Dorpa Band – Beja Power ! : a desert rock, ethio-jazz, surf guitar scorcher from Port Sudan.

Unearthing ‘what the truth sounds like’ is Ostinato Records’ enduring mission. This year we’ve already been introduced to the raw beauty of Capo Verde’s creole soul with the release from…

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Premiere: Anya Anastasia makes enthralling music video debut with fierce, rousing first single ‘Losing Wild’

Adelaide singer-songwriter, Anya Anastasia, first revealed her wonderful fusion of experimental folk and West-African inspired desert-rock on the 28th January, in the form of fierce debut single Losing Wild. And…

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