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Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You really Feel

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Live: Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds – Brisbane Hotel, Hobart 13/05/2018

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News: Dark Mofo Festival

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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 the band’s performance on the lawns of MONA on the first week of the festival, Friday 16.02.2024.

It’s a strangely warm night at the edge of the world in Hobart and it must be quite a shock for the troubadour extraordinaire Paul Kelly who has only just got back from performing on a ship in Antarctica. The thing is, though, Kelly and his band raised the temperature quite a bit on their …

We are very honoured to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the sweeping, beautiful new track ‘The Black Bull’ by Melbourne-based songwriter Sainthill (the moniker of Tom Larkey), ahead of the release tomorrow. ‘The Black Bull’ is a shimmering melancholy track with guitars that glitter and sparkle in the firmament like …

Following swiftly on the heels of solo single from member Sam Hunn (see review here), nipaluna/Hobart trio Verticoli are back with their ferocious new single ‘The Fear’ – a smashing vibrant slice of anarchic rock. Delivered with a raucous swagger that positively rips apart the speakers, this is a scything slice of pounding rock that …

Tamar Valley-based Gareth Koch (in lutruwita/Tasmania) has released an sparkling album of instrumentals entitled ‘Ghost Stories’ and it takes you on a magnificent journey. Koch has, of course, impressive form – he has collaborated with Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Martin Kennedy (All India Radio) in the past in a sort of triumvirate of sonic …

Ahead of new material from his band, Verticoli (a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia), singer Sam Hunn has released a debut solo track ‘Kurt Cobain’. The track is about feeling emotional turmoil like the eponymous singer. Hunn says: …although tongue-in-cheek, (it) is a commentary on the long-standing issue of glamourizing …

I caught エミエミ emi emi at a recent gig at Altar, Hobart for a showcase of new and upcoming bands in the local Hobart area and was blown away by her performance, writing she was: …a mix of J-Pop/K-Pop with a Balearic flavour – a touch of thumping House and disco…It was like a blend …

The prodigious talented Hobart musician Ben Salter in recent years released a trilogy of recordings he did as artist in residence at the Museum Of Old and New Art (MONA) – the largest privately funded collection of art in the southern hemisphere, the last two of which we reviewed here at Backseat Mafia. Salter’s work was an eclectic …

Hobart post-punk heroes, The Native Cats, have just released hard-hitting new song, My Risks Is Art along with an accompanying new video ahead of the November 10 release of 5th album, The Way On Is The Way Off, The Native Cats’ Chloe Alison Escott (vocals, electronic programming) and Julian Teakle (bass) have been making and …

The millionaire philanthropist David Walsh not only gifted his hometown city of Hobart the spectacular Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) and numerous music and art installations and festivals including Dark Mofo, he also partnered with Melbourne’s Riverlee group, who bought a sizeable block of buildings in the central business district of Hobart and …