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Track: Shock! Horror! TEENS are ‘Burning Bridges’ everywhere ahead of new album and live dates.

Nipaluna/Hobart band TEENS have just released a pounding, throbbing slice of visceral rock in their new single ‘Burning Bridges’ An ambulant almost filthy funk bass throbs it’s way throughout the…

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News: The World’s rarest album from the Wu-Tang Clan to be displayed at Hobart’s Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) as part of Name Dropping Exhibition.

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) announced today that one of the rarest, most valuable pieces of music ever created, the Wu-Tang Clan’s fabled Once Upon a Time…

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Live Review and Gallery: Jet celebrate 20 years of debut ‘Get Born’ with Sophisticated Dingo and Lennon Wells, Uni Bar, Hobart, 11 May 2024

Old Hobart put on two spectacular shows last night. Firstly, Aurora Australis made a magnificent entrance, draping her spectacular jewels across the firmament, visible to the naked eye. Then in…

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Track: Tahi’s ‘Wolf Grin’ has a blinding dream pop sparkle as live dates announced.

Tahi are a relatively new phenomena in the southern city of Hobart, but in their short life span so far have released a series of highly impressive and utterly delectable…

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Album Review: Rowan Smith unveils songs ‘in the key of kintsugi’ – an assemblage of exquisite sonic treasures framed in gold.

Rowan Smith is songwriter and founding member of Melbourne bands Macguffins and Barefoot as well as writing a series of solo albums. The MacGuffins played between 1988 and 1992 before…

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News: Winter 2024 – Dark Mofo unveils a slimmed down Festival featuring Marlon Williams and Genesis Owusu, but the bacchanalian revelries remain.

Like an influencer on Ozempic, Dark Mofo returns this year in a very slimmed down form but without the nausea and a lot more agile as a result. And hopefully…

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Album Review: ‘Premonition K’ is another luminescent chapter in the mystical, fantastical world of Kilbey/Kennedy (Steve Kilbey from The Church and Martin Kennedy from All India Radio).

When you put together the incredible musical skills of songwriter/multi instrumentalist and producer Martin Kennedy and the vivid and unbounded imagination of the legendary Steve Kilbey, you get something far…

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News: Tinariwen announce Australia/New Zealand tour

Desert-blues pioneers, Tinariwen, have announced an eight-date tour of New Zealand and Australia in May/June of this year. The tour begins in New Zealand before winging its’ way across the…

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Track: There’s no doubt who’s a ‘Cool Cucumber’ – the brilliant A. Swayze & the Ghosts explode back into the universe with a cool savoir faire and a glam rock sparkle.

One of Australia’s best punk exponents, the brilliant A. Swayze and the Ghosts from niaplauna/Hobart, have made a blazing return to the scene with their new single ‘Cool Cucumber’. It’s…

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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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