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Live Review Plus Gallery: Blackwater Holylight, Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart 20.06.2026

The magnificent Odeon Theatre was awash in deep red light as Blackwater Holylight quietly took the stage, easing the audience into their distinctive blend of doom, shoegaze and psychedelia. Dispensing…

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Album Review: the black watch releases the magnificent double album ‘For All The World’.

Spanning 21 luminescent tracks, the new double album ‘For All The World’ is a magnificent journey through the fertile imagination of John Andrew Frederick and his band the black watch.…

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News: ‘Achilles Past’ – the black watch announce new double album ‘For All The World’ with the über cool single ‘Achilles Past’.

John Andrew Frederick, the genius behind the iconic dream pop exponents the black watch, manages to match a preternatural prolificacy in the sheer volume of his songwriting with an accompanied…

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Album Review: the black watch take us on an enticing sonic excursion through their ‘Weird Rooms’.

LA band the black watch are a veritable institution. Their albums have a sparkle and a sense of yearning that permeates every note and every song is a stadium filling…

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Album Review: Brin & Dustin Wong – Texture II : An intense connection of micro-beats and shifting loops with a free jazz spirit.

Imagining the outcome of this collaboration is in many ways a bit of a stretch. First there is guitarist Dustin Wong, in the past a key member of the under-valued…

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Track/Video: Basinski’s slinky electro funk combo SPARKLE DIVISION introduce new album ‘Foxy’ with the punchy title track.

If you have seen the seminal electronic musician William Basinski live you will know that he’s far from the experimental scene stereotype, more glamour than gloom, maybe in leather or…

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Album Review: Fabiano Do Nascimento – Das Nuvens : New Fusion music for the heart and soul

If you know anything of guitarist/composer Fabiano do Nascimento’s significant back catalogue you will be expecting his new album ‘Das Nuvens‘ to be impressive. Each release from his debut ‘Dança…

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News: Drab Majesty announces new EP accompanied by haunting and ethereal new single ‘Vanity’ featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, ahead of appearance at Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival

Today Drab Majesty have announced details of a new EP, entitled ‘An Object in Motion’, to be released on August 25th via Dais Records. Along with the announcement, they have…

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Track/Video: Brazilian guitar supremo Fabiano Do Nascimento previews next album ‘Das Nuvens’ with the gliding, nu-beat title track.

After five albums for the global beat connoisseurs Now Again, Brazilian acoustic guitar supremo Fabiano Do Nascimento has sidled across LA to join with the Leaving Records community. The result,…

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Track/Video: Electronic musician Colloboh introduces second EP ‘Saana Sahel’ with the gliding high of ‘Mystic You’.

Since joining the Leaving Records community in 2021 after a move from his Baltimore home, Collins Oboh (aka Colloboh) has become significant contributor to the ever fluid LA experimental scene.…

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