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News: CIVIC unfurl first single, the titular Chrome Dipped, from upcoming third album and announce expansive international tour

Melbourne’s brilliant punk rock outfit, CIVIC, have today announced the May 30th release of their third album, Chrome Dipped via ATO Records. With the band willing to cut the ties to the raw, distinctly Australian…

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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 + Gallery: MONA FOMA festival – Mogwai, Kutcha Edwards & The Australian Art Orchestra and The Shruti Sessions MONA Lawns, 23.02.2024

An eclectic mix of artists played the Friday edition of The MONA Sessions, with headline act Mogwai being joined by indigenous star, Kutcha Edwards (accompanied by the Australian Art Orchestra)…

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News: lutruwita/Tasmania’s MONA FOMA Summer Festival 2024 is back better than ever and the phenomenal line up announced.

Mona Foma, run by the iconic Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, is a summer festival of music and art, and is returning for its sixteenth edition…

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News: The legendary Lydia Lunch and Joseph Keckler Announce Australian Shows for a performance of ‘Tales of Lust & Madness’.

Punk poet provocateur, musician and photographer, the legendary Lydia Lunch has announced a musical poetry tour of Australia entitled ‘Tales of Lust & Madness’ with fellow New Yorker Joseph Keckler.…

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Album Review: Troubadour and raconteur Ben Salter unveils the epic album ‘Sublimation’ as he tours across Australia and New Zealand.

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…

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News: nipaluna/Hobart-based troubadour Ben Salter announces new album ‘Sublimation’ with the sublime title track released ahead of tour.

Ben Salter is a bit of a star in the firmament – his long term engagement with the iconic Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart resulted in…

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News: MONA Shares New Single ‘Nothing Is Dead’

MONA, the brainchild of versatile US artist Nick Brown, marks a triumphant return with their latest single ‘Nothing Is Dead,’ released via ZionnoiZ Recordings/Ingrooves/Virgin Music Group. ‘Nothing Is Dead’ delves…

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Live Review and Gallery: Charlie Needs Braces – MONA Lawns, nipaluna/Hobart, 18.03.2023

Having just released the searingly brilliant debut album ‘Saltwater People’, Charlie Needs Braces (the solo effort of Charlie Woods) is embarking on an ambitious Australia wide tour, bringing an incandescent…

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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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