News: Tropical Fuck Storm cancel all overseas tours for 2023 following cancer diagnosis.
Fiona Kitschin, the ever-dynamic bass player for Tropical Fuck Storm, and partner to Gareth Liddiard, the band’s lead singer and guitarist, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The band have shared a short post on both their Facebook and Instagram pages with the following message….. “Hey All,We’ve hit a bump in the road here at …
Live Review + Gallery: A Swayze & The Ghosts bring the roof down as they rock Altar in nipaluna/Hobart 16.12.2022
It felt like an eternity since A Swayze & The Ghosts had played (or at least, it did for me). Covid-19 has delayed the inevitable rise of one of Tasmania’s finest alternative exports, with the band having had to take the same extended break from touring, writing and recording that most other artists have. However, …
Live Review + Gallery: Harry Manx mesmerizes audience at Wrest Point Showroom, Hobart, 14.12.2022.
Harry Manx, the master of the ‘Mysticssippi Blues’ turned in a beautifully accomplished performance to a crowd of around 200 fervent fans at The Showroom of Wrest Point Casino in Hobart. For those unaware of this Canadian troubadour, Harry Manx is a former sound engineer turned multi-instrumentalist who fits within the folk/blues/Americana (or is that …
EP Review: Hobart punk trio, Müttley, release the delectable ‘It’s Not Like Pie’ and announce EP launch gig
Self-confessed “Tangential cowtank punk with chewie” band, Müttley, have released their debut EP, It’s Not Like Pie – five tracks of raucous goodness from the depths of suburban nipaluna/Hobart. Having formed in late 2019 following on from a semi-impromptu jam session at the now-defunct Brisbane Hotel, Müttley survived the extended lock-downs caused by the Covid-19 …
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 prodigy, Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and contemporary rock music by melding Eddie Van Halen-like pyrotechnics and guitar shredding, field recordings, drums rhythms, …
Album Review: Adalita’s 3rd solo album, Inland, pops the cork today after a long 9 years between drinks, and unearths arresting new film-clip.
Australian rock icon, Adalita, has today unveiled her latest album, Inland. Her third LP sees the culmination of a near-decade of artistic endeavour, soul-searching and redemption delicately wrapped up into the ten tracks of this hugely evocative, and highly impressive release. To celebrate the release, the fourth film-clip from the album, for the hauntingly beautiful …
Seven further acts, including Scottish singer-songwriter, Paolo Nutini, named in fourth artist announcement for Bluesfest Byron Bay.
If there was one act Bluesfest Festival Director Peter Noble was desperate to secure, it was Paolo Nutini. It had been eight years since the Scottish singer songwriter had toured, so when word got out that Paolo may be touring, the Bluesfest booking team went into overdrive to secure him. And secure him they did! …
Album Review: Newcastle punk quartet, These New South Whales explode on self-titled third release
Three years on from sophomore release, I Just Do What God Tells Me To Do, the third full-length release from These New South Whales delivers in spades. The multi-faceted chameleons of Australian punk/post-punk have grown their signature sound, with the schedule of pre-release singles from the album giving a tasty sampler of the album’s full …
Track: New Melbourne supergroup, The Silversound (Shane O’Mara, Andrew Tanner, Stu Thomas & Leroy Cope) invite us to sway along to trippy first song, Shaker, taken from imminent “debut” album.
It is time to slip on your go-go swamp boots for Shaker, the electrifying lead track from The Silversound’s imminent debut album. Erupting like an overdriven lava lamp at the hyperventilating end of a blossoming psychedelic trip, Shaker is an ecstatic top-down monster truck groove with fast funk propulsion and a soul-tinted female chorus that wraps your head in silk and …
News: Paolo Nutini announced to play State Theatre, Sydney in April 2023.
Bluesfest Touring have announced the return of Paolo Nutini to Australian shores after an absence of eight long years, with the singer-songwriter often referred to as a superstar in waiting, to play at the State Theatre, Sydney this coming April. Touring his 2022 album Last Night In the Bittersweet, Paolo Nutini’s fans were brought to tears …