Tasmania News
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Legendary guitarist and songwriter
Eric Clapton has announced three long-awaited Australian shows. There are few who would contest Eric Clapton’s reputation is one of the world’s finest guitarists, often revered as the ‘musician’s... [more]
Two years after the release of his internationally acclaimed debut album King Hokum, the inimitable
C.W. Stoneking – guitar & tenor banjo player, singer/songwriter and raconteur – returns with a new collection of original tunes... [more]
The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to announce a limited number of very special
Crowded House concerts for this November/December, including the band's first visit to Tasmania since reforming two years ago.
It’s be... [more]
A necessary rhyme for testing times,
Clockwork is the latest single from Melbourne rapper
Phrase. Clockwork’ is the first single to be released from his forthcoming album,
Burn It Down, due next year. Since its digital release i... [more]
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is
Lykke Li, the 22 year old Swede who has set our hearts a flutter. Her magnificently brittle, candy coated vocals have become the underground musical discovery of the year. So with her debut album
Youth... [more]
To celebrate the release of
Home Grown Roots Vol 3 Compilation CD, Foghorn Music is presenting a lineup of homegrown acts to tantalise and entertain. These three Tasmanian “brothers in arms” appear on the highly popular Home Grown... [more]
Whilst lots of late-2000s indie bands boast of archaic and/or exotic influences few use them with the playful energy and brash creativeness that
The Dodos do. Country-blues fingerpicking meets African rhythms and metal drumming all... [more]
Drawing from traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, baroque psychedelic, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, as well as film scores,
Fleet Foxes have crafted a simply wonderful,... [more]
Ruffcut Records and thedwarf.com.au present… The rise and return of...
SAUL WILLIAMS Live onstage with his band of intergalactic sound surgeons, now bringing his amazing show to Hobart, Tasmania.
The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
Fri... [more]
Saul Williams, hip-hop MC, writer, actor and poet, has announced a December Australian tour to coincide with his new album,
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, produced by Trent Reznor.
SAUL WILLIAMS Au... [more]
With the planet in peril,
Dan Kelly has taken time off recording his third album to team up with Melbourne’s premier faux Hawaiian duo,
The Ukeladies, to release
The S.U.V Song, which is available as a free download f... [more]
With their debut album Eon out now, Sydney electronic-rock trio
Grafton Primary announce a sequel to the stage-invading adventures of their national album launch tour!
Indie-whiz The E.L.F. (aka Darren Cross from Gerling) will be suppor... [more]
Over the summer of 2007/2008,
The Go Set was a standout live act to thousands of festival-goers at the Woodford, Pyramid Rock, St Kilda, Port Fairy, and Queenscliff Festivals among others.
Rising is The Go Set’s fourth al... [more]
Alex Lloyd returns with a brand new album
Good In The Face Of A Strangerwhich will be released November 1through Inertia Distribution. This will be Alex’s first ever independent release. Written, recorded and produced in London by Al... [more]
In 3 years, one of Tasmanian's biggest music festival's
msfest has built a reputation as an event not to be missed.
With last year's event selling out prior to the day, this year looks to be heading in the same direction... [more]
This summer,
All Tomorrow's Parties Festival will visit Australia for the first time presenting events in three different locations.
1. A two day event at Mt Buller, Victoria over the weekend of January 9 & 10 with both on sit... [more]
Providing Australia with the largest touring festival in Australia for th past seventeen years, the Big Day Out returns this year once again with a cracking line-up.
I'm sure you don't need to hear any more of my waffling about Aus... [more]
After a whirlwind start to the year with his sell out 10 Year Reunion Tour with Weddings, Parties, Anything,
Mick Thomas goes Back To The Future this December with a tour that covers his exceptional back catalogue of songs while in... [more]
Melbourne’s
Winterpark will independently release its second album
Falling Men and Flying Dreams via MGM on 18 October 2008.
Featuring a perfect slice of electro pop in the form of radio single ‘Hooked’, the album takes the listene... [more]
Mei Lai Swan will embark on a national tour with her new band to coincide with the exclusive iTunes release of her new single,
Calling The Sky on October 12th. Be sure to catch Mei Lai Swan enchanting folk across the country... [more]