Tasmania News
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Holy crap....yes, really. The Frontier Touring Company and Roundhouse Entertainment are honoured to present the legendary
Leonard Cohen in his first Australian concert tour in almost a quarter of a century. The tour will include a series... [more]
Before heading oversea, Hobart metal men Psycroptic are embarking on a massive national tour, including a DVD filming in Melbourne's own Hi Fi Bar.
PSYCROPTIC NATIONAL TOUR DATES:
30 Oct- Branningan’s- Gold Coast... [more]
It’s no surprise that tickets to the
Crowded House Forum Theatre, Melbourne concert sold out just one minute today. Afterall, it’s not often that you get to see such a legendary band in a venue this intimate!
A second and final concert... [more]
This November will see Japan's beatific mop-tops,
The Bawdies, return to Australia for a ten-date East Coast tour. Along for the ride is longtime Bawdies fans and fellow beat merchants, local Melbourne combo,
The Basics.... [more]
Animal Collective is set to release
Merriweather Post Pavilion, their ninth full length album on
Saturday, January 17 2009 on Domino Records.
The album was recorded in early 2008 at Sweet Tea Recording Studio in O... [more]
It’s back again. Set against the backdrop of the river Derwent within the Hobart Regatta Grounds, Tasmania.
Soundscape 2009 promises to be one of Tasmania’s premier, live, all ages music festivals, presenting the finest musical talent.... [more]
Up and coming WA outfit
Will Stoker & The Embers will release their debut EP
The Five Beds For Bitsy EP this November the 15th with a show at the Rosemount in Perth with fellow local sensations Abby May and The Rockin’ Pneumonia... [more]
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 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]