Music

A Melbourne nine-piece mashing afrobeat rhythms, psychedelic guitars and scattered brass.

Dream pop with teeth. Expansive, ethereal sonic experiments.

A funky jazz and blues group, cooking up some fresh soul food.

Songs springing out of the Tassie landscape, stirred up with Mississippi Delta ole school blues. Think banjo, bouzouki, steel-sliding resonator and beaut guitars.

A local five-piece blending blues, prog, and funky grooves.

Currently unsure whether they're rock, folk, punk, or some mix of all three (it's probably the mix of all three), this genre-bending trio tells stories with a punch.

Originally from Godooga in NSW, Warren's a proud Yuwaalaraay man with links to the Yorta Yorta. When not being the brains / muscle behind Tin Camp Studios, he plays guitar; sings.

Hypnotic, surprising guitar improv. Maybe some voice. Definitely loops.

Julian makes music that explores the fundamentals of the pop and rock genres, stripping each back to its constituent elements, mashing them up, rolling them out and isolating the bits that work, and discarding all the rest.

Originally from Godooga in NSW, Warren's a proud Yuwaalaraay man with links to the Yorta Yorta. When not being the brains / muscle behind Tin Camp Studios, he plays guitar; sings.

Alt-pop crew fronted by vocalist and trumpeter Sabine Bester, who blends jazz, soul, funk and pop influences with her Balkan background.

Cathartic mutant hyperpop.

Story punk / dancing grooves.

Grace throws thoughtful, hard-hitting bars (over boom-bap beats) that speak—heart on sleeve—of political and social issues not normally touched by the mainstream.

Genevieve makes music that draws inspiration from the natural world. Soundscapes that encourage an inward journey touching on deep time, memory and sense of place.

Hobart's new kids on the block, belting metal and rock inspired music.

Ambient dream-folk hitting home with harmonies.

An improvised electronic durational and sonic adventure.

From Hobart, 'The Puck Suckers' play an energetic mix of heavy psyche and prog-inspired rock music.

Experimental J-pop from right here in nipaluna.

Ever heard of Title Fight? Take that but make it three annoying teenagers. That’s BOFA, Shoegaze punk madness, with a touch of that familiar scent of that late night woolies mish flavour.

Frenzied noise, abrupt shifts in tempo, and unconventional time signatures combine in a chaotic, discordant tsunami of the unexpected (and the oddly harmonious).

Transient ambience.

Martin Blackwell presents Black Midi, a composition of music entirely 7 hours in length, comprised of 7 toccata + fugue, exhibiting structure, harmony + symmetries that can be perceived using mathematical principles, performed under James Turrell’s Amarna.

Crab are committed to interpreting and upholding the living marine resources management act 1995, through crusty, wiffy, intertidal-zone hardcore punk.

Mixed-glamour post-punk duo from near here. Bass, beats, crushed Nintendo synth, labyrinths of history and resonance.

Poet and Artist/Activist Jim E. Brown was born in Manchester on September 10, 2001, just one day before the Porsche 911.

Cosmic psych-rock. Immersive, languid psychedelia.

Hypnotic, psychedelia-inflected gothic rock and post-punk. Big riffs, melodic verses, synths.

Andrew Wilson and John Tanner take ambient music outside and leave it to the elements.

Whip cracking electro western sensations.

Genre-hopping enigma hailing from Brisbane.

A mum and dad from Moonah who tell it like it is. You may find yourself shaking your rump.

Soundscapes and ambient musical works performed on harp, guitar, loops and field recordings captured across lutruwita / Tasmania.

Soundscapes fusing voice memos, found-sounds, echoic compositions, and influences of their mixed-multifaith lineage.

Life's a beach. At least it is for this talented muso combining a sound that is both well-built and suitably ramshackle.

Melbourne native harnessing the power of both equisite guitar and well chosen words.

Post-punk wrapped in a cloak of alt-folk, guitar-and-vocalsed by a young woman trying to find her place in the world.

Zedek has long been a melodic songwriter in a series of heavy bands. That contrast, along with her distinct blend of both direct and poetic lyrics, allows her to sing of the most difficult of life’s moments in ways that are both elevating and devastating.

Innovative soundscapes from the bleeding edge of IDM and experimental electronic—a hybrid performance of live stuff and DJ work.

Folk diviner Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity.

Electrifying rap collective boasting hype-filled rhymes and plenty of stage presence.

AKA Carolyn Schofield. Ambient overload of sweet synths.

Aphex meets pop, plus noise. 'Intelligible pop songs that are more primeval than poetic'.

Ex-Queensland punks making music to get your mum pogoing.

Dark, paint stripping sludge rock.

Trip-hop, shoegaze and hints of Britpop through a dense wash of synth, guitar and beats.

Gourdies from the inner rim of District XV.

Ambience and field recordings from a Tasmania composer-producer.

The saddest cowgirl in RnB.

HARDBASS SUPERSTAR!

FKA Hardcore Dog Penis. 'Indie thrash rap'.

Your 'new-wave pop-rock neighbours in short shorts and sneakers, asking risqué questions over the scraggly fences of nipaluna / Hobart'. Vocal pizazz, synths, plenty of dancing.

Deep, aching balladry and swelling synth melancholy with a country twang.

Guitar and vocals that vary from intimate to expansive, coloured with flecks of psychedelic folk, alt-country, and art pop.

Spliced sonic grains and progressive synth passages

Let a DJ from Sydney take you on a bit of an ambient journey.

Spike’s been playing the saxophone since before the internet was invented.

Cello, guitar and banjo combine for a jaunt through folk, country and blues.

Fully improvised one-song-per-set chamber jazz. Double bass, five-string violin, electric / acoustic guitar. No holds barred.

Japanese-born bluegrass banjo-er Montz teams up with North Carolinian Ross for acoustic blues and bluegrass (with Celtic and Japanese flavour).

Sizzling, original groove-driven jazz from a quartet inspired by neo-soul, nu-jazz and psychedelic influences.

Sizzling, original groove-driven jazz from a quartet inspired by neo-soul, nu-jazz and psychedelic influences.

Pianist and composer Louise Denson joins trombonist Stevie McEntee as they team up with a cooking rhythm section to deliver melodious, groovy tunes.

Billy—a true stalwart of the Hobart music scene—does solo blues and Americana.