The official lineup for the annual festival hosted by Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) has now officially been announced and taking their eclectic and innovative approach to curation to new heights, substantiates why Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival is one of the most talked about boutique festivals in …
Something wicked this way comes - first act announced for 2017 incarnation of DARK MOFO Festival
So you missed this year’s fantastic MONA FOMA Festival (peep our coverage)?
That is too bad but not all is lost: Tasmania’s subversive Disneyland and ode to sex and death MONA …
No rest.
Wicked.
Dark Mofo, Mona's midwinter festival, is an annual pilgrimage celebrating all things dark through large scale public art, feasts and sonic enlightenment.
The line-up for this year's incarnation has recently been unveiled the massive line-up for this year’s event, featuring American electronic legend Chelsea …
Right.
For the upcoming sixth annual DARK MOFO festival from 3–24 June 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from 13-24 of June I was going to work on a “X reason to visit Dark Mofo 2018”.
A noble plan.
That was until the revelation of this year’s program. …
Curated again by Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes, the Museum of Old and New Art will host the ninth installation of Mofo, an avant-garde festival of music and art, from January 18 to 22 in Hobart, and 20 to 22 at MONA itself.
More than 200 artists, both …
Hobart, Tasmania
June, 2017
MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, does not do advertising. If you have visited, you will know that it does not need it.
To build its profile and raise awareness, i.e. to make noise and attract attention among the uninitiated, a …
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia
Dark Mofo is unlike any other festival on this earthround.
Never merely l’art pour l’art.
Dark.
Weird.
Sexy.
Transcendent.
Joyous.
Provocative.
Unapologetic.
Curious.
Challenging.
Surprising.
Controversial.
Doing it justice in merely written …
In its seventh year, it should by now be firmly established that the annual Dark Mofo Festival is hard to rival when it comes to pushing the envelope in every conceivable way – be it in terms of the calibre of eclectic acts, the NASA-like attention to detail, the curation, …
Finland's Dark Buddha Rising have joined Neurot Recordings. The band has release four prior albums and has a European tour planned for April that hits 8 cities and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
Shane Embury (Napalm Death) has just released a surprise new album by Dark Sky Burial. Titled Vincit qui Se Vincit, it's the third record from Embury's industrial/electronica project, now streaming in full at bandcamp. The titled of the new record translates loosely as “To conquer is to conquer …
Founded by AJ Peacox, bassist in bands such as Weatherbox, Sundressed, Oso Oso, Future Crooks, and others, Glow & The Dark released a new single earlier this week -- sold in combo with an exclusive coffee roast courtesy of Dark Horse Coffee Records.
This spring Glow & The Dark …
Finland's Dark Buddha Rising will return with a new EP on March 23, 2018 on Neurot Recordings. The new EP, II, continues their complex, dark psychedelia with two new songs.
Olympia, WA's Dark Pals have released the song "Ghost Horse," half of the upcoming 7" of the same name, due for release on August 4 via Rock Therapy Records.
Check it out here:
Dark Sky Burial (Shane Embury of Napalm Death and more) has announced that Consouling Sounds will soon released Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum on vinyl.
While Embury is best known for heavy grind-style works, Dark Sky Burial takes a new direction as a personal journey of discovery.
“I …
Scene Point Blank is pleased to start September with an exclusive stream of the self-titled first full-length from Portland’s Dark/Light (pronounced as “Dark Slash Light”). Titled Kill Some Time, the new LP features 8 songs and officially comes out on Sept. 15 on Dirt Cult Records.
The four …
Dark Spring will soon release their debut album, Chain Letter 13, on Escapist Records.
The band originally formed as a solo vessel for Ages guitarist Carson Ward and draws from a variety of bands, including Hum, Seaweed, and The Promise Ring.
Set for a vinyl/digital release, Chain …
Dark Oz has announced a new EP, out right now as of Nov. 16. The new EP is titled Fortunately Blank and features Frank Meriwether on vocals/guitar, a constant through the band's three EP catalog, plus collaborators Miguel Rivera (now on bass), Nick Linday (guitar), Hic Fiat (drums), and Matt …
Black metal band Dark Fortress are in the studio at work on a follow-up to 2010's Ylem. No release date is yet scheduled, though early 2014 is expected.
Frank Meriwether (Dark Oz)
SPB: What is the weirdest description you’ve heard of your music? Could you see where the commenter was coming from?
Frank: I really can't think of any weird descriptions, unfortunately, but the weirdest comparison I got was comparing our music to Genesis. I started …