Self-immolation, drone yoga and an 8-hour lullaby: these are the best performances we saw at Dark Mofo 2023
NME was at Hobart’s annual bacchanal for just five days, but there was still a lot to take in…
Nick Buckley
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Out of the furnace and into the Frying Pan: inside Mona’s new recording studio
Turbo chooks, a Beatles record console from Abbey Road, and a moment of raw emotion
Golden Plains 2023 review: celebrating 15 rapturous years with Rolling Blackouts and Carly Rae Jepsen
Euphoric sets by Rochelle Jordan, Soichi Terada and Four Tet made the 15th Golden Plains one to remember
Jen Cloher: “My heart is opening up to my culture. With that comes grief and unpacking trauma, joy and connection”
In 2019, the singer-songwriter began a journey of self-discovery and reconnection to their Māori heritage, which is captured in their revelatory fifth album ‘I Am the River, the River is Me’
Mona Foma 2023 review: phallic pandemonium with Peaches, industrial raves and gum leaf classical music
A queer woodchop, a spontaneous composition by Nico Muhly, the towering Kutcha Edwards: here’s what happened at the closing weekend of the nipaluna/Hobart arts festival
Alex the Astronaut: “I wouldn’t want to be neurotypical. I get to see the world a little bit differently”
Alexandra Lynn talks to NME about how being diagnosed with autism opened up a new level of self-acceptance and informed her resonant second album ‘How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater’
Tasman Keith: “As much as these tragic things have hurt me, they’ve also built me into the person I am”
On his debut album ‘A Colour Undone’, the Bowraville rapper confronts the cost of ambition and the spectre of death. Friendship and community pull him through
Pond face the chaos on new album ‘9’: “The world’s getting real fucking scary”
A conversation with frontman Nick Allbrook about a sailing regatta, Victorian dinosaurs, Western Australian politics – and his band’s new album
Gretta Ray: “In those moments where things feel really painful and you feel lonely, you only have yourself”
The ‘Drive’ singer began writing her debut album ‘Begin To Look Around’ in 2019, when she was a different person. She tells NME how the record’s meaning has changed
Geoffrey O’Connor works through unreliable memories and solitude on his first solo album in seven years
The singer-songwriter talks working with Sui Zhen, June Jones, Sarah Mary Chadwick and more on his duets album ‘For As Long As I Can Remember’
Telenova – ‘Tranquilize’ review: a majestic debut from a band in its infancy
Melbourne trio offer rich, surreal vistas in their debut EP
Ryan Downey: “We’ve got to step out of the comfort of fear”
The Melbourne singer on how a telephone psychic and magic realism play into his bold, bombastic new album ‘A Ton Of Colours’