MONA FOMA
The Imperfection Artist: Amanda Palmer Reflects on a Long Career of Pissing People Off
Palmer has found herself on the wrong side of public opinion more than a few times over the past 20 years. VICE caught up with the polarising singer to discuss fame, shame, and the pitfalls of celebrity.
Dark Mofo Made Me Feel Good About Art and Awful About Australia
How can David Walsh's "subversive adult Disneyland" exist at the same time as a homelessness crisis?
St. Vincent, Alice Glass and Laurie Anderson Are Playing Dark Mofo
Plus: Tanya Tagaq! Laurie Anderson! Haxan Cloak! Lydia Lunch! Zola Jesus! William Basinski! Someone get me to Hobart already!
Electric Wizard Are Coming to Australia for Dark Mofo
The stoner doom gods are playing one show in the dead of winter for MONA's festival of sex and death.
Is Launceston the New Berlin?
No. But this year’s Mona Foma left Hobart for the first time, and the result was inspiring.
Bush Doofs Are Rising From The One-Day Festival's Ashes
One-day festivals like Groovin’ the Moo, Future Music and Big Day Out are dying, while ratty bush doofs go from strength to strength. So what have the one-day guys done wrong? And what are the hippies doing right?
Violent Femme becomes Mellow Dude
In strange twist of fate, Brian Ritchie (former bassist of Violent Femmes whose hit “Blister in the Sun” served as the soundtrack to many an early 90s finger-bang) is now living in Tasmania, running a tea shop, playing in a surf-rock band with dudes...