Is Not Magazine issue #11

Tucked away above Russell Street, Kanga Kanga stocks - in their words - "Cool Asian Magazines". Visiting the store is like taking a crash course...

The summer release of Weirdo Rippers saw No Age bring together a collection of songs that had spanned five independently released EPs, as kind of an...

Bus Gallery's corridor space is about as wide as the email/website you're reading, but as Alice Lang's bulbous and grotesque Supple, you'll feel...

Sugar-related funnies aside, Donuts Deluxe is the newest shop filling the 0 in Melbourne's retail cool. The genii behind the project - Ben and Sam Totty...

Way back when we were tiny tots, few things matched the thrill of a theme park.

The oscillating roller coaster cries, cyclic carousel melody, and booming...

When Scott Walker: 30 Century Man opens with the myth of Orpheus and the Underworld, you can't help be reminded of the tongue-in-cheek 'Icarus' opening...

Mark Barrage's new album is much more avant-Krautrock than dance anthem, no matter how much the onesheet tries to tell you otherwise. One of Melbourne's...

Remember when some well-travelled trendsetters shipped some colourful rubber thongs back from Brazil, whacked an exorbitant price tag on them and called...

Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are...

Mapplethorpe:A Biography is a mixture of the beautiful and the tragic, a story of honesty and undoing, and an insight into a life that is both real...

Listening to Phoenixis like listening to good advice. Their songs are ingrained with experience and a certain perspective that comes from never taking...

It's been three years now since CocoRosie's debut album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, set the indie world on full-blown freak alert. Such abashed eccentricity...

1978 New York was a very different place. Junkies, trannies, punk bands... junkie tranny punk bands.

New York Noise showcases the whole flea-ridden...

Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me was a lightning-strike to the zeitgeist with a high-concept hook pitched for maximum McDamage. Can the same be said...

Although C.W. Stoneking hails from Footscray in Melbourne, he is more Mississippi than Maribyrnong. His album King Hokum, if listened to without the...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...

Midlake create songs that are so beautiful and natural you will know what the sound of one hand clapping really is. With lyrics as simple and evocative...

We’ve reached a time where galleries and exhibition spaces are no longer confined to a white room with a lady in black eyeing your unwashed jeans...

It's official - white is the new black.

After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they're HUGE...

Well are you?

If you stand still too long in the Carlton Hotel you may well run the risk. But this exhibition is happening upstairs in the gallery, so...