There was once a certain rock band who intentionally produced an album that was so left-field that their heavyweight record company, Virgin, had to break...
Murmur
11th May 05
In true Melbourne style, Murmur Bar is tucked away down a dark little way with only a faintly glowing sign to mark its presence. But, unlike some other...
Block Projects Gallery
9th May 07
Start flexing your calves and pulling up your sweat bands - there are some seriously worthy stairs to clamber. Block Projects have filled the innards...
2x4
18th Jul 07
Not a plank of dimensional lumber, not a 1998 film about Irish labourers directed by Jimmy Smallhorne, not a Metallica song off Load (1996) or a...
Bright Lights Big City
3rd Aug 05
There is something so alluring about people who should have it all, but seem perilously close to losing it all instead. In Bright Lights Big City, Jay...
Dark, shiny by Noël Skrzypczakv
6th Sep 06
There is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures...
One Story
23rd May 07
In a perfect world, directors would be forced to submit reasons in triplicate for exactly why their films should run for any longer than 87 minutes. As...
Pissarro
12th Apr 06
If Sid Vicious and 19th century French Artist Camile Pissarro ever came face to face, they surely would have enjoyed a few shots...
The Brilliance
6th Sep 06
There’s no shortage of ethos options being slammed in all directions atany given moment. Let alone the hounds of ‘culcha’ who are only...
WON Magazine issue 02
7th May 08
If you’re reading WON Magazine, wash your hands before you touch your face, or you will end up with gridiron style under-eye war paint. Yes...
Are You Being Flocked?
3rd Oct 07
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...
Slumdog Millionaire
2nd Dec 08
Right now, Mumbai looms in the Western imagination as a place where terrorists gun down tourists in luxury hotels. I can't work out if now's a good or...
Widows Walk
11th Jul 07
With earmarks of Cabbalistic ritual, smacky trips, mind-rattling confusion, Spider Vomit are a passport to the northernmost hills of Melbourne's band...
Hunting & Gathering
13th Dec 07
When did ‘romance’ turn into ‘romantic comedy’? Barring some tight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences...
Worldwide
20th May 08
Ever wondered what The Banana Splits would sound like after they'd smoked crack?
Gold Coast natives Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco found a nurturing...
03/07 - 09/07, High Places
4th Aug 08
Day tripping Brooklyn duo High Places thoroughly enchant on this singles collection - released locally through Mistletone. Sun-bleached, dreamy and...
Macbeth
27th Sep 06
When word has it that your country’s film industry is putting $3.5million into a production directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring astrong cast of...
Night Drive
24th Oct 07
Envisage the Vanishing Point crossroads of German electronic Kraut and heavy-headed late night rock'n'roll. Portland trio, Chromatics, go there with...
Carl*s Cars
14th Jun 07
In an age where magazine titles have all but lost all meaning (I'm looking at you, but not you), it's refreshing to know that Carl*s Cars has simply...
Experimental Jetset
11th Jul 07
John&
Paul& Ringo& George.
We’ve all seen this t-shirt. Only a real fan could have come up with it. And that’s the odd thing...