Basic Circle Frames

Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once...

Although it's described as ‘great music to punch cones to' by certain street press, Wolf & Cub's debut album Vessels is more intelligent...

This limited edition, lime-green-coloured split cassette is a strange and compelling mix of ambient sound concerns and punkish performance technique...

Determined to go down in the record books as making the most shameless plug ever, I'm going to use this spot to let you all know that the next issue of...

If only Too Obscure had been around several years ago, to save me from the clutches of an identity/wannabe hiccup. Amidst a bout of teen-angst-induced...

So far as children and Dan Deacon are concerned, music exists primarily to be enjoyed, and enjoyment is directly proportional to a listener's involvement...

Artists should learn to leave their work alone. Director's cut are often vanity projects or novelty acts: sometimes worrying their own work to death,like...

Whether you’re on your way out or on your way home this is the place to get your fill. Century egg and pork congee, Chinese doughnuts and spicy...

Consider this their fifth curtain call. The Is Not party has been had. Issue 11 is out on the streets and it's being covered up with Bliss N Eso posters...

You might not be able to pronounce his name, but designer Alexandre Herchcovitch first rose from the streets of São Paulo ten years ago and ...

Anger management classes are a funny thing really. But we suppose you can't argue with a "Restraining Order" - whatever that is. One thing we...

Even though it’s been seriously abused over the years (Turner anyone?), Variable Speeds by Melbourne-based artist Mark McCarthy proves that...

Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive...

So this is it. The final laundry mat review. Over the last five weeks we've covered the inner west, south, north and east. For the grand finale I wanted...

When Sir Mix-a-lot told us about the boy with low cash flow (the one who ain't down to throw and shakes their girl-like body on the floor that makes the...

Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...

I'll be straight with you - I've never actually been to this place. My idea of gourmet shopping is a strong latte, or at best a skerrick of parmesan from...

I've got good news and bad news.

The bad news: now that fashionable trendy kids in trenchcoats have appropriated the post-punk misery of depressed, social...

Architects. Melbourne's long been awash in them. Conversations on Deco awnings and Belgian floor plans are more ubiquitous than chats on coffee-bean...

What do you find at the Ilk Bar? Fresh ilk, of course, Ars bars perhaps, maybe even some ixed lollies? Apparently not.

What you will find, is an interior...