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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...

Bloc Party may just have touched the dizzy heights of something rare and special here, making the ‘difficult second album' syndrome seem like a...

Forget to flit about the Art Fair last weekend? Or did you, in fact, flit... did you don your good jeans and was your spirit (and budget) broken by the...

Good morning, Mr. Phelps.

The report you see before you concerns Tourism Victoria's Red Thread campaign. Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Plenty of artists rescue stuff from the garbage. In fact, they might as well start listing themselves in the Yellow Pages next to Mini Skips. 'We drag...

Remember that buff bloke from the Gillette ads? With the chiselled jaw, muscular physique and smouldering gaze? He was literally the ‘best a man...

‘Biggest ever' is a claim usually made by Napoleon Rosales via your trash folder. But get excited, because we've been told to bandy it around in...

A couch, sleeping bag, lamp, guitar, laptop and a hermit crab tank. These are Ian Wadley's belongings furnishing Bus Gallery's tiniest nook. After a...

Calling all those championing for the crowned shade-shape of the season. Eyeful US label ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race' brings it home with Basic...

In Winter, most would agree that Melbourne’s fashion pallet is more Yamamoto than McQueen. Come June 1, black, noir and shock horror, charcoal...

"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain...

More beautiful than a rocket, but launching with a bang just as big, is Desig Nation - a 300-page collection of work by local talent. Expect to see a...

The Bicycle Film Festival starts next week! It sneaked up on us like 'Kamikazi' without his lucky socks on.

The first event in the festival is an...

Unless it’s sunburn, or Michael Schumacher, most would agree that things look better in red. Bright, bold, sexy and potentially dangerous the Polaroid...

So that you know Gaff = 'woof' in Russian but the Shout Out Louds are from Sweden. Regardless of this bilingual confusion Howl Howl Gaff Gaff is...

Heave open the wrought iron doors of Friperie and the collection will cause bladder-tickling, cross-legged excitement. The Smith Street emporium is rustling...

Debate spurred over Lee Jeans' cheeky lollypop-licky-licky advertising campaign late last year. Some applauded the work by infamous Vice photographer...

There is so much going on upstairs from Von Haus, we'll soon be introducing a new section to the newsletter: HEAR, READ, SHOP, STRAY, VONHAUS. Until then...

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...

IT'S OFF! We are so sorry. Too many sensible designers thought it would rain today, and we guess they're right. You'd think that when we made 'the call'...