7 Songs, Fabulous Diamonds

Just as the crack and freebase we all know and love emerged from the Peruvian coca-paste smoking tradition of the '70s, so the caffeine that runs our...

"There was a long period after the first album where I felt disillusioned with the machinery of the industry."

"Recorded relatively rapidly...

Working as a doctor, the stethoscope around your neck earns you a certain amount of respect. Even as I accidentally wander into a family bereavement room...

More interesting to look at than a Moleskine and just as satisfying to hold, Rebound Books inject a lease of new life into dust-covered hardbacks.

Writer’s...

Weirdo electronic music pioneer, Bruce Haack (1931-1988), was a fantastically creeped-out character who, while making a career in children's music during...

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "If somebody says, ‘I love you,' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply...

If all little girls should smell like roses, then all men should smell like Dior’s Bois D’ Argent.

A concoction of masculine musk and...

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

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew here at Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today. And what a sad day it is too, for Beaker, my fickle and wayward assistant...

"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we...

Husk has been one of Melbourne’s favourite stores since they opened their first branch years ago. I love how their mix of fashion and the most delicious...

"One of the ways I can tell that I am unhappy is if I get squeamish about looking up internet photos of STDs, footballers' broken legs, napalm babies."

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If you want something to read and you don't mind if it's really stupid, you should read my magazine - Wooooo. It's an interview-based deal I publish...

The Arcade Fire are the perfect compliment to this Melbourne winter. Their album Funeral contains all the pain of a rainy tramstop with the euphoria...

From the team behind St Jerome's and Sister Bella comes a new little chick hatching before our eyes, this time in the form of café-cum-bar Bird...

How many times does your mother have to tell you? Don't leave things until the last minute. Remember that time you failed VCE? Got audited by the ATO?...

They say good things come in small packages. They also say all good things must come to an end. So it is fitting that after one and a half years Melbourne...

Myer stocktake sale? The biggest sale in the country? Phht. Whatever.

If it's the knocks and bruises to the bottom lip you're after, then clamber the...

OK tell the truth, Ruth - ever since Lesley Arfin came here on her book tour, you have secretly wanted a pair of those heart-shaped sunnies she was...

Dumbo feather turns 1! A landmark, a testament to taste, a damn tootin', honky tonkin', whiskey swillin' celebration. A magazine year is far more impressive...